CURRICULUM VITAE TEREZIA GRESKOVA
Terezia Greskova Details
born 07.04.1988 terezia.greskova@gmail.com www.terezagreskova.com +421 907 207529
Wolkrova 7 Bratislava 85101 Slovakia
Biography Terezia Greskova studied Architecture at Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava (Ba.) and Vienna (MArch). She recieved her architecture master degree with project “Other Nature” at Ecology Sustainability and Cultural Heritage Department. Collection of texts and ideas from her Thesis project evolved into an Essay “Beating the Apocalypse” awarded with 1st price and published in Slovakia. Her most important professional and personal formation started with her semester studies at CEPT University in Ahmedabad, India. She got inspired by indian culture and paradox of everyday life. She created her own interest in future scenarios using scientific research, psychology of human perception, technoloy, natural phenomena, biology and ecology. Her future scenarios and speculations on the antropocene, where human activity impacts on Earth’s ecosystem, are mostly addressing importance of both natural systems and technological progress - and combining both, enhancing nature. Terezia received a TISCHE Stipendium given by Austrian Ministry of Culture to support talented young architects in their career. She worked ever since with ecoLogicStudio in London using bio-computation and future-bio-digital methods in instalations and exhibitions with algae systems, slime mold, bacterial cellulose and using various scales from satelite images to micro-bacterial relevance. She also studied painting and its use in scenography at high school. Her paintings and drawings are showing deformed reality of personal invisible space influenced by perception of very special moment. Her works were exhibited several times in Bratislava and Piestany but also San Francisco and Mexico, and India.
Professional 2016 Barteltt School Of Architecture I London, United Kingdom I 1 month course Tutor ESA (European Space Agency) urban mapping based on Sentinel 2 Satelite scans and data postprocessing 2015 - 2016 ecoLogicStudio I London , United Kingdom I 16 months I Project Architect Public installation- Urban Algae Folly I Pavilion Realisation, Braga, PT UAF interface design, http://urbanalgaefolly.com/ The Inhuman Garden exhibition I Installation, ZKM Karlsruhe, DE Arthur’s seat b.I./O power station, Menagerie of Microbes I Exhibition, Edinburgh, UK Solana Open Aviary, Bienale of Architecture 2016 I Exhibition, Venice, Montenegro, ME Bio T.a.llinn I Biennial of bio-Technology in Architecture and Urban Design I Brief & exhibition proposal, Tallinn, EE Astana EXPO, BioTECH Lab I Concept design - Detail planning, Astana, KZ Polycephalum folly _On the origin of the in-human city, Exhibition in Ambika P3, London, UK 2014 - 2015 the next ENTERprise architects I Vienna, Austria I 14 months I Project Architect House Feign I House extension, furniture design, outside stair-scape I Realisation, Grundlsee, AT Office space conception Erste Stifftung - Erste Campus I Concept, Vienna, AT Winter im MQ, wintermarket proposal I Concept Vienna, AT 2013 the next ENTERprise architects I Vienna, Austria I 6 months I Intership Masterplaning project Verteilerkreis Favoriten, Vienna, AT FLC Erste Campus competition (2.Price), Vienna AT Office Portfolio design I Web maintanance Honors I Awards 2015 1.Price I Architecture Essay Competition: Get in with Architecture? I Competition by Archimera Theme: Where have our Visions Vanished? Essay Title: Beating the Apocalypse 2015 TISCHE Stipendium I Federal Chancellery of Austria funding duration: 6 months, purpose: collecting architectural and scientific experiences 2014 Honorable mention I Urban Design Concept Category I Re-thinking The Future Sustainability Awards project OTHER NATURE
Education 2011- 2014 2007- 2011 2009 - 2010
Academie der bildenden Künste, Vienna, Austria I Master of Architecture supervised by Wolfgang Tschapeller, Hannes Stiefel and Stefan Rutzinger analog, digital production I ecology ,sustainability, cultural heritage Academy of fine arts - AFAD, Bratislava, Slovakia I Bachelor of architecture LabARCH- Laboratory of architecture by Imro Vaško and Martin Gsandtner and 6 - week courses of analog-digital photography, painting, product design, architectural design CEPTUniversity, Department of architecture, Ahmedabad,Gujarat, India I Interchange Program Architectural design studio VIII by Mikikumar Chandubhai Desai
Workshops I Activities 2013 2010 2010 2009 2009
Hotel Obir- free association and interpretation I Bad Eisenkappel, Austria workshop on Grasshopper and Ecotect by Martin Gsandtner, Morteza Farhadian I Bratislava, Slovakia workshop for BIENNALE OF ARCHITECTURE, urban reseach I Bratislava, Slovakia workshop URBANITY, twenty years later, vol. 1, CCEA I Prague, Czech Republic Theatre architecture, “Vision and possibilities”, TACE I Ljubljana, Slovenia
Exhibtions I ARCH 2016 Polycephalum by ecoLogicStudio I Ambika P3 Galery, London UK 2016 Project Solana Ulcinj I Solana Open Aviary by ecoLogicStudio I Bienale of Architecture, Montenegro pavilion, Venice, IT 2016 Menagerie of Microbes I Arthur’s seat b.I./O power station by ecoLogicStudio I Summerhall, Edinburgh, UK I Curator Heather Barnett 2014 Thesis exhibition _ Other Nature I Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Vienna, Austria 2013 Hotel OBIR Reception I Bad Eisenkappel, Austria 2013 STUDIOLI I Architektur studieren an der Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Semperdepot, Vienna, Austria 2011 Meshsoup I PF01 Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia 2010 BIENNALE OF ARCHITECTURE, “People meet in architecture” I Collective work of 8 selected students from AFAD I Austrian pavilion, Arsenale, Venice, Italy 2009 ARCHITECTURE WEEK, Slovak days I Gallery Manes, Prague, Czech Republic 2009 STORY TELLING PAVILION, LabARCH studio exhibition I Gallery Medium, Bratislava, Slovakia 2008 Footbridge over Danube I Slovak Union of Visual Arts, Bratislava, Slovakia Publications I Papers 2015 Beating the Apocalypse (essay) Slovak Architectural Review Projekt_04/05 2015 2015 Research_Obcerve_Make: An Alternative Mannual for architecture education 144 hours in train, page: 234, editor Michelle Howard 2014 Hotel Obir Reception (C) 2014 KKK Eigenverlag, 1. edition_500 pieces, page: 17, 29, 114 - 117 editors: Norbert Klavora, Lukas Vejnik, Andreas Jerlich, Brigitte Klavora, Verein Kino Kreativ Kulturaktiv 2009 Tvorba interiéru (Interior design) Projekt _ 06 2009, page: 26 - 29, EDITOR Ján Hriešik 2009 Anatomické čipky pretkali námestie (Anatomical patterns interlaced the sqaure) ARCH _ 05 2009, page: 62 - 63, editor Barbora Šajgalíková 2009 Pešie, urbanizovane a obytne mosty (Pedestrian, urban and inhabitable bridges) Forum Architektúry (Forum of architecture) _ 01 2009, page: 14 - 15, editor Ján Bahna
OTHER NATURE Thesis project supervised by Hannes Stiefel 2014
Other natures are exploring other understanding, or another view on use of nature in the city. Project is exploring possible future solutions for decreasing air quality and improving climatic situation in Ahmedabad in India. Dealing with single tasks by actions and reactions between single mechanisms that lower high carbon dioxide pollution, solve lack of water problem, humidify dry air and produce electricity in one self-sufficient system. 4
Ahmedabad I The city of Ahmedabad started to have a serious carbon dioxide pollution problems 10 years ago. And therefore they developed a project for regulating the river banks of Sabarmati river to control the flooding of the city and to gain extra land for further development consisting mainly of green areas that are supposed to clean the air and to function as lungs of the city.
The project explores a possible merging of technology and nature together into one system, one organism regulating environment that would behave half natural half mechanical. The technical elements and plants are dependent on each other. The plants are dependent on the machine in order to function more efficiently (produce more oxygen as they would in normal state) while the machine produces electricity to create an independent system of actions and reactions.
Plants do photosynthesise and have an ability to direct the quality of our atmosphere. Therefore with increasing the production of nature in our cities we might be able to equal increase of carbon dioxide and decrease of oxygen from burning fossil fuels. Hydroponic planting is effective in sparing ground for public activities.
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Public ground I Design process parametres: sunlight directions from shortest day of the year in december, site access density by its importance, shades on the water level define location of water reservoirs The water gets stored during the two months of monsoon season, and the water storages provide the water to the whole mechanism during the rest of the year. Total water collection: 20,882 m3
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Public ground is inspired by traditional stepwells that provided basic water needs, colder shaded spaces used for public life and resting. Water I necessary for whole system to function gets stored during two months of monsoon season, usually july and august and the water storages provide water to the system during the rest of the year. In case of very dry season a system of connections between separate storages and between the whole system and river guarantees a minimum emergency level of water necessary for the mechanism to function. 6
PLANT
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ELECTRICITY DISTRIBUTION ATMOSPHERE IMPROVING MECHANISMS DAY SUPPLY
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CONSTRUCTION FIXED PLANTS CREATING SHADOW AND INCREASING HUMIDITY
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Project contains two main elements that improve climate in different ways. Carbon Sink I is helping plants, ferns to produce least 300% amount of oxygen as they would in a normal state. It is an enclosed environment that sucks polluted air from outside. It filters the air and creates a carbon dioxide enriched environment where ferns get maximum productive. Humidifier I is increasing humidity level on the most sunny areas of the site. The element is monitoring level of humidity and increases it a little by spreading small water particles through nozzles. A raster with function of
an open roof caries an air plants that get all the nutrients they need from air and provides a shading on public ground. Both elements the carbon sink and the humidi- fier are connected to water storages. The water gets stored in two different ways. The open wa- ter reservoirs are located in most shaded areas of the site to prevent from quick drying. The second type - the water tanks are an enclosed underground storages that are located in most sunny areas of the site where the ground keeps the water cooled. 7
Designing climate through technology and nature Behaviour of plants
Carbon Absorbtion I plants can absorb up to 32 percent more carbon than they do today. They gradually increease their responding to CO2 level what can be also seen on growth in- fluence. Squeezing ferns together instead of planting as in typical park allows them to get enclosed en- vironment with carbon dioxide concetration more suitable for photosynthesis production. Outside atmosphere contains 400 ppm (particles per million) of CO2 while ferns recieve 1200 - 1500 ppm in an enclosed environment 8
Growth of plants I plants that grow in carbon di- oxide enriched environment do photosynthesize faster and there- fore also grow faster. If we increase the concetnration of CO2 from 400ppm to 1200 ppm the production of the oxygen would be at least doubled.
Hydroponic environment I Hydroponics is a subset of hy- droculture and is a method of growing plants using mineral nutrient solutions, in water, without soil. Other exception of hydroponic planting, can be Air plants that absorb all necessary nutrients from air and humigity.
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Urban Algae Folly by ecoLogicStudio Praca da Republica, Braga, Portugal 2015
Credits: Project by ecoLogicStudio: Claudia Pasquero, Marco Poletto (London, UK) Design Team: Marco Poletto, Claudia Pasquero, Andrea Dal Negro, Terezia Greskova, Alberto Chiusoli, Fanny Ciufo, Kyriaki Goti, Olga Carcassi, Nikolaos Xenos Digital responsive systems: Alt N – Nick Puckett Data Interface: Immanuel Koh Structural Engineering: Format Engineers Project Management: Paolo Scoglio 10
Urban Algae Folly designed by ecoLogicStudio and supported by INL International Iberian Institute for Nanotechnologies and the City of Braga is the world’s first living edible architecture integrating micro-algal cultures and real time digital cultivation protocols within a soft ETFE skin. The London based, Turin born, ecoLogicStudio [Claudia Pasquero and Marco Poletto] is unveiling with this project a new vision of future bio-digital architecture made of microalgae organisms, the project was originally presented at ExpoMilano2015.
Local Construction Support: Cristina Padilha, Hugo Cortez. ETFE contractor: Taiyo Europe GmbH Metal Structure: GV Filtri Microalgae culture: Sciento UK Commissioned and Supported by: INL Braga, Bioinspired Forum, The City of Braga, The Francisco Manuel De Santos Foundation, EXPOMilano2015, COOPItalia. 11
Feel a Bit Biennale of Architecture / Austria 2010
Outdoor there are spaces made od situations and atmospheres that contains from encounters and interactions between moods, smells, noises, cracks, temperatures, colours, intensities. These are the software BITS that enliven the city hardware. There are also ways how to see them, draw them and map them. We were intrigued to collect them and extract them. We looked for ways to capture them. Invisible but sensible live spaces become viewable and tangible objects, frozen and inactive. 12
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We tried to make them transferable to show them, revive them and let them to blossom in other places. We have manufactured the CARTRIDGE. We envisioned a device ther prints the cartridge. We have built the PRINTER.
An endless canvas becomes testimony of these encounters, again and again. Project Credits: Design team: Eliska Kosa, Martin Zajicek, Danica Pistekova, Terezia Greskova, Adriana Debnarova, Kristina Kralova, Martin Brzy, Erik Novitzky
We have built a machine that fabricates mixtures of local outdoor conditions with the frozen ones of the cartridge and renders their interactions.
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Solana Open Aviary by ecoLogicStudio Bienale of Architecture / Montenegro 2016
Design Team: Marco Poletto, Claudia Pasquero, Terezia Greskova, Vlad Daraban. Urban Morphogenesis Lab at the Bartlett UCL [research partner]The research supporting this project has received funding from the Architecture Projects FundResearch Team: Claudia Pasquero, Maj Plemenitas, Stuart Maggs. Arkitectskolen Aarhus [research partner]The research supporting this project has 14
receiv^d funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme FP7/2007-2013.Lead Researcher: Marco Poletto.
and Katharina Weinberger for the Montenegro Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2016 and commissioned by Dijana Vucinic on behalf of the Montenegro Ministry of Sustainable Development and Tourism.
The project contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016; Support to Copernicus satellite data access and processing, provided by ESA’s Research and Service Support service.
Video Edited by Ivan Litvinenko and Hakan Yarman
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Arthur’s seat b.I./O power station by ecoLogicStudio Menagerie of Microbes / Edinburgh, UK
2016
Design Team: Marco Poletto, Claudia Pasquero, Terezia Greskova, Vlad Daraban. The apparatus presented in this exhibition embody this narrative by integrating a living Slime Mold onto 3D printed nylon substrata; the Slime Mold here is deployed as a model of how the energy infrastructure of the future may be conceived and designed; the colour nutrients represent renewable resources available in the environment in the form of wind, sun, biomass and waste. 16
POLYCEPHALUM by ecoLogicStudio ADAPT-r, Ambika P3, London UK 2016
Design Team: Claudia Pasquero and Marco Poletto with Terezia Greskova, Malte Harrig, Sravani Andhavarapu, Chai Yee Thong, Ludovica Renzi. On the origin of the in-human city Prototype is an operative protocol to conceive augmented territories and eco-systemic architectures for which human inhabitation is co-evolutionary of nature. 17
Ephemera Fields Bachelor Project supervised by Imro Vasko and Martin Gsandtner 2010 / 2011
Mapping and testing ephemeral events on time and functionally unstable area of winter port in Bratislava. Industry in its raw state, the localization of functional activity varies across the harbor in uncertain and non-periodic time sequences, related to the recording of vibration and activation mechanisms. Subsequently, for testing it on port, we focused on one functional system components, changing the initial situation at different levels, moving on rails from mainland towards water. teamwork with Marek Lüley 18
Mesh Soup
Bratislava’s soup embodies a specific mesh network, which cannot be eaten or inverted, it acquired and restructured in colourful spectrum of different flavours, that provides new playgrounds for next architectural typologies.
Studio by Imro Vasko and Martin Gsandtner 2010/2011
Urban analyses became part of the base analyses for project Ephemeral Fields. The analyses with the project were part of an exhibition Meshsoup in Bratislava.
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Ecology is often used in a naive sense, excluding technology and the romanticised image of harmonic nature and find the beauty in trash as Bacteria and formulating an untouchability of nature. To allow true develthe perfection in imperfection. Human race, as an ecological factor should finally Aerobic Bacteria I lives only in the presence of oxygen - consume oxygen while breaking down the long molecular chains of complex opment weproteins, have to that abandon the naive movement of ecology carbohydrates, and lipids comprise organic waste. accept that we are not anymore part of nature and probably have never been. Anaerobic Bacteria I represents hydrolytic, acidogenic, acetonic and methanogenic aspects of waste decomposition. 1 Hydrolytic bacteria
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Rodents and Birds are likely to be the dominant grouls of large animals at landfill.
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The presence and types of other small or large animals at landfills is likely to be relatively minor and site-specific.
The Hidden Space a speculation I an examination I an intensification of reality, 2015, team with Daniela Mitterberger
The endless growth of cities results in a creation of unthinkable networks of sewage Puente Hills region I Lizards, Snakes (Rattlesnakes), Squirrels, Dogs, Cats, Bobcat, Coyot, Mountain, Lion, Grey Fox, Red Tailed Hawk, Great-horned Owl,... systems and waste management. As a moment of projection we interpret the city as a spatial extension of our body. Trash and especially the spatial accumulation of waste can be compared to the psychosomatic relation humans have to their inner organs. The cultural importance of skin as a layer of repression and protection manifests itself as a physical act in the hiding of landfills under an artificial layer of nature. The illusion of Eden should cover up the notion that the creation of trash is implied in the pure existence of human race. 21
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Faux Terrain Studio by Hannes Stiefel 2012
What terrain is as close to our time as possible? How do we understand term of diversity in our global environment of our time? It is an configuration of environments that are placed at the same world’s parallel line that have same climatic conditions and even through that are diverse. As the same climatic conditions we understand the they have the same sun conditions on every part of this line throughout the history developing of terrains and topographies. Close to our time is the configuration of places that are linked depending on a certain condition and our behavior towards the environment. 22
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Program distribution and its anual transformations T1 - Morning theater for kinds_ T2 - Music instruments theater_ T3 - Dance theater_ T4 - Open performance space_ M1 - Vegetable/ Fruit Food market_ M2 - Book/Art/Antiquariat_ M3 - Free open market space_ G - Galery/Noticeboard of an area_ R - Road_ P - Park/Sideroads for supplies - Winter_
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Fuzzy Fields: Plastic biology studio by Stefan Rutzinger 2012 / 2013
Spectator within a fuzzy field appears within a jungle like atmosphere where all the elements are blending into each other. The explanation of word fuzzy in this project is between two opposites, is neither palpable nor invisible, neither stable nor erratic, neither static nor dynamic.
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SCHWEDENPLATZ CONCEPT
Fuzzy field within Schwedenplatz is re-circulating those two categories of users between both squares and incorporates public cinema, public gallery and market on Morzinplatz area. Two squares become highly connected and create one square containing a gradient of usages, user-groups and functions.
Schwedenplatz is an important traffic hub and food court while Morzinplatz stays almost empty in its use. Schwedenplatz is occupied by pedestrians who are in a rush and need a quick transition through to reach metro, bus or tram stop and at the same time by those who want to stop by, eat, drink, have an ice-cream and sit down to talk to their friends. 25
Blur Studio by Wolfgang Tschapeller 2011 / 2012
Project is based on finind spaces in seemingly hostile situations. Public space that evolves its hidden qualities during rainfall and encouradges people to spend more time outdoor even during monsoon / rainfall season. The environment of public spaces are divided by different densities of rainfall into spaces with different qualities. Lower platform - communication spaces, upper platform - higher privacy spaces for yoga, relaxing, sleeping and meditation. Walls of heavy rain but also sound of rainfall isolates people from outer noise. 26
Storytelling Pavilion Studio by Imro Vasko and Martin Gsandtner 2008/2009
The process of searching a spatial surface is based on the interpretation of the behaviour of the cartoon hero in the form of distilled genocode, in turn forming a grammar dictionary of the analytical study of the hero. Storm is mutant, who possesses the ability to manipulate the weather. Her abilities allow her to see the world as multi-colored energy patterns that she can mentally control. Qualities of an hero along with the identity of her inner/outer biological surface offer a specific nonarchitectonic dictionary for the generative process of the pavilion – surface formation. teamwork with Marek Lßley 27