Akrekm Portfolio 2023

ANA KREKMAN ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO

WHO AM I

With a multi-cultural upbringing, I fostered a design philosophy centers on creating spaces that bridge people together, integrate user groups into common areas, and build connections. I believe that architecture can play a critical role in fostering social interaction and community engagement, and my work is guided by this principle.

I also incorporate the importance of light and shadow in my projects. Light has the power to shift perceptions and shape experiences. Light and shadow are gravitational forces that work together in order to achieve the underlying intent. One cannot exist without the effect of the other.

The power of natural light is a constant theme within my projects to enhance the user experience, both visually and emotionally, in order to create harmonious language.

I approach every project with a deep understanding of my clients needs, and I create spaces that are not just functional, but also spiritually fulfilling. I frequently strive to achieve this through natural light. Light is placed in the absence of form or in my building facades to create an experiential moment for the people entering that space, which is designed to be inclusive, inviting, and welcoming to all, regardless of their background or cultural heritage. By incorporating elements that resonate with different user groups, I strive to create spaces that are both functional and inspiring.

BEACON OF HVERFJALL P.3 BRONZE IDA 2022 Visitor Center + Coffee Shop Hverfjall, Iceland

LOTO

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ECOHILL

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CANDELA

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PHOTOGRAPHY

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Amphitheatre + Park Savannah, USA

Transit Station Sinaia, Romania

Hotel Atlanta, USA

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BEACON OF HVERFJALL

COMPETITON: Visitor Center + Coffee Shop BRONZE - IDA 2022 DATE: Spring 2022 SITE SELECTED: Hverfjall, Iceland BUILD-UP AREA: 448 SQM

Emerging from the dark horizon of the Mytvatn region of Iceland, the Beacon of Hverfjall, seeks to combine the traditional Icelandic landscape with local materiality. Addressing the client’s request to transform the visitor center into a place to rest, the design allows visitors to recharge and take in the view while enjoying a warm cup of coffee. The design creates a structure that captures the attention of hikers coming to and from the volcano. Interior and exterior circulation parallel with the building emerging from the site establishes a unique traversal experience. Filtered light creates an illusion of the structure surfacing like a beacon from the ashen ground. Visitors move from the moody lower lounge to the bright, open upper level café as a reflection of hiking up Hverfjall volcano itself.

In collaberation with Hazen Soucy, Allyson Moncada and Anline Milito

Revit, AutoCAD, Sketchup, Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign

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1 LAKE MYTVATN 2 HVERFJALL CRATER 3 BEACON OF HVERFJALL

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A FIRST FLOOR

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LOBBY 30sqm

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OFFICE 30sqm

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LOUNGE 30sqm

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STORAGE 30sqm

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LOCKERS 30sqm

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CAFE 30sqm

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RESTROOMS 30sqm

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EXHIBIT 30sqm

TOTAL: 448 SQM

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Original Form Begin with a simple rectilinear form to allow for optimum subtractive properties

Push Push vertical planes apart from the boundary to allow to for balance in creating merging form.

Push Push horizontal planes apart from the boundary to allow to for balance in creating seperate floors.

Openings & Planes Providing a merging effect by cutting openings on the facades of the form.

Lorem

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EXTERIOR CLERESTORY

Volcanic Rock Jamming: collected from the fallen volcanic debris surrounding the region. It grounds the first level to the site.

INTERIOR BEAM STRUCTURE VOLCANIC ROCK JAMMING

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VOLCANIC ROCK JAMMING

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First Floor Lobby

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Second Floor Coffee Shop + Lounge

Experiential Narrative

I am surrounded by icy fields of gray rocks. The air is cold and windy as dark clouds gather above the horizon. The climb is steady towards the entry of the building, where the glow of light from within guides me inside. The Visitor Center is a Beacon, cutting through the fog. The smell of coffee engulfs me as I enter the building and I am greeted by a lounge with a fire place. I move forward, releasing my rucksack from my shoulders and place it down. There is a storage room where I stow away my belongings, before I make my way upstairs. I emerge from the earthy lower lounge to the open second floor. Once upstairs, I am welcomed to a steaming cup of coffee from the bar. The atmosphere is warm and inviting and my gaze follows the topographic wood panels on the ceiling references the terrain of the volcano. I walk towards the large window, staring out at the Hverfjall crater as snow begins to fall outside.

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RENAISSANCE OF DAFFIN

PROJECT TYPE: Park YEAR: Winter 2022 LOCATION: Savannah, USA BUILD-UP AREA: 92,000 SQF Loto derives from the desire to create an elegant experience between the natural presence of the existing landscape and the structural steel system.The purpose was to produce a place that enables the experience of the prevalent conditions of the site and the program where the design is conceived first as an urban landscape that implements and bridges a series of steel structures, distributed around Daffin Parks new urban plan. Rather than creating a new urban context, the goal was to revitalize existing programs and enhance visitor comfortability and mobility throughout the site. Thus, the Renaissance of Daffin Park centers around the revitalization of sport and park programs by introducing new spaces and re-organizing existing ones. The Park represents the ideas around the renaissance age of rebirth and bringing an elegance to the once over-built, under-populated park.

Rhino, Grasshopper, Revit, AutoCAD, Lumion, Illustrator, Photoshop

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Pedestrian Pathways + ADA Accessability

Bleachers

Football Field

Water Collection + Filtration + Storage

Food +Bonfire

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Basketball Courts

Tennis Courts

Amphitheatre

Retention Ponds

Solar Panels + Solar Lighitng

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Bleachers with roofing system

Pedestrian path

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Production of program where the design is conceived first as an urban landscape that implements and bridges a series of steel structures, distributed around Daffin Parks new urban plan.

Working as a uniform system, coexisting to aid one another, rather than working against.

Roof-catchment system: angled funnel allows for more rain water collection due to expansion of surface area.

Allowing for heat reduction and reduction of humidity through circulation and creating fresh air.

Distributed Jugs throughout the park.

Water Jug

Ventilation Jug

Flat Surface of roof allows for optimum solar radiation retention on Solar Panels. Providing wireless internet back to local neighbourhoods and charging stations for present Park visitors Solar Jug

Rain

Primary Water Tank

Water Vegetation

Secondary Water Tank

Water Filtration

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Roof Follows Evaporative Cooling Self-Sustaining approach from angle of roof skin surface. Angled nature allows for rain water to flow down with shading, while simultaneously allowing natural air to come through, performing cooling system throughout bleachers

Fillet Weld Connection 1. Toe 2. Fusion Zone 3. 1/2 ‘’ Leg Thickness

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Gutter and Footer Water Feature 1. Cast Concrete Footer = 4000 psi 2. Void Cutout For Water Flow To Grade 3. Steel Column

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4. Pin Connection 1. Bracing tension rod with pin connection 2. Predrilled Anchor disc with centralized hole

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ECOHILL BRIDGING SINAIA

PROJECT TYPE: Transit Station DATE: Winter 2022 SITE SELECTED: Sinaia, Romania BUILD-UP AREA: 25,000 SQF

The concept for this design is wildlife bridging, which encapsulates the notion of moving between planes in a guiding path. Flow is centralized here by passing through strong urban man-made conditions. The merging of the landscape creates a dynamic and flowing relationship as individuals travel along the verticality of the “bridge”. The design is conceived by bridging the train station to the road facing the hotel. The experience unfolds as individuals evolve and move through time and space. This is a place where you can explore, move and exist.

AutoCAD, Revit, Sketchup, Illustrator, Photoshop,

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Focal Points Looking at complete access to views and sun.

Advantage of site angles in order to create the right language to communicate to visitors through primary and secondary points of interest.

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Flow + Movement Looking at forms of transportatio routes accessing the site. Through pedestrian and vehicular circulation in order to determine best points of pedestrian access.

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CANDELA

WINDOWS OF OPPORTUNITY

PROJECT TYPE: Hotel DATE: Fall 2022 SITE SELECTED: Atlanta, United States BUILD-UP AREA: 60,000 SQF

The hotel is centered around the translation of views through light and spatial organization in order to promote a sense of gaze and glance.

The theme of the hotel responds to views between exterior and interior spaces with light guidance in order to enhance visitor and pedestrian interaction. Visitors experience the space like a mirror, by looking in or looking out. This allows for visual opportunities of interest. The structure itself enhances the sense of gazing and glancing through the use of solid bamboo walls or frosted curtain walls.

Revit, AutoCAD, Sketchup, Lumion, Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign

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Paper Collage #1

Paper Collage #2

Paper Collage #3

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Gaze vs Glance Local Downtown Atlanta site location includes a multitude of parking lots, restaurants and local markets. Site specific programs that are missig in the immediate vicinity include a hotel with a built-in enteratainment Topo of site is relatively flat, with an incline elevation of 6-8 feet. Goal of the project is to create a space of Gaze and Glance, a window of opportunity and to create an interaction between pedestrian and Luckie St NW, Atlanta, GA 30303

Original Form Starting off with simple rectilinear form for optimum subtractive properties

Push Push planes back from boundary to create hybrid spaces that allow to for balance in light and space

Openings & Planes Providing a floating effect by creating openings on the first level.

Views Creating hybrid spaces in order to create unique view accessibility with multiple angles.

Extrude Unify the interior corners through progression of space in order to continue language throughout building

Lightings Transmitting light through in and out of the building. Creating exterior views through interior light.

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BB 3 SUITE 750 sqf 2 DOUBLE ROOM 450 sqf 1 SINGLE ROOM 450 sqf

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5 COLD STORAGE 120 sqf 4 RESTAURANT 1200 sqf 400 sqf 3 RESTROOMS 2 KITCHEN 850 sqf 1 BAR 450 sqf

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ELEVATOR EGRESS STAIRS MEZZANINE FLOOR

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7 RESTROOMS 400 sqf 6 EVENT SPACE 1500 sqf 5 RECEPTION 50 sqf 4 OFFICE 400 sqf 3 LOBBY 650 sqf 2 VALET 50 sqf 1 BAR 850 sqf

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DOUBLE ROOM 600 sfq

SINGLE ROOM 350 sfq

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1 6’’’ COLD FORMED LIGHT GAUGE STEEL 2 EXTERIOR GYPSUM SHEATHING 3 NON-PERMEABLE WATERPROOFING 4 4’’ EXTERIOR SEMI-RIGID INSULATION 5 FIRE SAFING 6 PTD ALUM ARMATURE 7 PTD ALUM WINDOW WALL SECTION 8 PTD ALUM CURTAIN WALL SYSTEM 9 PTD ALUM INSULATED PANEL SYSTEM 10 CAVITY WALL - DOUBLE MEMBRANE

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Curtain wall 4’

Louvre system

Joists 2’ O.C Wide flange W12 x 26 WWF-Welded wide Flange-Column WWF 18 x 152 WWF 14 x 128 Wide flange W12 x 26

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Entertainment Space

I am In a room where I cannot see them But They can see me.

Because I am a mirrored gaze, Shelled inside And not Exposed out I am (Read in Reverse)

Patio Space

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PHOTOGRAPHY

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Chiang Mai, Thailand Girl photogrpahed in a rural village three hours from Chiang Mai. Behind her is the wooden house she was born in becuase the closest hospital is two hours from her village.

Chiang Mai, Thailand Two brothers candid shot as they laugh at the photographer making silly faces. Not captured in the shot are the machetes they are holding. Behind them is the orphanage they were raised in.

Chiang Mai, Thailand A group of school girls wave at the photographer, on their way to school. They are two hours away from Chiang Mai. Behind them is their six-room school that rests on a steep hill.

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Shanghai, China A quaint market place near downtown Shanghai, on a rainy day. The marble flooring reflects light coming from interior shops, creating a world of color and light for pedestrians.

Manhattan, NYC, United States Marble and glazing facade reflects the light, creating an interesting mosaic of the cloudy sky for pedestriads and on-lookers.The harsh contrast between the two building facades is formed by the glare coming in from the right side.

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Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Visitors at the Louvre Abu Dhabi museum. Light comes into the shaded courtyard, creating specks of light patterning on wall and floor planes. It is interesting to see the light shift depending on the time of day.

Zagreb, Croatia Saint Mark’s Church rests on a hill in downtown Zagreb, allowing light to hit the tiled-roof from all angles.

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