portfolio_d_komisarczyk by Dominika Komisarczyk

dominika komisarczyk

Portfolio

About me

I am a master student at Politecnico di Milano and currently I am at my final semester of completing the master thesis, The experience I obtained in the various work environments allowed me to broaden my knowledge - both in theoretical and practical terms. Furthermore, during my studies, I took part at several architectural workshops and additionally I conducted some of them myself. It helped me to develop my interests, creativity, conscientiousness and the skill of cooperation.

Contact

published portfolio:

https://issuu.com/dominikakomisarczyk/docs/portfolio_240229

phone

+39 327 366 1012

+48 693 705 197

e-mail

dominika.komisarczyk@mail.polimi.it

dominikakomisarczyk0@gmail.com

Information

1. The meadow hill in via Palmanova 2. Rethinking student’s living space in Collegio di Milano 3. Women’s house 4. Rua da igreja | streetspace 5. Camposaz 31:31 in Garniga 6. Nauenstrasse Basel - housing transformation 4-11 12-17 18-23 24-29 30-31 32-33

Table of contents

1. The meadow hill in via Palmanova

Why is living in Milan so exhausting ? | via Palmanova, Milan, Italy Politecnico di Milano | Architectural Design Studio | 2022 in association with Agnieszka Kilian and Weronika Kozak professors: Caterina Anna Bassoli, Alessandro Carrera, Stefano Tropea

Our design proposal is focused on the minor alterations to the built issue of the existing neighborhood and the major one to its landscape - currently concrete, abandoned courtyard.

In the center, between the buildings, a new layer that breathes is added and it constitutes a new identity of the placenature. A common space that grows, and changes, exactly as the inhabitants do.

With the designed adjustements this estate could become a home for both humans and other species. Part of the proposal is creating typologies of living and sharing, which could invite new types of users into the estate. For this reason, we add small volumes and change the interior layouts of buildings surrounding „the meadow” to make the space diversified. We play with the idea of sharing and intimacy; visual contact; relation to the surrounding. The apartments offer spaces completely private, but also common ones, with access to the new shared areas like kitchens or loggias with gardens. Windows are overlooking not the abandoned, grey courtyard but the new public space where inhabitants and Milan’s residents could meet and play biglie by the chimney.

masterplan model site location the centre of the plot is narrow, cold and unoccupied the central space is elevated and becomes a public meadow building side overlooking the meadow is more open, the other one is more intimate proposed shared spaces (green loggias, galleries and kitchens) are overlooking the meadow

6 rooftop extension new main entrance entrance inclination of the meadow hill greenery of the meadow communal kitchen creative area retrofitted apartments entrance entrance work area front gardens shared spaces shared loggias apartment in the infill shared gallery shared kitchen retrofitted apartment existing chimney inhabitants gardens space for the events common room library ateliers first floor plan of infill and retrofitted building masterplan

perspective section through the meadow elevation with the section through the meadow

retrofitted building changed interior and kept existing structure (staircase core, bearing walls and the half of the storey floor)

infill

the new structure is built independently next to the existing neighbours

space typology hierarchy:

the retrofitted building the side of the flat by the meadow is shared; the space in-between is occupied by circulation and the opposite side is intimate the shared space between flats is either a kitchen and the gallery or a green loggia

space typology hierarchy: the infill

the flats share a green space in-between in the flat the further one moves away from the shared core, more privacy one gains

core in the middle provides chance for visual contact throughout the entire floor.

Inhabitants can close the door to the room and be alone, or sit on the bed with the doors open to contact with others;

the introvert side looks inward, while the extrovert –outside to provide different views and atmospheres inside, the windows are placed on diverse heights and vary in dimensions

retrofitted building by the meadow - second floor plan

retrofitted building by the meadow - third floor plan

infill - option with 4 flats

infill - option with 2 flats

8 2nd floor 2nd floor 2nd floor 2nd floor

first level of the retrofitted apartment part of the elevation of the retrofitted building second level of the retrofitted apartment model of the retrofitted apartment

10 C D Concrete floor finishing 2cm Ytong blocks 35x35 cm Glass Wool ISOVER insulation cm Concrete slab Filigran gr. 20cm Concrete floor finishing 2cm Glass Wool ISOVER insulation cm Concrete slap Filigran, gr. 20cm Glass wool ISOVER insulation cm B Ponding depth Gravel layer Extensive planting with variety of seeds and plants, herbs and grasses Drainage system with rocks Corrugated slotted subsurface pipes Concrete screed with underfloor heating 5cm Concrete slop Filigran 20 cm Interior finishing plaster cm structural section fragment of elevation: materials and colours

2. Rethinking student’s living space in Collegio di Milano

Retrofitting project for the Collegio di Milano | Collegio di Milano, Milan, Italy Politecnico di Milano | Construction and Sustainability Studio | 2021 in association with Ja Yoon Lee and Pamela Nicole Matamoros Cedillo professors: Leonardo Bellaldelli and Maria Teresa Blazquez de Pineda

The Collegio di Milano is a merit-based inter-university campus nestled in a park, based in a historical building designed by the architect Marco Zanuso.

The complex was built between 1971 and 1974 to originally house the Center for Financial Assistance to African Countries. After the years building deteriorated. The adaptation project aimed to extend the lifespan of the Collegio by improving the living conditions.

Based on that we decided to recreate the organization of the rooms by providing a semi-private, shared room with a kitchenette in-between two bedrooms. To improve the climatic conditions shared balconies were transformed into winter gardens. In order to re-equilibrate the amount of the rooms, new, duplex apartments have been suspended on the building as the parasites. This typology as well contains in itself a shared room for its tenants.

Additionally, ecologically sustainable solutions have been introduced: such as a new water distribution and retention system, green roof, and insulation of the building with local cork. The surrounding park has been redeveloped with the addition of a pavilion for co-working and workshops.

unorganised space in the garden

lack of various services in the neighbourhood

limited and tiny space bedrooms water management issues

lack of a space for co-living with other students

community

lightness of the structure

shared semi-private spaceobtaining better living conditions

a suitable intervention to preserve the heritage

new cultural place

use the garden by creating spaces there for students

re-equilibrate the amount of the rooms building retrofitting

lack of sustainable construction solutions

new typology

make the most of the building shapes and peculiarities for a low emission solutions

design intent

13 ISOMETRIC VIEW OF CURRENT COLLEGIO DI MILANO

site location

view of the current state site

building

not used greenery

main defined issued isometric

site

building

bad conditions of the balconies

of kitchens for

food

lack

cooking own

community

grid of the structure of collegio di milano

shared workshop | studying | recreational pavilion in the garden

pavilion designed on the basis of a grid with transtions inbetween

development of green areas and the introduction of coordinated paths

14 GRID OF THE STRUCTURE OF COLLEGIO PAVILION DESIGNED ON THE WITH TRANSTIONS INBETWEEN SHARED WORKSHOP | STUDYING RECREATIONAL PAVILION IN DEVELOPMENT OF GREEN AREAS INTRODUCTION OF COORDINATED MASTER PLAN SCALE 1:250

isometric view master plan

shared living rooms with winter garden parasites pavillion 0 5 10 20m

elevation with parasites before after

3,78 2,70 5,22 2,54 4,37 4,76 2,48 2,70 + 10,47 m + 6,01 m + 3,00 m + 0,00 m + 9,48 m + 5,54 m + 2,54 m + 0,00 m R03 R01 W03 S02 N02 N04 N03 0 8 0 1 2 80 0 1 2 80 210 80 210 80 210 80210 80210 80210 7,30 m 4,39 4,39 2,16 2,56 0,83 2,10 1,19 2,26 2,91 3,04 1,35 0,90 0,90 0,83 3,88 7,30 1,70 1,45 2 3 1 Corridor Bedroom Bathroom 1 2 3 +3,00 m 0,00 m

0 1 2m

1. corridor 2. bedroom 3. bathroom

section - parasite

fragment of the first floor plan - parasite

elevation with winter gardens before after

2,70 2,70 2,70 2,70 0,65 2,80 1,02 2,10 2,10 2,10 0,65 0,65 2,50 1,13 + 0,00 m + 10,31 m + 0,17 m + 3,17 m + 6,00 m + 7,30 m + 6,23 m + 9,18 m 80210 21080 21080 70210 70210 21080 21080 21080 10095 2,75 201 2,74 2,74 2,91 2,74 2,70 1,98 1,28 2,05 1,60 1,60 2,40 2,40 2,40 2,40 2,40 1,60 1,60 2,00 2,30 3,03 1,49 3,03 1,49 2,30 2,02 3,73 204,2 2,40 5 6 4 1 Bedroom Winter garden space Balcony 2 5 4 3 6 2 3 1 Corridor Living room Bathroom +3,00 m +3,17 m 0 1 2m fragment of the first floor plan - shared living room and winter 1. corridor 2. living room 3. bathroom 4. bedroom 5. winter garden 6. balcony section - winter garden

3. Women’s house

Women’s House | Baghere Senegal Kaira Looro Competition | 2021 in association with Martyna Kędrzyńska, Marta Zapaśnik, Aleksandra Pendrasik

Women’s life runs in cycles - same as days, years or rainy and dry seasons.

That idea was introduced to create an emotionally flexible house with various spaces that will resonate with the inner needs of the users. The circular form creates a democratic place where each room can be used for different purposes. Moreover, it becomes a distinct element in the village’s urban plan, emphasizing the importance of women in the community.

The permanent element of the Women’s House is an endless earth wall which defines flexible areas. It waves, changes, closes, and opens, leading the user around the building. Following its shape, we pass by the rooms for meetings, administration, or commercial activities, to finally enter the courtyard for conducting labs, seminars, and exhibitions. The form of the building opens onto the village and intertwines with it through its mobile outer skin made of lightweight bamboo shutters.

site location day month season

ground floor plan legend: 1. main entrance; 2. circular platform; 3. courtyard

5. exhibition space; 6. dialogue room

7. warehouse; 8. administration; 9. toilets

1 3 6

VI. covering straw

V. roof substructure: bamboo bars

IV. outer skin: bamboo shutters

III. roof construction: bamboo frames

II. wall: baked clay bricks

II. floor: earth and broken tiles

22 axonometry

cornice of bamboo structure panels: pressed wild bamboo alnately interwoven around a steel ties

thatched roof covered with straw

bamboo roof substruture

bamboo frame (main column+truss) bound with a raten rope

stairs to the central courtyard

glass bottle openwork for ventilation

4- bamboo column recycled concrete soread footing entrance stairs

single-layer adobe brick wall finished with white earth plaster

recycled ooncrete continous footing

earthen flooring covered with recycled red broken tiles

23 construction detail

AGRICULTURE

4. Rua da igreja | streetspace

Public space in Maputo | Rua da Igreja, Maputo, Mozambique Politecnico di Milano | Urban Design Studio | 2021 in association with Mona Islami, Noora Alhashimi, Emily Marie Shiga, Melina Varbanova professors: Corinna del Bianco, Maria Chiara Pastore, Nilva Karenina Aramburu Guevara

Upon investigating all the issues and targeting areas within the chosen site in Maputo, it was concluded that three of the nodes highlighted as potential areas of intervention could be linked to form a sequence of places.

With the brief set out to design a public space the importance of including the beach became fundamental as this remains as one of the only public spaces that are accessible to everyone. Due to the threat of the beach becoming privatised to suit the needs and demands of the rapidly growing tourism industry as well as the middle and upper-class communities it is hoped that this will highlight the importance of this space that can be enjoyed by all.

The East-West spine interrupted by a sequence of public spaces is hoped to connect not just inhabitants of the site but also create a ‘corridor’ of opportunity for people from other neighborhoods to access the coast.

ecology: flooding and deforestation

social segragation: planned and unplanned settlements

connectivity: periphelical public transport focus within the sites agriculture mangroves beach

5 min 10 min 15 min

26 legend: main street focus areas - public sites urban fabric Site 1. agricultural Site 2. mangrove Site 3 beach 1 rua da igreja agriculture land golf agricultural and community focus 2 bufferzonetoprotect mangroves public facility 3 avenuemarginal coastalerosion beachprotective groyne access to beach final destination additional greenery widening the public space of the street paving for pedestrains and vehicles main street focus areas connections with the site forest boundary public space within street master plan focus sites axonometry

bamboo roof

affordable inclusive easily assembled

sustainable

permeability achieved from an open structure with movable panels

the module section and panels typology

secondary bamboo structure

primary bamboo structure

timber and reed panels

bamboo gutter

timber deck

timber floor structure

attached timber structure

concrete pier foundation

the module axonometry

27 street strategies

flexible 4 5.6 12.5 °

Storm water management planters Solar-powered lamp posts Permeable paving for drainage

28 1 agricultural center 2 community kitchen 3 informal market pavilion 4 toilets 5 workshop / storage 4 1 A A 3 5 2 agricultural site masterplan agricultural site section A-A

29 beach site view beach site masterplan mangrove forest site masterplan 1 educational center 2 lecture hall 3 informal shaded pavillion 4 toilets 1 market kiosks 2 utilities 3 sport field 1 1 1 3 2 2 3 4 SITE 3 / BEACH

5. Camposaz 31:31 in Garniga

View point | Garniga, Trentino, Italy Camposaz | Self-construction workshop | 2022 participants: L. Rossignoli, A. Salvaterra, E. Zaccaria, D. Komisarczyk, E. Benedetti, J. Xu, J. Wang, J. Cousijn, P. De Vries, K. Li, M. Mahjoubi, P. Saie tutors: Andrea Simon, Massimiliano Piffer, Oliver Savorani, Elisa Zatta

Two elements of the project - a tower and a platform were designed and built in Garniga view point during the week long self-construction workshop.

The first element - the tower serves as an observatory, an element establishing a new dialogue with its surroundings: the Adige Valley. The vertical form is designed as an invitation to curiosity through which the discovery of the landscape takes place. The tower narrows with its height, which gives the object’s form dynamics and verticality. The identity of the territory is emphasized by cladding which resembles agricultural patterns present in the valley below.

The second element of the project develops horizontally to offer a protected resting corner, where you can lie down in the shade of the trees’ foliage. The horizontality of the platform breaks through an inclined plane that raises the observer’s point of view.

6. Nauenstrasse Basel - housing transformation

Nauenstrasse Basel | competition

Luca Selva Architekten | 2023 model making: Katarzyna Zaluska, Katherine Pazmino, Dominika Komisarczyk design: Luca Selva, Katarzyna Zaluska, David Gschwind, Mario Wunderlin, Dominika Komisarczyk

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The presented model was prepared as part of the competition for the transformation of two office buildings in Basel into multi-family housing.

The building’s program included the addition of three floors descending gradually with apartments and common facilities located there.

Additionally, the floor plan of the existing structure was transformed into intertwined duplex apartments with access to an exterior gallery for residents on every second floor.

Services were located on the ground floor - accessible from the street and opening into the public courtyard. The model was prepared in a scale of 1:50 - it demonstrates the typology of the apartments and the character of the exterior space.

Dominika Komisarczyk