Portfolio by Julia Blasius

Julia Blasius Portfolio

Julia Blasius M.Sc. Architecture jblasius@web.de

Education 02. 2015

Bachelor of Science in Architecture

2013/ 2014

Semester Abroad, Scienze dell’ Architettura

04. 2018

Master of Science in Architecture

University of Wuppertal 6 months Politecnico di Milano

University of Wuppertal

Professional Experience 2015

Intern at JSWD Architects, Cologne

2015/ 2016

Tutor at the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Wuppertal

2016/ 2018

22 months

Research Assistant at the Chair of Building Construction, Design and Material Science by Prof. Annette Hillebrandt, University of Wuppertal

09. 2018

Recycling Atlas published by DETAIL, Munich by Prof. Annette Hillebrandt, Petra Riegler-Floors, Anja Rosen and Johanna-Katharina Seggewies

6 months Residential “Flow Tower”, Cologne; GAG Headquarters, Cologne

5 months AutoCAD classes for beginner and intermediate users

Miscellaneous 06. 2013

Workshop - IBA Hamburg, University of Neighbourhoods

09. 2016

Workshop - Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, “Changing city”

2015/ 2018

Student Council Board Member Student workplaces; Representation of students interest in the department

10. 2017

Image-movie for the Department of Architecture, University of Wuppertal

36 months

Skills Language Rhinoceros 3D Photoshop German (Native) Grasshopper Illustrator English (Fluent) AutoCAD Indesign Italian (Basic Knowledge) Cinema 4D Microsoft Office Spanish (Basic Knowledge) Vray iWork French (Basic Knowledge)

Selected Works Hofaue 4.0

2018 - Wuppertal - Research Centre for Architecture - Prof. Holger Hoffmann + Prof. Dr. Christoph Grafe

Deepspace

2017 - Helsinki - A Gate to Digital Finland - Prof. Holger Hoffmann

Galion

2016 - Antwerp - Acrobatic Circus School - Prof. Ulrich Königs + Prof. Dr. Christoph Grafe

Gateway 2016 - Cologne - Extension of the Railway Station ‘Fair/Deutz’ - Prof. Ulrich Königs

Hoffolge

2015 - Berlin - Residential Housing Complex - Prof. Susanne Gross

Hofaue 4.0

Wuppertal

2018 - Hofaue 4.0 - Research Centre for Architecture - Wuppertal Architects finally have the chance to close the “albertian gap”, as Mario Carpo defined it, between thinking and acting by using digital tools. In rapidly changing times they have to take their stand amid new emerging technologies and find out what they have to offer and how to use them. The Research Centre for Architecture is part of a regenerating “Archipelago” concept for the shrinking city Wuppertal, named Hofaue 4.0. The concept is inspired by Ungers’ and Koolhaas’s urban manifest “Stadt in der Stadt” for Berlin. In this context, the once blooming centre of the German textile industry, the Hofaue, will be transformed into a “digital urban island”. The Research Centre is thereby a place of encounter with the digital world for designers, and gives them the chance to develop their own prototypes. On a vertical path, the user experiences the development of his project by passing through the stages of inspiration, education, research and fabrication. The building supports each design process with the appropriate amount of communication, connection, privacy and digital tools. The different spatial situations are generated by gradually adapting the path’s steepness. The resulting uninterrupted ribbon winds its way through the building from bottom to top. Giving its user not just the chance to learn, but to become a flaneur, who inspects the proceeding developments, finds inspiration or merely unwinds for a while.

Hofaue 4.0

Wuppertal

I. Inspiration/ Presentation

CONTROLCENTER

DRONE ROBOT UNIT

ROBOTS

ADDITIVE

FABRICATION

MOBILE ROBOT

II. Planning

ROBOT TRACK SYSTEM SECRET WORKSHOP SUBTRAKTIV LASERCUTTER CNC FORMATIV 3D-PRINTER

RESEARCH PLANNING EXPERIMENTAL

RAPID-PROTOTYPING

COMPUTER

WORKSTATION

EDUCATION COMPUTER

VIRTUAL REALITY

III. Research

CONFERENCE DRAWING ROBOT

TRAINING

INSPIRATION PRESENTATION ARCHIV LECTURE HALL

SIMULATION

INFORMATION LIBRARY

ENTRANCE

GUARD

PUBLIC

IV. Fabrication

EXHIBITION CLOAKROOM VAULT

LAGERSHOWROOM

Hofaue 4.0

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Wuppertal

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Hofaue 4.0

Wuppertal

Deepspace

Helsinki

2017 - Deepspace - A Gate to Digital Finland - Helsinki Inspecting Helsinki’s city plan one can certainly notice the contrast between the strict classicist urban planning and the loosely grown shoreline. Deepspace is a formal connection between those two contexts. The building’s introvert top contains a matrix of rooms and enfilades disturbed by a curved “shoreline”. This makes the walls close to the curve abandon their grid and transforms the central axis into a seemingly endless flowing room. Four curved walls act as the prime elements of the “flowing room”, while at the same time posing as the representative connection to the lower level’s extrovert hall. Two viewpoints to the opposing contexts, Helsinki and the Baltic Sea, underline the infinity. Coupled with the shape of the roof, the outlooks give subtle hints at what is hidden inside. Starting with the two urban “plazas” on each of the building’s short sides, circular segments indicate the accessibility throughout the rectangular design. Those segments lure the visitor into the building and awake his curiosity during his exploration. The outward appearance gives the impression of a floating building structure. Evoked by the contrast between the windowless concrete facade and the windowed and indented lower level. The functional program offers visitors, be they just on a day-long visit or renting a workspace for a few months, a place where the potentials of a continuously digitalizing world are set into focus. 12

Deepspace

Helsinki

Deepspace

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Helsinki

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Deepspace

WAITING AREA

TOURIST INFORMATION

AUDITORIUM ROBOT

BAR

MARKET HALL

FOOD COURT

GALLERY DIGITAL LAB

AUDITORIUM ROBOT

VIRTUAL CINEMA

WAITING AREA

WORKING SPACE

TOURIST INFORMATION

AUDITORIUM ROBOT

LIBRARY

Printing

BAR

MARKET HALL

Helsinki

Galion

Antwerp

2016 - Galion - Acrobatic Circus School - Antwerp The wharf along the Scheldt offers, due to the proximity to the water and the functional and creative indeterminacy, a hidden potential for urban spaces with interesting qualities for the people of Antwerp. Unfortunately, most of these spaces are currently being used as parking lots or storage areas. The Galion, an acrobatic circus school, therefore consciously gives way to usable developed land on the wharf. Moving into an unusable indentation filled with water. And simultaneously protecting itself from threatening floods. An intensive analysis of the physical laws influencing a building, similar to the laws an acrobat uses to gain stability, led to an acrobatic architecture. Whereby the indentation becomes the stage the building performs an acrobatic figure, the Galion, on, and the open space becomes the audience area. In order to execute the figure two bodies, working together to find the balance between each other, are needed. Those collaborating bodies can also be found in the buildingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s functional distribution. One inhabits the private part of the school including the stage. While the other one accommodates the indoor auditorium, which is frequently being visited by the public. Positioning the stage in one body and the auditorium in the other creates a new way of experiencing the acrobatic show. An open-air â&#x20AC;&#x153;circus ringâ&#x20AC;? is generated, which integrates the urban space developed on the adjacent wharf. 20

Galion

Visitor

Management

School

Entrance

Antwerp

Galion

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Gateway

Cologne

2016 - Gateway - Extension of the Railway Station ‘Fair/ Deutz‘ - Cologne A visit to the railway station “Fair/ Deutz” in Cologne can be a long search for the destination. Travellers sometimes miss their connections. Arriving guests aren’t sure where to go. Pedestrians can’t find an easy way to cross the tracks. Resulting in a group of people wandering through numerous undefined tunnels and stairways. The need for fast and cheap solutions resulted in an agglomeration of unidentifiable and unusable spaces at the railway station. A major transportation hub needs connectivity, circulation, arrival, and departure. Especially this station is an important place for arriving and departing guests. It represents the entrance to Cologne. After various additions to the station, the design proposes a minimally invasive bridge, spanning the tracks. It marks the Gateway to Cologne and poses as the pendant to the neighbouring famous “Dombrücke”, spanning the Rhine. The entrance building stays preserved as the representative entry, while the Gateway assumes the functional part and operates as a “distributor”. Two steel trusses support the interior walkway, which gives users a connection to the platforms and offers a panoramic view of Cologne. Its horizontally mirrored counterpart is a tunnel, inviting visitors to spend their time in an underground promenade. Together they create a circulation throughout the building surrounding the tracks. 3 11 4 0 1

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Gateway

Cologne

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Café

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Café

Bücherladen

Imbiss

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Schließfächer

Gepäckaufbewahrung

Imbiss

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Gateway

Cologne

Hoffolge

Berlin

2015 - Hoffolge - Residential Housing Complex - Berlin The perimeter block development is an important traditional element of Berlinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s heterogeneous and historical urban structure. If one would fill a block with concrete to get the imprints of the buildings as a result, one would additionally create a positive of the undeveloped space between them. This part, the blocks negative, is an accidentally grown conglomerate of yards. Which, shielded from Berlinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s busy streets, offers an outside world fashioned by connected, winding courtyards of changing sizes and forms. Courtyards have always been an important part of everyday urban life in Berlin since its transformation from a residential city to a metropolis. The Hoffolge (courtyard sequence) treats the described concept of the accidentally grown space between buildings differently by primarily planning the extension of the courtyard. This turns the incidental into an intentional space. Three building structures are used to establish a sequence, which adjusts to the existing courtyards. A front yard continues the urban thought and integrates the building. An important motive of spatial succession is movement. In the Hoffolge this motive can be found in the structures relations to each other, the facade and the interior. Movable wall-components enable the apartments to be individually adaptable. Paired with the principle of separating serving and served spaces, it is possible to generate an open floor plan.

Hoffolge

single - story apartment Maisonette - apartment common room sanitary installations subdivision

Berlin

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