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Noviotech Campus
Masterplan
Ambitions
Campus community
Integral part of the city
Healthy working environment
Nature inclusive and climate proof
Innovative and recognizable
Sustainable construction and energy
Concept
Existing situation
urban framework
flowing through
New
Landscape
Build up of the masterplan
Step 0 - current situation
Step 2 - the green carpet
The landscape runs between the buildings and over them.
Step 1 - the framework
New buildings placed in line with the existing campus structure.
Step 3 - the path system
Meandering paths connect the campus internally and with the surroundings.
Build up of the masterplan
Step 4 - the activation
We introduce a collection of special elements for programming and activating the landscape.
Step 6 - the landscape of 1 million dots
Introduction of a wide selection of species, based on the needs of the inhabitants (human and animal) of the campus.
Step 5 - the water system
Pools and wadis for rainwater collection and infiltration.
Masterplan
A vibrant and inviting campus
Masterplan fragment
The heart of the campus
Thessaloniki ex-port city
The Port of Thessaloniki has commissioned MVRDV to lead the evolution of the eastern part of the Greek city’s port into a modern urban environment and a multi-character major hub. The project, which will be MVRDV’s first in Greece, aims to raise the international profile of Thessaloniki and enable it to compete on the world stage.
As Greece’s second-largest city and the capital of the country’s region of Macedonia, Thessaloniki has historically been an important crossroads between the Balkan states, the Aegean Sea, the Mediterranean, and the Middle East. As the central element of these connections, modernising and improving the Waterfront will be key in strengthening the city’s reputation.
MVRDV’s proposed approach to the design is an adaptive and iterative process that will define then refine the project’s goals, vision, and plan as the design progresses. This will have the effect of fostering the port-city relationship and defining the future identity of the area, with the team proposing to look at the site’s potential under different scenarios focusing on nature, recreation, culture, education, among others.
“The ambition of the project team is inspiring – effectively, what they are asking is to set the stage for a ‘Bilbao effect’ in Thessaloniki,” says Winy Maas, founding partner of MVRDV. “This refers of course to the Bilbao Guggenheim, but what is often overlooked is that this museum was only the most visible and spectacular part of a much broader city revitalization program including the restoration and reallocation of the richly present historical heritage, the reduction of the role of the car in the city, and the reorganization of public transport. Many of the same things are happening in Thessaloniki – so we believe it’s the perfect time to look for the role of the Port in the Thessaloniki effect.”
BIOWORLD
location: -
programme: theoretical research on how to fight against crisis with nature
project level: MSC 1
type: group project (studio consisted of 50 people)
date of issue: November 2022
supervisor: Prof.ir. Winy Maas
Nourish
This design action will shift society towards a planet of self-sufficient cities. Nourish will cause the conventional cropland to decrease by producing food locally. As a result deforestation will reduce and biodiversity will be able to increase again. Locally producing food requires space-efficient solutions. It will also decrease the need for long range food transportation. Let’s try, let’s change our consumption patterns and adapt to the production capacities of the planet.
Why Nourish?
So... What are the environmental impacts of agriculture?
Land use
Going Vegan is the way to go!
Supplying the Vegan diet from outside to inside New York City from dependent to self-sufficient
use required to produce 1000 kcal of a given vegan food product
Applying Nourish
A way to Nourish the world
The average, grid structured New York City building. Full of Global Cuisine restaurants...
By adding racks in a grid attached to the existing structures of the building, local food can be grown
Replacing the original facades with self growing racks to grow more localized and diet centered growables
A completely selfsufficient building that will nourish and provide all of the plant-based diets of its residents
Material timeline
Building natural walls that will feed us in the future
Bio-degradable racks that contain gabions and fungate as a wall.
We add waterbags to the gabions. The waterbags collect water and releases it when the plants need it.
There are airroots and seeds added to the structure. They use the water of the waterbags to grow.
Over time the seeds grow into plants that will grow food for us to eat.
Eventually the vegetation holds the gabions and the waterbags, and the structure becomes self sustaining
Rack with gabions + waterbags + seeds and airroots seeds and airroots become plants plants become rack
Towards self-sufficiency
Towards self-sufficiency
Arable land around the city
location: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, House of Parliament, Den Haag
programme: building technology I renovation of the existing building
project level: MSC 1
type: group project (with Alicja Jurkowska)
date of issue: January 2023
supervisor: ir. ing. Hannah Beljaars-Frederiks
designed in 1979 and opened in 1985 It was immediately taken into use by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The House of Representatives will be housed here in the coming years. It is not clear what happened to the building after that time. But at the moment it seems to be pre-sorted for demolition.
The building has been empty since 2017 after the Ministry of Foreign Affairs moved to the VROM building at Rijnstraat 8.
quality with respect to the heritage and addressing circularity of materials?
Moving the facade to inside of the building and creating circumferential galeries Spliting the form and into smaller volumes
Reprograming and adapting
programm and functions 0
Variety of program of upper floors
programm and functions+1
Kepping vertical comunication
programm and functions +4
CONCEPT FOR SUSTAINABILITY AND CIRCULARIT Y
TECHNOLOGICAL CONCEPT
The concept rests on rethinking today’s concepts of sustainability and conversion of existing construction. The building, instead of demolition or new construction, offers a new approach to thinking about historical heritage. Instead of being passive in the urban context, the building becomes an active machine that uses the natural sustainability of the system in its use, offers the conversion of space, due to its monumentality, into a multifunctional city within the city - sustainability systems not only refer to the use of sustainable energy sources, but are also based on on a new approach to the community. With the introduction of the mixed use program, the building becomes a self-sufficient community that defines new postulates of living, thus becoming an example of how existing buildings in an urban context can become a base for the community of the future - enriched with greenery, but also with a new approach to space.
The concrete structure with six-sided columns and ceilings remain intact, the necessary thermal and acoustic insulation is added, as well as the floor and balcony layers. The top coat, the facade, is completely changed and with it the program. After analysis, there are 3 different main proposal for the facade according to needs and external conditions (noise/ light pollution, sun radiation).
DIVER CITY
location: Keglic, Zagreb, Croatia
programme: primary school
project level: 3rd year, V. semester
type: individual project (academic)
date of issue: February 2021
supervisor: Marina Bertina, Senior lecturer (mbertina@arhitekt.hr)
45°48' 42'' N
15° 57' 16'' E
"Make of each a place, a bunch of places of each house and each city, for a house is a tiny city, a city a huge house."
van Eyck
"I think a school should be like a small city. In a city you have small places, large places, all sorts of secluded and semi-secluded places, you have vistas and you have all sorts of activities. In effect, these pupils are not yet of an age to go into the city and explore the life of the city but they should explore life through the school, so you must create as many conditions as possible in the school so that they experience the world through the school building."
Herman Hertzberger
x flow
"As in Piranesi's engravings, the contemporary environment may be understood as an infinite interior of imprecise boundaries, where inhabitants are located in the form of a flow, converted into circulation."
x future
One possible scenario that has been described for the future of our habitable environments suggest a virtual realty, accessible by means of glasses, that functions effectively reveal a fast, light-filled, beautiful, excited world. When we take off the glasses, the city we live in is dark and dangerous, full of waste and violence. The future may indeed be a dynamic, light-filled virtual world and a dark, decadent physical world.
The Metapolis Dictionary of Advanced Architecture
School is a city. It's an engine, a machine of constant fluctuation. It's a path, not a destination.
Instead of complementing the existing context, Keglic's school makes a base for a new one. It's a parasite within the urban structure of Down town of Zagreb. The microcosm made by raising the school above the ground responds to inertia and flatness, creating a hyper urban interactive space. It's a room,artificial space. It's time and time is structural.
Existing paradigms are erased by approaching the site as well as a new logic is established. Existence in the volume of the school - the position is conditioned by the previous one, but also by the following. The School is a loop, one of the stations of lifelong learning.
Aldo
NUCLEUS INTROVERTY GENIUS LOCI NEW LAYER
Bernard Tschumi - Les Fresnoy
school / division into classroom and hallway
openness / classrooms as platforms / freedom sound absorbers / space fluidity
border diferentiation spatial loop sequence hyper urban space
R2_TERRAIN
_WATERPROOF PU SPRAY (ATHLETIC TRACK)
_GUMI GRANULAT
_LIGHTLY REINFORCED CEMENT SPREAD
_DRAINAGE TAPE
_SYNTHETIC TAPE WITH WASHING FELT
_THERMAL INSULATION
_BITUMEN TAPE
_SGLISHED CEMENT SCREED MADE IN SLOPE
_AB CEILING PANEL
P1_FLOW IN THE GROUND _EARTH
_GRAVEL EMBANKMENT
_FOUNDER PLATE
_WATERPROOFING
_ELASTIFIED EPS
_LIGHTLY REINFORCED CEMENT SCREED
_SELF-LEVELING FLOOR COATING
walking surface of classrooms and other rooms - lightweight prefabricated construction with free interspace used for wiring installation and storage
R1_ROOF TERRACE
_WATERPROOF PU SPRAY (ATHLETIC TRACK)
_GUMI GRANULAT
_LIGHTLY REINFORCED CEMENT SPREAD
_DRAINAGE TAPE
_SYNTHETIC TAPE WITH WASHING FELT
_THERMAL INSULATION
BITUMEN TAPE
_CEMENT SCREED MADE IN SLOPE _AB CEILING PANEL
MK1_ABOVE THE OPEN (COMMUNICATIONS)
_EPOXY COATING
_LIGHTLY REINFORCED CEMENT SPREAD
_PE FOIL
_SUNIC INSULATION FOR HEAT DAMPING _AB CEILING PANEL
THERMAL INSULATION - COMBI PANELS WITH EPS CORE REFLECTIVE COATING
Z1_WALL IN THE GROUND _GEOTEXTILES _STICKED TAPE _XPS
_WATERPROOFING _AB WALL _THERMAL INSULATION
mechanically rotated panels, collecting solar energy
location: Krizna street 15th, Zagreb, Croatia
programme : collective social housing
project level : 2nd year, IV. semester
type: individual project (academic)
date of issue: June 2020
supervisor: Lea Pelivan, Assistant professor (lpelivan@arhitekt.hr)
45° 48' 10'' N
15° 59' 52'' E
Social housing defines the minimum living conditions for the most vulnerable. With the project, I offered my vision of housing, what is, for me, a house for collective housing, how it behaves in the urban context of the city and how it serves the user. Not only for housing but also for other aspect of life such as work, public and natural space. With the project, I tried to offer the integration of urban life into the life of the building by defining new relationships between them.
"It is the responsibility of architects to design structures that can be inhibited for the widest range of individuals and purposes."
"No city is ever frozen. It is transforming; it is all about constant transformation all around us. People should take their initiative."
By opening the perimeter of the plot towards the surrounding area, new public urban spaces are created. The plot becomes a part of the urban fabric that link both public and social facilities as well as housing and work.
Combining different typologies of housing, I answer the possibility of choosing the users themselves when moving in. Also, the volume of the building twists within the volume of the plot, dynamizing the flatness of the surrounding construction, thus erasing the boundaries between open and closed spaces, private and public, residential and service.
Yona Friedman
Steven Holl,Spiroid Sectors
central piazza / habitable edge fragmentation separation from the environment ?
WHAT IF?
location: Petrinjska street, Zagreb, Croatia
programme: office building
project level: 3rd year, VI. semester
type: individual project (academic)
date of issue: June 2021
supervisor: Miroslav Geng, Full proffesor (mgeng@arhitekt.hr)
*WRITTEN COMMENDATION OF THE FACULTY COUNCIL
45°48' 42'' N
15° 57' 16'' E
"The city no longer foresees architecture; architecture presents itself as an alternative to the city. (...) that which we call architecture has now been transformed into a thin, traversable diaphragm, in a sort of transparent screen placed between two continents - that of the networks and urban services, and that of internal spaces, of operative systems, of ambient component ware flexible and ductile, capable of following the continuous mutation of productive and social functions."
Andrea Branzi, Weak and diffuse modernity
The house is a metabolism, a living organism composed of cells - independent space units defined by their interrelationships developing a spatial system of movement and units specified by purpose. The house is a spatial, time-flexible, construction that offers freedom to design space depending on the needs.
It's a time machine in duality between the permanent and the present, creating new city platforms defined by vertical movement.
Every functional unit is a set of subunits that interdependently define a system. Except its polarity in durability, the duality of the house lies in setting two volumes - the first connects the perimeter of the block and second enters the city block .
The Volumes are perpendicular to each other. Furthermore, they become the opposite in the definition of purpose - while the transverse element is not ultimately defined by its purpose, the other is. Although, the first one is a spatial loop communicating between the floors, the second one is the? final destination.
Also, the transverse element is defined as the portal of entry into the block, the screen of purification of the impact around the block and the change of the atmosphere by moving inside the block.
The house is a system, platform, communicator between the block and the environment.
TRANSFORMING THROUGH TIME
“Architecture must concern itself continually with the socially beneficial distortion of the environment.”
WHAT IF?
Cedric Price, Square book
2020
2021 parking incubator
2050 urban structure
URBAN GARDEN
VERTICAL CITY
BILLBOARD
Cedric Price, Fun palace
AUDITORIUM + ROOF TERRACE
AUDITORIUM
INDIVIDUAL WORK
INDIVIDUAL WORK
GROUP WORK
LABORATORY LIBRARY + ADMINISTRATION
variability depending on seasons / atmospheric conditions / time of day a building as a living being
FLUCTUATION
location: Većeslav Holjevac Avenue / Horvatova street, Zagreb, Croatia
programme: multipurpose pavilion of ecological transport in to cities
project level: 3rd year, V. (conceptual design) /VI. semester (construction drawings)
type: group project (with Lara Katalenić, Dora Kovačić) (academic) - FINAL THESIS
date of issue: June 2021
supervisor: Marin Binički, Lecturer (mbinicki@arhitekt.hr)
PROJECT
The project consisted of a development of a preliminary design in the first semester, and the final design in the second. In addition to participating in the creative process of creating a conceptual design, I participated in drawing and solving cross-sections at a scale of 1:50 as well as details at a scale of 1: 5. In addition to architectural details, I also dealt with the constructive details of the joints. also contributed to the design of the ventilation system in the pavilion. All drawings are my contribution to the project.
REPUS NOZZLE DUCT DKL
WASTE AIR OUTPUT
CEILING AIR SUPPLY CHANNEL
120X70 cm
CHAMBER AIR CONDITIONING UNIT
CROSSBEAM
LAMINATED BEAM
CEILING AIR SUPPLY CHANNEL
110x50 cm
FRESH AIR INTAKE
FLOOR DUCT FOR AIR EXHAUST
REPUS NOZZLE DUCT DKL FIRE DAMPER
STEEL ELEMENT 20mm
roof girders - WOODEN LAMINATED BEAMS
M20 WOOD SCREW
load-bearing elements
CROSSBEAM
LAMINATED BEAM
M20 WOOD SCREW
STEEL ELEMENT 20mm
HIDDEN METAL BRACKET WITH PENETRATIONS FOR FIXING THE LAMINATED BRACKET
CAPITAL - JOINT OF STEEL PILLAR WITH WOODEN LAMINATED BEAMS
ADDITIONAL JOINT STRENGTHENING
200mm
TECHNOPOLIS
PLATFORMS
PLATFORMS
RIJEKA ZAGREB PULA ROVINJ
location: city of Pazin, Croatia
programme: integral Urban Design Vision - 'Pazin 2030' - for sustainable and innovative urban development
type: group project (Dora Kovačić, Ana Mendica, Rea Mihelko, Petra Vlahek, Alen Zunic) (proffesional)
date of issue : September 2021
supervisor: Assist. Prof. Alen Zunic MArch, PhD (azunic@arhitekt.hr)
My participation in the project includes independent work on studies on the possibilities of developing silos as a new epicenter of the city. Through conceptual sketches and schemes, I created an opinion according to the current situation and I examined the possibilities of development. created programmatic possibilities and scenarios and the final product was axonometric representations of the comprehensive silo space with the selected scenario.
GREENHOUSE
PLAZZA
HOW TO BEHAVE?
INSIDE OUT INSIDES
/ the interior is an organism
: the core as an activator of city life: a space of creation and experiment
: city-building element of the city /
BETWEEN
/ space in between as a platform of togetherness
: centrality of culture and sociality of the inhabitants /
/ envelope brands city
: she is a spatial rapper
: he is the creator of the city of the future /
EDUCATION + HIGH TECH
The first epicenter of urban transformations in the city of Pazin is an abandoned silo. Currently the city's highest 'landmark', it has the potential to carry the message of a new beginning of Pazin's development, initially as a kind of a canvas for the city's new visual identity, and later it can be reprogrammed as a center of innovation. Instead of being a symbol of degraded industrial sites in the city, silos can now become a generator of knowledge and social cohesion for citizens, and visitors as well.
STAGES OF INTERVENTION
arranging the environment for cultural and social events, creating social platforms
intervention on the facades, branding and spotting the spatial benchmark, creating a new vein of the city’s cobwebs introducing programs inland based on innovation, technology and education and green politics II III
TOURIST ZONE
investing local government in branding the city, new tourist attraction of the region, a landmark recognizing the city from the Istrian Y
MURALS
encouraging a new cultural scene of the city, organizing cultural events in both fine and other arts,
involving local artists as well as connecting with outside
SOCIAL PLATFORMS
intervention with installations around the silo and the creation of social platforms encourages the socialization of citizens and visitors
CO2 VACUUM CLEANER
investing in the processes of climate free city
as the first of its kind in Croatia, encouraging green policy
RESEARCH AND EXPERIMENTAL CENTER OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES
new innovation center attracts research scientists by offering contemporary experimentation and observation laboratories, test rooms and a data center
WHY?
INCUBATOR OF OPPORTUNITIES
opening new workspaces encouraging the development of small and medium-sized enterprises
EXHIBITON SPACE
in addition to the center of innovation and education about the same, an exhibition space is offered which opens the center to citizens and interested visitors presenting the results of their research
EDUCATION CENTER
educating residents and external users of the processes and results of the research center, encouraging the exchange of knowledge between the city and the region, equipping educational spaces with the latest technologies
_the city is not the primary agricultural center, nor the center of large industrial plants, and the silo therefore loses its primary function
_brownfield area that can become a new lifeblood of the city, the focal point of social, educational and scientific life
_potential source of Pazin as a city of the future due to the position along the highway, silos become the primary element of branding the city towards the surroundings, as well as the central point of social life of citizens
Apart from the local community, silos are becoming interesting to foreign investors and institutions
_science center, education center and business center of the city of small and medium entrepreneurs
TOURIST ZONE
INCUBATOR OF OPPORTUNITIES
RESEARCH AND EXPERIMENTAL CENTER OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES + CO2 VACUUM CLEANER
EDUCATIONAL CENTER OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES
EXHIBITION SPACE
/ the complex becomes a chemical laboratory whose processes are reflected on the surface of the volume /
/ laboratory premises and facilities / intervention: SKIN + INSIDES
users: CITIZENS + TOURISTS
20:80%
CENTER OF CHEMICAL PROCESSES
/ by setting up linear promenades, the volume becomes an educational box: an exhibition of Pazin surroundings /
/ placement of line elements around and within the volume / intervention: SKIN + INSIDES
users: CITIZENS + TOURISTS
50:50%
EDUCATIONAL PROMENADE
/ painting the envelope with murals emphasizes the existence of volume in space /
/ paiting / intervention: SKIN
users: CITIZENS + ARTISTS
/ the outer surface of the silo becomes a projection screen: a new scene of the city /
/ spectator formation: transformation of the envelope into a projection surface / intervention: IN BETWEEN + SKIN
users: CITIZENS
TOURIST ZONE BRANDING THE CITY
INCUBATOR OF OPPORTUNITIES users: SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTREPRENEURS
EXHIBITION SPACE users: RESIDENTS TOURSITS SCIENTISTS
EDUCATION OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES users: SCIENTISTS, EDUCARTORS, RESIDENTS
RESEARCH AND EXPERIMENTAL CENTER OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES users: SCIENTISTS
CO2 VACUUM CLEANER CLIMATE FREE CITY
CINEMA SCREENINGS
MURAL