Portfolio - architecture

ERIKA BAKOVÁ

CONTENTS

Studio projects:

Train station facade

Communal area in industrial park

Gallery wall

Town park

Garden play house

Hospital mural

School projects:

Aquarium production

AZ Tower

Suburban villahouse

Multi ctional house

Company logo detail

Other projects

Artwork:

Land art

SKILLS

Archicad

AutoCAD

SketchUp

Rhinoceros

Lumion

Twinmotion

Adobe package

MS Office

Drivers licence

LANGUAGES

Slovak

BC. ERIKA BAKOVÁ

based in Brno, Czechia

+420 604 585 589

erikabakova11@gmail.com

WORK EXPERIENCE

Partero - Brno, Czechia

February 2024 - present

Landscape architecture, design and visualisations (public spaces, parks, private gardens)

Software: AutoCad, Lumion, Rhinoceros, SketchUp

Zeppelin arkitektar - Reykjavik, Iceland

September 2022 - December 2022, May 2023 - September 2023

Internship, various types of projects documentations (hotel, housing, embassy...)

Software: Archicad

Hua Hua architects - Brno, Czechia

skillful user level user level

skillful active driver

English Czech native advanced advanced

OTHER INTERESTS

- Astronomy, space engineering

- Travelling, hiking, exploring

- Snowboarding, freeride

- Climbing, bouldering

- Board games, board nights

- Reading before bed

- Playing the guitar once a month

- Sports (for fun only)

- Good beer with good company

REFERENCE

Orri Árnason, architect

phone: +354 6959466

e-mail: orri@zeppelin.is experienced experienced experienced user level

February 2022 - September 2022

Project documentation for rban studies, family housings, showrooms, public spaces

Software: Archicad, Autocad, SketchUp

Artistic studio of MgA. Václav Kočí Ph.D. - Brno, Czechia

January 2020 - February 2022

Art and design in architecture, murals, sculptures, canvas paintings

Software: AutoCAD, SKetchUp, Twinmotion

EDUCATION

Brno University of Technology, Czechia 2022 - present

Master’s degree Architecture and Settlement Development

Brno University of Technology, Czechia 2018 - 2022

Bachelor’s degree Architecture and Building Construction

ABOUT ME

My home country is Slovakia, but I have been living, studying, and working in Brno, Czechia for 6 years now. I am a curious person who always needs to find the answer to anything that catches my attention. I try to bring positive energy with me anywhere I go.

Architecture is what brings me opportunities to explore new views and things and learn from them. I am inspired by the connection between people and spaces, and how they influence and change each other.

In my previous work, I had a chance to deeply focus on the relationship between art and architecture, and it has been an attractive topic for me ever since. Currently, working in a landscape architecture studio, I am widening my understanding of outside space, its reflection of surrounding objects, and the enrichment it brings to architecture.

TRAIN STATION FACADE

2022 - project, 2023 - realisation

Work for MgA. Václav Kočí Ph.D.: Adamov - Czechia

My task was, in cooperation with Václav Kočí, based on his artistic design, to create a facade for a train station, a project developed by Hua Hua Architects. It has a poem called “Home” encrypted in the design, where each perforated panel stands for one letter of the poem, each letter represented by a unique panel layout. With the decryption key, in this case, the list of layouts assigned to the alphabet, one could read the whole poem off of the facade.

Apart from designing the facade composition, I worked on preparing the ordering documentation for the panels and communicated with the supplier. This process included two rounds of testing samples, 1 x 1 m panels, to determine the proportions of the used perforation.

COMMUNAL AREA IN INDUSTRIAL PARK

2024

Work for Partero studio: Havlíčkuv Brod - Czechia

I was part of the team developing a communal space in the center of an industrial park for the company B-TECH. It serves multiple purposes, as a seating area in front of the company canteen, as a meeting point in the industrial park, and as a possibility to conduct casual meetings outside. Various types of seating offer a spot for both groups and individuals. The design aims to bring life and greenery into what would otherwise be a cold, dull spot on the campus. I worked on designing the spatial solution and modeled the design in 3D.

2022 - project, 2023... present - realisation

Work for MgA. Václav Kočí Ph.D.: Kubova Huť - Czechia

The concept of this piece lies in so called Golden Path . The Golden Paths is the collective name for the system of north-south medieval trade routes that crossed the area od Czechia. In cooperation with Václav Kočí, using another one of his encrypting alphabets, I inscibted the names of czech towns that laid on this paths. The thickest lines symbolise three arms of this path system, and the blue line symbolise the river Danube where the paths end.

I cooperated on the design of a park situated in front of an elementary school but also serving the public. We were working with elements such as terrain modeling, elevated grass sitting areas, a combination of surface materials, water elements, and an art sculptural form also serving as a play element. I modeled the design in 3D software and rendered the photorealistic visualization in cooperation with my team.

2024

Work for Partero studio: Czechia

The task was to design a structure that could be repeatedly used in Partero’s projects, for example for private gardens, and public parks of kindergartens. Currently, it has become a part of one kindergarten project and is set to be realized in August 2024. It consists of a wooden structure placed on steel legs. The special element used is the play net, which serves both for a quiet stay and for jumping movement. This garden house can therefore serve for either intense play, relaxation, or just as a sun coverage.

POPIS HERNÍHO PRVKU

• MATERIÁL: Dřevěná konstrukce opláštěná dřevěnými latěmi. Dřevěné hranoly. Schodky z ocelových jeklů. Síť

HOSPITAL MURAL

2021 - project, 2023 - realisation

Work for MgA. Václav Kočí Ph.D.: Hospital of St. Anna - Brno - Czechia

In cooperation with Václav Kočí, using yet another one of his descriptions, I captured the human genetic code onto the walls and floor of the genetic department staircase hall in the city hospital. Specifically, the sequence of a gene for protein P53 was used for this project, the protein which in the cell has the function of a DNA damage sensor. The sequence consists of four letters A (adenine), C (cytosine), G (guanine), and T (thymine), therefore only symbols are repeatedly used both in paint on the walls and in the tiles on the floor.

AQUARIUM PRODUCTION BUILDING

2022

School project: Brno - Czechia

The aim of the project was to create a space for the making of aquariums for the firm Pavlica Aquariums. In addition to the separate production hall and the carpentry workshop in the building, there was also a requirement for an exhibition space for permanent and temporary product displays. The mass of the building is composed of six modules, each one disposing of a half-span roof with the alternately oriented slope transversely towards the axis of the asymmetry of the building, symbolizing the movement of a disturbed water surface. The building is arranged into four separate zones. The general public has access to the exhibition spaces with sanitary facilities, the employees have access to the offices situated upstairs and through the locker rooms into the production hall and a carpentry workshop, connected to the technical equipment of the building. The support system of the building is a prefabricated skeletal system made from reinforced concrete, which provides large and open interior spaces.

School project: Brno - Czechia

The assignment was to design of possible usage of the highest roof of the AZ Tower building, including the modifications of the main entrance. The inspiration for the architectural morphology of the proposed mass was the similarity of the mass of the building to pink calcite, the repositories of which are located near Brno. The contrasting colour design encircling the roof of the building is designed for recreational purposes. The aim of the concept is to attract tourists and locals to this place and introduce the panorama of Brno from the tallest building in the city. In addition to the outlook, the visitors will have an opportunity to stay at a high-rise cafe or reside in the tips of the construction. The installation of the red crystal in the main entrance area symbolizes the trigonal crystallization system of calcite. It consists of three material elements: expanded metal, polycarbonate, and steel bars, which characterize admixtures in chemical compositions of calcite responsible for its coloration.

School project: Brno - Czechia

The project is about the design of a house with four housing units with garages, two of them maisonettes. The mass of the object was created by assembling, adding, and removing blocks of mass, which creates a floor plan shape of a letter U with balconies, terraces, and averted private yard. The building is located on a hillside slanting to the north. The first underground floor is partially recessed into the terrain and does not receive light from the south, therefore it is used for garages and cellar cubicles. The upper floors offer two luxury flats with 4 rooms two maisonettes with 4 rooms, and a studio on the highest upper floor, all of them with rooms oriented to the south. All of the flats are connected by a glazed stairwell. Four multifunctional studio units were designed at the back of the estate for using its entire potential. With its architectural expression, this object reacts to the mass of the villa house and brings the possibility of a small business or other services into the area.

MULTIFUNCTIONAL HALL

2019

School project: Dolní Kounice - Czechia

The task of the project was to design a multifunctional sports building, an extension of an Elementary school in Dolne Kounice. Connection to the existing object is designed with a glazed bridge on the second floor and it connects the school with the student dressing rooms. The public entrance is located on the ground floor by the parking lot situated behind the building, it leads to the public dressing rooms and to the tribune. The shape of the building was created by combining three block masses differentiated by the height level of the roofs, the number of floors, and the facade design. The facade combines several materials, wood on the facade of the sports hall itself, the glazed suspended facade of the public entrance area, and a white stucco plaster, used for the dressing room sections connected to the school. In addition to the big sports hall with a basketball field, there is also a smaller sports hall located on the ground floor. The support structure of the building is a combination of the wall and skeletal system.

2022

School project: Brno - Czechia

The secondary part of my bachelor’s final project was to design an architectonic detail. I worked on the company logo situated in the foyer of the production building. The logo represents the company’s main product which is aquariums. It consists of two offset backlit structural layers anchored together in a plasterboard wall. The first layer is a dark gray slate board with a chipped surface and cut edges. The second layer is a glass board, using clear glass with polished edges. The glass is glued to the screw using UV glue. A strip of LED lighting is glued to the back of the slate board.

OTHER SCHOOL PROJECTS

2022

Semestral projects - well known realisation analysis - graphic work, drawing

1 - Aktivátor pohon a ovládanie : káblové spojenie s budovou

2 - Oporné rukávy : napojenie na hlavnú štruktúru

3 - Podporná konzolová opora

4 - Hviezdový spoj spája konce Y-ramien

5 - Kryt aktivátoru

6 - Prstencový rozbočovač spoj Y-ramien a aktivátoru

7 - Rukáv Y-štruktúry : pripojenie Y-ramien na rozbočovač

8 - Rameno Y-štruktúry : podopiera celý mechanizmus

9 - Y-mobilný statív : podopiera rámi látkovej sieťoviny

10 - Stabilizér

11 - Jazdec : dovoluje mobilnému statívu pohyb po Y-ramenách

12 - Rám látkovej sieťoviny

13 - Látková sieťovina

Weekend trip to the mountain range in Czechia to spend outdoors and create landart