Kewin Niewiarowski architectural portfolio

KEWIN

NIEWIAROWSKI

2017-2021

SELECTED

WORKS

Kewin Niewiarowski

TABLE OF CONTENT

engineer architect

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Adress Klonowa Street 14 Ciechanowiec 18-230 POLAND Birth date 24.08.1998

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e-mail N.KEWIN1@gmail.com GSM +48 789 275 414

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EDUCATION 2008 - 2016

Music School in Ciechanowiec: piano and guitar, Poland

2011 - 2017

High school of Fine Arts in Ciechanowiec, Poland,

2017 - 2019

Faculty of Architecture, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland

2019 - 2020

L’École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Strasbourg, France

2020 - 2021

Faculty of Architecture, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland

profession of visual artist with specialization in graphic design

engineer architect title with excellent grade for whole study cycle (above 4.70 in 2.0-5.0 scale)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE July 2018

- inventory of architectural details in the Prussian fortress in Kłodzko, Poland

September - December 2020 - 4 months internship in an architectural firm Archigrest in Warsaw as an architect’s assistant

ACHIEVEMENTS, COMPETITIONS, WORKSHOPS 2nd place in the student competition for the development of the square in Warsaw Feature and Documentary Film Studio

Participation in the international workshop Euro Urban Lab in Bucharest.

Participation in international workshops SmartCities Chandigarh (collaboration ENSA Strasbourg, KRViA Mumbai, CCA Chandigarh, KIT Karlsruhe)

English French Polish

C1 advanced (ILETS certificate score 7.0) B2+/C1 advanced (1 year academic practice in France and certificate) native

3D&VISUALISATION:

BIM&TECHNIC:

GRAPHICS:

Rhinoceros 3ds Max+vRay SketchUp Grasshopper

AutoCad Archicad Revit

Photoshop Illustrator InDesign

SELECTED WORKS 2017-2021

URBAN THERMAL BATHS IN WARSAW

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WOODEN SINGLE-FAMILY HOUSE IN THE WARSAW DISTRICT OF SIEKIERKI

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PAVILION FOR VOLUNTEERS AT THE ANIMAL SHELTER IN THE WARSAW SUBURBS

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SOFTWARE SKILLS (advanced)

COMMUNITY

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LANGUAGES

CONTEMPORARY URBAN HOUSE IN WARSAW, ARCHITECTURAL FORM AS TOOL FOR BUILDING

MULTIFUNCTIONAL BUILDING WITH RESIDENTIAL PART IN BUCHAREST

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Participation in the competition for a public toilet KOŁO 2020.

CURRICULUM VITAE

COMPLEX DENSITIES‚ MUMBAI TO CHANDIGARH: MULTIFUCTIONAL PARKING PROJECT IN CHANDIGARH

ADDITIONAL WORKS

ART WORKS

CONTEMPORARY URBAN HOUSE IN WARSAW ARCHITECTURAL FORM AS TOOL FOR BUILDING COMMUNITY _______________________________________________ Faculty of Architecture, Warsaw University of Technology

DIPLOMA PROJECT prof.: Pawel Grodzicki

The subject of the design study with the leading idea “Building communities” is a residential building with a commercial first floor in the Warsaw district of Powiśle. The exact location is at the corner of Tamka and Cicha Streets, and the address is 32 Tamka St. The choice of the plot was motivated by the desire to respond to the problem of isolation of social circles and problems with integration of new residents. The reason for this is the strong gentrification of the neighborhood, i.e. the displacement of formerly poorer residents of tenement houses and blocks of flats by new, richer members of society. This is a result of the increasingly attractive image of Powiśle caused by placement new high-standard residential investments and prestigious retail and service facilities. With my project I try to influence these social behaviors by generating spatial solutions provoking interactions between residents of the building and people using services present there.

The building can be divided into 3 elements. Residential part, commercial galleries and first floor with a courtyard.

The apartments are accessible from the galleries on the inner side of the courtyard, where common spaces, resting and meeting places are planned to be located. They have a direct, open visual contact with the courtyard, which is accessible to both residents and people using services on the first floor. The café located there is to have a multifunctional character and together with the

green courtyard constitute a space for work and rest for the users. The area of the café is easily adaptable and may be separated into isolated working rooms or completely opened up spaces. Private balconies on the street elevations of the building also remain an important element. Each apartment has equal access to at least one balcony. This is a unifying element and gives a strong message that every resident, regardless of the size of their apartment, has access to what the building offers with its aesthetics of representative elevations.

Both the social character of the building and the context of its historical surroundings were important. The location, according to the Study of Conditions and Spatial Development of Warsaw, is defined as a complex of post-industrial buildings of historical and cultural value, and it is recommended that it should be subject to preservationist protection in the future. Following this fact, the building continues the frontage development and in a way tends to organize the space on the basis of former quarters. It refers in its overall height and the height of its storeys to the neighbouring building. The finishing material of the façade is light-cream brick with darker grey brick in the ground floor. Brick was an inseparable part of the old industrial Powiśle and often appears in the historic fabric of the surrounding buildings, hence the choice of this material as the leading aesthetic material of the building.

city scale location (hand drawing)

axonometry

2,5m

ground floor plan

10m

district scale location

situation

front elevation

Each apartment has access to its own balcony on the front elevation. This is a uniforming element that equalizes the standard of all dwellings.

2,5m

model view

resident’s gallerie view

The presence of shared spaces on the entrance galleries. Resting space for free development by users.

Shared work and relaxation space available for both residents and neighbors, with the potential to expand into the remaining plots in the quarter.

model exposition

2,5m

2nd floor plan

model view

public courtyard view _______________________________________________ street view and courtyard view

street view

2,5m

section A

25cm

details

URBAN THERMAL BATHS IN WARSAW MOOD SHAPING AND SPACE DIVIDING METHODS _______________________________________________

Faculty of Architecture, Warsaw University of Technology

Semester 7 studio

prof.: Marcin Goncikowski, Pawel Grodzicki, Tomasz Olszewski

Location

Poligonowa 34 street, Warsaw, Poland

The term I propose is a study of the influence of spatial divisions on the shaped mood. The idea was born as a result of analysis of the phenomenon of rest and relaxation as understood by contemporary social needs.

Having defined the problem, which in the understanding of the project is a constant stream of information and omnipresent pressure to be „up to date” with the surrounding world, I moved on to an attempt of a design response. The building, with a seemingly open, locally even single-space plan, is in fact divided into many smaller zones. By positioning the columns appropriately, they intermingle and create visual walls at different viewing angles. The building invites one to

immerse oneself and get lost without unnecessary analysis of the observer’s surroundings. Being in the interiors is accompanied by individual feelings of isolation and intimacy, which in the sense of the design problem is supposed to lead to the best possible feeling of relaxation and unwinding.

design abstract (concrete casting)

B

A

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Poligonowa Street view

B

ground floor

10m

aerial view of Poligonowa Street

model view

10m

east elevation

10m

section B

30cm 40cm concrete cradle roof detail

model view

MULTIFUNCTIONAL BUILDING WITH RESIDENTIAL PART IN BUCHAREST _______________________________________________

L’École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Strasbourg

Atelier International prof.: Georges Heintz

Location:

Strada Johann Gutenberg 8, Bucarest, Romania

The project is an attempt to find identity and common spaces in the city, where all manifestations of individuality have been harassed for years and entire neighborhoods have been wiped off the face of the earth in order to realize increasingly insane totalitarian ideas.

ople from outside the power structure of the country. My project is supposed to go in a completely different direction and combine the calm, almost small-town character of the buildings behind the square with the representative frontage parallel to the river.

The building combines a large amount of common and residential space. It has 15 apartments, most of which can also be adapted for short-term rentals. In common spaces we can find places for coworking, recreation, eating, relaxing or urban agriculture. This is one of the most important elements of the project.

It was also important for me to use and capture local architectural elements such as typical Bucharest roof pergolas and to relate the storey layout to the neighboring buildings.

The idea for such a strong common program came from the desire to deny the totalitarian assumptions which are located in the immediate vicinity of the building. The socialist realist dictator’s palace which we see on the other side of the river with its group of official buildings was supposed to be a forbidden city, a zone closed for pe-

5m section A

5m

facade detail

25cm

south

5m

east

5m

north

A A

B

B A

5m

ground floor

5m

1 floor

5m

3 floor

WOODEN SINGLE-FAMILY HOUSE IN THE WARSAW DISTRICT OF SIEKIERKI _______________________________________________

Faculty of Architecture, Warsaw University of Technology

Semester 4 studio

prof.: Maciej Miłobędzki, Maciej Rydz

Location

Nadrzeczna 5 Street, Warsaw, Poland

My single-family home design was inspired by the character of the local development. The plot is located at Nadrzeczna street in Siekierki district.

This area is characterized by a large number of buildings with additions over the years. Another characteristic feature is the slightly allotment character of the whole area. These attributes of the nearby architecture had a great influence on the development of my project. I based the house on the idea of additionality and solidity with varying heights. Five main blocks containing functions that require more intimacy shape the rest of the building’s interiors. The resulting spaces have a more corridor-like and narrow character. The heights are also significant. Differentiated ordinates of the ceilings gradate the weight of the rooms and give them character (e.g. kitchen as the centre of the house has the highest ceiling and highly placed windows but the living room is lower and narrower thanks to which it has a more cosy disposition).

the total purpose of using specific solutions depending on the given material. In my case it was wood and in my design I tried to emphasize as much as possible the wooden character and construction of the house. E.g., through the visible roof structure or by continuing the rhythm of the structure’s posts in the elevation.

Widok od ulicy

The whole house was designed for a family of 4 people. It is also worth mentioning about the function that was given to us. Each of us was supposed to include in the project a service proposed earlier by himself. I have chosen a wicker craft workshop. I motivated this choice by the fact that this profession is, next to carriage drivers, the second most popular one in Old Siekierki.

What is also important, throughout the whole design process, was the idea of „building with materials”, i.e.

Lokalizacja 1:1000

30m

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1st floor

B B A

ground floor

2,5m

2nd floor

ground floor plan: 1. wokshop 2. living room 3. garage 4. laundry room 5. kitchen 6. corridor 7. children’s room 8. storage 9. warderobe 10. bathroom 11. office first floor: 1. parent’s bathroom 2. children’s room second floor: 1. parent’s bedroom

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Wnętrza, kształtowanie nastroju

Wnętrza, kształtowanie nastroju

Wnętrza, kształtowanie nastroju

section A

2m

detail

25cm

2m

PAVILION FOR VOLUNTEERS AT THE ANIMAL SHELTER IN THE WARSAW SUBURBS _______________________________________________

Faculty of Architecture, Warsaw University of Technology

Semester 2 studio

prof.: Piotr Kudelski, Agnieszka Kwiecinska

Location

Paluch 2 Street, Warsaw

Volunteerism is an extremely noble and hardworking organization. However, like every organization, it has its problems. The issue of „burning out” of volunteers should be taken very seriously and try to find a solution. My pavilion is meant to highlight the achievements of the shelter’s volunteers and show them how important they are. When they enter or look at the pavilion every day, the number of dogs that have already found homes thanks to them will motivate them to continue their work. What is more, the building that I designed has

to fit into the terrain by referring to the variability of the terrain through the height of the levels while its contour line is inscribed so as to avoid the existing trees.

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A 3m

floor plan

20cm detail

section A

1m

LAND USE

DENSITY

COMPLEX DENSITIES‚ FROM MUMBAI TO CHANDIGARH: MULTIFUCTIONAL PARKING PROJECT IN CHANDIGARH _______________________________________________

L’École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Strasbourg in cooperation with KIT Karlsruhe Institute of Technology KRViA Mumbai Architecture School Chandigarh Architecture College

Atelier Complex Densities‚ From Mumbai to Chandigarh prof.: Emmanuelle Rombach, Sandro Varano, Sébastien Perrault, Pascale Marion, Volker Ziegler, Arturo Roméro

Location

sector 45 ground market, Chandigarh, Penjab, India

The Atelier Complex Densities class consisted of many stages. The project itself was not the most important because we had about a month to complete it. It was preceded by a series of analyses, interviews and workshops with other students in order to learn as much as possible about the city and its problems. The city we worked in was Chandigarh, a great project by Le Corbusier, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The first series of workshops was to familiarize us with Rhino+Grasshopper software. With it we were able to do a lot of analysis such as sunshine, noise, light pollution, amount of green space, trees etc. Thanks to them we were able to obtain data such as the projected amount of electricity production from solar panels placed in strategic locations or roadway temperatures in sunny areas, noise maps, etc.

A site visit was also important before the design. The 2 week study tour included a workshop with students in Mumbai and a site visit and survey in Chandigarh. The area I had at my disposal was sector 45, a very interesting point on the city map. At

LAND USAGE

200m

FLOOR TO SURFACE RATIO very high

housing

religious

education

green spa-

high

commercial

sport

middle

health care

agriculture

low

GREEN SPACES

200m

SOLAR RADIATION

its heart lies the village of Burail with a population of over 90,000. This sector is characterized by typical brick buildings, a unique structure of an ancient village blended into the modern fabric and the highest population density in Chandigarh. It was built in the 1960s, in the second phase of Le Corbusier’s project.

trees

200m

green space

>7kWh/m2

4kWh/m2

7kWh/m2

3kWh/m2

6kWh/m2

2kWh/m2

5kWh/m2

<1kWh/m2

200m

PROJECT The idea for the project-parking came up after a joint deliberation between students and teachers. After conducting in-depth analysis, we found that this was a completely neglected field in Chandigarh and here we have an area for creative interpretation of the theme which has become parking. Moreover, the changes over time and the gradual evolution of the building in the years 2025, 2035, 2045 were important to us.

The main idea of the project for the main parking facility was to return as much space as possible for the temporary market that was located there before. The design is to create a building with public and commercial space surrounding it. I achieve this by using a ramp that extends across the façade to create a living fabric of market and public spaces.

The idea for the second building was born out of earlier reflections on the material cultural heritage of the city and the needs of the local community. It needs to be multifunctional, versatile and adaptable. The modular design attempts to respond to these needs. The second important idea was to pay attention to the material heritage of the city. Brick panels could be developed through workshops and architectural demonstrations.

This would aim to return brick to its pedestal as a major material in the city. Grooved in Le Corbusier’s time, it was the main asset of the city. Its good quality and interesting use in patterns and ornaments was known throughout the region. Today it has declined considerably and my intention was to return it to its due glory.

A aerial view

A 15m

ground floor

1 floor ground market

bikes space

solar panels

patchs

water tank

informal housing

green

urban farming

hydrogen tank/

commercial

URBAN WORKSHOP EUROPEAN URBAN LAB BUCAREST

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École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Strasbourg (ENSAS) in cooperation with KU Leuven, UCL Bruxelles ENSA Marseille, Université de Ion Mincu Bucarest Prof.: Georges Heintz, Mihaela Criticos, Stefan Ghenciulescu PROJECT TEAM Kewin Niewiarowski, Joanna Trindade, Jean Pierre Abboud, Moutaz Lamharzi Alaoui, Victor Munteanu LOCATION Parliament Palace district, Bucarest, Romania

The aim of this workshop was to capture the characteristics of the specific territory of Bucharest and to answer contemporary issues of the city. The workshop brought together architecture and urban planning students from France, Belgium and Romania to answer local questions such as landscape and infrastructure on the urban periphery, metropolitan consolidation, social changes in the post-communist urban environment or the search for new typologies based on Bucharest’s typical carriage houses and communist-era blocks.

situation before 80’s

actual situation

of the political system, the whole project was not completed and left a huge urban mess with large voids in the city center.

Our project focuses on the area marked as number 1, which is the empty area behind the palace with the cathedral and the Academy area. The northern part is a residential-commercial zone where we find blocks of flats and an exhibition hall in the remains of a pre-war stadium. We wanted to preserve its characteristic shape, but we refrained from its reconstruction. In order to do so, we have led the new development along the perimeter of My design group dealt with, in the words the old building. of a local architect, „the forbidden city”. The southern part is the area of the AcaWe are talking about the government demy. We decided to designate it as a district and the Palace of Ceaucescu, student-technological town where comRomania’s communist dictator. It is a panies and creators can support each very specific space, a totalitarian compo- other in synergetic cooperation. sition of monumental solids completely detached from reality and context. It is worth focusing at the beginning on the history of the problem in order to better understand the discussed issue. The project began in the 80’s and included the demolition of a huge part of the city. In their place, complexes of buildings in socialist realist or Stalinist style were to be built. As a result of the transformation

B

C

A

300m

group masterplan

academy street view

75m

stadium plan

50m

academy plan

URBAN PROJECT FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF WARSAW’S FORMER FACTORY DISTRICT _______________________________________________

Faculty of Architecture, Warsaw University of Technology

Semester 7 urban studio prof.: Grzegoz Mika

Location

Kamionek district, Warsaw, Poland

Design team

Weronika Wilkiwska, Magorzata Łysik, Marta Miszczak, Kewin Niewiarowski

The activities were organized for groups of four. The group’s task was to develop a comprehensive master plan for the district, in accordance with Polish planning standards, and to prepare documentation for a local zoning plan. This is a document consisting of a description of the development and a drawing of the plan. The team was also responsible for a number of spatial, historical, social and natural analyses.

The main aim of our project was to use existing greenery and to refer to the old industrial character of the district.

We planned a mixed-use arrangement of commercial, office and residential buildings intertwined in the greenery.

Its structure consists mainly of residential, commercial and office buildings. This mixed character helps to maintain the self-sufficient character of the area. The neighborhood is centered around a square on the site of the former factory. The design idea was to blend greenery and water into the plaza by means of a parametrically designed floor of variably sized concrete slabs. The pixel-like layout gives the impression of melding nature and the human environment.

district masterplan

my sector view

The next part of the project involved dividing the area into fragments and assigning each team member an area for detailed development. I took care of the area of the former Siemens factory in the northeast of the area.

my detailed urban design

situation before

ART WORKS ____________________________________________

Faculty of Architecture, Warsaw University of Technology

A study of the human head, clay sculpture (made during an elective seminar) Inventory of architectural details in Prussian fortress in Kodzko (in cooperation with Dominika Zielinska) Acrylic painting done during the elective seminar „Exploring the effects of color and light on the environment”

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