tamara rijavec
_ p o r t f o l i o _
inhabited connection
igalo_workshop
5 zaka_rowing centre
11 the seam
15 poreÄ?_workshop
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project_home
primary school Lavrica
27 unexpected spaces
31 light vestibule
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_inhabited connection
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This project is a proposal for a living bridge over the Limfjord between Aalborg and Norresundby, Denmark. The brief requirements were to build a luxury hotel with a restaurant, conference room and other functions that can be either semi-public or semi-private. The inhabited connection is a hybrid connection, that combines all of the positive aspects of bridging and an architectural concept that relates very much to human scale and pace of movement. It is a connection that focuses on linking the urban fabric on both sides of the fjord and extending it across the latter. It links the new harbour front and spurs the development of the immediate surrounding area as it connects the cultural and commercial centre of Aalborg with the recreational areas situated in Norresundby. In this design proposal the connection and experience when crossing the fjord are paramount and so it become neither bridge nor building, but rather a structure, simple and clear from afar. The proposal is based on a system of frames that grasp around volumes. The latter act as an architectural and structural link between the frames. The cube volumes contain all the functions, placed on the bridge and are connected to each other with a double deck. This deck functions not only as a connection but as a stabilizing element as well. And with adding functions and places for events, shopping and pauses, the whole bridge becomes an urban district, where Nordic architecture, aesthetic design and a tectonic approach meet due to an integrated design process.
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This concept elevates the experience for all people, when crossing the fjord, hotel guests and people just crossing the bridge alike. The frames prioritize and give a beginning and an end, they build up a story between the users and the environment. And while crossing the bridge and walking in between the building volumes, constantly changing scenarios are revealed and it becomes an open exploration of altered experience.
function placement
night club market place
galleries conference
restaurant wellness
hotel rooms lobby
sky light path
floor plans_lobby
ground floor -1
ground floor
ground floor + 1
section
ground floor
ground floor + 1
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It can be said the idea behind the hotel design offers an altered experience as well. As it is a horizontal skyscraper, it would be ridiculous to try and convert an unusual hotel, which a hotel on a living bridge surely is, into a conventional one. With adding functions and places for events, shopping and pauses, the whole bridge becomes an urban district. To create this feel and because of the arrangement of the frames, the volumes carrying different functions are dispersed throughout the bridge into small individual cubes. This creates a more serene feel for the hotel guest, the spaces in the cubes achieve a more personal quality as they offer an individual experience. A high quality one that, because of its uniqueness becomes the luxurious aspect of the hotel. This new hotel layout still keeps all the service functions of a quality hotel, but proposes a new and exciting concept. Functions are placed in a way that the guest can easily and logically find the lobby. The lobby functions as a service core in the proposed function placement, where the guests check in and get the key-card, with which they can access all the functions on the bridge nonstop, while the public has a limited access. Hotel services are of course opened to the public and free to use for hotel guests. The path is arranged in between the cubes as a double deck. The lower part of the deck is a sheltered hallway, connecting the cubes and providing easy access. The upper one is a public space with public attractions, giving a special character to the whole bridge. The cubes can be accessed from both paths. The volumes are simple shapes, reduced in their design and stripped to its essentials. With this approach, each unit is unique but simple in its appearance and honest in its use of materials. authors: Tamara Rijavec, Elisabeth Eder, Maja Frederikke Høgsbro, Morten Norman Lund, David Storkborg
floor plans_hotel rooms
situation Inhabited Connection | ma1-ark8 | 17.12.2009
Drawing no. 1 | Masterplan
Scale | 1:2000
ground floor -1
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west elevation
sections through the bridge
cross section A-A
east elevation
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cross section B-B
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_igalo workshop
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This workshop dealt with solving the problem of Montenegro’s seaside town Igalo. It started as an initiative of Igalo’s spa resort and Health Institute. They were looking for innovative solutions considering the town’s tourist centre, situated around the Spa Hotel, the main entrance road that bypasses the hotel and the beach promenade. Furthermore, the solutions should take into account their needs of expanding the resort, new parking spaces and offer new accommodation for students, that come to Igalo to gain knowledge in the health domain. This design proposed two new axis coming from the entrance road. The first one runs behind the hotel complex in the east and connects the city centre with a new traffic vein, taking the burden of the existing road, that goes straight through the hotel complex and divides the area into two parts. Furthermore this added access road prevents the day-to-day bottle neck effect when coming into the city. Next to this axis, building volumes for the added functions are placed, creating a gate to the centre of Igalo, redirecting the focus away from the complex, providing the latter with peace and quite. At the same time this positioning of volumes encourages the development of the city away from the already compact centre. The second axis cuts into the resort core , linking the resort even more to the beach and providing easier access to the sea for the hotel guests. As it is strictly meant to be a pedestrian pathway , it doesn’t disturb the peace and quiet this part of Igalo provides for all. The promenade between both axis was revitalized as well. The shacks and stands were replaced with various sized pavilions, placed perpendicularly to the path, thus providing places for events, commercial undertaking and public use, while not disturbing the linear flow of the promenade.
concept model
concept plan
3D situation
authors: Tamara Rijavec, Eva TavÄ?ar, Andrej Blatnik, MatejDelak, Ĺ˝iga Ravnikar, Rok Velikonja
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_zaka rowing centre
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This assignment dealt with the vulnerable areas around lake Bled, Slovenia’s alpine jewel. The location provided was meant to house a new rowing centre. This centre should provide appropriate facilities for training, storage of equipment and create suitable areas for pubic leisure activities. The concept proposes a platform, which links together the two existing buildings, a low hangar and a tall alpine house, and the new volumes. The volumes are placed on the platform in a way, that they emphasize the connection between pedestrian pathways, create inner courtyards and provide views to the lake and the hilly hinterlands. The functions are placed inside the lower, more solid volumes or trapped between the mass and the floating tent-like roof. So, in its essentials, it is a wooden circumference that floats above space. The latter is created by the play between the heavy volumes and the open spaces in the middle, creating a constant tension between the massive core and the captured emptiness. This constant play between empty an full is always present, but the perception of both changes throughout the day. The massive volumes become transparent in the night time, because of the perforated steel used for the facade, and the upper transparent ambients, that become the solid connection between the tangible lower mass and the light enveloping structure. This makes the intervention unobtrusive in any way and still allows the location to remain what it is in its essentials, a part of nature.
situation
plan_ground floor
west elevation
3D concept presentation
west elevation
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_the seam
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The design of this building is based on the idea of the building forming a new part of the city and becoming a link between Aalborg city centre and the industry situated in the harbour. The proposed design concept divides the program into two parts, the study one and the administrative one and as such proposes two sets of volumes leaning onto walls that form a street. The street is a long narrow corridor that divides the Institute of Architecture and Design and slowly opens up into a square. The building is no longer just a physical presence, but the creator of a new journey, a journey from path to place. Furthermore the concrete structure serves as a shelter from the wind and as the main communication inside as well as outside. The volumes behind the wall are determined by a steel frame construction. The latter provides vast open spaces, a feeling of weightlessness and weight at the same time and enables the individual to see, feel and hear how the building is constructed. Furthermore, the steel frames themselves organise the program with their grid pattern and provide enough possibilities for more flowing floor plans and open sections. From a tectonic point of view the proposed design emphasizes the relationship between the structure and organization of the building and clearly shows that by doing the first cleverly and simply, the latter will follow along in the same manner.
the industry
the industry
the city
the city
creating a street on the site
the street is formed by two linear walls on which the volumes are attached
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the street opens up to a square
the lightweight frame construction of the volumes are a contrast to the wall and form the spatial concept
fourth floor plan
third floor plan
second floor plan
first floor plan
copy room, workshops archive
ground floor plan
canteen auditoriums, lecture and meeting rooms group rooms laboratories institute 19 administration
section
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_porec workshop
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The main thought behind this design concept was the old idea of space being art all by itself, the building just shapes it. Taking this concept and the characteristics of this location into consideration, being as large as it is, the design proposes two longitudinal features. This two lines do not serve as a boundary. On the contrary, they link the northern shore of Poreč with the town’s main square in the south. They connect the more public background, that decreases towards the site and the residential buildings on the north. These two features are a connecting element between the historical characteristics of the town and the modern man’s tendencies as well. The concept draws its shape from the rough, olden lines of the Istrian city, but opens them up and widens them to invite and attract. Smaller, conjoined volumes are attached to these two new spatial determinants. They follow a subconscious way of this city’s appearance with their dense growth of volumes, one next to or over the other. But on the other hand it still brings the feeling of openness, one that the istrian street lacks. This open ambience is showcased in the interior spaces as well as in the layout of the volumes, which brings a feeling of openness not only in space but in our understanding of it too. Something that the site by itself cannot do.
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concept sketch
situation
section
3D visual of the street
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_project home
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Today, we live without memory, but we cannot avoid reminiscing. We strive to a sense of identity, but we do not do anything to obtain it. Identity should be a clear manifestation of the symbiotic relationship between matter and spirit. Also in architecture. This project deals with the question of identity of our living space and draws the concept for Project Home from the spirit of the past. The idea is based on the design of yesterday’s houses, whose builders knew that the spirit of home comes from the feeling of warmth and a sense of having a nucleus in our lives. Taking their examples this design proposes an environment evolving around a nucleus. The human space is created by trapping it and letting it flow in between or around two lamellas, that represent the past heat core of our homes. The idea of splitting the core into two heating walls enables the today’s man to design a fluid and liberal space in the horizontal and vertical plane. It answers the modern question of wasting energy by building massive accumulating walls, that lessen the use of energy and at the same time provide an easy solution for installation placement. It is matter and spirit, hand in hand.
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plans
fireplace=nucleus
around it a sense of home is created it connects both storeys
nucelus=lamella
enables a fluid spatial organization in the section, too
south elevation
this flexible design enables the house to be a self standing or a partially buried one
ground floor
the divided nucleus lets the space flow, the floor plans more become fluid
north elevation
the concept enables different designs for the sleeping area, for one,two or three sleeping units
section first floor
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c o m p e t i t i o n s
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_primary school Lavrica
the effect of noise caused by traffic
the influence of nature from the juxtaposition of nature the east and noise
theme areas envelop the semi-public space
the static character of classrooms
fingers of noise and nature delve into the volume, reshaping it and thus creating atriums. With this, the classrooms get the ideal south-east light.
the flow of public functions
This was an open public competition for a primary school in Lavrica, in the suburbs of Ljubljana, Slovenia. The site was a narrow one, going from north to south and near a newly built residential area. The solution proposed an introverted atrium design, that creates semi-public spaces on the ground floor, and is elevated in a terrace like-manner. As such, it enables views and light from the south to come into the building. The building is designed as a response to the boundary conditions and spatial features. It opens to the south and connects to the planned footpath going to the residential area. So the passers-by are addressed by the more friendly low structure. The school steps away and rises toward the north, where it becomes more dominant and much more present at the location. All accesses are placed in the atriums - the service ones to the west and the public ones to the east side. The created space between the school and the street is a continuation of the atriums and, as they would be relatively narrow normally, the transitional character of the space widens them up and forms a pleasant school yard. The public school program on the ground floor is designed as a mix of communications and public or semi-public program that combines free-form surfaces and a playful interior space without hallways. The school entrances are clearly divided by triads and the program. Orientation of classrooms is mostly south-west. The building’s design as a whole follows the basic conceptual scheme of placement in space. The interior is fully expressed in the façade large glass surfaces open the building to the south and the full façade panels close it up to the north. authors: Superform d.o.o. (Marjan Poboljšaj, Anton Žižek, Meta Žebre, Tamara Rijavec, Jure Kolenc)
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ground floor plan
first floor plan
west facade
second floor plan
east facade
cross section A-A
cross section B-B
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unexpected spaces _the goldfish project
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UNEXPECTED SPACES_design studio with guest professor Juha Ilonen
the concept
Creative initiatives for spatial solutions in the city
sensory excitement
unexpected non-linear chaos with seemingly random links
“Normally, the architect is given the site, the programme and the budget for the task at hand. And normally, the site, the programme and the budget contradict with each other, one way or the other. The site is too public or too private for the programme. The programme is copied from an existing model, leaving little room for creative solutions. The carefully calculated budget is based on normality, and it may be too modest or too lavish. All this leads to normality, also in terms of architecture. This time, the architect was not given anything in advance. The site had to be found, and the programme was to be generated by the site. And vice versa: there was, possibly, a programme looking for a site. Something that the city needs or would benefit from. Thus the site and the programme are dependent on each other. The site is not a normal empty lot, but something only a creative mind can see by projecting possible scenarios for its future use. Not a normal site, but rather “an, auf, hinter, in, neben, über, unter, vor, zwischen”. The site is an opportunity and the intervention is a prototypical model. Big or small, one place or a spread of many. The architect is the initiative-maker, the inventor of places, spaces and programmes.” Juha Ilonen, visiting professor, Helsinki-Ljubljana-Helsinki
the provided space
the labyrinthine environment
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situation today:
T Trnovo bridge
Opekarska bridge
levels of intensity today: nonexistent
implementing the grid: Trnovo area
a smaller focal point, a generator of the activities taking place on the river bank
access points toward the stream
Prule area
focal point of the program, the ‘event taking place’
levels of intensity in the gird achieved by: provided sensory excitement provided space for various functions
the program developed in various sized sequences already existing access points, slight emphasis on them
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pathway formed with lamellas the rhythm of the lamellas changes, marking access points,niches or forming a platform over water
a platform over the water that connects the two areas
the niche access point
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The starting point of this project was solving the problem of how to bring new life, a constant flux of people to this natural, water based connection between the Trnovo and Prule area. The problem with the existing space at this moment is that people look upon it just as passersby, rather than actually entering it. So, to create a place of consciousness, the emphasis was given on two things: the actual physical intervention and the programme. The physical aspect: To create a relationship between the given, i.e. the river and the forced, the intervention and creating a working, interesting connection between the two areas in the form of a pathway. Following the notion to avoid normality in a radical manner, developing a subconscious rigid structure that would create a labyrinthine environment, through which people could navigate (as goldfish can), following the linear narrative of the river. The structure would be juxtaposed with knots of sensory excitement (volatile, spontaneous, fully charged), mediated in the small niches in the ground, creating an unexpectancy by delving into the non linear chaos of seemingly random links with light, sound, picture and spatial surprise. The programme: The programme that would be placed on the site could be anything. The grid with its pathway and the connecting small niches is formed in a way, that it does not design space for functions, but only provides it in order for users to define the function of the space by themselves (can grant any wish, as goldfish do). The bank of the GradaĹĄÄ?ica stream could provide niches for leisure, artist and small events. The space under the smaller bridges would be the generator of the different activities that could take place there (performance artists, etc.). This would, in a smaller scale, follow through to the Opekarska bridge, which would be the centre point, the main knot in the grid, with information about the artists, events and such. It would serve as a focal point of any programme, that would take place on the new connecting pathway.
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EASA workshop _light vestibule
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From May 23 to May 27 students of Ljubljana’s Faculty of Architecture made a lighting installation in the atrium of the Pod Slapom (Under a Waterfall) basement in Gornja Radgona, under the guidance of painter Matjaž Stražar. The lighting project was intended to alert the audience to the potentials of the Slovenian cultural heritage in Gornja Radgona and their need for a serious social as well as spatial revitalization. Another aim of the installation was educating the students about working with lighting and stimulating a different creativity. The workshop cooperated with the organizers of the then held international competition Twin City and offered the lit atrium for the main event of the exhibition opening. The workshop was made possible by ŠOU Ljubljana (Student Organisation of the University of Ljubljana), with the material and expert help from the companies Arcadia and Radgonske Gorice
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