Architecture portfolio Teja Krušec
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CURRICULUM..............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................01 - 02 STUDENT RESIDENCES LISBON...............................................................................................................................................................................................................03 - 06 VILLAGE MARKET LJUBLJANA...................................................................................................................................................................................................................07 - 08 SOCIAL HOUSING ZG. KAŠELJ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................09 - 10 HOUSING CELJE.........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................11 - 12 GREENHOUSE LJUBLJANA.......................................................................................................................................................................................................................13 - 14 STUDENT HOUSING LJUBLJANA...............................................................................................................................................................................................................15 - 16 TROPICAL GARDEN LISBON......................................................................................................................................................................................................................17 - 18 COMPETITION AZORES ISLANDS.............................................................................................................................................................................................................19 - 20 DETAIL DRAWING........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................21 - 22 SHODAN HOUSE / HURVA SYNAGOGE....................................................................................................................................................................................................23 - 24 ARCHITECTURE FOR READERS...............................................................................................................................................................................................................25 - 26 ATTENDING WORKSHOPS.........................................................................................................................................................................................................................27 - 28 FREE HAND DRAWING...............................................................................................................................................................................................................................29 - 30 DESIGN........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................31 - 32
CURRICULUM
1988
Born in Kranj, Slovenia
EDUCATION 2012 2013 Faculty of architecture Lisbon UTL FA 2008 > Faculty of architecture Ljubljana UL FA 2004 2008 Classical Gymnasium Ljubljana 1996 2004 Primary school Kranj STUDIO PROJECT 2009 Planthouse Botanical garden Ljubljana, prof.dr.Tomaž Krušec 2009 Housing Celje Celje, prof.dr.Tomaž Krušec 2010 Social housing Zgornji Kašelj, Ljubljana, prof.dr.Tomaž Krušec 2011 Student house Ljubljana, hosting professor, prof. dr. Jordi Badia (BAAS) 2011 Vienna post-war social dwellings Vienna, hosting professor, prof.dr. Luka Skansi 2012 Student residences Lisbon Lisbon, prof.dr.Nuno Mateus COMPETITIONS 2013 Competition for a waterfront improvement in Azori islands Portugal 2014 Competition on Natural observatory of Amazonia - in progress
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WORKSHOPS 2010 Making of a stage for youth centre Medvode, Slovenia 2011 Beyond construction Ljubljana, Slovenia, cooporeation with architect Mathias Heyden 2011 Easa Decoastruction Cadiz, Spain 2012 Easa Wastelands Helsinki, Finland WORK EXPERIENCE > 2011 Seasonal works in promotion, selling products, snowboard teaching 2011 Architectural consultation and visualizations for architectural magazine 2013 Working in an architectural office Extrastudio in Lisbon 2013/2014 Working in an ingenieering company (making offers, biling, going on terrain, getting in contact with customers and selling real estates), working in a self-initiative cooperation on a renovation of department store, which was canceled due to a broader financial chrisis SKILLS
Digital: ARCHIcad, AUTOcad, Vectorworks (beginner), Artlantis (Rendering) and animation, Sketchup, Rhino Adobe Photoshop + Illustrator + InDesign, Microsoft Office Analog: Hand drawing, Foam, Cardboard... modeling
Fluent in Slovenian, English, Spanish, Croatian, basic (improving) knowledge in Portuguese and German
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STUDENT RESIDENCES CAMPUS LISBON
Main concern of the project is connectivity. Existing buildings in the area, open public areas, urban non-articulated voids are all fragmentaly scatered. The “net strategy” from which the project evolved is based on connecting different program layers of the area (culture, education, public areas, etc.) Since the infrastructure and financial situations might not enable bigger interventions in the area, the connectivity is achieved by “connecting-points” - programs that are most likely and logically to appear in certain area. By creating these points, previously scatered fragments get programatically and logically connected. Concerning sustainability and traffic logistics, new traffic connections are enabled - tram lines, improved car roads and new parking areas. Improved and future proposed traffic connections become links between the University Campus of Ajuda and southern part of the city, moreover, cultural centre of Belem, Lx factory, the river of Tejo, etc... The area of Ajuda creates a tendence to spread towards the broader area of the city of Lisbon.
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c a. connecting the campus wih existing social neighbourhood b. the inclinated flow of the terrain suggest a connection in different height levels c. new buildings sum up the connectivity in all of the location requierements b
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STUDENT RESIDENCES CAMPUS LISBON
The new buildings connect with the existing buildings from the neighbourhood and the faculty of social sciences ISCPT by gradually inclinated volumes, so as with materials (white plaster and concrete, attempt of portuguese azulejos) and follows the natural inclination. Existing social neighbourhood connects with the residences over their open courtyards and further over the open public spaces and program.The concept of “connectivity“ is also translated into form of the architecture itself. Buildings roofs begin with inclinated ramps that span from the street level over the walkable roof. The structure of the terrain where the buildings are situated consists of combination of limestone and granite. In some parts the rock is not necessary to be demolished or removed, but rather included, implemented into architecture (first level common multipurpose space, fitness area etc.).
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MARKET BY THE RIVER
Goal of the project was to “round up� three completely different boundary conditions (proximity of one of the main traffic vains, riverside waterfront, marginal social neighbourhood) and to emphasize the entrance into the historical and cultural natural park in southern part of the city. On a recent location today, there are temporal instalations and structures made by the local inhabitants (a bar, free recreational paths, parking place, etc.), which tend to new improvements in future. The project considers and combines properties of the location programatically, functionally and formally. Project is divided in two bigger round units, covered and connected by common roof. Within the round forms there is a shop, closed services of the market, bar and a restaurant. The space below the platform is dedicacted to open market, events, etc. Besides it also creates an expressive entrance from the direction from the south, straight towards the river Ljubljanica. Round form dictates the design of the spaces, radial course of the construction and its elements... Parking places are projected in groundfloor and on the rooftop, accesible by ramp, connecting the traffic road below. By the historical path, next to the bus station, stands info point, which offers the visitors essential informations immidiatelly after arriving on location.
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SOCIAL HOUSING ZGORNJI KAŠELJ
Integration of local inhabitants into the building process of their own houses is an experimetal approach to this project. While local inhabitants get directly involved in building process of the their houses, the houses become reflections of their creativity and way of life. The base of each house/block is a system of wood prefabricated construction walls, which consist out of comunicational core with attached sanitary walls, slabs and thin pillars on the perimeter. Such construction enables first floor, to be a reflection of the other two. Change in the rhythm of ‘‘voids and full spaces‘‘, parts which are prefablicatly allready build up and parts that haven’t been built yet, are noticed on the facade. Each apartment has a terrace, which is empty by the time of moving in and acording to the needs of the inhabitants can be rebuild and used as a new spare room. The materials for extensions (bricks, copper, plastic boxes, textile cloths, etc.), are chosen by inhabitants. Even so diverse collage of different materials behind the ‘‘wire membrane’’ gives a feeling of a unified facade.
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a c a. basic floorplan unit consists from 4 apartments with terraces, attached to communitational and service core b. The buildings core remains rigid, while apartments units rotate in every second floor c. result is a dynamic block unit, where rotatated apartment units and self build up teracces shape its facade b
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HOUSING CELJE
Cultural and historical heritage of the area and site conditions had to be considered in this project. The project is a composition of three volumes, which formally and programatically end the part of a city block series.The new buildings are incorporated into the variable geometry of the city quarter and form a unified whole. The groundfloor offers public services and apartments are situated in upper floors. The part facing the inner yard continues into the park and gardening surfaces. Apartments have orientation N-S an E-W. The two blocks facing the road have long corridors - acess to the apartments, and storage rooms, which isolate the apartments from noise coming from the street. Third block consists of duplex apartements. A double floor garage is designed under the building. There are 8 different appartement typologies. The construction is reinforced concrete, at its openings closing with zinc sliding panels, so the facade ‘image’ depends on the use of inhabitants. Different apartment typologies enable comfortable and funtional use of appartments to elder people, invalids, young families, students..
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c a. city block is limited, enclosed and disconected with rest of the city b. Few buidings had to be removed and new openings within the houses made, enabeling pedestrian paths through the block, connecting it with the rest of the city c. New buildings by its form and design (also apartment floorplans) follow the logic of transition from the city block to the broader city area
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GLASSHOUSE LJUBLJANA
Transparency is the main guide of the project. Wondering how to enable a continious view through glasscubes and enabeling free transitions - paths - through the Greenhouse, dictates incorporation of the program (toilets, reception, services, transition spaces), inside of the thick clay walls. While passing by the building the visitor is surrounded with plants, he can observe them through the windows, and his view continues through the building, into the park. Basic building material is clay, mixed with cement (besides glass and its steel construction. Similarly, like making concrete walls, the formwork is needed for a mixture of clay and concrete walls, in which the layers of clay and concrete mixture are compressed. The thick layers of compressed clay are separated by layers of thin brick - which is a reinterpretation of old way of building with clay and brick - in the rain, the water flushes down the layers of bricks, which prevents the erosion of the walls. Natural clay walls create good clima, humidity, function like sound isolation, acumulate heat, don’t harm nature and last but not least, derive from the location itself (The marsh of Ljubljana).
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a. Clay is the material given on the location, clay walls of the greenhouse “grow“ out from the ground b. while all the program and services are situated within the walls, the greenhouse remains transparent c. There are no obstacles to the observer’s view, all he sees is greenery, inside, outside, around the greenhouse
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SHAPING THE CITY (workshop with Jordi Badia)
Continuity of the street, program, building forms with a reference to local genious loci. New building is situated in between two older existing buildings, connecting on one side the Ljubljanica river and on the other, lively pedestrian Wolfova street. The project combines public space (library + book store + bar), with student dwellings. The west façade, facing the river, cracks in two different axis, creating a small square in front. Students rooms are two sided, ones facing the street and others the river. Rooms are placed in 5.5 floors, connected with an inner corridor, which is lightened by two voids, stretching from the rooftop to the ground floor, and a big 2 floors high common room in the centre of a building. The facade material is brick, which refers to the works of Ravnikar buildings in proximity (Ferant square). The bricks are cladded together so they function like a perforated wall, letting the light through. The windows are hidden behind the brick lattice cladding. The V-shape of a floor plan also recalls the roof shape, where the roof cornice, also in a V-shape links together the two diferently heightened neighbour buildings. According to the use of the space, program of the building, use of a material, the building refers to its location respectively, following the continuity of an existing building block and the street.
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c a. The void in the series of the city buildings breaks up with the continuity of the street. b.The void is replaced by a new building with a program that answers the city’s needs c. The new building continues the street, functionally and formally
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RESTORATION OF A TROPICAL GARDEN LISBON
A task of the discipline was to deal with rehabilitation, requalification and modernization of the area of Jardim Botanico Tropical de Belem, its integration into the natural and cultural area of Belem and park of Monsanto, furthermore connecting it into a “natural“ ring surrounding broader Lisbon.
a c a. The tropical garden is enclosed by itself, it also lost its point - meaning in the broader city space b.The buildings (observatory, planthouses, kindergarden, african restaurant) within it, have to be restored and connected into a meaningful whole, where programs interact c. The unification is done by requalification and improvement of the existing areas, opening the garden to broader public b
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Old, now abandoned manueline chu and new traffic connections, also b
The Tropical garden is a particle within the big green area surrounding and connecting the city of Lisbon. Many parts of these green ring were left abandoned and unarticulated during the concentrartion of activities in the central part of Lisbon. The goal was to revitalise and connect these parts of the city, within them also the tropical garden.
urches could take place in events, bike infrastructure would be enabled
Improved green areas in front of Paacio de Ajuda invite the usual passers-by to stop, take a break, enter exibitions, etc.
Giving new meanings to existing historical and natural points/sights, and conecting them with new and improved means of transport results in popularity and awakening of eastern part of the city. Traffic improvements, tourist tours would awaken natural sites (caves), by the entrance of the botanical garden, events like market, fairs, would take place.
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COMPETITION IN THE ISLANDS OF AZORES
A part of my internship was also a cooperation in one of the competitions for Requalification of the waterfront and promenade in the islands of Azores. The goal was to improve the waterfront, marine, create an open public space/ square while considering the existing surroundings and enabeling public program (bar restaurant) below the square.
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Floorpan of marine and waterfront promenade
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DETAIL DRAWING
Inovation of details for a building is always a part of a concept of the project. In this particular case the detail tries to explain the fitting of the metal facade panels onto the bearing construction parts of the building.
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FAMILY HOUSE (Le Corbusier) / CHAPEL (Louis Kahn)
The task of short two excersies was to was to create a house according to analyses of Le Curbusier Shodan house in India and Luis Kahn Hurva Synagoge in Izrael. The elements reintepreted after Shodan house are: - connection with nature (inner yard, seen from the children floor, roof terrace) - different levels of floors - children rooms have adjustable doors, they can both open into one big room - sleeping areas connected with roof terrace. The elements I reinterpreted after Kahn synagoge in the chapel are: - lover central meditation/praying area - material - grey smooth concrete interior and lighter facade ‘The outside of the building belongs to the sun and the interior belongs to the shadows.’’
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zgodovina in teorija arhitekture 3 _ 2 vaja _ analiza hiše Shodan (Le Corbusier
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zgodovina in teorija arhitekture 3 _ 2 vaja _ analiza hiše Shodan (Le Corbusier) _ Teja Krušec _ 25080053
vina in teorija arhitekture III I 3 vaja I tlorisi : 1:100 I Hurva Synagoge (Louis Kahn) I Teja Krušec I 25080053
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ARCHITECTURE FOR READERS
In cooperation with a magazine a group of students from Ljubljana’s faculty of architecture was cooperating with people on requalifying and arranging their homes. Below are represented two solutions for an old stable, conerted into living spaces and an apartment for a student of medicine.
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ATTENDING WORKSHOPS
During years of studies, believing that international cooperations, exchanges of experiences, knowledge, ideas and fun that comes along are important and essential for my education and me personally, I attended some local and abroad workshops, went on a student exchange, internship and trying to follow that same approach in future.
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FREE HAND DRAWING
I appreciate free time and hobbies. I believe personal interest is best way for learning anything, from sports to handcraft, music, etc. My interest lies in swimming, cycling, languages, motorbikes, sewing, music, hand drawing,...
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DESIGN
The table was created out of cherry root found on a dump. Later it had been cleaned, sanded, impregnated. All of the branches naturally are not in the same height level, some of them had to be made even. What makes the dining table unique is its simplicity. Its made out of massive monolith cherry tree root. No drilling, screwing or gluing work was needed to put parts together. An eliptically shaped hardened heavy glass (130x180cm) rests on small transparent silicon spacers, placed on wooden branches, which prevent sliding of the glass.
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