CV + portfolio vrangaloski. aleksandar
vrangaloski. aleksandar
date and place of birth: 06 / 05 / 1990 Skopje / Macedonia current adress: Friedrichshain, Berlin, Germany tel. numbers: +49 160 956 922 59 +389 71 289 698 e-mail adress: vrangi@live.com
CV vrangaloski, aleksandar
+49 160 956 922 59 +389 71 289 698 e-mail adress: vrangi@live.com
education: 2016 / Master of Architecture degree at DIA 2014 / Student at Dessau Institute of Architecture - DIA , Dessau / Germany 2009 / Student at faculty of Architecture - “Ss. Cyril and Methodius”, Skopje / Macedonia 2005 / Student at SUGS “Josip Broz Tito” high school, Skopje / Macedonia 1996 / Student at “Grigor Prlicev” elementary school, Skopje / Macedonia
publications: 2014 / book > IAAC : 5th edition of the architectural competition Selfsuficient Habitat 2014 / magazine > PORTA - “Skopje Kreativa” festival : SkopjeUrban Metamorphosis 2012 / book > Architecture and the City in SE Europe > Reclaiming the City : B2 City
skills and qualifications: AutoCad Rhino ZBrush Adobe Photoshop Adobe Ilustrator Adobe InDesign Adobe Acrobat SketchUp Vray for SketchUp and Rhino Office pack
other skills / interests: Model building Architectural visualisation Graphical representation Photography
languages: Macedonian Native English Advanced Serbian Advanced Croatian Advanced Bulgarian Basic Greman ........................................................................................................................................... Basic
working experiance / activities and achivements: 2016 / Nominated for Robert Oxman award - for best master thesis project 2015 / Nominated for Lars Lerup award - for best first year(master) project 2014 / First price - schollarship for DIA - competition Bauhaus classroom 65m2 - jury Roger Bundschuh, Minas Bakalcev, Mitko Hadji Pulja, Skopje, Macedonia 2013 - 2014 / teaching assistant at faculty of Architecture, Skopje / Studio 3/4 - prof. Jovan Ivanovski 2014 / Participant at the summer school of architecture : Chapel for nature > curator - Sami Rintala, monastery “St.Joakim Osogovski”, Kriva Palanka, Macedonia 2013 / Colaborator at the 15th Venice Biennale of Architecture - Fundamentals / Absorbing Modernity 1914 - 2014 / Macedonian pavilion project “FINDINGS” with Jovan Ivanovski as curator 2013 / Student participant at BISTA : BIennale for Students of Architecture : Arhitekton 1 : 1 exibition, Skopje, Macedonia 2013 / Special prize for competition project “School for everybody” with Bojan Karanakov, Ognen Marina, Stefan Madzovski and Mila Dimitrovska 2013 / Participant at National Donors Gallery design workshop, Skopje, Macedonia 2013 / Participant at the ASK showcase exibition : Firestation - Studio VII project, Skopje, Macedonia (co-authors: Eleonora Popovska) 2013 / Participant at the “Skopje Kreativa” festival : SkopjeUrban Metamorphosis, Skopje, Macedonia 2012 / Colaborator at the exibition -“Skopje in the 60ies” in Skopje city museum / with Jovan Ivanovski and Ana Ivanovska 2013 / Summer internship at “Nastel”, Skopje, Macedonia 2012 / Participant at the summer school of architecture : Landscape and the limits of architecture > curator - Elia Zenghelis, monastery “St.Joakim Osogovski”, Kriva Palanka, Macedonia 2012 / Participant at the “Skopje Kreativa” festival : FuturePast - New dimensions on “green” thinking, Skopje, Macedonia 2012 / Participant at the ASK showcase exibition : Individual family housing project, Zdanec, Skopje, Macedonia (co-authors: Eleonora Popovska and Stefan Madjovski) 2012 / Participant at the 1st Thessaloniki Architecture Bienalle : Architecture and the City in SE Europe > Reclaiming the City exibition : B2 City , Thessaloniki, Greece 2012 / Colaborator at BIMAS 2012 (Skopje) - Carpenter gymnastics / with Jovan Ivanovski, Pero and Eleonora Popovska 2012 / First Prize winner at the interior design competition : Punkt Moebel, Skopje, Macedonia(co-authors: Eleonora Popovska) 2011 / Participant at the summer school of architecture : Invisible Labyrinths > curator - Alexander Brodsky,monastery “St.Joakim Osogovski”, Kriva Palanka, Macedonia 2011 / Summer internship at “Arhitektri”, Skopje, Macedonia 2010 / Student participant at the 12th Venice Biennale of Architecture - People meet in architecture : Learning Architecture exibition (faculty or architectute, “St.Cyril and Methodius”, Skopje, Macedonia)
portfolio
(selected projects / 2016 - 2009)
-transformers-
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location: Skopje, Macedonia year: 2015 / 2016 type: commercial function: kiosk
Master thesis project on market economies and the way they transform the way we think and build architecture. From temporary to permanent - case: K67.
Master thesis research mentor: Gunnar Harmann + Jovan Ivanovski
-MARKETHow the market economies change the way we build from temporary to permanent
Temporary buildings and the kiosk K67 A kiosk provides space for activities which do not claim a permanent place in our built environment. This has several reasons: e.g. if the activity cannot afford economically a fixed location. Some activities are only temporary and do not demand a permanent accommodation. Another case is when the built environment is not able to take over the infrastructural task due to of war damage. Sometimes the political and ideological situation is an obstacle to proper establishment. By using kiosk units even private initiatives could fit into the pattern of a socialistic unified society. In that sense K67 can be seen somehow like a forerunner of market economy by hosting small private businesses. By collecting and mapping the K67 kiosks, The Kiosk will give an outline of the country in its state of transition. And will show the transformations in the public space in general. So what does public space represent and is there any left ? The public space is not a homogeneous space, that guarantees everyone the same rights. “On the contrary, public space is a subject to negotiation ,negotiation between individual users and certainly a negotiation between the user and other forces. There is no clear separation of private and public space. Instead there are fields of different character, that are overlaid and interrelated�. In the case studies this spaces are marked with flexible elements which overtime are moved, thus different states of the space appear. ..... From this we can wrap up that every change in the kiosk structure undoubtedly changes the structure of the space surrounding it, so one can say that they are interconnected. With such changes its clear that every individual contributes for spatial change of the space in different ways spontaneous or deliberately. So its our job to recognize the differences and use them, in order to help architecture survive overtime.
-15 case studies-
original state
current state
-case study no.5-
Findings - tactics patterns
-evolve or die-
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location: Gtc, Skopje, Macedonia year: 2015 / 2016 type: commercial function: shopping mall
Master thesis project continuation on using the transformation tools in order to experiment if a building can survive.
Master thesis project mentor: Gunnar Hartmann + Martin Rein-Cano + Jovan Ivanovski
-MARKETReviving Skopje City Trade Center
Architecture and the city.
Evolution - case: the City Trade Center - Skopje The following project is a result of the joined efforts of Aleksandar Vrangaloski and Metodija Gjorgjiev that marries together the previous semester’s work centered around researching the architectural manifestations of the market economy and the system changes in Skopje, Macedonia, as a part of the “Market” studio, led by Gunnar Hartmann, with Jovan Ivanovski and Martin Rein-Cano as second advisors. This proposal works on Skopje’s City Trade Center, a building which inherently, with its name, carries the moniker “city” – meaning that it puts itself into service of the city itself, belonging to all its citizens. By its realization, it is an unpretentiously and subtly knitted composition in the surrounding urban fabric. The basic idea of the proposal is a subtle and non-invasive series of injections inserted into the building to try and revive it, rather than give a completely new face and body. It is a layering on over the existing situation, which in turn itself is a layering over a former urban situation – and thus not veering away from the basic idea of the building. The proposal attempts to cover three basic aspects: - Enriching the programmatic offer of the building - Improving the flow of people and further strengthening the public aspects and accessibility - Working on the public image of the building. All this is attempted through nine separate scenarios/ cases that are interdependent on each other, or can stand alone. The emphasis on this proposal is given to the public spaces of the City Trade Center, thus further deepening the premise that the qualities of the building do not lie in its meters square of floor space, but in its generously vast, if not underused, public spaces. The scenarios work with and on these public spaces, by introducing a new layer of programs, contents and by this hypothesizing that changes can be made not necessarily by adding floor space, volume, or “building”, but as well with reorganizing, reprogramming, introducing and opening. Acupuncture instead of surgery, Mr. Miyagi instead of dr. Frankenstein.
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Skopje 2016 Breef concept description
Why, what, where: For strengthening the identity of every one of the streets, as well as setting up a new programmatic matrix over the whole building with the purpose of forming recognizable programmatic units (each of the streets has its order and recognition). Every street is named according to the content placed there, which is to some extent in accordance to the already existing programs. At the same time the floors of the streets are given a different materiality linked to its program (example: running track in the floor, different tile patterns, advertisements in the floor, etc.) 1. Sports street – “FC Vardar” Street (local football club) – in which we have sport-related activities (sports bar, basketball court, skate park, bookies, etc.) 2. Culture and arts street – “Zhivko Popovski” Street – (architect of the building) houses cinemas, ateliers, temporary exhibitions, cinema-bar, libraries, etc. 3. Crafts street – “Bazaar Street” – bicycle workshops, repair-cafes, traditional restaurants, filigree, start-ups, etc.)
Activity + user = benefits
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Skopje 2016 Breef concept description
Why, what, where: To be able to provide the needed infrastructure for the aforementioned happenings on the roof, and at the same time providing the physical covering of certain places on the roof in certain time periods (summer/winter – open/closed atriums, or a temporary cover in the time of concerts, events and similar). It is envisioned as a layer of infrastructural outlets elevated from the floor as an orthogonal network that allows modifications (adding covers, plugs, solar panels etc., maybe the roof itself starts collecting rain water‌?).
-double life-
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location: New town creek, New York, USA year: 2015 type: commercial - experimental function: storage for art / warehouse
Exploring the possibility of designing for unusual class of people. People with strange apperently invisible needs. Vault to keep things safe and clear.
First year master studies mentor: Tobias Honig + Sam Chermayeff
-ART STORAGEVault (tresor)
-vertical spectacle-
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location: Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany year: 2014 type: commercial function: bazaar / new shopping typologies
Exploring the modern typologies of shopping and rediscovering old traditions. The market-bazaar should act like a theatre scenery for its surrounding.
First year master studies mentor: Johanna Meyer-GrohbrĂźgge
-VERTICAL BAZAARB.Bazaar
-informality - house -
-process and product-
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location: Skopje, Macedonia, Arch. university yard year: 2014 type: public function: class room Competition project - 1st prize jury members: Roger Bundschuh, Minas Bakalcev, Mitko Hadji Pulja
The whole process of creative work is intimate, hidden and invisible. The only visible part is the product which is exibited. The goal of this project is to show the relationship between the visible(PRODUCT) and the invisble(PROCESS).
-BAUHAUS CLASSROOM 65m2InBetween
-dialogue-
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location: Skopje, Macedonia year: 2014 type: commercial function: restaurant
Competition project about restaurant. Layered over already existing architectural artefacts with historical value for the neighbourhood. The context as most important refference.
Competition project team: Jovan Ivanovski, Eleonora Popovska, Stefan Madjovski, Andrej Prosevski, Me
-EZERCE RESTAURANTArc
-infinity-
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location: Skopje, Macedonia year: 2013-2014 type: experimental - hybrid function: housing
Experimental project about what future of housing may be. Remote locations and what can they offer. How do we develop city - active users.
Fifth year - 9th semester mentor: Minas Bakalcev
-NORTH / EAST-SOUTH / WESTLinear interpunction architectural coordinates
-oreol-
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location: Kokino, Macedonia year: 2013 type: experimental - hybrid function: housing + reserach station + observatory
Exploration of what remote locations can offer and what is their true value. Do they hold something that we cannot achive within the city adn how can we take advantage of it.
Forth year - 8th semester mentor: Minas Bakalcev
-SERS KOKINO: SCIENTIFIC EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH STATIONFrontierline
-F451-
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location: Avtokomanda, Skopje, Macedonia year: 2012 type: govenmental function: fire station + housing
Simple task with very hard decisions to make. Life as a fireman is not easy. Project about living in community as well life as an adventure. Common playground for firemen.
Forth year - 7th semester mentor: Aleksandar Radevski + Goran Mickovski
-FIRE STATIONFloat
-neighbours-
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location: Kozle, Skopje, Macedonia year: 2012 type: housing function: housing + social activities
Super tiny housing community where sharing is part of life. The existing context is the main narator to follow in order to merge in already existing peace.
Third year - 5th semester mentor: Minas Bakalcev + Zorica Blazevska
-THE URBAN POCKETThe line
-meet pixel-
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location: Skopje, Macedonia year: 2012 type: furniture design function: bed + sofa
Competition project about furniture for easy production. Complex yet simple.
Competition project - 1st prize team: Aleksandar Vrangaloski + Eleonora Popovska
-FURNITURE DESIGNLectum + Pixel
Sofa + bed
-hi there-
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location: Old bazaar, Skopje, Macedonia year: 2011 type: experimental - housing function: housing + crafts + exhibitions
One of the first projects where we find the true meaning of the architecture.
Second year - 4th semester mentor: Jovan Ivanovski
It can speak - comunicate and make compromise with its surrounding yet it can be self supportive.
-HOUSE IN THE OLD BAZAARIntruder
other projects (2016 - 2009)
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