Azbenova Diana- Undergraduate Architecture Portfolio 2019

Portfolio

Diana Azbenova 2018-2019

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Orlando, FL

TABLE OF CONTENTS Polk County, FL A WALL WHERE COMMUNITY EXISTS Spring 2019

BOK TOWER GARDENS Fall 2018

- WATER TOWER

PASSIVE BUS STOP Fall 2018

SACRED SPACE-CHAPEL Fall 2018

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Moscow Russia

NOISE ESCAPE-URBAN WALL Orlando, Fl

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SPRING 2019, Design 6.

PROFESSOR: Vanessa Marin PROJECT DURATION: 3 weeks LOCATION: Downtown Orlando

A wall where community exists.

Noise Escape Wall

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Located in Downtown Orlando, Gertrude`s Walk spans three city blocks, providing access to offices, city sports arena, and creating walking and biking pathway through Orlando`s Urban Trail.

During the walk in Downtown, it`s hard not to notice the noise that comes from everything around you. Cars, Fire Department`s alarms, people, highway, are what create that noise. And sometimes there is that moment of silence, or seclusion that helps you to get away from that urban bustle.

Actual view of site

Urban Wall Noise Escape created to give people an experience of seclusion being isolated by long curved concrete walls and the space created between and through them.

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Elevation. Urban Wall

Isolated space in the middle of the wall, creates an island that stores free books, and gives people an opportunity to get away from the noise and find themselve a one of a kind spot to clear their mind and be in the moment.

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PROCESS

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A.WEST-EAST ELEVATION B.EAST-WEST ELEVATION C.DETAIL SHOT D.DETAIL SHOT E.CONCEPT MODEL F.WIREFRAME MODEL G.DRAFT MODEL H.FINAL MODEL-URBAN WALL

URBAN WALL PLAN (NORTH-EAST)

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WEST CENTRAL BOULEVARD

The wall will serve as a community space for anyone who finds the beauty of silence in their own way and who is not afraid to stay conscious of the moment.

ISOLATED MINI LIBRARY

Throughout the whole space, the wall gives people a lot of room to express their thoughts, feelings, emotions, memories. Since it`s solid concrete, people can freely draw, write on it, depending on what they may experience at that moment. In that sense, the wall becomes a place where community exists, where people share their stories through the silent communication whether it`s a drawing, or just a moment spent together.

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ENTRANCE FROM W. CENTRAL BLVD

Mini library is a small space in the middle of the wall that creates secluded place for people to read, clear their mind, relax, inspire and so

Polk County, Fl

FALL 2018, Design 5.

PROFESSOR: Stephen Szutenbach PROJECT DURATION: 5 weeks LOCATION: Polk County, FL

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BOK TOWER GARDENS Water Tower

BUTTERFLY WING INSPIRED WATER TOWER

BOK TOWER GARDENS

POLK COUNTY, FL

Insects as our neighbours on Earth, as the ones who share the same fate as we are, survive in the nature for many decades, but in a microscale. They build structures that can consist of million member of their colonies or species, making them very good architects who we can learn from.

They do not have groups of people who are architects and build the constructions, instead they build as they know, working as a whole organism without destroying the nature around them. Moreover, blending in with the nature, and only supplementing it.

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TOWER

Bok Tower Gardens is a contemplative garden, and bird sanctuary located north of Lake Wales, Fl. Gardens besides being gardens, have tall Singing Tower with its carillon bells, Pine Ridge Trail, and Pinewood Estate, which give you a feeling of being connected to the nature.

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D A.Ground Elevations B.Sun direction C.Favoring insects D.Pest insects

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Butterflies as one of the beneficial insects provide a lot of information that can be used by humans in construction structures, or from an aesthetic point. The pattern that they have is used in the water tower to create more lineweight material that can prevent different loads, and hold the 15,000 galloons of water.

Moreover, the tower dives you into the process of butterfly revealing from the cocoon, which has a purpose of proteting the butterfly, just like the tower protecting the water, and then revealing and flavoring the groves.

Tower almost grows from the ground, just like the cocoon connected to the tree. Butterfly, in the process of being inside, forms the whole piece with the cocoon and its structure.

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ENTRANCE FROM THE GARDENS

WATER TOWER SECTION

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PROCESS

The process of cocoon revealing the already transformed butterfly

Opposite process of the caterpillar preparing for transformation

The beginning of metamorphosis of caterpillar.

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FALL 2018, Digital Architecture PROFESSOR: Matthew Johnson PROJECT DURATION: 3 weeks LOCATION: Moscow, Russia

Laka Competition Project

Passive Bus Stop Moscow, Russia

A.WINTER AND SUMMER SUN EXPOSURE AREAS B.POSSIBLE SPOTS IN SUBWAY RING C.CONNECTING ROUTES AND PATHWAYS D.RIVERWALK AND WALKING AREA

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B Many countries experience different weather conditions throughout the year, and some of them experience harsh winter time. In Russia temperature drops as low as -30C, and nearby countries like Kazakhstan, Yakutia, Siberia etc. temperature can drop to -40-50C. Having such extreme weather conditions makes an accent of importance of people first. Taken from my experience, people in countries of that area mostly use public transportation because it is cheapier, it is faster, and because some just do not have any choice.

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Bus stops are not what people may think of when designing public spaces.

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MOSCOW RING analysis diagram

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Winter sun

Overhang condition keeps the inside cool during summer time, blocking the direct sunlight, whereas the winter sun rays will drop on thermal mass.

The passive heating process works that way that the sun rays, during the the daytime, begin to be absorbed by the thermal mass, in this bus stop it is concrete, and distributed throughout the whole solid part.

GLASS SCREEN

Glass has an important part here too, because it

helps the termal mass to absorb the heat from sun and save it there for a relatively long time which will be enough for the night time too

COPPER LINEAR SYSTEM (to provide structure)

COPPER STRUCTURE on the glass strenghts

the screen on the bus stop, and helps to keep it together.

In its form, bus stop has curved angles, so that the wind that can occur in open areas could just flow around it, and help it to be more stable.

HEAT ABSORBING THERMAL MASS

Moscow as one of the biggest city in this area, having a big population of people, a big usage of transportation is in need of these kind of bus stops. However, the bus stop does not necessarily have to be only in Moscow, it can be built anywhere where the weather is alike to this

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FALL 2018,Design 5.

PROFESSOR: Stephen Szutenbach PROJECT DURATION: 5 weeks LOCATION: Polk County, FL

Polk County, Fl

SACRED SPACE- Chapel 'St. Augustine' Bok Tower Gardens

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BOK TOWER GARDENS

Located in Polk County, Florida, Bok Tower Gardens spreaded out on the highest point of the Florida`s landscape, consisting of a garden, estate, trails and etc.

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GARDENS ANALYSIS DIAGRAM

SACRED SPACE

The concept of church can be understood

by people differently. Personally, for me, church is the place where people gather to concentrate on one whole thing, sending only positive vibrations and feelings, connecting to God, Universe, call it as you prefer, and raise to their greatest self. Step by step opening up the soul for new experiences, new mind changing moments, and increase the level of their spirituality.

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"The one who do not travel, reads only one page"- St. Augustine

My concept completely leans toward my understading of what church or chapel represents to me, and to people. Thus, my chapel located just near the Bok Tower directing West East, and being on the slope, goes higher as you experience through the chapel.

ANALYSIS DIAGRAM

The site itself has all the places connected to each other through the array of pathways and trails.

Thereby, scratching and designing the ground and opening the spaces of the chapel from the different sides can correspond to the St. Augustine`s quote "The one who do not travel read only one page"

PROCESS

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St.Augustine Sacred Chapel

CHAPEL - East side

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Door handle, where three liness represent infinity, as the soul is infinite in christianity.

CHAPELSection 1 The essence of getting higher can be experienced throughout the chapel till the very end, while th actual landscape will gradually rise up, which can be seen on the sections on the right

CHAPELSection 2

Concrete door with infinite line pattern, that welcomes the visitors and lead to the "infinite" way to the greatest self.

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The Plan shows how the circulation through the chapel`s

spaces lead you from the outside to the main space, which is Altar and Baptismal Fond.

On the only threshold, which is basically entrance/exit, people will face the side chapel. And this chapel starts in the very beginning as a very small, private space, where people can start their path to the greatest self. It is pretty much a launching point, where people can enjoy the moment of being in the small area by themselves, and do what they usually do.

As you walk through the chapel, and make a "u-turn", referring to the main chapel space as another page in the book, you enter an expanding space with an altar and baptismal fond. Baptismal fond, being a whole stoned wall,has water going down from it, highlighting the moment of reaching the goal people may have been setting when they were coming to the chapel.

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