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paulina błaszczyk

MY NAME IS PAULINA

I am a second-year master’s student in Architecture Typology international program at Technische Universität in Berlin. I have experience in working with both architecture research initiatives, and big international offices.

currently looking for the next big challenge. I am ready to learn and grow and am full of enthusiasm for whatever comes next.

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EXPERIMENTAL PLAYGROUND | design studio | TU Berlin

OSTBAHNHOF NORD | design studio | TU Berlin

SCHARNI 38 | optional course | TU Berlin

OTHER PROJECTS

Mrs Błaszczyk impressed us right from the start with her quick comprehension. She was a very motivated trainee and quickly integrated herself into our team. Within a short period of time, she was able to handle the project, computer programmes and different tasks in a well-versed manner and thus supported the team with a high degree of diligence, effectiveness, and reliability.

On a personal level, we have found Mrs Błaszczyk to be a very resourceful, open-minded and at the same time reliable member of our team.

We wish Mrs Błaszczyk every success in her personal and professional future and we are convinced that every studio will benefit from her talent and commitment.

references

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos

qualificationsexperienceeducation

architecture - typology

*MASTER PROGRAM

Technische Universität Berlin, since 2021

architecture

*BACHELOR PROGRAM

Silesian University of Technology, 2017 - 2021 - member of student research groups - member of the Student Council - Dean of the Faculty Award for highest score in University application - art and architecture exhibitions - art publications

architecture

*ERASMUS+ PROGRAM

Budapest University of Technology and Economics, 2020

internship in architecture

*OPTIMOL WERKSVIERTEL MUNCHEN

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos Berlin, 09|2020 - 08|2021

Created and reviewed plans and layouts especially concerning external facade, glass wall systems, suspended ceilings and floor installations. editor

*ARCHITECTURE REACTS COMPETITION

*DESIGN THAT EDUCATES AWARDS

*LAKA PERSPECTIVES

Laka Foundation, 04|2019 - 10|2020 editor, researcher, content creator, social media menager

software

*AUTODESK

Revit expert

AutoCAD expert

3dsMAX competent

*ADOBE

Photoshop expert

InDesign competent Illustrator advanced beginner

* Rhino competent

Grasshopper competent V-Ray competent Corona renderer competent languages

*POLISH native

*ENGLISH C1 TOEFL iBT certification

*GERMAN B1

cv

experimental playground

Architectures of Coexistence

authors:

Paulina Błaszczyk

Kevin Lehoux Santiago Martínez Murillo

typology design studio

FG Hehl, Fachgebiet für Entwerfen und Baukonstruktion

Prof. Dr. Rainer Hehl, WM Tobias Schrammek, Marta Fernandez Guardado

TU Berlin WiSe 2021/22

introduction

LOHMÜHLENINSEL, 10997 BERLIN

The location of the project is the northern part of the Lohmühleninsel in Berlin. It is an island formed by Landwehrkanal, located in connection with the river Spree. It nowadays forms a border between the districts Kreuzberg and Alt-Treptow, before forming a border between West and East Berlin.

This island has always been performing a production role, starting with mills that processed oak and spruce bark in the 18th century, ending at a cement factory nowadays. The former industrial buildings in the area are now offices or events spaces. What is more, there are many clubs and restaurants on the island and in the neighborhood.

A - BUSINESSMAN / WORKES

People working in offices, start-ups and industrial areas in the neigh bourhood and on the island.

B - SPORT FREAKS

People using recreational and sport facilities on the sounthern part of the island and surrounding parks.

catalogue of existing actors

E - ENTERTAINEES

People eating, attending artistic events, or relaxing in the neighbour hooding spots.

CATALOGUE OF TYPES

F - PARTY PEOPLE

People partying in clubs or beer gardens on the island, and enjoying other elements of Berlin club scene.

C - MUNICIPALITY

According to the district office, plan ning goals should focus on trade, art, culture and public open spaces.

D - PROPERTY OWNERS

Owner of the majority of the north ern part of the island is private.

Residential and office buildings are planned in the area.

1 - HOUSING BUILDING

Traditional blocks with regular fa cades towards the street and inner patios.

G - RESIDENTS

Residents of Berlin FriedrichsheinKreuzberg and Berlin Alt - Treptow districts.

H - BOATS

Recreational boats passing by the canal, boats on the river Spree, boat rental on the island.

catalogue of existing types

5 - CEMENT TRUCKS

Given the operation of the Cement Plant, these vehicles configure the local landscape with their presence.

2 - ADDITIVE INFORMALITY

One or two floors, mainly made with partial extensions, balconies, ter races that grow over time. Restau rants, clubs, and boat renting.

3 - OLD INDUSTRIAL BUIDLINGS

Buildings originally meant for man ufacturing or industrial uses, now repurposed to offices or events.

4 - WAREHOUSES

Warehouses that still uphold logistic or industrial uses. Mostly with a sin gle floor and long and open wards with colums.

6 - SILO

The Sports Club is making it inhab itable in the interior and embracing its industrial characteristics.

7 - RECYCLED CONTAINERS

Locally repurposed to create inhab itable spaces, related to temporary and modifiable usage of land.

8 - ARTIFICIAL LANDSCAPE

These devices go beyond the object into the architectural category by defining the local landscape.

concept

1. CO-EXISTENCE BETWEEN A NEW FORM OF PRODUCTION AND REINTRODUCTION OF NATURE INTO A POST-INDUSTRIAL AREA.

2. CO-EXISTENCE BETWEEN THE DIFFERENT ACTOR GROUPS AND THEIR VARYING INTERESTS.

Our proposed coexistence reimagines modern urban living. Through the idea of an urban experimention facility, we aim to achieve a new symbiosis between nature, urban agriculture, production and housing development.

These functions work independently in today’s urban space, segregated and specialized. In our proposal, these vectors are rearranged into a circular logic with the understanding that they can operate in a more horizontally hierarchic fashion.

This specific frame of sustainability is applied in this urban scenario, where local communities or cooperatives are able to take part in all the aspects of the framework.

development of the program

development of the circularity concept

development

The project was developed in three main phases. Firstly, together with the future hypothesis, there were new types and actors proposed for the site. The needs and requirements of new actors (nature, urban production, housing) were translated into corresponding types. There was a projectunique bibliotheque of reference types created.

Secondly, the referenced types were combined through actions: superposition, hybridization, modification, assemblage, or transfer. New types, such as a transfer of staircase into a greenhouse, or a hybrid of workshop and office, were created. They were later implemented on the site forming a programmatic difference between the two floors: ground floor - production,

first floor - testing

Finally, all of the elements, connections between them and their operating systems were detailed.

phase 1 - new types and actors

HYBRIDIZATION + ASSEMBLAGE Pocket park / Devices + Spaces for production MODIFICATION Spaces for production

SUPERPOSITION + ASSEMBLAGE Devices for urban ecology + Folies + Pocket park

SUPERPOSITION + ASSEMBLAGE Spaces for production + Experi mental housing

HYBRIDIZATION + TRANSFER Greenhouses + Pocket park

HYBRIDIZATION + ASSEMBLAGE Spaces for production + Green houses

AGRICULTURE HOUSING PRODUCTION HOUSING

AGRICULTURE GREENHOUSE

GREENHOUSE

implementation strategy

- program and operating system

MATERIALS HOUSING

GREENHOUSE

CRANE FOLIE

ostbahnhof nord

Spatial Commons 14 Entangled Communities

authors:

Paulina Błaszczyk Santiago Martínez Murillo Aleksandra Shimanskaya Sinje Grajewski Casimir Meier Selin Sensan

design studio Chair for Urban Design and Urbanisation Prof. Jörg Stollmann, WM Anna Heilgemeir, Julia Köpper, LL Jamie Baxter TU Berlin SoSe 2022

hypotheses

A FIRST ROUND OF RADICAL HYPOTHESIS WAS PROPOSED FOR THE SITE. ALL OF THEM DEAL WITH THE ROLE OF OPEN GROUND AND NATURE IN THE CITY LANDSCAPE.

First, a radical renaturalisation scenario where nature becomes inaccessible to people, who need to enclose themselves in urban islands.

Second, a ecotopia scenario where humanity manages to concrete all actions necessary to achieve ecological balance in cities.

Third, a self sufficient society that is required to enclose itself due to a new pandemic and must rethink how to produce for its own consumption.

Fourth, a high densification scenario where population multiplies ten fold and high risers are required to fulfill the demand.

And fifth, an scenario where all the ground floor becomes a common ground with no property divisions. In this space, initiatives and actors of different sizes can propose their own kinds of spaces on the site.

high densification common ground

UTOPIA

Hypothesis 4 and 5 were combined into an scenario of urban development mainly driven from the idea commoning and small initiatives: what if the ground and the buildings were to be developed with no central planning ideas but instead from a constellation that comes from different voices?

This settled the ground for the corridor of commons and the tower as a device to preserve free ground.

DYSTOPIA?

Hypothesis 1, 2 and 3 were combined into a wider scenario where open ground outside of blocks is mainly reserved to non-human actors, because of a possible variety of reasons like conservation or danger.

This created the ground for the idea of spaces exclusive for non-human actors.

concept

AN ALTERNATIVE URBAN DEVELOPMENT FOR THE AREA OF OSTBAHNHOF IS BASED ON 3 MAIN TOPICS: ECOLOGICAL CONSERVATION, COOPERATION OF PUBLIC ACTORS AND BOTTOM-UP INITIATIVES.

The proposal of the three components is based on the classification of spaces from D. Pelger, which based her work on E. Ostrom. This chart classifies spaces in terms of their degree of inclusion and their degree of participation.

From the idea of commons, there was the corridor of commons proposed as a direct application of this kind of space. The tower appears as a manifestation of the idea of public in the city. The non-human clubs take the idea of exclusion from the club spaces and aim it at humans, in order to ensure a habitat for the other actors on site.

diagram based on D.Pelger, based on the commons theory of political economist E.Ostrom program diagram

The project proposes a redefinition of the role of surfaces: first, a corridor of commons which combines the classic ideas of public space with the possibility of civic participation both spatially and economically.

Second, the project defines areas not aimed at humans but instead at all the living creatures who are often left behind in urban spaces. And third, it proposes a tower that combines existing public initiatives in the area into a single architectural operation that occupies an smaller footprint and has the chance to create deeper synergies among the three proposed actions.

proposal

non-human actors clubs

WHAT IS IT? CONSERVATION AREAS TO INCREASE URBAN BIODIVERSITY AND CONNECTIVITY.

corridor of commons

WHAT IS IT? A PUBLIC STRIP WITH OPEN CIRCULATION AND DEDICATED SPACES FOR BOTTOM-UP INITIATIVES.

proto tower

WHAT IS IT? A TOWER THAT COMBINES PUBLIC LOCAL INITIATIVES WITH PUBLIC HOUSING.

scharni 38

Visual Design: Baulücken

authors:

Paulina Błaszczyk

Trinh Minh Trang Duong

design studio Chair for Urban Design and Urbanisation Prof. Ignacio Borrego, WM Andreas Woyke

TU Berlin WiSe 2021/22

introduction

SCHARNWEBERSTRASSE 38, 10247 BERLIN

INTRODUCTION TO THE PROJECT

The main aim of the course was to propose designs for undeveloped areas within built-up areas (baulücken) in Berlin’s inner city, to show the potential for new housing.

The location chosen for the project is a baulücke between buildings at Scharnweberstrasse 38 and 39 in the district of Friedrichshain in Berlin. At its widest point, the site is 3.5 meters wide.

ANALYSIS OF THE SITE

Schwarnweberstrasse 38 is a self-organized housing project belonging to Mietshäuser Syndikat which declares itself as a place for solidarity projects, open doors policy, and being “a colorful statement in the beige-colored neighbor hood wasteland.”

The Scharnweberstrasse neighborhood is characterized by colorful elements and a variety of facade materials. It is abundant with graffiti, stickers, and posters. It seems like a lot of voices are manifested through these phenom ena.

concept

FLOATING ABOVE THE ROOFS

ELEVATION - SKETCH

The proposed building reimagines the urban development of the city. The baulücke itself is filled with a circulation core, which then leads to a housing structure growing above the roofs of Scharnweberstrasse 38 and 39.

STRUCTURE AND INFILL

PLAN - SKETCH

Based on the structure and infill concept, there is a structural system, circulation core, and generic living boxes proposed in the preliminary design. That is meant to later allow the user to inhabit and build up the remaining space according to individual needs.

In the realm of affordable housing short ages, let’s build on top of what’s already built!

If we are so different from one another, let’s show it in how our homes look like!

experiment

and light experimentcamera experiment

postproduction

material experiment

environment and light experimentcamera experiment

other projects

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MÄRKISCHES VIERTEL | summer school | TU Berlin

KAMIENNA GÓRA | bachelor thesis | POLSL

BIAŁKA TATRZAŃSKA | design studio | POLSL

BYTOM | design studio | POLSL

märkisches viertel

COLLABORATIVE DESIGN METHODS: TRANSFORMING THE COMMUNITIES THROUGH SPATIAL INTERVENION

summer school 2022, group project

kamienna góra

HOUSING PROJECT EXPLORING

LOGIC

LOCALITY

of apartment typologies

analysis exterior visualisation

exterior visualisation

białka tatrzańska

GUEST HOUSE FOR SKIING AND BIKING HIDDEN BETWEEN THE TREES

design studio 2019, individual project

concept diagrams interior collage

elevations

plan

HOUSING PROJECT WITH PARTICULAR

TO INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS

design studio 2020, individual project

elevation floorplan section

thank you!