Litteris et Artibus—Sciences and Arts—motto is written on the Lviv Polytechnic main campus, where I studied architecture and finished it with a master degree. The philosophy of our architectural institute is to find profound solutions that have many meanings and manifest the highest standards of wellbeing, wholeness, and harmony from the duality of the science and art sides.
Ergonomy, urban planning, building physics, engineering, ecology, economy, ethnography, and many more are related to the science—architectural context, which is the ground and base of the resulted form.
The art role reflected in an architectural design ensures that the beauty and visual side are not neglected, and it also sees well how to create wholeness of perception and artistic feel through the laws of visual art theory. The architect predicts the feelings from the form perception, like the writer in the book or the composer in their melody that is yet unplayed, knows what will be heard, and how the emotions of listeners will be touched.
The invisible code became a visible design in the world around us. It works with lines, shapes, patterns, and structures, shapes space and mass, and gives the feeling of fulfilment and wholeness for humans as individuals and for society as a whole, where the crafts and arts are united, where strong research based on the scientific approach is accompanied by a deep sense of timeless beauty and elegy to equilibrium.
MUSIC IS LIQUID ARCHITECTURE,
ARCHITECTURE IS FROZEN MUSIC
Each object takes its place in an architectural environment. No object is treated in isolation. The perception of something is a sign of assigning it a certain place in the system. Each act of perception is not the result of intellectual activity, since it occurs when the process of perception has already ended. «If each of the twenty subjects was asked to listen to one of twenty variations of a certain melody, the sum of their experiences did not match the feeling of the person who listened to the whole melody. Later experiments proved that the manifestation of any element depends on its place and function in the model of the whole» Von Ehrenfels.
context
SCIENCE
ergonomy
engineering materials
building physic ecology
WELLBEING
litteris et
ARCHITECTURE
WHOLENESS
form
artibus
ARCHITECTURE
GARMONY
THEORY
form shape volume - mass proportion - ratio
rhythm direction flow movement relations colour
2 3 4
MUSEUM
SPATIAL DESIGN FOR CHIDLREN
RESIDENTIAL BUILDING
UNIVERSITY
CAMPUS
MUSEUM ∞
The museum invites visitors to enjoy the infinite ∞-shape route exposing art and its history. This symbol represents the concept of endlessness and eternity. Here it is metaphysically associated with a harmonious feeling of pure beauty and divinity in the essential artwork collections, where everybody could find something for himself that exists through and beyond time and space.
CONCEPT
CONCEPT
- bold smooth shape of modernist architecture
- linear minimal mass
- roof sharp contrast shape
- mountain landscape allusion roof contour
- a rhythm of gradually height level change
- infinite exposition route as emphasis
storage & staff
AND STRUCTURE
Circulation. From the main entrance, museum calls circulate to the left side to public spaces, rest in the atrium open spaces, or directly navigate to the upper level to the ∞-route exposition, and return to the ground level after where they came from.
Entrance. There is central visitors entrance that invites to grand open atrium space.
Public Spaces and Restrooms. The cafe, library shop, wardrobe, and restrooms are on the ground level, to the right of the main entrance.
Staff, Storage, Security. Staff spaces for museum workers, security, and delivery are situated on the ground level to the left of the main entrance. There is also storage with the collections; it has access from museum staff rooms.
Communication and Lighting.
Artworks, sound, and video are telling plenty of stories. So is lighting, natural and artificial, the tool that creates the feeling from architecture and art.
ARCHITECTURAL
PLANNING
vestibule lounge atrium with ramp
wardrobe
restrooms
technic rooms
delivery kitchen cafe-restaurant
library shop security staff facilities
storage
stairs & elevator
ancient art
medieval art renaissance baroque
rococo neoclassicism romanticism
art nouveau
modernist art modern art nowadays art
CHILD SPACES
The child is an iconic interest for architectural design, as humans are the most impacted by the world around them in the early ages of life, and, in turn, children will be the force impacting the environment in the future.
"We all react to our environment, but most adults rarely see space in a real way. Our surroundings are often so ugly that adults close them off to protect themselves and ignore them. Children, on the whole, have not learned to do this," said John Holt, a prominent educator, about the difference in children's perception of reality.
WE SHAPE OUR BUILDINGS, AND AFTERWARDS,
values
esthetic physic moral intellectual
ARCHITECTURAL
MORE HARMONIOUS, HEALTHY,
The design of an architectural form reflects built in and also has an impact on it. The
Architecture is viewed as one that instantly its form for itself how it should be perceived, life, harmony, and wholeness
AFTERWARDS, OUR BUILDINGS SHAPE US
ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN
influence
HEALTHY, AND VIBRANT WORLD culture ecology society economy
reflects the values of the environment it is The environment affects the quality of life.
instantly gives feeling to humans, speaks in perceived, and interconnects to the quality of wholeness of the world around.
THE ARCHITECTURAL
PLAY & EDUCATION
central space for intensive activity throughout the day, with a focus on the games, interaction, and exploration of the world through the play
NATURE
the visual and physical connection with nature, the green landscape, and fresh air in the process of playing or taking a meal impacts feelings of fulfilment, well-being
SLEEP & HYGIENE
support of basic ergonomy and organic separation due to age group in the spaces for rest
CLASSES
training in small groups and individually is more harmonious and fruitful; sound isolation from loud spaces, but visual connection with it to feel safe inside but still connected
ARCHITECTURAL STRUCTURE
loud group
THE PATTERNS OF ARCHITECTURAL
such spaces can evolve and accommodate
GRAND CENTRAL SPACE SPATIAL VISUAL
The big central space is for everyday play activities and for large group gatherings. Orientation in space due to its richness, variability, avoidance of monotony, and rhythmicity by means of colour, form, function, texture, pictorial and graphic elements, and materials; the use of modular mobile units.
Visual and spatial interconnection with nature: the garden element of child care usually educates the about the sustainability environment and is for fresh air, sun baths, games, restoration and emotion recreation.
ARCHITECTURAL SPACIAL DESIGN
accommodate changing needs over time
VISUAL CONNECTION VERSATILITY
interconnection garden is an iconic care spaces; it the value of caring sustainability of the is the perfect place baths, playing during a meal, recreation.
The diversity of topics and the adaptability and flexibility of the environment and its elements ensure the study of the world around through practical experience. Versatile architecture enhances functionality, fosters creativity, promotes sustainability, and harnesses the power of technology.
HOUSE
Here, the concept of sustainable architectural design is revised through innovative form and orientation.
Plenty of natural light and the sun level up the happiness, give comfort, livability, and the advantage of spatial planning.
FORM FINDING WITH SOLAR ORIENTATION
A chosen orientation gives good insulation. A house shape in its turn is smoth and lets sunrays slide in with no obstacle. The form curviness is shaped with the golden cut proportions. 0.618 of the golden ratio is in all natural elements around us, and it is not a secret that shapes and forms with it are pleasant for the human eye.
ORIENTATION AND GOLDEN CUT RATIO
It could be a challenge to plan for the curvy-shaped building concept.
In this typical floor plan, it is shown that it is possible to do with regard to high standards of living: the spacious apartments, in which all needed scenarios are written, and even more: the living room has panoramic windows oriented to different sides - such rooms are more pleasant for people to spend most time in, and are very good for emotional wellbeing and fulfilment, for the same reasons the bedrooms are oriented to the eastern morning sun, and in general, planning has its own garmonious flow while deploying new spaces.
The advantage of this planning is that it could be easily changed due to the needs and preferences of humans that will live in it, as the supporting structure of the house is the column frame that was projected with the thought of flexibility and adaptability.
PLANNING
PLANNING
0m 2m 10m
UNIVERSITY CAMPUS
It is designed with the idea of developing new spaces for education while cherishing the concept of connection.
Connection exists in different values: for the first, it is the physical connection of the new planning structure with the old one; for the second, it is the visual and spatial connection in the outside space; and for the third, it is the connection through an architectural pattern.
A two-sided gallery modular unit with the one-sided gallery are combined through the nowadays spacious common spaces.
CONNECTION
SPATIAL VISUAL
It creates by itself a new pedestrian routes between zones of the buildings, recreational inner yard
CONNECTION
new urban space, connects between the entrance active buildings, and gifts chamber calm space.
PLANNING SPACE
A communications of the corridors, galleries, and open recreational spaces connect the old seven-floor and the four-floor campus buildings with the new one projected.
