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Aleksander Nowak +45 5024 0449 nowak.aleksander3@gmail.com contact@dinnergroup.dk

2019

Architecture Triennale 02 Oslo 2019: Degrowth - Forest as Infrastructure Space techniques 01 Visualisation and mapping as a research method in urban and architectural studies.

2018

2017

2016

of Warsaw 12 University Courtyard and Social Building Competition

Results 6th of March 3rd Prize

City Gdansk 10 Young Shipyard Masterplan

Winning Proposal

Post-war recon06 Aleppo struction strategies

Master Thesis

Art 08 Chart Fair Architecture

07 Earthhouse Ghana

2014

Research - Spaces of Danish Welfare - potential PhD

10 Public square in Opole

SkyLense Pavilion

2015

Part of Main Triennale Exhibition

Winning Proposal

Natural construction community project

11

Kopernika public square Competition, Opole, Poland

Spetial Mention

03

Liget Budapest, New National Gallery and Ludwig Museum Competition

1st prize (Snøhetta)

Psychiatric Hospital 12 New Bispebjerg Competition, Copenhagen (Snøhetta)

Competition (Snøhetta)

2014

Monde 12 Le Headquarters, Paris

1st prize (Snøhetta)

visitor center, 10 Lascaux Montignac, France (Snøhetta) zero 09 Ådland energy district, Bergen, Norway (Snøhetta)

08 Guggenheim Helsinki Museum (Snøhetta) old town 05 Tønsberg refurbishment workshop, Tønsberg, Norway (HLA)

03 Løkkeveien office building,

1st prize, HLA

1st prize, HLA

Stavanger

Com09 Jåttåvågen petition, Master

2013

1st prize, HLA

plan, Stavanger, Norway (HLA), Room 04 Project & Coworking Space Kolektyw Sus01 Cambodian tainable Housing Competition, Building Trust International, shortlisted,

winning proposal for a city social project financing, shortlisted

SOFTWARE

WORK EXPERIENCE

Rhino Grasshopper Adobe Archicad Revit qGIS & ArchGIS Autocad 3dsMax Vray Sketchup Rendering for VR Freelance + Researcher at KADK

2018-......

07www.kadk.dk

www.dinnergroup.dk

08 2014-07.2015 1-year internship

www.snohetta.com

& 03-06.2014 08 -11.2013 Internship 08.2017-06.2018 Architect

www.henninglarsen.com

08 -11.2011 & 03-04.2012 Insomia Architects Intenrship

www.insomia.com.pl Mappings Visualising complex data: Copenhagen municipality

EDUCATION

2015-06.2017 08 Urbanism and Societal

Change Master Programme Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen Deane Alan Simson & Charles Bessard

www.kadk.dk

2010-02.2014 10 University of Arts in Poznan, Architecture and Urban Planning, Bachelor Degree, Engineer in Architecture

www.uap.edu.pl

LANGUAGES

English German Polish Norwegian - basic Danish - basic

Mappings 200 year strategy for Copenhagen flooding - floodplain +4 2150 / Urbanism and Societal Change

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kyLense is the winning pavilion created for CHART Art Fair Architecture Competition, 2016.

SkyLense is conceived as a machine for cooking whose mechanics are so simply perceived as to be apprehended in a single glance. The pavilion demonstrates the concept that sustainability is not just about being “less bad�, but instead may be used as a creative stimulator for life-activities that positively affect the environment. From sunbaking, to art performance, to cooking, each act is sponsored by two elements: water and sunlight.

An experiment in optics and illusion, the design focussed on the elements that would intrigue those who interacted with it. In their assessment, the Judges noted the effectiveness of the illusion created by the water and mirrored surface, whereby Jury member Bjarke Ingles admitted that he did not realise there was a bar counter until he physically touched it.

The pavilion’s elemental tectonic evokes two circular planes containing water separated by slender columns.

Water suspended by a clear film hangs overhead, forming a lenticular object that acts to focus and distort light. The lense works in two directions - it concentrates light beams one way and simultaneously distorts the surroundings for the ones looking through it.

PCV film Keder Cord Keder Rail Laser-cut A2 steel Al. Extrusion

Steel RHS 30x30

At ground-level, the pavilion used optical illusion to a functional advantage, where a semi-circular pool of reflective water is completed by a mirrored bar surface.

In the Charlottenburg Kunsthall where the pavilion made its first appearance, the normally benign Northern sun baked food against it’s mirrored surfaces and set alight sheets of stray paper. At night, a focussed beam shone through the lens of water creating spectacular rainbow caustics that would bounce off the reflective pool at ground level and decorate the surroundings in colour.

The pavilion operated as a restaurant during the CHART - Copenhagen Art Fair at the Kunsthal Charlottenburg. Attendees were required to walk through the water to be able to order champagne and oysters selected by restaurateurs L’Esprit du Vin. Initially hesitant people removed their shoes and played in the shallow pool all night.

Winning Proposal Team: Enlai Hooi, Tamara Kalantajevska, Nicole Strelcheva, Trine Thy 2016

Public Square - Poland - 3rd Prize

Dubai Expo - for Henning Larsen

Church Faroe Island - Henning Larsen

Private Competition

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oung City project in Gdansk is a unique opportunity to create a one-of-a-kind waterfront development.

Thee development of the shipyard area and its surroundings not only has the potential to transform into a vibrant livable district, but also to once and for all bind the historically divided city infrastructure together. It has the prospect to be a flourishing waterfront district in close vicinity to the City Centre.

In order to unfold and conceptualize these possibilities, our proposal begins with the following three strategies: Remember- to reinforce social and historical qualities of existing buildings, Reconnect- to integrate the Young City with Gdansk, and Reimagine - to activate heritage is a catalyst for urban life.

Year:2017/2018 Winning proposal Architect MAA Worked on: the strategic concept, script for adaptable area calculation, facade design, public space design, building arrangement, final area calculation, parking strategy, final visualisations.

Post-war reconstruction strategies for Aleppo.

2011

Protests, civil uprising, and defection Initial armed insurgency 2012

Escalation Ceasefire attempt (April–May 2012) Renewed fighting ( June–October 2012)

Rubble recycling as a tool of urban and societal revival.

Multiscalar dialogic approach.

Rebel offensives (November 2012 – April 2013) Government offensives (April–June 2013)

2013

The project is a multiscalar set of interweaving strategies on Aleppo’s reconstruction, where debris of war and its recycling deals as a tool for societal and urban revival rough analysis of the islamic historical spatial conditions, recent cultural changes, urban policies and current politico-economical environment around Syrian post-war reconstruction, the project aims to recognize key challenges of the future process. It puts its focus on past, present and potential future of most heavily damaged informal settlements.

The research aims to consider the nature of societal change, which Syria had undergone in the decades preceding the Syrian Civil War and its potential impact on the future of Aleppo’s informal neighbourhood units formation. These units are beeing recognized here as basic sociospatial mechanisms of reconstruction and future participation in governance of the country or, in times of disruption, its potential resilience. The design aims to challenge past examples of post-war reconstruction processes and current

means of development in con ict-torn and emerging countries.

Continued fighting ( July–October 2013) Government offensives (October–December 2013) Fighting between ISIS and other rebel groups ( Jan– March 2014) Government offensives and Presidential election

The analysis of both spontaneous aggregation processes, thanks to which the historical core of Aleppo emerged and prevailing policy approaches towards informal settlements in Syria, and globally, gives a possibility of contextualizing ideas of building on and learning from the past. What is more, the project by looking at cities which had undergone post-war reconstructions aims to provide comparable cases, examples of hope and vision to the Aleppese community.

Ultimately, the complexity has a chance to evolve into a proactive, more wholistic and dynamic rather than prescriptive strategy for reconstructing the city, the society and its communities.

The project aims to be a basis for further research and dialog with scholars and practitioners.

(March–June 2014)

2014

ISIL offensives and U.S. airstrikes ( June 2014 – January 2015) The Southern Front (October 2014 – February 2015) Northern Al-Nusra Front and Islamist takeover (October 2014 – March 2015)

2015

Army of Conquest advances in Idlib (April 2015 – June 2015) Resurgent ISIL advance (May 2015 – September 2015)

President Al-Assad in Moscow for Talks with Russia’s Putin on Sria reconstruction and SEZ 2016

Russian intervention and government offensive

SDF advances and Turkish military intervention 2017

22.12.2016 Syrian Army announces the capture of Eastern Aleppo and the complete withdrawal of rebels and civilians.The Red Cross confirms that the evacuation of all civilians and rebels was complete.

07.01.2017 The Syrian cabinet adopts a package of measures to restore the northern city of Aleppo.

12.01.2017 A video released on Wednesday shows tractors and forklifts in the Saif al-Dawla district clearing the streets of sandbags and rubble.

Aleppo with its rich, long history, level of resilience to wars and multicultural in uences is a perfect evidence of how urban structure represents a physical, three-dimensional projection of human beliefs tand socio-political conditions. The city is often referred to as one of the oldest cities in the world, which continuously inhabited, has been always a site of urban transformation and renewal. Historical development of the city shows how societal, political and recent climatic changes, evolve together and in uence the urban form; lead to its expansion but also destruction.

Based on

Syrian Arab Re publi. Displacement January-May 2016 Data based on UNOCHA data.

Legend Population movement (between governorates)

NA >10,000

Population movement (within governorates)

9,941 - 20,000

Displacement within district 26,800 - 39,826

Movement of returnees

95476 - 125,396

IDPs

Returnees

383,669

Created by kesaryvamshi from the Noun Project

Individuals displaced in 2016

62,117 Individuals displaced in May

NEW ARRIVALS PER MONTH 169,273

34,950 6,000

2,925

76,190

82,240 62,117

21,527 2,618

28,249

900 1,300 7,501

8,465

20,000

Dec

Jan

2015

500

2,600

500

600

10,000

Feb

Mar

41,790

Apr

May

2016

DISPLACEMENT PER GOVERNORATE

300 125,396

650

95,476

16,750 39,826

Al-Qaryatayn

28,387

Aleppo

3,887

20,000

70,000 Rukban 10,000 Hadalat

Dar'a 125,005 2,000

Idleb

Rural Damascus

20,000

16,750

Deir-ez-Zor Quneitra

Homs

Background map legend

3,000

200

Dar'a

26,800

BRICS countries EU / US - “western powers” Sanctions Bulldozing The New Silk Road

Mapping Aleppo City region scale strategy for post-war Aleppo, maps based on osm GIS and Humanitarian Response Data

The conflict is staggering not only in terms of numbers - 250.000 people killed, 130.000 missing 7.6 million internally displaced, 6.130 mln refugees who left the country - but also condition of the current global social, human rights, economic, political matters. e same as rubble-ruins are an obvious re ection of the conflict, the pre-war, rich and diverse urban fabric of Aleppo epitomizes the socio-economic circumstance where nine di erent civilizations held power throughout the millennia.

Space is a social product, or a complex social construction, based on values, and the social production of meanings which a ects spatial practices and perceptions.

One might argue that the Syrian con ict, with all its national and transnational players is a spatial embodiment of the planetary state of emergency (Cauter, 2012).

Aleppo reconsturction has a chance to be not simply a rebuilding process of a middle eastern city but a chance for careful re-evaluation of the current means which drive urban formal and informal growth, as well as their mutual relation.

Catalogue of details based on post-war rubble recycling is beeing developed.

How does alteration of the construction chain modifiy the whole city? The details and new construction methods have a chance to contribute to more cost effective and efficient post-war city shaping.

In the case of Aleppo and Syrian civil war it might appear naive to bring notions of ‘sustainability’ and ‘urban mining’ into discussion of post-war reconstruction. However examples from the past show us that practice of rubble reusal is not new.

The rubble women, from post-war Berlin, sorting debris and bringing it to spetial Zwischenlagestellen (initial collection points to which the rubble would be taken further by heavier machinery).

The presented set of details constitute an exemplary catalogue of systems which multiplied thorughout the whole city not only reuse the ‘local ressource’ but also bring back, not obvious, public domain to the city.

Here, a flexible scheme of mixed reinforced concrete frame and the rammed rubble wall is proposed.

The prototype is strong enough to withstand structural loads of a 6 to 7 high floor apartament block. Inner rubble core does not contribute to structural strength of the wall. Its production might be more time consuming than of a new reinforced concrete frame structure, however costs and use of concrete might be significantly reduced.

bove the horizon. Socially responsible behaviour is dependent on repetitive individual and collective exposure to our cultural evolution. Many museums today seem to see their visitors as the largest threat to their own collections and exhibitions. This attitude leaves museums “passive” in their performative role as cutting-edge institutions and in their relationship to the public at large.

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To enable the New Hungarian National Gallery and the Ludwig Museum to have the desired active role; interacting and communicating with their audience, our project is based on the following principles: The wish to unify two museums in one building while maintaining a strong individual identity for each.

We are situating both institutions under a singular public roof that is always accessible. Thus the roof becomes an inherent part of the City Park as does its` elevated continuation offering great views over the whole of Budapest.

Architecturally, we strive to create a museum building that offers exciting, modern and contemporary spaces that enable an art experience confidently suited to

the display of art from varying epochs and styles. We aim to create an inspirational environment for education and museum learning, where the thoughts and philosophical mindsets fundamental to any form of art creation and understanding are at the centre point. The centre point of the building symbolises the meeting point of two art institutions, the meeting of light and earth at the horizon simultaneously resolving practicalities of daylighting and embodying gravity at the meeting of the Ludwig Museum and the New National Gallery. In the heart of the building we envision a large open public space that serves both institutions. Here the visitors, local and from afar, young and old, are invited to start their journey of exploring art, in the Ludwig Museum and New National Gallery. The juxtaposition of the two institutions beneath a common fabric creates a space where tensions serve to inspire – a metaphysical reaction field between collections, and beyond the individual mind.

Winning Proposal Team: Snøhetta 2015 Concept development, visualisation

THE DECK

in Tähtitorninvuoren puisto forms the starting point for the flyover towards the Guggenheim Museum and is subtly integrated in the existing network of pathways and small squares.

uggenheim Foundation has, since the very beginning, challenged and cultivated contemporary society by consistently being one step ahead when projecting signs of human cultural evolution into the future: “…the Guggenheim Foundation continues to forge international collaborations that take contemporary art, architecture, and design beyond the walls of the museum”, is part of the foundations mission statement. Thus, architecture is not only influencing our immediate experience, but architecture also defines spaces for unlived futures. Every visitor, artist, designer, employee or user lives the future into architectural spaces.

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THE FLYOVER

+12,1m

THE ROOF +11,0m

shelters the public `Third Space` and offers views of the bay and the horizon.

The moveable roof flaps for solar harvesting can be adjusted for ideal positioning towards the sun.

THE RAMP

continues the public pedestrian flow from the park and the roof down to the public `Third Space from where pedestrians can continue in the Museum or towards the seaside promenade.

+6,1m

THE THIRD SPACE

The museum suggests the creation of a transpositional art platform to clearly express the “sisu” of this institution. It suggests how the building may physically move beyond its own walls to strengthen the collaborative approach of the museum and make itself completely accessible.

In addition to very functional and horizontally connected public-, staff- and exhibition areas in coherence with the program, the museum reveals a new and interstitial space created by the disconnection between skin and structure Guggenheim Helsinki Entry Team: Snøhetta 2015

creates a new urban link from the park over Laivasillankatu towards the Guggenheim Museum. On the roof the ramp is continued in a gangway parallel to the waters edge.

is a new sheltered public space for outdoor exhibitions and various urban activities.

From here passers-by can have glimpses into the exhibitions through glazed atria.

THE MUSEUM LEVEL +3,1m

+1,1m

is accessed from the north via a large, slightly inclined surface. All exhibitions as well as the performance hall are grouped arround the central foyer/multi-purpose-zone.

THE PUBLIC ART SQUARE +1,1m

THE PLINTH

protects the museum and its content with its double-layer watertight structure.

DIAGRAM OF ARCHITECTURAL ELEMENTS

ALEKSANDER NOWAK

is an outdoor exhibition space that connects the public realm with the `Third Space` of the Guggenheim Museum.

Intersection Volu

e Monde Group is an icon in the media world and its long standing reputation of integrity and quality is a measure for media houses woroldwide. The Le Monde Group has chosen a generous, open and accessible model. In this context, Snøhetta shall continue to strive for an architecture providing the public with the notion of ownership, emphasizing intimate relationships between the public and Le Monde.

L Passage/Bridge Building

Daylight/Entrance/Cafe

representing the bridge between Le Monde and its readers. The occupied bridge allows for direct contact between the different departments in the company. Symbolically the bridge connects the two parts of the city along the Avenue De France.

Instead of water passing under the bridge, we have created a public open space; a plaza in two connected halves. One half faces the street and the Seine.

It is open, inviting, and activated by a visitor center, auditorium entrance, and staff entrance. The second half faces the railway. It receives more direct sunlight, has a café and more intimate landscaping with seating and green areas.

Adapting volume to regulations

Structurally, the site is divided in two parts. However, we believe it is important that Le Monde occupies one building. Our approach has been one of subtraction, taking first a block filling the entire site and subtracting volumes to create entrance areas and public spaces. The subtracted volumes also relate to the existing site planning restrictions and the capacities of the structural grid. The result is that the building becomes a bridge, literally spanning across the site, but also

Creating City Plaza

Regulating Height

Winning Proposal Team: Snøhetta 2015 Concept development, visualisation, facade & script

Existing Regulation

Volumetric Fillout

Part of initial concept design facade script

LES LOTS

LES LOTS

bât B

bât A

bât B

bât A

Facade view from l’l’Avenue enue Pier Pie

a2 - Antonini & Darmon

Lot A9a1 -

Atelier 234

a2 - Antonini & Darmon

Lot A9a1 -

Atelier 234

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Lot A2 Lot A2

SNØHETTA SNØHETTA

Forest as infrastructure space Post-soviet Microrayon.

Riga as a shrinking city.

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orest as infrastructure space. This 200+ year speculative strategy treats the forest - Latvia’s greatest asset, as flexible infrastructure for future.

The city of Riga is an example of a shrinking city. In this context, the project reimagines how future urban population fluctuations could be approached.

Together with the shrinking population - and economy as its potential consequence - the patches of forest appear in the city, Every patch of this flexible, reconfigurative membrane should be read as a stack of various layers of value.

Forest in this case becomes more than a space-filler for the emptying urban tissue. It gradually creates a new type of re-countrysized urban scenario, embodies an economical asset, raw ressource and insurance for future generations. The forest, when curated, constitutes an integral part of the city economy- when “left behind”, starts to expand on its own, overgrowing the dying city.

The forest infrastructure by encasing Riga, limits the urban sprawl and compresses the moribund society.

anish ghettos. The project aims to tackle socio-spatial phenomenas in vulnerable neighbourhoods in Denmark, bringing as an example Vollsmose in Odense.

Danish vulnerable neighbourhoods got a lot of attention and funds since government released the first ‘Ghetto List’ in 2010. The areas are generally those with high levels of unemployment, high numbers of immigrants with a non-Western background, and citizens with a low level of education. How can we adress and discuss potential set of spatial interventions restructuring and rehabilitating the stigmatized areas?

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The multiscalar projects aims to refurbish existing housing stock bringing additional common, third spaces for the inhabitants. Transition from vast open areas and hyper-privitized isolated units is beeing created through provision of semi-private and semi public space for common dining, sharing of knowledge and urban gardening.

Second proposal adresses potential new expansion of the area providing this time new horizontal experimental urban fabric.

Academic Project, KADK Copenhagen Team: Zi-Jin Wang, Aleksander Nowak 2016

Analysis of Platonic, Catalan and Archimedean polyhedra allowed for the generation of new spatial configurations.

Step by step vivisection of the most basic characteristics of physical space- the ‘nature’s own coordinate system’ - allowed me to rethink commonly used XYZ space in which architects usually operate.

As Buckminster Fuller declares “Nature has only one department - one comprehensive coordinate system. In short, systems automatically find comfortable arrangements, which are necessarily a result of the balance between specific forces and inherent spatial properties.”

My human, naive attampt was to grasp some of these features and continue to work with them in order to achieve a set of new type of intersecting blocks, I felt very fortunate to find out, at the beginning of my carreer, that among others, “space is not squaring”; she is triangling” or pose questions such as “where is up”.

Other early works. University of Arts, Poznan Column, installation art, Law Faculty Building, Poznan 2012 Acts, coal, large format Experiments, Sweeping the floor, coal, large format Prortraits, acrylic on canvas

DRAWINGS & PAINTINGS UNIVERSITY & OWN

Aleksander Nowak +45 5024 0449 +48 603063611 nowak.aleksander3@gmail.com contact@dinnergroup.dk Thank you!