Zora Starcevic_portfolio+cv_selected works by Zora Starcevic

selected works

STARCEVIC ZORA architecture + design portfolio

CONTENT

CURRICULUM VITAE 01 ACADEMIC WORK

02 LEARNING CENTER

08 06 REFUGEE SETTLEMENT THE WALL

Merksem, Antwerp, Belgium

Pireaus, Athens, Greece

Wilrijk , Antwerp, Belgium

11 HOUSE OF SHADES

12 EXCHANGE HUB

14 IT PAVILLION

Wilrijk , Antwerp, Belgium

Zvezdara, Belgrade, Serbia

Block 68, Belgrade, Serbia

MASTER DISSERTATION PROJECT

BACHELOR DIPLOMA PROJECT

COMPETITIONS

15 MAIN BUS STATION

MAIN RAILWAY STATION

PLACE OF ETERNITY

Block 42, Belgrade, Serbia

Pyramiden, Svalbard, Norway

GREEN ARK

22 KINDERGARDEN

Botanical Garden Meise, Belgium

Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium

Saint Jose, Brussels, Belgium

professional experience

CULTURAL CENTER

CURRICULUM VITAE

COMPETITIONS / EXHIBITIONS / AWARDS 2016 2016 2015 2015 2014 2014 2014

zorastarcevic@yahoo.com

Dean’s Choice Award for Master Dissertation Project at Faculty of Architecture, campus Sint-Lucas, Ghent, Belgium End-of-the-year Exhibition Master Dissertation Project at Faculty of Architecture, campus Sint-Lucas, Ghent, Belgium Aspace in space - Competition by International Competitions of Ideas Preserving Pyramiden - 120 hours architecture competition for students Talented Youth ScholarshipHolder for 2014/2015 and 2015/16 by Ministry of Youth and Sports of the Republic of Serbia End-of-the-year exhibition Bachelor of Architecture Project at Faculty of Architecture, Belgrade, Serbia Competition for competition for urban and architectural solutions of Main Bus and Railway station Novi Beograd and commercial-business complex in Block 42, New Belgrade, Serbia 2014 Urban House Exhibition Retrospective exhibition of students work , Mixer house, Belgade, Serbia 2014 Logo design competition for Summer School of Architecture in Research station Petnica, Belgrade, Serbia 2013 Experimental house, student competition whitin International Conference BLOK 2011-2013 Semestral Exibitions from following courses at Faculty of Architecture, Belgrade, Serbia Studio Project 3 - Urbanism Studio Project 2 - Architectural Constructions Studio Project 1 - Architecture Architectural Graphics Visual Research & Architectural Graphics

EDUCATION

WORKSHOPS / CONFERENCES

date and the place of birth: 24/07/1992, Uzice, Serbia nationality:

Serbian phone number:

+381 69 344 8 333 +32 487 18 39 44 e-mail address:

2014-2016 2011- 2014 2007- 2011 1999- 2007

Katholike University of Leuven, Faculty of Architecture, campus Sint-Lucas Ghent, Belgium International Master of Architecture, Resilient and Sustainable Strategies University of Belgrade, Faculty of Architecture, Belgrade, Serbia - Bachelor of Architecture “ High School of Uzice” , High School, Uzice, Serbia “ Dusan Jerkovic” , Primary School, Uzice, Serbia

2015. 2014.

2013.

professional EXPERIENCE Sept. 2016. Nov. 2016.

Collaborator with NU Architectuuratelier on competition for construction of new greenhouse complex and the renovation of an adjacent service building the Botanic Garden of Meise, Belgium (development of docu mentation drawings,physical models, visualizations)

Nov. 2015. Sept. 2016.

Collaborator on Ph.D. Research topic “Space Suitability and the Design Process-Research on Remote Practice and Local Identities” (extensive information collection, development of plans, sections, elevations, diagrams, contigency drawings) with drs.arch. Johan Nielsen

Nov. 2015. July 2016.

Part-time internship at MangerNielsen Architects, Brussels, Belgium

2015. 2015.

_Competition for refurbishment and extension of Cultural Center in Walcourt, Wallonie, Belgium (development of master plan, sections, visualizations, graphic presentation of documents) _WINNING PROPOSAL for Cultural Center with addition of social housing in Saint Jose, Brussels, Belgium in collaboration with Atellier De Visscher & Vicentelli _WINNING PROPOSAL for Competition for Nursery and residential building with ateliers in Ixelles, Brussels, Gray Garages” (concept proposal, 3d model, situation plan, visualizations, graphic presentation of documents) in collaboration with Atellier De Visscher & Vicentelli _Collection of graphical and design references on office level _Editing of graphic presentation of previous projects and their preparation for office website

Independent interior design project for renovation of Cafe “Big Park”, Uzice, Serbia “What every child needs to know about MONEY”, children book by Silvana Radetic _editing, graphic design and preparation for publishing

2014. 2013

volunteer / preparation and organisation of the Urban House exhibition, Belgrade, Serbia three month professional practice in architectural office “SFERA”, Uzice, Serbia

2013. 2013. 2012. 2012. 2011.

Eatscape Workshop in organisation of Arch. Chotima Ag-Ukrikul Gent, Belgium Universal Design Workshop - case study Ghelamco Arena prof.dr.Arch Marc Dujardin - Faculty of Architecture, prof.dr. Patrick Devlieger- Faculty of Social Sciences Ghent, Belgium Architeture Utopia Realism - International Guest Lecture Program guest lecturers: Matias Echanove, Enzio Manzini, Aristide Antonas, Johan Bettum Faculty of Architecture, Belgrade, Serbia International conference ISSUES? Concerning The Projects of Peter Eisenmann Belgrade, Serbia 5th International BLOK Architectural Conference Belgrade, Serbia Architecture of Deconstruction - The Specter of Jacques Derrida guest lecturers: Bernard Tschumi, Francesco Vitale, Maurizzio Ferraris, Peter Eisenman ::urBINisation:: Workshop in organisation of UrbanEcoArchitects Belgrade, Serbia “The Doomed Architect - Bogdan Bogdanovic” Workshop Belgrade, Serbia

SKILLS AutoCAD Graphisoft ArchiCAD Autodesk Revit Google SketchUp Artlantis Studio Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Adobe InDesign Microsoft Office Freehand drawing Modelling

LANGUAGES Serbian English German Russian Spanish Dutch* French *currently taking up lessons

professional INTERESTS Architectural Theory Philosophy & Sociology History of Architecture History of Art Interior Design Graphic Design Sketching, Drawing Painting 3D Modelling Architectural Engineering Sustainable Architecture Innovative technologies of construction

LEARNING CENTER 05

master dissertation Project_Fifth Year of Studies The Urban Condition: MINIATURE DEMOCRACY AS A MEDIATOR DEANâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S CHOICE AWARD 2015/16. Menthor: drs. arch. Tomas Ooms 2015-2016.

Through time industry was rapidly developing therefore implying necessity for immediate accomodation for its work force. Large number of small, low cost worker houses sprought around the industrial facilities supplying the basic needs for its inhabitants and contributing to creating an unique urban condition. Nowadays, it is necessary to perceive and understand consequences that this kind of spawl has on everyday life of XXI century inhabitant of the area. The tense relation between work and everyday life of a dweller is a topic which can be located in Merksem neighbourhod and to be re-questioned. Can historical heritage serve as a mediator between living and working? Can a specific interactive learning environment serve as a social mediator between working and everyday life? Can a democratic, public space, achieved through miniature interventions, serve as a physical mediator between colliding forces of working and living? How big is actually the power of miniature? miniature concept diagram

MASTER DISSERTATION PROJECT

axonometry view - BEFORE

axonometry view - AFTER

LEARNING CENTER master dissertation Project_Fifth Year of Studies The Urban Condition: MINIATURE DEMOCRACY AS A MEDIATOR

Menthor: drs. arch. Tomas Ooms 2015-2016.

ambient 1

ground floor plan

MASTER DISSERTATION PROJECT

section

LEARNING CENTER master dissertation Project_Fifth Year of Studies The Urban Condition: MINIATURE DEMOCRACY AS A MEDIATOR

Menthor: drs. arch. Tomas Ooms 2015-2016.

ambient 2

ambient 3

MASTER DISSERTATION PROJECT

transit street elevation

LEARNING CENTER master dissertation Project_Fifth Year of Studies The Urban Condition: MINIATURE DEMOCRACY AS A MEDIATOR

Menthor: drs. arch. Tomas Ooms 2015-2016.

volumetric response model

MASTER DISSERTATION PROJECT

concept model

collision model

implantation model

REFUGEE SETTLEMENT 13

Academic Project_Fourth Year of Studies Zero-impact building : Shadow cities With Monica Delgado, Dimitrios Triantafyllou, Giulia Dentice and Dimitrios Antoniou Menthor: arch. Ignaas Back 2015.

The idea of the project was to provide adequate living conditions to people in great need for temporary settlement, as a response for growing refugee crisis. Abandoned highrise building, in Piraerus Port, which is one of the milestones in the refugee route, proved to be sustainable and logical proposal for site. This way, the project is considering the reuse of existing building which could respond in most efficient and cost-free way to this existential problem. The project was primarily based on recognizing and applying a basic system which responds to minimal necessities and requirements of an inhabitant. This implied use of prefabricated units to minimize the costs of construction and allow flexibility and possibility of implementation in other facilities of this type. Use of the existing skeleton and envelope of the building, among other concepts, lead to achieving zero build impact. Apart from that, idea of integration of multiple activities (urban garden, gym, laundry, childcare, restaurant, workshops etc.) contributed in the development of a building with an autonomous system. At the same time, project was focused on incorporation of the building within a broader migration program, thus allowing immigrant population to be freely allocated in the rest of Europe.

building position in port of Pireaus

concept diagram

VISA

3 MONTHS

visualisation - rooftop view

Zero Impact Building concept

REFUGEE SETTLEMENT 15

Academic Project_Fourth Year of Studies Zero-impact building : Shadow cities With Monica Delgado, Dimitrios Triantafyllou, Giulia Dentice and Dimitrios Antoniou Menthor: arch. Ignaas Back 2015.

typical floor plan

Roof terrace This space offers different activities, there are washing lines, it is possible to make gardening and to breed chickens

Laundry This space is equipped with everything that is needed to wash clothes of the users. It is also a place where chatting with the inhabitants.

Live-floor In this floor the user spent most of the day. There are the bedroom area, the bathromm, the kitchen and the living room with the terrace.

Gym One floor of the building is entirely dedicated to the physical exercise. This space can be used with no limit, it is up to the users to go or not.

Kindergarten / Workshop area This is a mixed-functions floor . The children can play all together in a safe and supervised place while their parents can learn an activity or a job.

Restaurant_food catering In this floor the food is made for the users of the building by a catering company but also people from outisde can eat in the restaurant.

Burocracy office / Doctor It is important to offer services to the users. The burocracy office is an important place because it makes Visa for the immigrants. Is the key for their future.

program section

flexibility diagram

visualisation - terrace view

visualisation - living area

THE WALL 17

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Academic Project_Fourth Year of Studies Design Studio - Project 5: Urban Spaces of Ambivalence, Designing future-proof neighbourhoods for Antwerp, Belgium Menthor: drs. arch. Johan Neilsen 2014.

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The choosen site is distinguished by large ‘unurbanised’ green field area in the middle of dense urban fabric. While in it’s surroundings a person can get a feeling of being in nature, not in overcrowded city yelling for expansion. It presents a quiet area, place to rest and enjoy all small things which nature can offer. Clean air, bird sounds, horses, untrimmed trees and the view. It’s location is on the verge of city presence, but at the same time it presents one small, scattered piece of green’finger’ of Antwerp which makes it suitable for development in concept of dealing with border between city and green area. This is the place where city pressure and nature counterpressure are in the highest peak, the most sensitive area, next one to be threatened by city obtrudion. Concept is based on developing a wall, which will work as a steady, physical border which would absorb all the densification pressure coming from the city and allow existing green areas to develop further more, preserve their essential quality and share with the inhabitants of the wall.

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conceptual sketch - wall

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floor plans

conceptual sketch - wall photomontage - field view

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photomontage - street view

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THE WALL 19

Academic Project_Fourth Year of Studies Design Studio - Project 5: Urban Spaces of Ambivalence, Designing future-proof neighbourhoods for Antwerp, Belgium Menthor: drs. arch. Johan Neilsen 2014.

The project idea was to create a private oasis where residents could still make out the movements of people and traffic beyond the walls. “The serene soundless scenery of the passing cars and trams imparts richness to life in the house.” A immense field as a courtyard is glimpsed through the shimmering glass/corrten facade and it presents perfect example of part of building being intermediary place between the city and the nature. At the same time, this can be translated into interior level - these places can be seen as intermediaries between intimacy of appartments and semi-exposure of following corridors. In project perspective, these places can designed as restricted public areas, which allow non-residents of The Wall to enjoy it’s qualities and have a different sence of endless untouched fields in front of them. The areas offer the visitor a two-way perspective shimmering scenery of the city and colorful view on the nature. Placed on first and second floor, these areas are managed periodically and work separately form the residential part of the building. They are multifunctional spaces which can be transformed into open cinema projections, small open theathre stages, cafes, small conferences or just sitting areas where individuals can enjoy the view.

photomontage - apartment interior

conceptual sketch - framing

photomontage - market

photomontage - community cafe

THE WALL 21

Academic Project_Fourth Year of Studies Design Studio - Project 5: Urban Spaces of Ambivalence, Designing future-proof neighbourhoods for Antwerp, Belgium Menthor: drs. arch. Johan Neilsen 2014.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Architecture (is) a theatre stage setting where leading actors are people, and to dramatically direct the dialogue between these people and space is the technique of designing.â&#x20AC;? Kisho Kurokawa In project perspective,at first glance, whole building can be considered as one frame of a film, one caption in whole. But when you take a step back, and consider building surroundings as well, from human perspective, the building is much more than one frame. It is consisted of many more smaller frames, which allow higher perception quality to the passer-by.

photomontage series - ground floor - framing

HOUSE OF SHADES 23

Academic Project_Fourth Year of Studies Design Studio - Project 5: Urban Spaces of Ambivalence, one-week assignment, small scale intervention Menthor: drs. arch. Johan Neilsen 2014.

The site is located in the area which has scattered remains of green finger lob inside the block. The idea was to investigate how that â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;entrapped by urbanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; greenery can work and achieve same quality as greenery in green field. In manner of expressing greenery and giving it more purpose in functioning of the house, idea is to avoid traditional backyard-frontyard relation and create a mixed yard inside the plot which will be working as an intermediary area which will regulate intimacy levels of both dwellings. Atrium garden was created in between the dwellings, supported by large collective living-cooking space which is shared by both families. This created a very simple but strong communication diagram - residents of both dwellings need to pass through the atrium garden and collective space in order to approach their own dwellings.The house itself has different shades of intimacy how you go through it. On the street level, instead of garage, there is large open kitchen area which allows gathering on street level, approachable to everyone and presents the most exposed part of the house. Level of intimacy is in itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lowest - white. After the narrow entrance zone, the visitor enters the atrium garden zone, which, as before mentioned, works as an intermediary between identity of two dwellings. This area is open for guests and residents only, where residents allow guests to enter more personal place and make the intimacy shade a bit stronger - grey. On the second floor, both dwellings are clearly separated and function individually. Their intimacy shade is dark grey as they move away form the atrium garden on first floor. Additional garden areas are added, so that residents can have their own intimate gardens separated from the rest of the building. These are areas of the highest intimacy -black.

ground floor plan

site reading

first floor plan

model photograph - atrium garden

conceptual sketches

second floor plan

EXCHANGE HUB Bachelor diploma Project_Third Year of Studies Design Studio - Project 4: Synthesis Menthor: ass.prof. Igor Rajkovic 2014

The task was to design contemporary structure which can satifsy living and working needs of approximately 100 students. We were challenged to investigate the existing typology of student dormitories and to distinguish the specifities of the way students live, work, cohabit. The characteristics of the site (near high-frequency traffic street, terrain on slope, city periphery, at the end of forest, with unique viewpoints) with specific program lead to creating dynamic ring structure with circular part underground. Whole structure is designed as one big sharing hub, which with is specific volume is directing its inhabitants towards interaction. The ring-shaped roof top is designed as a long promenade acessible to visitors, neighbours and residents offering spectacular views on Danube river. The first level floor is ‘floating’ on slim pillars and it is hosting dormitories, canteen, child care, laundry, administration and multiple shared spaces. From them, two light, glass corridors are leading to the core - academic hub. Two-storey, circular, underground volume is designed as a place of intellectual exchange with libraries, study rooms, computers, reading rooms, conference and lecture spaces. Beneath that, 70 parking places, technical and maintenance rooms are situated and accessible from secondary street.

situation plan

bACHELOR DIPLOMA PROJECT

conceptual schemes

individual needs to have its own place, as a stabilisation point in its surroundings, affirmation of its identity

the exchange of possesions, responsibilities and intimate thoughts is the way of fostering culture of sharing, adapting and accomodating, a culture where communication within the community creates and defines the experience

‘ zones formed in that way lure people to leave their apartments and encourage interaction

creating of intelectually stimulative zone which promotes academic and social experience of students

circulation flow exchange dinamics

LIVE AND LEARN concept offers students large amount of resources, programs and services which would promote their academic experience and make it more exciting. It refers to student as a whole, it offers surroundings which encourages academic success, personal affirmation and sence of community

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EXCHANGE HUB Bachelor diploma Project_Third Year of Studies Design Studio - Project 4: Synthesis Menthor: ass.prof. Igor Rajkovic 2014

equipment elements

bACHELOR DIPLOMA PROJECT

equipment combination scheme

section

family room

double room

single room type 1 and type 2

single room type 3 and type 4

IT PAVILLION 29

Academic Project_Second Year of Studies Design Studio - Project 2: Architecture Construction With Jana Filipovic and Aleksandar Stamenkovic Menthor: prof. Aleksandra Krstic Furundzic, ass.prof. Natasa Cukovic Ignjatovic 2013

The project task was to design IT Pavilion which would contain both office and exhibition space. Located near Delta City Shopping mall in New Belgrade, on large green field, the pavilion offers new public space just beneath its volume. Large topped amphitheater descends under ground level and represents new space for pubic exhibitions, lectures, demonstrations concerning IT technologies allowing everyone to participate. The amphitheatre extends itself in interior, so it presents the link between nature and architecture. The part of the glass facade where amphitheatre â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;entersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; the building, can slide into its boxes allowing inside and outside boundary to disappear. The main pavilion entrance is emphasized with ramp and mild stairs covered with glass panels, so that everyone is able to enter. All maintaining space is integrated in a maintenance block and it contains sanitary rooms, doorman room, IT room, air handling room etc. On the upper floor, organization in conducted as open-space working zone with two conference rooms, executive room, lounge space, team work space, open terrace, sanitary rooms and gym for staff. Considering form of the pavilion, the idea was to create interesting but not too intrusive form. Clear divide between working, exhibition and maintenance sections is demonstrated through facade treatment (maintenance - concrete; exhibition and work - glass). In order to provide more comfort and privacy for staff working on the upper floor, the pavilion is surrounded with sun-shading system which provides sun protection.

situation plan

photomontage - field view

groundfloor plan

section

MAIN BUS STATION

competition project _Competition for urban and architectural solutions of Main Bus station Novi Beograd and commercial-business complex in Block 42, New Belgrade, Serbia With Arch. Ilja Mikitisin, Igor Mikitisin and Filip Susic 2014.

First impression of all passengers when entering Belgrade by bus is the appearance of the bus terminals. Therefore, the main intention of proposed concept is that the arrival terminals are clearly perceiveable and attractive for all users, both arriving or waiting. The second intention is that the movement axes of pedestrians and vehicles (both buses and cars going to garage area) do not interlude. These intentions shaped the bus station in a way that, station building would be positioned above arrival and departing terminals, therefore releasing ground floor space for continuous flow of buses. Attractivity and sustainability of the building is additionally affirmed by numerous comercial activities on first floor of the station building, which is visually connected with two-storey gallery. Management, administration, following services and agencies are proposed on the second floor. It is important to outline that the position of the building is defined in reference to the previously planned metro station, therefore allowing fast and easy access to all platforms.

conceptual schemes

city-level scheme of intercity Bus transportation

visualisation - front view of Main Bus Station

ground floor plan

section 2-2

section 1-1

MAIN BUS STATION

pedestrians communication axonometry

visualisation - interior of arrivals platform

first floor plan

elevation 2-2

elevation 1-1

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competition project _Competition for urban and architectural solutions of Main Railway station Novi Beograd and commercial-business complex in Block 42, New Belgrade, Serbia With Arch. Ilja Mikitisin, Igor Mikitisin and Filip Susic 2014.

Same as with Bus Station, the reference was made on the impression of the passenger coming abroad and the importance of the appearance of the building and terminals. The greatest influence on suggested proposal had the existing position of the train terminals of existing train station at the height of 7.70m. Therefore, the newly proposed station building is formed at 21m height from ground floor, because of necessary and regulation-demanded height above the terminal of 12m. Height difference between groundfloor and station lobby is overcomed by vestibule with attractive staircase and system of escalators. Complementary to this proposal are the commercial activities on floors which connect ground floor and lobby of the station building. Additionally, this position of the building served for the clear differentiation of flow axes between pedestrians, station users, giving them all equal opportunity for acces to building and terminals. As these kinds of buildings present of the technologically most demanding architectural designs it is necessary to provide all necessary elements of reneweable energy sources - heat pumps, solar panels, water collection etc. in order of achieving the most efficient and sustainable design.

expected flow of pedestrians and possible position of station

city-level scheme of intercity Railway transportation

inverting the expected, lifiting the pedestrian flow in order to lower them to the platform conceptual communication scheme

visualisation - front view of Main Railway Station

ground floor plan

section 1-1 section 2-2

MAIN RAILWAY STATION 37

pedestrians communication axonometry

visualisation - interior of arrivals / departure platform

top floor plan

elevation 3

elevation 2

PLACE OF ETERNITY 39

master plan

competition project _Preserving Pyramiden 120 hours architecture competition for students With Dimitrios Antoniou and Xiaoyu Xu PYRAMIDEN, Billefjorden, Spitsbergen Island, Svalbard, Norway 2015.

The identity of Pyramiden has always been routed in its marvellous natural values, compared to which human settlements are no more than mere fraction in the dimension of time and space. Living in the settings of extreme ice-scape and coldness, one cannot help but wonder who he is, what he has been doing, and what lays in front of him. In face of mighty nature, and the once glorious buildings, it is time to look beyond the horizon and strike the ultimate questions. In a sense, it is a place of eternity. Nonetheless, humans, together with their traces, are mortal. What is living at this moment becomes history in the next. In other words, it is not lives that we preserve, but deaths. The death of coalmine town, the death of whales, the devastating death of the 23 workers, all join the cicle of life and death. Thus we proposed a global cemetery as a new layer of identity for Pyramiden, in a manner of responding to the threat of an exploding population rate. Pyramiden has a dominating west-east axes featuring the Lenin statue and a long plaza. We consider this area the most monumental in this town, representing the strong identity of the Russian mining period. With a modular system to situate the coffins, the new cemetery extends along the slope, capable to extend in line with the town axis. Relatives can visit the cemetery by walking alon g the corridors, in framed views of the mountains at the other side of the fjord. Severe coldness will keep everything impair slowly.

location - macrocontext

visualisation - cemetery

section

CROSSING VIEWS 43

urbanistic concept

FIRST PRIZE competition project Competition for building welcoming a nursery and two workshops with the study of housing construction With MangerNielsen Architects + Atelier De Visscher & Vincentelli Rue Gray - Rue Kerckx, Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium 2016.

The plot inherited for the new nursery in Ixelles is reflected in specific urban condition: strained relationship between the different limits, different neighbours; highly variable templates; steep slope; specific orientation and delicate natural light; two bordering streets which create different urban characters. The approach we propose through this project is both on the scale of the urban: the city, the neighborhood, the Street; and wide experience scale: the child, the light, the inhabitant. The impact of the project is therefore in the new physiognomy of Gray Street. Currently perceived as a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Gray Canyonâ&#x20AC;?, lifeless with almost continuous cornice heights, we suggest intervention in this street with a truly contemporary and strong proposal in terms of human regeneration, but also in terms of templates; one not without the other. New volumes will rise up, offering new fronts perpendicular to the street and offering a lively and bright face in the outlook of the street. This will allow the building to blend naturally into context while offering engagement. The communal areas of the project, visible from the street, will complement the series of public spaces and groups that complement Gray Street.

section 1

public space pockets concept

elevation - Rue Gray visualisation - Rue Gray street view

section 2

CROSSING VIEWS 45

visualisations - interior

visualisation - nursery garden

floor plan

scailquin 47

FIRST PRIZE competition project Competition for creation of a Cultural Center with addition of social housing With MangerNielsen Architects + Atelier De Visscher & Vincentelli Saint Jose, Brussels, Belgium 2015.

The identity of Pyramiden has always been routed in its marvellous natural values, compared to which human settlements are no more than mere fraction in the dimension of time and space. Living in the settings of extreme ice-scape and coldness, one cannot help but wonder who he is, what he has been doing, and what lays in front of him. In face of mighty nature, and the once glorious buildings, it is time to look beyond the horizon and strike the ultimate questions. In a sense, it is a place of eternity. Nonetheless, humans, together with their traces, are mortal. What is living at this moment becomes history in the next. In other words, it is not lives that we preserve, but deaths. The death of coalmine town, the death of whales, the devastating death of the 23 workers, all join the cicle of life and death. Life is gift from death. Thus we propose a global cemetery as a new layer of identity for Pyramiden, in a manner of responding to the threat of an exploding population rate. Pyramiden has a dominating west-east axes featuring the Lenin statue and a long plaza. We consider this area the most monumental in this town, representing the strong identity of the Russian mining period. With a modular system to situate the coffins, the new cemetery extends along the slope, capable to extend in line with the town axis. Relatives can visit the cemetery by walking alon g the corridors, in framed views of the mountains at the other side of the fjord. Severe coldness will keep everything impair slowly.

urbanistic concept

visualisation - street view

ground floor plan

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visualisations

upper floor plan

section B-B

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