Ilia Osiashvili Architecture
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Ilia Osiashvili
Architect
Tbilisi, Georgia
+995 598133399
osiashvili.ilia2@gmail,com
About me
As an architecture student I have worked on various architectural projects, working closely with some of the most qualified architecture professionals in Georgia, also acquiring a plethora of skills surrounding the profession, from design principles and software to critical thinking and developing design concepts. Workshops and other voluntary work have always been great possibilities to broaden my knowledge.
Languages
Georgian
Superior/Native
Software
Rhino 3D
Autocad
Soft Skills
Adaptability
Communication skills
Advanced High C1
English Russian
Advanced Medium
Personal Details
Date of birth
22.02.2002
Interests
Architectural theory
Hiking
Sports
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe InDesign
V-ray
Sketchup
Revit
Lira-Sapr 17
MatterControl
Adobe Premiere Pro
Microsoft Office
Unreal Engine
Teamwork
Problem solving
Work ethic
Presentation
Leadership
Georgian-American High School
Tbilisi 2008-2020
Bucswood School UK
Hastings sept 2019
Free university of Tbilisi VA[A]DS
Tbilisi 2020
Experience
BAU Design
Tbilisi Nov 2023 - Feb 2024
Free University Courtyard Design Competition
Tbilisi Jun 2021 - Jun 2022
Tbilisi Architecture Biennial 2022
Tbilisi Apr 2022 - Oct 2022
ETH Zurich Workshop
Tbilisi Oct 2022 - Oct 2022
Tbilisi Architecture Biennial 2024
Tbilisi Sep 2024 - Oct 2024
International summer school
After attending Buckswood summer school twice in Georgia, 8 participants were chosen out of 200 successful students in Georgian national olympiads to take part in the Buckswood international Summer school in England.
Bachelor’s in Architecture
Internship
As part of an University credit activity worked as an intern at Bureau of Architecture and Urban Design.
Campus courtyard design and construction
After working on a design of one of the courtyards on the Free university campus, me and my groupmate won the competition. After winning the project went through many phases of revision with the dean of the architecture school - Jesse Vogler and other professionals on campus. We were also involved in the construcrion process to coordinate the design with the construction team.
Future presence workshop and Exhibition
The project is dedicated to the research of the post-war II architectural heritage. worked on the historical materials, drawings, models, and boards of the Scientific-Technical Library with a group of four people.
ETH Zurich architecture workshop
Workshop with students of ETH Zurich architecture school, Christoph Gantenbein, Jesse Vogler and others. Included site visit, Case study, and visualization Via drawings, diagrams, presentation.
Exhibition Assistant
Participated in various activities involved in organizing the main exhibition.
01 Housing Project in Dighomi
This project is located on the outskirts of Tbilisi close to the western entrance, near the bendukidze housing, on k2-2.5 site. It tries to mix housing and commercial programs while also creating a community, which sustains itself (the area has no city service). Middle three stories are comercial, bottom, top and part of the middle are residential.
Because of the buildings relationship to the terrain, it is able to gather commercial floors on 3 stories, to provide easy access to visitors. The resident entry is on the -1 floor and the visitor entrance is on ground floor Commercial floors have wide stairs in the middle, residential stairs are narrower and on the outside.
The height of floors are diferrentiated by their program. Residential floors are lower, commercial floors are slightly higher. The area of residental units is just enough for one or two people, it is approximately 20 square meters, and it encoureges residents to spend more time in shared spaces.
Residential units on opposite sides are mirrored, this move provides privacy and terminates overseeing. Wide stair cutouts on public floors allow light to reach every floor. Skeletal roof on the top floors allows visitors to use the public space in any weather.
The section creates a gradient to public. This gradient is also expressed in the tectonics of the building. Commercial spaces allow contact and visual connection through the units, this part of the building is also to change more, adapting to the nature of human workspace or commercial space.
Fast Feast Culture
Re-city
Re-city studio is based on the observation of the urban environment of Tbilisi and different cities of the world, the study of anomalous processes, its conceptualization and critical understanding.
The central Values that “Georgian restaurants” sell to customers are: “Supra” (Georgian feast), domesticity, rural lifestyle, winemaking, old Tbilisi and rarely vernacular architecture. Restaurants provide quick cultural experiences and easily live up to shallow knowledge. Urban environment is not suited for representing traditions that originate from a rural lifestyle. These conditions result in unique decisions. Visitors’ desires require architectural expressions only on the surface, visual resemblances are enough to create the aura natives imagine, and tourists expect.
Beliashvili str. “Nolli” map
F2
T1
T4
Adjarian House, village Vaio home of S.chikvadze
This artificial authenticity becomes the only representation and a leftover from the actual identity, which, in its nature, has to change and doesn’t work to preserve itself. The leftovers only exist in self-focused buildings which create idealized experiences. Every new representation learns from the previous one and not the original. This way, identity is gradually distorted, and a general expectation of what authentic means is easily deformed.
T - Transported: sold or gifted and transported to Tbilisi
F - TransFormed: transported and modified or changed.
R - Replicated: inspired/copied to create same visuals.
Free University Courtyard
Courtyard Design competition took place in Bendukidze campus. After working on a design of one of the three courtyards, me and my partner won the competition. After winning the project went through many phases of revision with the dean of the architecture school - Jesse Vogler and other professionals on campus.
We were also involved in the construction process to coordinate the design with the construction team. This was a great experience, Learning about all the nuances and difficulties of making a project come to life
Vehicular Access needed
Some of the important given properties were: maintaining vehicular access for some of the entrances in the courtyard, and mainting concrete surface on the northern side of the courtyard.
Space for vehicle movement
The given properties gave us ideas for the vehicle movement. This path, despite it being longer, provides space for changing surfaces closer to the main entrance of the courtyard. It benefits from the restriction and uses the “must be” concrete surface.
The solution was a “roundabout seat”, which contained greenary inside of it, and a tree in the center. This way we were able to bring green space closest to the main entrance, and still leave space for vehicular movement
A big part of decision-making, was the observation of people’s behavior in relationship with shadows in already existing courtyards. A shadow analysis provided all the information for us to know exactly where it would be comfortable to rest through specific times of the day. The analysis also provided information for deciding optimal locations for greenary.
Communication with the construction team was a learning experience. Through the constuction process many small scale problems and challanges appeared, which we were able to solve together in conversation with the team. Watching the construction process closely was also a source of inspiration at times.
Today, the courtyard is used actively everyday, by students, staff, and other visitors. Vehicles are able to come in and come out without any problems. And seating areas provide pleasent temperatures through different times of the day and the year.
Nika Naskidashvili
Chiatura geology Museum and Hotel
This project tries to create a space that appreciates the incredible geology and history of Chiatura. The project also includes a hotel, gathering these two programs in one building, creates opportunity to appreciate Chiatura fully and have place to stay.
The building sits on an edge of a plateau surrounded with two long canyons, on a topographic map this plateau can be seen as a long line dividing two sides of the city: the industrial side - perophi factory, and the urban/settlement side - city center.
It is also meaningful that the first mine in Chiatura was here on this plateau. The building is a mark/notation a fullstop at the and of an exlcamation point, showing exactly the diagram of division with its form. As an experience for a visitor this shape works as well as it works as a notation on a map.
The museum building sits perpendicularly in between the bridge that reaches viewpoints of both sides. The viewpoint from the museum building explores the geology itself and the city built on it. The division then explores the reasons of why the city was built here and the results.
The saw tooth section allows light to come in only from the north side in the gallery space, this way no direct light gets inside the museum. Direct light is only introduced first when a visitor approaches stairs, this is a hint, the exposition does not end on the museum floor, and there is a public exit - inviting to explore the city. The ceilling lowers at the end of the gallery, creating a picture frame window with an iconic view.
The exhibition and research was succesful in partnership with GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit). Research included making detailed drawings of Soviet industrial heritage of Chiatura, making a large scale model of the terrain of Chiatura, and writing short essays.
The exhibition took place in the new Campus gallery of Free university. It included General reasearch of the cultural heritage, and individual projects. The exhibition also took place in Chiatura cultural center, where the city mayor and many locals took interest in the projects.
Ilia Osiashvili
Salome Sarishvili
Vazha Djaparidze
Nika Tsagareishvili
05 Future Presence Workshop
The project is dedicated to the research of the post-war II architectural heritage. Working in small groups, many-layered research and production around the historical development, present conditions, and potential futures of three significant works of the Soviet architectural heritage in Tbilisi was conducted.
The work concetrated on historical materials, drawings, models, interviews and research exploring the Scientific-Technical Library with a group of four people. The current condition of the Scientific-Technical Library is a clear result of the political and economic events, developed in Georgia over the last few decades. The once monumental building is now dismembered into many pieces.
06
Thesis Project Making Way & Giving Way
The project examines the interaction between architect and user through housing and commercial spaces that showcase individual user interventions. The site, an open, unbounded territory, transformed into a communal courtyard for the neighborhood.
The design honors the proportions of an existing building, reflecting its column rhythm in new units and pathways across the courtyard. L-shaped bearing walls direct movement, suggesting pathways and shaping spaces, while serving as structural and service cores for each unit.
Each floor varies from designed spaces to user-driven interventions, encouraging flexibility in layout. At the site’s edge, the hostel subtly rotates the L-shape wall, maintaining continuity with the design language and integrating with the area’s existing architecture.
Double L-shape core
Third floor
Second floor
First floor
2020-2024
Tbilisi