Oksana Gritcai Professional Design portfolio

Gritcai Oksana

selected professional portfolio 2014 2014 -2022 - 2018

Professional Experience / Product Design

Glide

desk partition system Glide offers a simple yet elegant way to envelop your workstation and is available in 3 adjustable sizes, designed for all budgets. Its quick interlocking system makes it easy to bring privacy, comfort, and peace of mind to workplaces. Made of either lightweight and durable highperformance acoustic PET Soft Sound® construction, available with an anti-microbial option, to enhance comfort through noise reduction, or more affordable yet surprisingly rugged corrugated fiberboard versions. Glide helps create calm semi-enclosed workspaces that limit direct air currents and provide tools for comfort, privacy, and safety.

Professional Experience / Product Design

Bloom and Breeze biomorphic patterns

Vapor® Bloom and Vapor® Breeze, biomorphic patterns designed to bring nature and acoustic wellness into any space. Both evoke organic natural inspirations such as the murmuration of butterflies and the blossoming petals while offering easy integrated ways to enhance acoustic and lighting performance.

Professional Experience / Completed projects

Atlanta Airport, Delta terminal by HOK, Atlanta, GA

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Developed a unique patterning technique in response to the architect’s request for the motion, fluidity and directionality; Worked on full scale mock up Created an automation process to implement custom technique into standard work flow; Patterns cover ceilings in the four Concourses, Quarter Points and Transportation hub.

Professional Experience / Completed projects Development of new product • Idea • Code the Design • Tool configuration • Assembly development

Parametric pattern variations

Alston International

by Ceilings Plus, Irvine, CA • • • •

Created a parametric design for ceilings Developed a new type of panel - double layered, which adds the extra dimension to the design and expand the visual capacity of the product within the affordable price range.

Developed press punch approach and joint system so the installation remains as easy as to install a standard single-layered product.

Lead this project from the schematic design to the execution.

Professional Experience / Completed projects

Series of designs achieved using the same image of water.

Intercontinental Hotel Lobby, Los Angeles, CA •

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Created a series of designs based on the image of water in a response to architect’s request. Was exploring whole to part relationship through the grid resolution and perforation shape adding the parametric rotation to make the close up as intriguing as an entire surface.

While working on this project suggested design solutions, produced presentation materials, drawings for further engineering and full-scale mock-up.

Professional Experience / Completed projects

Gates for the Center of Autonomous Systems and Technologies

by CO Architects, Pasadena, CA 2017 • • •

A renovation of the first floor of the 1940s-era von Kármán Building, at the heart of CAST is a 3-story tall, open-air drone testing arena and observation deck, formed by covering an existing courtyard with the perforated metal sheets.

CO Architects asked Ceilings Plus to assist with a creative perforation strategy using the particular image and meeting the required openness.

Created design options, presentation materials, and execution drawings.

Professional Experience / Completed projects

University of Oregon,

by ZGF, Eugene, OR 2017 • •

Created a series of designs based on the world map image in a response to architect’s request.

While working on this project suggested design solutions, produced presentation materials, drawings for further engineering and full-scale mock-up.

ssembly process

Built condition

Architect’s render

Professional Experience / Completed projects

Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science Grimshaw Architects. Miami, FL • •

Engineered and developed script to automate the drawings and .dxf files production for 600 unique panels with complex curvature within the standard time frame.

Developed the script for automatic cluster-perforation generation withing custom boundaries.

Professional Experience / Completed projects

Biogen,

Cambridge,MA • • • •

Helped to design ceilings using Kangaroo plug-in for Rhino 3D by architects request.

The challenge of the project was to build complex surface using one-panel size and hang it to the standard grid.

Worked closely with the engineering team on finding design solution and helping with the drawing production.

Engineered the new hanging system with flexible joints for the sculptural ceilings.

RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT Ceilings Plus, 2014-2017 During this time I worked on various experimental projects included: • designing the presentation booths; • light integration in collaboration with lighting designer; • developing new tooling to expand the diversity of designs; • started a few new product lines; • initiated VR presentation marketing campaign.

R&D / Light integration / Product development

R&D / New tool development

R&D / Product development / VR initiative

...canMoveMountains Instructor: Marcelo Spina, Casey Rehm SCI-Arc, Summer 2014

Aiming to concepts of mirroring and motion, this project explores the fickle and whimsical reflections produced by solid volumes. The architectural object evolves through states of concealment and disappearance due to ever changing projections and refractions through the use of mirrored surfaces. The project challenges the primacy of visual, with a focus on energy, intended to emphasize the link between architecture and energy technology, and the emerging phenomena of a high-tech sublime.

Appearing solid, monolithic crystallike forms, embedded in the mountain, open up with light, engendering a new object as a result and a new figural space inside the figure. The building, in its closed position, remains static and concealed in its first phase of transition. Beams of light reflect off the solar cells and trigger two parts of building to move, substantially altering its form and its relationship with the surrounding environment.

Instructor: Hernan Dias Alonso AT: Ivan Bernal Team members: Maria Jose Herrero SCI-Arc, Spring 2014

For the experiment we took a prototype of the building – with a regular top and bottom, connected them with the sticks, which severed as the core of the building.

By pouring the hot liquid wax and sinking this mold quickly to the water we tried to achieve the prefect disruption effect at the center of the building. The little robot was used to a better control the sinking of the mold.

ROBOTIC EXPERIMENTS

Jolie Laide1 Unconventionally facially attractive or magnetic. Literally it means "pretty and ugly" but is not generally used in reference to ugliness; a more accurate translation would be unusual, flawed or quirky good looks.

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DIGITAL SIMULATIONS

The tower Jolie Laide, located in London, aims to challenge conventional ideas about mid-rise office buildings. Normally in conventional office buildings the lower and higher floors are more expensive, in relations to their respective accessibility and nicer view.

Thus, the middle floors of the building are sold much cheaper. The new program moves the public area, which traditionally has the bolder design, to the middle part of the building. This innovation kills two birds with one stone: providing the offices with more useful square footage and increasing the attractiveness of the middle floors.

To achieve our aesthetic goals, we have conducted a series of experiments with wax and water that were digitized in Maya through liquid simulation. The study provided us with the idea of layers with voids between them, which originate at the center of the structure and flow outwards, creating a succession of rooms and open areas. At the same time, the irregular floor plates create a sense of fluidity in the space.

SELECTED ACADEMIC WORKS FEFU, 2005-2011 // SCI Arc, 2013-2014

Layered Ground Instructor: Pavel Kazantcev FEFU, Spring 2011

Tourism has been increasingly turning to the areas where nature relatively untouched, and in town Zarubino has observed the growth of tourist activity. On the one hand, tourism is the important source of economic welfare; on the other hand, it is the powerful nature destructive factor.

Hence only sustainable forms of tourism can contribute to the protection of nature, which has value itself.

I present my Eco-tourism Center as: -the integration system for harmonizing the interests of tourism with nature conservation; -the alternative to the already existing chaotic system of organization of tourism.

Shadow green terraces

Openings in the building for air circulation

Sliding sunlight The facades have a negative angle and are decorated with canopies that allow avoiding the direct rays of the generous Mexican sun and the danger of overheating.

System of rainwater gathering

This project was developed for international competition in Acapulco with IPN students in Mexico and won Audience choice award.

This ecotower aiming to become not only decoration of the Pacific pearl of Mexico - Acapulco, but maximize the use of natural gifts such as the sea, sun, wind to make life more comfortable. My purpose was not designing of the next tall building in the first line in front of the beach closing the relaxing seascape, but to create of a living organism from a combination of the nature and latest achievements of international architectural experience.