ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO LIUBA KHARISOVA BACHELOR EPFL / MASTER ETHZ
2022 Young investors program at Crédit Suisse
2017 1 month internship at Julius Baër in Geneva.
2022 ETHZ - polytechnical institute of Zurich Master of science in Architecture 2019 EPFL - polytechnical institute of Lausanne Bachelor of science in Architecture 2015 Collège Champittet, Pully Swiss Federal Matura / English Bilingual / maths&physics
2022 5 months employment as funriture consultant at MUJI, Zürich, Switzerland
EDUCATION
2022 MIT School of Architecture and Planning - online program Commercial Real Estate Analysis and Investment
2021 2 months internship as the assistant of construction manager at the wine estate of Château de la Martinette in Provence, France. Site visits, construction site and meeting reviews, lighting design for ruins, participation in tendering meetings and research on the interior for a hospitality project.
2018 2 months internship at One O One Architects in Seoul, South Korea. Physical models, 3D Sketchup models and Photoshop visuals.
WORKING EXPERIENCE
2019 10 months internship at Weberbrunner Architekten in Zürich, Switzerland. Analysis of the project site, research and drawings for competitions (Auto CAD and Photoshop), 3D Revit models, physical models for clients and feasability studies.
• SOFTWARE SKILLS • Rhino • Adobe Suite • Corona Renderer with C4D • Autocad • Revit • Offce: Excel+Word • Archicad • Twinmotion • Grasshopper On my free time I enjoy learning about history and arts, and doing sports such as running, skiing and indoor climbing. HOBBYS French : mother tongue Russian : mother tongue English : C1 (CAE) Italian : B2 (CELI 3) German : B1 LANGUAGES INFO kharisova.liuba@gmail.com +41 78 734 07 21 Zurich and Lausanne CONTACT • 25 years old • Swiss citizenship • Swiss driving license My name is Liuba, I am a passionate and motivated architect with 14 months of intern ship experience in architecture practices. I have just graduated with a Master’s in architecture at ETHZ and am looking forward to Hardworking and responsible, always keen to learn from others and share my knowledge with colleagues. I appreciate working in a team, as I believe that a few heads is always better than one. ABOUT
Floating School prof. Angela Deuber Studio project Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia Remediating urban soils prof. Tom Hardbrücke,LandscapeEmersoninfrastructureZurich SUMMARY : Housing Weberbrunner internship Elsau,CompetitionSwitzerland MASTER INTERNSHIPETHZ High-Rise conversion prof. Angela Deuber Master Oerlikon,projectSwitzerland Techniques prof. Nicola Braghieri Course Renderingproject
Davos Hockey Arena prof. Yves Davos,CourseWeinandprojectSwitzerland HOUSE 1 prof. Dieter Dietz Studio project EPFL, Switzerland Urban Farm - Groundscape prof. Dominique Seoul,StudioPerraultprojectSouthKorea BACHELOR EPFL OTHER Chalet survey prof. Nicola Valais,CourseBraghieriprojectSwitzerland School construction Jan&OscarChiangConstructionFoundationprojectRai,Thailand
Site: Oerlikon, Zurich, CH
Prof. Angela Deuber - MasterMaster-projectETHZ
Addition and conversion with functinoal change
The tower of Swissotel in Oerlikon is one of those buildings that lost its beneft and no longer matched the demand of the users, the owner and the city. The 85m tower built-in 1972 on the southern side of Oerlikon station operated as a hotel until 2020. Due to the pandemic, the building lost its function as a hotel. After struggling to fnd a new program, it completely shut down in 2020. Today the tower needs to be repurposed to become durablein terms of its aesthetic appearance and function.
MIXED-USEWATER HIGHRISE
Situation model Swissotel tower Oerlikon, Switzerland 1972 85m
AndreasturmFranklinturmSwissotel
Durable buildings endure over time. They are timeless. A building stays as long as it matches the demand: the aesthetic demand, the functional demand and the economic demand. When a project ceases to fulfll the demand, it gets demolished or replaced. Therefore, a building designed to be durable and timeless must ft the demand and provide benefts in the long term. The pandemic took away the demand for the hotel in Oerlikon, and its aesthetic and interior became outdated, showing little interest for new businesses.
model Addition / structure model
The owners struggling to fnd a new function for the tower had to shut it down entirely in 2021.
The new design aims to reconnect the existing in troverted concrete building to natural aesthetics. The nature aesthetics that inspired the structure are the visual alternations in the refection on the water surface. The alternating crisscrossing pattern is inspired by the whipping willow bending to wa ter in the «Water lilies» painting by Claude Monet, where the leaves bow and refect in the water sur face as an infnitely weaving truss. The high-rise, enveloped in a blue wooden structure alternating crossing detail foor to foor, inspired by playful water refections, gains a more livable and dyna mic character.
By surrounding the building nature-inspired woo den extension, the enveloping structure aims to lighten the rigidity and horizontality of the original façade. The new façade seeks verticality and provi des the old tower a refreshing visual impression. The tower is repurposed to serve the community with the common spaces it offers at different heights. It gives back the space to the city in terms of sky gardens and the new urban terrace on the second foor, reachable from the northern and sou thern sides of the tower.
Façade South Façade West
Familiar hotel-room typologies are reorganized into 3-room apartments at the tower’s corners and 3-room duplex apartments in the middle of the building. The alternating balconies and pergolas break up the rigid aspect of the existing façade and allow the climbing plants and fowers to spread all around the outdoor space.
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The new apartment typologies are opened toward the outdoors, take in more sunlight, and beneft from the shared-use rooms such as double-height ateliers, public spaces at the base and the rooftop pool.
Duplex 1 Housing Duplex 2 Housing Top apartments Duplex 1 Duplex 2 Tempered balconies View through the tempered balcony
During this competition, I was responsible for all 2D rendered graphics - sections, the mass plan and the re gular plan detailing the landscape proposal.
AREAL WESPIWIESE ELSAU
Site: Elsau, Winterthur, CH
credits: Weberbrunner Architekten internship
The competition for Elsau settlement community in the suburban area of Winterthur proposes a dense garden city that is independent and complementary to the neighboring village. The buildings are positioned and shaped to intercept the noise coming from the SBB trucks along the river in the South and create a quiet housing area in the natural landscape. The living space connects and develops along the Wohnstrasse - the central community open space.
Groundfoor house communnities typologies 3.5 & 4.5 rooms scale 1:100
GOSSAMERTHE SCHOOLFLOATING Site: Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia Prof. Angela Deuber - Master - ETHZ Individual project
Inspired by the structural dialog between grass and spider web, Gossamer presents a delicately stretched envelope that relies on a structure composed of pillars and beams. In the same way, the spider web grasps grass to form a volume by «ballooning» the spider silk between it; the membrane envelops the timber structure to rigidify the whole composition together. The space contained in the cocoon volume accommodates a school for the Floating village.
in a manner suggesting it wants to stay safe from getting wet, just as does the Gossamer in nature.
The volume of three foors enveloped in a fshing net» textile rises above the water surface on long and thin leg-like pillars,
The school stands on the edge of one of the tradi tional Floating villages that surround the shores of the Tonle Sap Lake in Cambodia.
The transparency of the membrane expresses its delicacy and lightness, yet its tensile effect suggests its structural potential as it stretches between the ring beams.
The project offers a diversifed program combining social and urban farming purposes: aquaponic farming, packaging, storage, and market area. The underground infrastructure embraces the busy un derground dynamics of this area of Seoul, driven by commercial and infrastructural activities.
The Urban Farm is an underground infrastructure offering a public space located under one of the main avenues of the city of Seoul, next to the City Hall subway station. The challenge of this project was the integration in between underground volumes of the nearby skyscrapers and the subway line passing through the site.
Prof. Dominique Perrault - 2nd year - EPFL In group with : Valentine Aellen, Anne-Sophie de Pesters
URBANTHE FARM Site: Seoul, South Korea
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Production space of aquaponnic farming in the hanging volume is accessed via elevators and stairs located in the cross frames or bridges connecting to the neighboring commercial center. The underground builiding benefts from the natu ral light that comes from the openings at the street level. Under the hanging volume the market area is organized as an open space with free circulation.
The structural principle
The two-story hanging volume comprises the three concrete slabs fxed to the steel grate cross frame. The hanging volume is fxed to the cross frames with lateral connections and trusses allowing free circulation in the farm labs.
The process of farming is organized systemati cally: hydroponic crops grow in the suspended production volume, which accumulates heat from the braking of the subway that stops at City Hall station just at the end of the site. The crops are harvested and packed on the sides and brought via the pillars of the cross frames down to the market foor, where they are displayed or stocked at the side storage volume.
The urban farm is an underground public space inspired by the dense underground circulation in this area of the megapolis. The building consists of four primary volumes: production, packaging, market and storage. The building is accessed via the spiral driveway for trucks and delivery, via la teral bridges connecting to neighboring highrises basements, via subway station and via escalators bringing up the avenue.
JUIN 2018 2017 SUBLAB2018/DOMINIQUE PERRAULT VALENTINE AELLEN + ANNE-SOPHIE DE PESTERS + LIUBOV KHARISOVA DÉTAIL CONSTRUCTIF 02 510m
Site: Hardbrücke,Zurich, CH Prof. Tom Emerson - Master - ETHZ Studio Project In group with: Sadia Avdija
The project aims to remediate the area around the Hardbrücke bridge. We strive to enlarge the green area in the district that is dominated by sealed surfaces and to improve the air quality, noise polution and the urban Heat Island effect around Hardbrücke.
The structural reference is the MFO park in Oerlikon - a green room created by vegetation woven around the truss structure that replaced an old machinery factory.
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The structure envelops bridge and encloses all the traffc lines (highway, tram lines and roads under the bridge) inside the «green room». The project was inspired by the natural benefts of vegetation: shading, noise buffer effect, pollution fltering, phytoremediation and evapotranspiration.
The intervention at the Hardbrücke has a clear environmental goal to remediate the climatic issues and public experience of the site.
Visualisation, drawn by Avdija Sadia and Kharisova Liuba HS 2021, Groundworks, ETH Zürich
Rainwater is collected along the sides of the highway and then poured into the containers located across the road edge. The cattails growing in the side containers purify highway runoff by the process of phytoremediation that allows to stock heavy metals in the leaves and stems. The upper part of the plant has to be harvested once a year to get rid of the heavy metals and fossil pollutants.
The plants climbing over the blue structure bind air inside the « green room », fltering the volatile par ticles coming from the road. The dense vegetation retains air pollution which is highly visible today on the darken facades along the road. The intervention introduces a water cycle that sources the irrigation of plants.
December 2017 SUBLAB2017-2018/DOMINIQUE PERRAULT GROUPE 05 - Valentine Aellen + Anne-Sophie de Pesters + Liubov Kharisova THE ALPINE GALLERY 0 1 3 5 10m béton armé verre verre pieuxverreen béton espace d’accueilfaux-plafond espace d’exposition restauration installations techniques espace de service coure intérieur terrasse The experience of the entry into the underground space goes in a vertical direction: the helicoidal ramp descends, tightening the space until it reaches the underground volume and exposes the visitor’s gaze to the exhibition space.
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The two cones are on the same geometrical base, distinguishing by two complementary functions: diffusion and concentration - the light. Dent de Jaman, Swiss Dominique Perrault EPFL Valentine Aellen,
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The crest is drilled by a long tunnel, creating a space defned by the Twoenvironment.verticalexcavations connect the sky to the underground space.
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THE GALLERYALPINE Site:
RRAULT GROUPE 05 - AELLEN/ VALENTINE + DEPESTERS/ 1740 m
DOMINIQUE2017 PERRAULT GROUPE 05 - Valentine Aellen + Anne-Sophie de PestersTHE+01 + DOMINIQUE Plan of the level 0 Exhibition space Plan of the level -1 Service, storage, restaurant, terrace Different geometries for different functions. The two cones accommodate the reception hall and the inside courtyard; the general horizontal part linking the two cones is the gallery’s exhibition space. In this way, the cones interact with the surface and create two outside semi-open areas in underground immerged volumes. PERRAULT GROUPE 05 - Valentine Aellen + Anne-Sophie de PestersTHE+ 10.00m 30.00m50.00m 8606 m2 Space for exhibtion 4800m2 services + storage + administration 707 m2 Reception and meeting room 200m2 Ticket office d=1.00 m concrete ceiling beams d=0.10cm suspended ceiling d=0.50m concrete slab lighting along the wall alonglightingthe wall15.00m Back2000m2corridor: delivery access 3.50m 6.50m1.50m 15.00m Reference level ±1714.00m±00.00m B' 10.00m 3.50m 50.00m30.00m6.50m 8606 m2 Space for exhibtion Back2000m2corridor: delivery access 175m2 Shop N1 d=1.00 m concrete ceiling beams 1.50m d=0.10cm suspended ceiling d=0.50m concrete slab lighting along the wall alonglightingthe wall 15.00m 175m2 Shop N2 700m2 courtyard + garden Reference level ±1714.00m±00.00m 18.00m C' 0 1 3
Research Models in 1:100
Site: EPFL campus, Lausanne, CH
Each project is strongly infuenced by the others as it enters a multilayered discourse with its surroundings. With the direction of Andrea Pel lacani, the studio designed the roof for HOUSE 1 - a landscape observatory constructed on the top of the initial structure at 11 meters above the ground.
HOUSE 1 THE ROOF
Prof. Dieter Dietz - 1st year - EPFL Project of 1st year students
HOUSE 1 is an architectural installation based on an experimental format for collaborative design and construction by ALICE (Atelier de la Concep tion de l’Espace) – an international group of young architects and researchers, scientists, and doctoral candidates from the EPFL, led by the Director Dieter Dietz.
HOUSE 1 is a composition of 12 different spaces inside a wooden Protostructure - 11x11x11m balloon-frame timber construct holding the ‘ge netic code’ for future developments. The structure consisted of 12 different projects (conceptualized and realized by 12 studios as 12 rooms). With the assistance of Andrea Pellacani, our studio designed The Roof for HOUSE 1 - a landscape observatory built on the top of the initial proto structure at 11 meters above the ground.
Our solution was to build the «box units» fxed on the cross of the Pro tostructure, as the box system was secure to rise and the tertiary structure allowed the bracing of the whole unit.
The HOUSE 1 project won the price of Swiss Design in 2017 (Design Preis Schweiz).
The Roof was the culmination of the discovering promenade led throughout HOUSE 1, offering a 360° on the surrounding area. The visitor stan ding on the platform observes the projects below through the 4 points of the platform that lead him to the fnal position offering the panorama view on the lake.
The goal was to develop a structure that would be easy to rise without any lifting crane. We had to work mainly by prefabrication to limit the construction on the site and do the maximum in our inside studio.
Model 1:100
The icerink in Davos proposes a composite structure of concrete pylons and an infated lightweight roof, allowing the new building to beneft from the natu ral light during the day.
Pylons are prefabricated with indentations to support the spectators’ benches surrounding the ice rink’s elliptical shape. The roof’s structure is a metal mesh that integrates opaque pneumatic cushions that offer sustainable thermal insulation.
Site: Davos, CH Prof. Yves Weinand - 3rd year - EPFL In group with: A.Skorik, M.Sienko, L.Mercolli, S.Avdija, V.Phang
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The survey of a rustic chalet in the canton of Valais was a team project during which we took meausures on site to produce detailed CAD drawings in 1:100, and a model in 1:50 made with wood, plaster and cardboard.
Site: Valais, CH Prof. Nicola Braghieri In group with : Alice Fiorini, Anne-Sophie de Pesters, Valentine Aellen, Lionel Progin, Thomas Vila, Julie Anna Barès, Katia Schmitt
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FAMILY HOUSE HEMMI
Site: Oberhasli, Zurich
credits: Weberbrunner Architekten internship Hemmi is a project of 2 buildings, one as a private family dwelling and the second one for rent.
The dialogue with the client was essential in this project, as the building had to adapt to the family situation and the client’s specifc demands.
The 1:50 model that I built for this project repre sented one of the two buildings, with all furniture, partition walls and windows, to help the client make decisions, visualize the interior space, and test the variations.
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For this project, we deconstructed the painting of Peter de Hooch, using the inverse perspective technique, to fnd the actual plan and section of the room.
The recomposition is an invented image that tells a hypothetical sequence to the original painting produced again on V-ray and Photo shop.
The plan and the section helped us to rebuild the painting 3D space on Rhino. Once we found the right point of view, we developed the same view as the original painting with Vray and ap plied textures and light on Photoshop to repro duce the painting of de Hooch digitally.
2019 Prof. Nicola Braghieri In group with : Sadia Avdija
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The village of Huay Sai is situated approximately 160 km from Chiang Rai in the mountains. The ffty families living in the village, come from the hilltribe named Akha conservative of local customs and traditions. The school of the village welcomes children of the nursery school.
Site: Chiang Rai, Thailand with Jan&Oscar foundation
School of Ban Huay Sai
The construction of a small building including a classroom and accommodation for the teacher was launched at the initiative of engineering students engineering of Rajamangala University (Chiang Rai). As a volunteer for Jan&Oscar foundnation I took part in the construction of this school.
