Portfolio 121 by Tamar Benashvili

KITTI KAZAY

PORTFOLIO

CONTENTS 01 02 03 04

THE MARKET FLOATING HOUSE CONTAINER HOME MULTI UNIT

Hungarian girl with a lovely name, who has always been dreaming to explore the space beyond. That’s probably why she decided to pack her suitcase and move to Florida in 2018 after obtaining Bachelor’s degree in Architecture in Hungary. Even though her dad had been living in Florida for almost 22 years already, starting a new life from scratch was intimidating and challenging at the beginning. However, she managed to start working for Millwork Company and quickly became the main designer of the team. Working for a company with supportive team members and exciting luxury design projects is satisfying, however, she decided that it’s already time to dive into the field of Architecture more and work hard for academic advancements. After getting approval from World Education Services on her Hungarian diploma, she is ready take another step towards her goal and apply for master’s studies. She believes in persistency, consistency and hard work.

KITTI KAZAY

GENERAL Born: 08-07-1992, Hungary Address: Plantation, FL, 33324 contact info (954)-871-9973 | kitti.kazay@gmail.com

Education 2012-2018 Széchenyi István University, Győr (Hungary), BA Architecture. 2007-2011 Andrássy Gyula High School, Békéscsaba (Hungary)

WORK EXPERIENCE 09.2018-03-2020 Interni Cucine Italian Kitchen Design | Interior Designer 02.2017-02.2018 RoofCentrum Hu. Co. | Sales Consultant of Building Supplies 2012-2018 Organizing events related to art and architecture during BA studies

SKILLS CAD 3D Presentation/Visualization Office Suite Languages

REFERENCES Shakeel Tabish (954) 826 1844 Melinda Schall (330) 307 3169 Chelsea Heard (786) 682 3570

YEAR: 2016 | LOCATION: PANNONHALMA, HUNGARY | BUILDING: COMMERCIAL | TYPE: ACADEMIC

01 THE MARKET

LIGHT STRUCTURE FOR MARKET PLACE Pannonhalma is a town in western Hungary with approximately 4,000 inhabitants. The town`s touristic charm relies in the Archabbey and the surrounding lavender fields. Local population prefers to use bicycle, public transportation or go by walk. The Pannonhalma market is a community space which gives home to vendors with permanent and temporary rented spaces, local farmers, performers with small audience, and visitors who interested in them. To avoid the hall-like nature, a combination of covered and open space had to be created on a narrow plot, serving the specified needs that the market should be able to accommodate. It facilitates the following: vendor buildings, office building, gathering area, restrooms, storages, mushroom examiner lot, parking lots, garbage storage and maintenance room. The initial step in the design phase was the roof structure that gave the market its characteristic. From the start, the presence of roofing elements bouncing in space remained the only fixed point in the design, which tries to respond to the heights of the surrounding houses. The area is bordered by the main road, 2 dirt roads and an empty plot. I made the buildings accessible from all four sides. Eight small trucks, eight cars and fifteen bicycles were provided with parking, which is the required minimum, but the open-air market`s plot can function as an additional parking space.

Market sales can take place both indoors and outdoors. With the exception of vendors occupying space in masonry structures (approximately eleven units available for rent), I would leave 32 m2 of portable

sales space in the covered area. The permanent premises would include shops for everyday needs, such as: butcher and fishmonger, vegetable shop, fruit shop, dairy products shop, pickle shop, baker, florist and

newsagent. In the small producer markets, the locals and people from the surrounding villages would sell their home-grown goods and handicrafts on the announced market days.

Visualization

Once the local vendor has rented his plot in the office, he can immediately move out to the selected portable desks. All local vendor spots are made up of mobile structures, making the space suitable for small crowd, with a conjunctive point in the middle of the market. The community space can be

filled with chairs and benches which they can keep in the storage. Longitudinal traffic is interrupted by a community point in the middle of the market, giving a big breath between the spaces. There would be a tall tree in the center, which is also the

center of the whole stage where local perstructure. The plants formers can play and in the center sym- fill the market. bolizes the gathering place of people as an outstanding natural object. It associates with the luring nature that provides shadow and reconciliation. In light of the spirit of the tree that symbolizes community, they can install a mobile

Axonometric view

Axonometric Section

Perspective Section

Plan

YEAR: 2015 | LOCATION: GYOR, HUNGARY | BUILDING: RESIDENTIAL | TYPE: ACADEMIC

02 FLOATING HOUSE LIVING OVER WATER

IJburg is an urban development district in the eastern part of Amsterdam. Once the project is complete, it will comprise around 18,000 homes. IJburg is located and is being built in the IJsselmeer. This means that the existing natural functions and requirements of the water system needed to be taken into consideration in the realisation of the district.The district seeks to realise natural values, an extraordinarily high density of 71 homes per hectare on average, preservation of the quality of the water in the IJsselmeer, as well high aesthetic appeal. Water can be experienced almost everywhere on the artificial islands: along the edges of the islands of course, but also near almost every single home at the middle of the islands, because of the waterways. The IJsselmeer is a Natura 2000 area. Its shallow, sheltered, nutrient-rich character and the abundance of crustaceans and water plants make the area attractive for waterfowl. Around 100 species of birds are found in the IJsselmeer, a number of which are protected. Although IJburg itself is situated just outside the protected zone, the construction of the new islands must be conducted in such a manner that they do not have any significant impact on the protected area. Creating islands proved to be a better solution than draining land, both for environmental reasons and in terms of the quality of life.

Situation

The water system for the first phase of IJburg is unlike the water systems in other land reclamation projects in the IJsselmeer: it was decided that IJburg would be raised rather than drained. This

extraordinary ap- the quality of the proach to land surrounding wareclamation was ter. chosen because of, among other reasons, the standstill principle, which states that the creation of new land areas may not impact

Exploded view 14

9.30 m 3.51 m

4.27 m 0.15 m

3.96 m

0.15 m

2.44 m

0.30 m

0.15 m1.37 m 3.66 m

1.52 m

0.15 m

3.35 m

0.15 m

3.35 m

0.15 m

0.30 m

3.51 m

BB 0.15 m0.15 m

DECK

1.98 m

BEDROOM 1 14.49m2

3.96 m3.96 m

0.15 m

5.18 m

3.66 m

0.15 m0.15 m 9.75 m

BATHROOM 3.7m2

1.52 m

CORRIDOR 2.3m2

BEDROOM 2 12.26m2

0.46 m 0.15 m0.46 m

5.33 m

0.15 m 7.77 m

1.37 m

13.64 m

LIVING ROOM 17.86m2

KITCHEN 9.5m2

3.66 m

2.29 m

0.15 m0.15 m

0.15 m

DECK 69.98m2

3.89 m

WATER BB 0.15 m 1.68 m

7.47 m 7.77 m

0.15 m

SIDEWALK

1.52 m

10.97 m

STREET PARKING

Floor Plan

Bedroom Bedroom Kitchen Living room Terrace

Exploded view: Spaces 16

0.35 m

3.05 m

0.15 m

ELEVATION

0.35 m

3.05 m

0.15 m

ELEVATION

FARMING GREEN ROOF TIMBER BEAM

2.13 m

ALUMINUM + GLASS WINDOW WOOD FLOOR+INSULATION PREASSURE-TREATED WOOD STRINGERS

WATERLINE

NOTCHED DOUGLAS FIR LOGS VINYL-WRAPPED, EXPANDED POLYSTYRENE

RCC PILLAR FOOTING

SECTION

0.30 m 3.89 m

3.51 m

0.15 m

0.30 m

3.51 m

5.33 m

0.15 m

0.30 m 3.96 m

13.64 m

1.68 m

0.30 m 0.15 m 0.30 m

FARMING GREEN ROOF TIMBER BEAM

ALUMINUM + GLASS WINDOW WOOD FLOOR+INSULATION PREASSURE-TREATED WOOD STRINGERS NOTCHED DOUGLAS FIR LOGS VINYL-WRAPPED, EXPANDED POLYSTYRENE

RCC PILLAR FOOTING

SECTION 0.30 m 1.52 m

0.15 m

3.05 m

0.30 m

3.35 m

0.15 m 9.14 m

3.66 m 3.96 m

0.30 m 0.15 m 0.30 m

YEAR: 2015 | LOCATION: GYOR, HUNGARY | BUILDING: RESIDENTIAL | TYPE: ACADEMIC

03 CONTAINER HOME LIVING IN A CONTAINER

GyĹ&#x2018;r is the most advanced city in its region, and it has great connections to Budapest (Hungary) and Vienna (Austria). From my lecturer, I got the task to place down a mobile home in the downtown area. In the area there are many bars, an opera house, a basilica, a small zoo, hundreds of small businesses and it is bordered by the Raba river. I positioned my house on top of a storage building due to a lack of space. I got the idea to use shipping containers from my previous semester. After I located my chosen site, I found the right sized (W 2,6m x H 2,6m x D 5,2m) containers. In my original 2015 plans, I had the vision that the containers could move their position and change the layout. After I revised my old plans, I realized that it was an unnecessary and expensive function. I still find the moving house idea fascinating, but I decided to present it in a fixed position.

From the family description, we can find out that the mother would like to have a garden, hence I planted some on the rooftop. The full house on the first level couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t fit on the site, so

Situation

I created a second level, which made looking over the city partially possible. The family was very happy about the view and they requested balconies.

Visualization The minimalist living space design is quite simple. The 10 containers provide a space big enough to use standard furniture, reducing additional costs. After we take the stairs

from the sidewalk we arrive at the covered main entrance`s terrace. On the lower level we find the foyer, a restroom, dining room, living room with a fireplace, kitchen and storage. The stair-

case brings us up to the second floor where we can find the aisleway, 3 bedrooms, a bathroom and 2 balconies.

7.80

1.50 2.60 2.35

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0.10 1.00 0.10

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5.20 3.40 2.55

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Second Floor Plan

Existing building

Sidewalk

Access street

First Level

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0.00 -3.50

Elevation

Facade drawing -3.50

Elevation +5.50

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Elevation

+2.90 +5.50

0.00 +2.90

0.00 -3.50

Elevation -3.50

Section 1

Elevation

Balconies

bedroom space

Terrace

Kitchen

YEAR: 2016 | LOCATION: GYĹ?R, HUNGARY | BUILDING: RESIDENTIAL | TYPE: ACADEMIC

04 MULTI UNIT

STUDIOS FOR STARTERS GyĹ&#x2018;r is the most developed city of northwest Hungary. It is halfway between Budapest and Vienna, situated on one of the important roads of Central Europe. It is the sixth-largest city in Hungary (population 130 000) and one of its seven main regional centers. The site, Malomsok setany, is located 15 minutes away from the Szechenyi Istvan University by walk. I deemed that it`s a perfect spot for a young adult to start his/her career because the important institutions and the downtown is in the neighborhood. The outer structure is separate from the inner buildings. The transparent surface case function is to provide shelter from strong wind, sunlight, and snow while it lets the nature and natural light inside. The inner buildings are hosting the following: wash-room, maintenance room, storage for bicycles and other items, dumpster, restrooms, office spaces with chamber and tea kitchen, community room with kitchen, a guest studio apartment, 9 studios on the upper level, terraces and a garden house outside. There is a parking lot in front of the main entrance.

My goal with the design was to create a space where nature and humans can live in close connection. The roof and the second level flooring have transparent elements. Also, there

Situation

are breakthrough points in the slab to provide direct light to the lower level. I dispersed 11 green areas in the building and a greenhouse outside for those who love gardening. My idea was

to build a community instead of spreading the studios all across the site.

First Floor Plan

Second Floor Plan

Axonometric view

Each of the studios has a 36 m2 area, which is a small living space. On the other hand, the residents can use a wide variety of communal places like the offices to work and study, the community room to invite friends, or the covered summer patio to hang out with other residents. The building has 2 main entrances and 3 to the backyard.

There is plenty of space to grow in the future, according to the residentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s needs.