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Curriculum Vitae

Narinè Gyulkhasyan 01 10 1986 nationality: Armenian searchyear visa exp. 23 07 2015 Dirck Hoffstraat 17a 3024 vb, Rotterdam, NL [+316] 3098 2091 archiground @ gmail.com Education

09 2012 - 06 2014 Delft University of Technology Master of Science Delft, The Netherlands 09 2003 - 05 2009 Yerevan State University of Architecture and Construction Yerevan, Armenia Diploma with dinstinction

Professional Experience

02 2015 - present SVESMI Rotterdam, Netherlands www.svesmi.eu Architect [internship] 07 2014 - 02 2015 ARE office Rotterdam, Netherlands www.areoffice.eu Architect [internship] 10 2009 - 08 2012 Tim Flynn Architects www.timflynnarchitects.com Yerevan, Armenia Architect 07 2009 - 10 2009 ArchCoop www.archcoop.am Yerevan, Armenia Architect 08 2008 - 12 2008 Quelque-Chose Architects www.qca.am Yerevan, Armenia Architect [internship] 06 2008 - 08 2008 Vek Project www.vekproject.ru Moscow, Russia Architect [internship] 07 2007 - 09 2007 ArmProject Yerevan, Armenia Architect [internship]

Scholarships

09 2012 - 08 2014 Justus and Louise van Effen Excellence scholarship Full scholarship for Master program Delft, The Netherlands 09 2008 - 06 2009 Vek Project Studio Special Scholarship Moscow, Russia 09 2003 - 05 2009 Full State Scholarship YSUAC Yerevan, Armenia

Workshops

03 2013 Psychology Behind Architecture TU Delft, Delft, Nl

Essays

2013 "Shifting heterotopia" M. Foucault, I. de SolĂ -Morales, D. Harvey

04 2013 INDESEM [International Design Seminar] Scale matters TU Delft, Delft, Nl Third prize

2013 "The Nomad in No-Space. The society of leisure and mobility in utopias of the sixties" M. Van Schaik, J. Ockman, L. Schrijver

02 2013 [ADSL] Antwerp Design Seminsars and Lectures. Dissolution Artesis Hogeschool, Antwerp, Be 05 2011 INDESEM [International Design Seminar] Loosing ground TU Delft, Delft, Nl Certificate 05 2007 [REA] International Urban design contest YSUAC, Yerevan, Am Certificate

2013 "Collage city mode of thought" C. Rowe, I. Berlin, A. Carragone 2012 "Surface. Object. Parc de la Villette" B. Tschumi, A. Vidler Software Skills

Autodesk AutoCAD Graphisoft ArchiCAD Adobe Photoshop SketchUp + Vray Autodesk Revit Autodesk 3D's Max Rhinoceros + Grasshopper Adobe Indesign Adobe Illustrator Autodesk Sketchbook Pro Microsoft Office Adobe Premiere Pro Adobe After Effects

Other Skills

Freehand sketching, Hand drafting, Physical Model building, Teamwork

Languages

English Russian Armenian Dutch French Italian

Hobbies

Drawing, GIF Animation, Hand Crafts, Digital and Analogue Photography, Video Art, Ceramics, Guitar, Languages

On Web

Portfolio on-line: issuu.com/narinagyulkhasyan Drawing and gif: narinna.tumblr.com Other projects: be.net/narinna

02 2007 Workshop 4 Clermont-Ferrand/Yerevan Urban design project competition ENSACF, Clermont-Ferrand, Fr Certificate 05 2006 Workshop 3 Clermont-Ferrand/Yerevan Urban design project competition YSUAC, Yerevan, Am First prize Competitions

10 2014 Madrid Museum for Digital Media ctrl+space.com Madrid, Sp 05 2011 Amsterdam Bridge Ac-ca.com Amsterdam, Nl 03 2010 Fashion museum at Omotesando street Tokyo 2010 Architecture competition Arquitectum.com Tokyo, JP CC2011 First prize 09 2009 NK National Ethnography Museum Shushi, NK First Prize 05 2009 Final Project: Vernissage International Review/Contest of Architectural Diploma Projects Saratov, RF First Grade Certificate 03 2009 Landscape design competition for State Building N3 Entrance Yerevan, Am First prize 04 2008 I-Toon: The Best Private Residence Student Project Contest Yerevan, Am Third prize 09 2007 Jermuk Palace of Sports and Culture Yerevan, Am Second Prize 05 2005 Yerevan Pushkin Garden reconstruction student ideas competition Yerevan, Am First prize

2014 "The night is perfect for architecture"

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Projects 2014

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MADAM Madrid museum for digital media competition entry ctrl+space.com AREoffice

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South Works Creative Incubator Msc4 Graduation Studio Complex Projects Chicago, USA TU Delft

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South Works Urban Catalyst Msc3 Graduation Studio Complex Projects Chicago, USA TU Delft

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Atomium tower Porous structures Msc2 Studio Why factory TU Delft

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Distopian submarine [ADSL] Antwerp Design Seminsars and Lectures Antwerp, Be

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Published in A+241

Wearing woven gown Fashion Museum on Omotesando street Competition entry CC2011 Tokyo, JP

Artesis Hogeschool

First prize

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Bipolar Disorder Mediateque for Marseille Msc1 Studio Public Building Marseille, Fr

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Realakan, NK National Ethnographic Museum Competition entry Shushi, NK First prize

TU Delft

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Vernissage Final project Yerevan, Am First Grade Certificate YSUAC

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UWC Dilijan International College Commission Dilijan, Am Tim Flynn Architects

01 MA D AM madrid museum for digirtal art | 09 2014 competition entry ctrl+space.com madrid, spain professional work AREoffice with Juliana Muniz Westcott

Digital art is a haptic, sensory, and synesthetic experience which, in its many manifestations – image, sound, digital sculpture, video games, digital graffiti, cyber performance, projection art, etc. – requires spaces of seclusion and maximum immersion.

Series of autonomous volumes linked by a 200-meter winding path which itself contains interactive digital installations. The physicality/analogue nature of a street and the digital of the cyberspace produces a hybrid form generating a series of experiences where the volumes contribute to shape the whole while still acting as its own enclosed environment.

The sequence of spaces are arranged in this street from commercial to exhibition to educational programs, providing a programmatic variety in between. The street is folded onto itself, transforming the horizontal city-scape into an interactive loop where visitors ascend floors gradually until they reach the building’s rooftop.

MA D AM contributes to the vibrancy vibrancy of the neighborhood of Lavapies by providing public activities that take place alongside its core program of digital art. The building integrates with its surroundings by preserving the scale of the block and by providing a new urban plaza where public exhibitions, film projections and other activities can take place in collaboration with the surrounding community.

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02 a South Works Urban Catalyst south works masterplan strategy | 09 2013 - 01 2014 msc3 studio complex projects | master thesis tu delft chicago, illinois tutors Mitesh Dixit, Darrel Ronald, Kees Kaan with Marija Mateljan and Hrvoje Smidihen

Model for City in Decline: Southworks, originally the site of U.S. Steel Mills employing at a time around 20.000 workers is currently a vacant land of 2.4km2 by Michigan Lake in South Chicago. Since mills closure in 1992 the this area has been inactive and several proposals have been introduced.

Among issues the decline of South Chicago leads to is the specific suburbian environment of the neighborhood: low density creates an inert living condition characterized by a lack of programmatic and spatial diversity, as well as the low educational level, lack of employment and the demographic homogeneity.

How to intervene in a slow growth environment?

South Works Site appears as the ideal case study to examine possibilities for urban development in areas in decline. With the critique of Conventional ‘Masterplan’ and Urban Design strategies the project is aiming to develop a catalyst proposal which can create a framework for reasonable and sustainable growth and activate the neighborhood.

Spontaneous Growth: Proposal offers flexible and adaptive urban growth by inserting specifically selected catalysts and extending existing urban logic. The program for SW was chosen balancing commerce, production and leisure. This programmatic choice provides diversity of employment while requiring variety of working skills and educational level as well as attracting investment and people from wider Chicago area and beyond.

Concept: With the analysis of existing amenities of the site we built an Arsenal of Insertion Points that is strategically inserted with an intention to create relative tensions generating further urban growth. First insertion points are definite, while further growth is predicted but controlled, they generate fluid program [non-monofunctional] and create tension as a potential for generation of new urban conditions. Between the insertion points, along the spines Linear Clusters emerge which generate further growth in-between them.

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Creative strip: first Creative Incubator | Playful Learning

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02 b South Works Creative Incubator digital media production centre | 02 2014 - 06 2014 msc4 studio complex porjects | master thesis tu delft chicago, illinois tutors Mitesh Dixit, Darrel Ronald, Kees Kaan, Karel Vollers

Production reinterpreted: South Works site is an artificial peninsula coming to existence with only purpose of bearing the Still Mills. The [swci] comes here as a reinterpretation of former state of the site- that was long bearing production as an event. The project is aimed at examining possibilities of productive use of existing singular artefacts of the site (ore walls, originally used for unloading and storing the incoming ore form the barges are stretching for 800 meters along the water canal) to generate an intensive and creative environment inciting interest and introducing new potential for the South Works and acts as a catalyst for further urban development.

South Works Creative Incubator is a highly equipped media production centre, containing set of facilities for audiovisual experimentation: a platform for exchange of knowledge between media art related professionals and general public.

A loose choreography of discrete elements: The Ore Walls serve as the backbone of the building accommodating the walled Street: the gallery that links four main components of [s w c i] where the sequence of spaces are arranged.

Interaction with media: The inertness of built space and ephemerality of digital media are supposedly existing in contrast. In the art of the digital media viewers are users, it is haptic, sensory, synesthetic, it requires room, seclusion and maximum immersion. Visitors are conducted through 3 levels of interaction with digital media: through the pavilions of the experiential gallery, along the media production facilities on the next floor all the way to the museum space on the top floor of exhibition district. The narrow galleries lead to open spaces of decompression zones of open exhibition.

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Ground floor plan walled gallery and the set of interactive media pavilions

Third floor plan: transition from pragmatic technical towards creative loose

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room of mediated encounters

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Detail a. facade substructure for perforated steel sheeting

Perforated steel panels Fibre cement panel 8 mm Al-support profile Steel plate 10 mm Angle 60x60x8 mmm HBB beam 600 mm

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Rubber finish 10 mm Screed with underfloor heating Impact sound insulation 30 mm Reinforced concrete slab 90 mm Trapezoidal section steel sheet

Detail b. walkable glass panel covering ore walls

Glass handrail Neoprene bearer Aluminium sheet bent to shape

Toughened glass 12 mm Cavity 22 mm Laminated safety glass 2x12 mm

Cast steel point fixing for glass Aluminium sheet bent to shape

Vapour barrier Existing concrete wall

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03 Atomium Tower porocity structure | spring 2013 msc2 studio the why factory | tu delft tutors Winy Maas, Alexander Sverdlov, Arend Van Waart with Manthan, Maarten, Mitalee, Olga, Peng, Xiao, Rudo, Alexandro, and Alberto

The T?F studio Porous Structures together with ABT [structural engineering cunsultancy] aimed at exploring the possibilities of extreme design transformations for towers improving their quality through addition of porosity. But how much does porosity cost?

Methodology: Within the framework of the studio we defined porosity by criteria: number of units with terraces, with views, number of corner units and the amount of daily sunlight these units would get. These criteria are the basis of the subsequent examination of structural performance of the design and its repercussions on cost. The outcome of research are complete 15 series of extreme transformations that allow to find a designs corresponding the budget and architectural intentions, always looking for maximum efficiency with minimum cost.

The Unit: We chose the Voxel with size of 4 x 4 x 4 m as a structural unit with identifiable comparative qualities. Each geometric transformation represents a hypothesis aimed at optimizing a certain architectural feature.

Series: Per geometrical transformation 100 towers were generated, with the final step reaching for the breaking point or predicted maximum of the geometric progression. A specially developed Grasshopper script allowed us to calculate the amount of steel needed to make the base structure of towers.

All the design iterations were lined up in a single database for relative analysis of geometric outcome.

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Geomertic evolution: clusters in the air

1 Standard tower

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2 Tower breaking into units: clusters

3 Movement of Clusters in XY plane

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emerge when ers move apart

5 Clusters shrink Arms become thicker

6 Final network Clusters dissolved

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04 Dystopian Submarine [ADSL] Antwerp Design Seminsars and Lectures Dissolution workshop | 02 2013 tutor Filip Geerts with Vaidotas Vaiciulis

Section The ship proved to be a powerful metaphor in architecture ever since Considerant compared the phalanstère of Fourier to a steamship, asking if it was maybe ‘easier to house 1800 men right in the middle of the ocean, six hundred leagues from every shore...than to house in a unitary construction some 1800 good peasants in the heart of Champagne or firmly on the soil of Beauce?’ The steamship was easier, as Le Corbusier undoubtedly would later agree.

The section of a ship doesn’t just represent, it ís section. A ship is not only drawn by means of cross-sections, it is as well built as such. The workshop’s own myopia seeked the comfort of the section, and tried to stage a new life within, exploring the section as a mode of representation and dissecting the limits of architecture.

Submarine project B - 611 An experiment. Total isolation from the otside world. What when told outside is nothing left, inside the priviledges survivors. can their utopian scoailist submerson work? is everyday life in a selfsustaining bubble possible? Life goes on. Inside the section. Outside the section. Dystopia within or without.

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[Image was published in A+241 magazine 04 - 05 2013]

05 Bipolar Disorder mediateque marseille | autumn 2012 msc1 studio public realm | tu delft marseille, france tutor Silvio Carta, Filip Geerts, Tom Avermaete with Vaidotas Vaiciulis

Disorder The Mediateque is seen as a library of near future where a citizen supposed to be exposed to a wide range of cultural activities organized around the data. Our contemplation on public realm and objects that define it lead to a conclusion that mediateque should provide freedom for public to shape it: the notion that bridges to the definition of data as a bulk/a mass of loose content. The database serves as a conveyor, a sharing mechanism of content to “users”. Access to it is ordered through convention of routing (the user finds his way to desired knowledge by exploiting the customary system of access to data. Similarly, the public sphere is defined by human behavior - a force that arranges elements of the environment: movable curtains, furniture and workplaces Bipolar We chose to amplify the connection of land and the water by inserting a ‘spine’: piece of urban environment incorporated into subterra. It is stretching through the enclosed eastern side of the site and provides the sequential experiences: by the interaction of facilities along it. Water enters the street with a pool (the sea) and the ‘stream’ running inside the Street.

While, the elements of land (like islands) are dispersed around the pier: we have accommodated the temporary program into pavilions, placed on pontoons. The lightweight fast assembly steel structures finished with wooden bars of different density allowing various levels of transparency. These “ships” are free to dispatch and allocate to their next destination point: next European cultural Capital.

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06 UWC Dilijan International College professional [realised] work | 10 2009 - 09 2012 opened on 01 10 2014 | first phase 37.000 m2 dilijan, armenia Tim Flynn Architects Armenia

Dilijan International College is an outstanding new coeducational boarding school intended to become the first top level international boarding school in Armenia for children aged 13-18, Tim Flynn Architects were commissioned to design.

Location: The complex is located in mountainous nature on the edge of town of Dilijan and is bordered by the Dilijan National Park. Situated on an 88-hectare site, the now completed first phase of the complex comprises the Main Academic and Sports Buildings; positioned perpendicular to the slope of the hill, recreational spaces, canteen, medical centre, accommodations and outdoor learning pods, as well as staff residence. The project is ongoing, with the second phase structures to be elaborated on. The second phase will feature The Performing Arts Centre and Theatre and boarding houses, totalling in 65.000 sq. m and with a full capacity of 650 students.

Architecture: The architectural solutions were dictated by the natural setting. The choice of finishing materials resonates with the traditional vernacular architeture of Dilijan, while the outline of the green roofs merges the structures with the hilly landscape of the town. The project is elaborated as an application of energy efficient architecture in Armenia.

Green roofs and living walls will serve several purposes for a building, such as absorbing rainwater, providing insulation, creating a habitat for wildlife, and helping to lower urban air temperatures as well as to create a human scale that is both inviting and welcoming to the students and staff.

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BREEAM Certificate Graded Good

My participation in the project included all levels of design from the very beginning of masterplan scheme to 1:5 details solutions: the 3D model [BIM], working drawings, selection of furniture and sanitary fittings, rendering and animation and presentation material preparation.

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Detail of living wall panels with substructure [original scale 1:10]

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Main School building Photograph 09 2014

[photograph credit danilkolodin.com]

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07 Wearing The Woven Gown Fashion Museum on Omotesando street | March 2010 competition entry | arquitectum.com | CC2011 tokyo, japan

First Prize

Professional/Teamwork with Anahit Hayrapetyan

Challenge of the competition was to design a 100 meters high tower-museum located on Omotesando Street, containing exhibition halls for decades of 20th century fashion history and to become a landmark for Tokyo.

Wearing the Woven Gown Like the human body is draped in fabric: the genuine matter symbolizing fashion itself, the building is draped in its outer shell: the woven gown. The threads of the gown are solar tubes supplying the museum with sustainable energy and make up the efficient outer shell. As the history of fashion flows uninterrupted and the end of each decade is not the boundary, the transition through the whole exhibition area is organized as a uniform gallery.

The gallery is branched out from the core building, stretching hands embrace the air around enhancing the relation between inside and outside, adding extra dimension to the environment of Omotesando street. The system of moving walkways directs the visitors through exhibitions starting from ninth level to the top. The striking volume of the catwalk: the main venue of fashion shows, cantilevers on 35 meters at the Omotesando Street. Green terraces above the stretched galleries and the sky bar at the top of the building allow a complete 360 degree view of Tokyo's cityscape keeping visitors in interaction with the city.

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Jury Citation “A visually arresting form, a fresh take on the architecture/fashion romance.”

Dung Ngo “Formally daring” Felix Burrichter

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08 Realakan NK national ethnography museum restoration state competition | 09 2009 shushi, nagorno karabakh Professional work with ArchCOOP

The town of Shushi was an important regional cultural centre by the end of XIX century and beginning of XX. With our proposal for the restoration of the ‘Realakan’ college we aimed at creating a relevant cultural hub: reviving city’s former glory.

Focusing on urban issues of the site a vast public square was formed that is expected to host public meetings, cultural events and performances and simply become a new lively spot. Therefore, we proposed to extend the program beyond the museum by placing several buildings [educational and public facilities] with courtyards on the northern side of the square. The western side of the square stretches from the city towards the main entrance of the museum. The movement is emphasized by the pattern of the pavement and small architectural elements placed along the route.

According to the brief we consider preservation of the existing building in its entirety. Within the museum the main axis is set on the north-south direction, setting the main ‘Corridor’, directing visitors through exhibitions and floors. The glass structure comes to rest over this Corridor partially covering two courtyards formed on its sides. Additional structure is contrasting with the existing building with its materiality aiming to emphasize its historic value, and at the same time injecting a new aesthetic layer into the existing architectural and urban environment of Shushi.

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09 Vernissage cultural and commercial centre in structure of Main Boulevard Reconstruction | 01 2009 - 05 2009 Final Project | YSUAC yerevan, armenia Academic/Individual work tutor G. Stepanyan

The project is a proposal for rethinking the urban relationship between overground and underground public realm. It is an extended pedestrian space, where manufacture, selling and urban park are unified. It suggests a contradiction to the environment around and the same time topologically merges into it: a hybrid that unites cultural, social, public, folklore and history, creating a dynamic structure for a wider public in one unique urban device.

Vernissage: The Main Boulevard, crossing the downtown of Yerevan from northwest to southeast is being occupied by the flee market on weekends. The Vernissage naturally formed itself as a new urban tradition. The project is aimed at creation of a new environment for an open green gallery-market space, to magnify its public impact and to extend its possibilities: a green complex with no distinct division between inside and outside space.

Concept: Dissected Boulevard Existing guidelines of frequent urban connections created the clear image of vortices and axes to shape the complex. It is exposed to the city with its fifth elevation, showing the inner space like a dissected body: the negative urban image allowing to experience city from new perspective. The sequence of events: along main axe the space is conditionally divided into Theme Parks. The faรงades of buildings orientated towards The Boulevard are framing the spatial composition of the complex.

Elevators are vertically pronounced, rising over ground level and casting colourful light beams at night.

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First Grade Certificate International Review of Graduation Projects in Architecture

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