Rudolf Nikerle - Architecture Portfolio

7 PROJECTS

rudolf nikerle

MSC. ARCH. RUDOLF NIKERLE

born 1995 in Slovak Republic

rudolfnikerle@gmail.com

+420 773 189 151

Master’s degree in Architecture & Urban Design:

2019 - 2021

Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Bachelor's degree in Architecture & Urbanism:

2015 - 2019

Czech Technical University, Prague

Language skills

Slovak/Czech English German

native

C1

B2

Software skills

very good:

basics:

Graphisoft Archicad

Adobe Creative Suite

Autodesk Revit, Autocad

Google Sketchup

Work experiences

2021 2020 2020 2018 2016 - 2017

re:architekti, Prague

Projektil, Prague

JRKVC, Bratislava

Mxm, Prague

Kodet architects, Prague

Awards

2. place in student competition Druhá Kůže, 2017

Eurostav magazine award in student competition

Ytong Xella, 2018

Bachelor’s thesis project is part of a permanent exhibition Terezin Vize 2030, 2019

2. place in architectural competition for new polyfunctional building in Nitra, 2020

7 PROJECTS

1

OC Odra

2021, Prague, The Czech Republic

2

Elementary School

2021, Mosul, Iraq

3

Polyfunctional Building

2020, Nitra, Slovakia

4

Concert House

2020, Milan, Italy

5

The Spine of Lambrate

2019, Milan, Italy

6

Art Residence

2017, Šuňava, Slovakia

7

Recording Studio

2015

Other Projects

Restoration of RAI by Gio Ponti

2020, Parco Monza, Italy

Garage with House

2020, Rescaldina, Italy

New Housing in Terezin

2019, Terezin, The Czech Republic

Multifunctinal Block

2018, Banská Stiavnica, Slovakia

Seasonal Hut

2018, Dubina, Slovakia

Family House Addition

2018, Poprad, Slovakia

Residential Block

2017, Rotterdam, Netherlands

House for an Artist

2016, Prague, The Czech Republic

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1

OC ODRA

Studio Title

Master’s Thesis at Politecnico di Milano AUD

Endangered modern: Finding a new purpose for local centers in

socialist housing estate

Location Year

Supervisor Authors Mark

Prague - Bohnice housing estate, The Czech Republic

2021

Maruša Zorec

Rudolf Nikerle, Markéta Nikerle

110/110

In the Czech Rupublic more then one third of population live in socialist housing estates composed by prefabricated buildings.

One notable characteristic among the family of socialist estate buildings is the local center of community and commercial functions. These centers share some common features such as strategic positioning within the neighborhood and often manifest original and atypical design solutions. Above all they share similar problems such as obsolescence, lack of maintenance, insensitive adjustments, and inability to compete with newly constructed shopping centers. All these factors contribute to the unrelenting dereliction of these buildings.

It is no wonder that people no longer perceive the architectural and cultural significance of these objects. Paradoxically, these innovatively designed local centers are often perceived as “the most ugly places in the neighborhood”. However they provide a huge opportunity and can play a significant role in improving living conditions in socialist housing estates.

One building belonging to the group of endangered local centers in socialist housing estates is OC Odra in Prague in the Bohnice housing estate. Through very precise analytical part we elaborated a design project in our Master’s Thesis. The solution seeks to restore the dignity of the housing estate. This is achieved through a methodology that respects important values of the building and repairs a damaged relationship with local inhabitants by creating a space dedicated to community.

Fig. 50: Current west elevation © Rudolf Nikerle

Current west & east view

Fig. 51: Current east elevation © Rudolf Nikerle

Proposal - Axonometric view

RoofTop slab Roof

new interventions

FirstFloor floor before First

existing structure

GroundFloor floor before Ground

Fig.88: Axonometry of existing and new elements Scheme of existing & new elements

First Floor plan - Proposal of new community center

Longitudial Section - Proposal

Site Plan - Before

Site Plan - After

Before

After

Fig.101: Current state of the space from the North.

Before

Fig.102: Proposal with new ramp, public space and passage through the building connecting road Lodžská.

After

New proposed portico connected with community centre & café.

Fig.103: New proposed portico connected with community centre and café.

2

ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Location Year

Mosul, IRAQ

2021

Studio Professors Authors

Thematic Design Studio at Politecnico di Milano AUD

Domenico Giuseppe Chizonitti, Luca Preis

Rudolf Nikerle, Zumrud Nibiyeva, Gaini Sagidullayeva

The city of Mosul is on its knees, badly destroyed by the war.

Thousands of displaced people live in camps outside of the city with a huge desire to see once again Mosul in its habitable condition. The project is the testfield to try to answer the question of how can architecture play a role in supporting a traumatized population in a post-conflict city. The goal of the project is to start the process of social cohesion and reintegration.

Architecture has the opportunity to look at the post-conflict place from a spatial perspective: building sense of belonging, empowerment of community and active participation of the people.

During a conflict, entire generation of children lost years of education. This leads to the phenomenon of so called “lost generation” and it is no coincidence that Islamic state used children as the ultimate weapon. For this reason education is fundamental.

The site is located along one of the main roads of the city Al Shaziani Street, right opposite to the great Al-nuri Mosque (the most iconic building). Design strategy is to consider the building as a solid mass, which is extracted by different types of courtyards. Courtyards are the most dominant typology of mosul, widely used for residential purposes. The project follows the similiar logic of the context, regular shapes of courtyard, opposing to irregularity of buildings itself. There is a huge contrast between street of Mosul and its courtyards. Courtyards are the spaces of co-hesion and life. Therefore courtyards become the essential elements of the project. The architectural quality is achieved by heirachy of spaces, level of privacy and experience of athmospheres.

Elementary School, Mosul, 2021

Underground Floor

Transversal

Longitudial

Ground Floor

The Central Courtyard becomes the main space for gathering,

where not only students come together, but the whole city.

3

POLYFUNCTIONAL BUILDING

Location Year

Nitra, SLOVAKIA

2020

Office Authors

JRKVC, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Rudolf Nikerle, Marketa Nikerle, Peter Jurkovič

2. place in architecture competition

Štefánikova Street crosses Štúrova Street at the point of the densest traffic and at the same time the busiest area of ​​ the city center of Nitra. On both streets there are stops with the largest turnover of people in the city. It is an urban nod that should be designed for pedestrians, cyclists and public transport as well.

The planned object is next to the building of a shipping mall by architect Ivan Matušík. The terrace of shopping mall will become a link between these two objects.

The design solution allows a high degree of flexibility in the variability. Not only the current situation, during Covid-19 pandemic, has rapidly changed the form of work in offices. The building's aim is to respond to different scenarios with the possibility of quick and easy adaptation to another form of administrative space, even if necessary another function (such as economic housing, housing for students, cohousing,…)

The facade of the building made by prefabricated concrete panels behaves as a solid and durable envelope from which is cantilevered a block containing office spaces which also covers the ground floor in Štúrova Street. The bus stop is integrated into the design of the facade.

Due to the large traffic of people, the area in front of the the building from Štúrova Street works as a shared space. It is clearly defined by the usage of surface materials, it is barrier-free and offers a number of places to seat, it works almost like one long bus stop. The imaginary city block continues in the undeveloped part in the form of greenery and thus completes the character of the street development.

Polyfunctional Building, Nitra, 2020

Polyfunctional Building, Nitra, 2020

1

café / retail

2

retail

3

reception

4

retail

office entrance

retail entrance

fire escape exit

Ground floor

1

coworking

2

café / retail

3

retail

office entrance

retail entrance

1. floor

2. + 3. floor

6. floor

Polyfunctional Building, Nitra, 2020

Office

Due to the flexible construction system the building is prepared for many other usage scenarios.

Housing for Students

Apartment 1

Apartment 2

4

CONCERT HOUSE

Location Year

Piazzale Loreto, Milan, ITALY

2020

Studio Professors

Author

Architecture Design Studio at Politecnico di Milano

Tamburelli Pier Paolo, Fabrizia Berlingeri,

Nicoló Ornaghi, Antonio Buonsante

Rudolf Nikerle

Project of new concert house is situated in one of the most busy and complicated trasporatation nod in Milan - Piazzale Loreto in the middle of the roundabout. In the underground there is an important existing metro station - Loreto, which is the strongest feature of that place. Another important aspect is, that famous shopping street Corso Buenos Aires ends in that exact place.

The form of the building is simple cubic solitaire in the middle of the roundabout. Thanks to that position and distances, it can afford to be a high rise solitaire. The building is placed inside an "atrium" in the middle of the existing metro station, that brings a lot of light there.

Elevations of the concert house are opaque, but in the underground level there is on a contrary a new enviroment with transparent commercials and entrance to the concert house through glass box that serves also as a bar. The pavement is used as a tool to combine existing grid of metro station and the new one.

In the upper floors there are 3 auditoriums placed upon each other. One is for 300 people, another one, designed for rock concerts, for 500 people and the biggest one for 1500 people. In corridors around there can be exhibitions during day when there are no concerts.

Concert House, Milan, 2020

3. floor

5. floor

6. floor

Underground floor plan

View from Corso Buenos Aires

5

THE SPINE OF LAMBRATE

Location Year

Lambrate, Milan, ITALY

2019

Studio Professors Authors

Urban Design Studio at Politecnico di Milano

Marika Fior, Laura Pogliani

Rudolf Nikerle, Markéta Nikerle

During studio we focused on eastern part of Milan - Lambrate.

This part suffers from strong disconnection and lack of identity.

It was very difficult for us to orientate and locate ourselves moreover the walk from the southern part of Lambrate to North was very long, boring and unplea-sant. According to our analysis of Lambrate and Milano we came up with results, that made us to think primarily about transportation, greenery and green connections moreover about using existing potentials of Lambrate, which are some places of interest, local centers, nodes, and improve them. The framing elements are railway yard, highway and also river Lambro creating almost tangible boarder between the city and the countryside.

According to historical maps, we have realized why the area is at the first sight unreadable and broken. Some landmarks which we spotted are less and more important however they create the various atmosphere of Lambrate which we wanted to highlight in later steps. Presence of the railway yard creates a “barrier” with rest of the city, that can be also advantaged as a potential for the area.

The transportation analysis showed that cars coming to Milano from the highway and from outskirts are not well directed and somewhere they even create barriers. Southern part of Lambrate lacks of important public transportation and connection with the Northern part as well as with the city centre. People living in the south, south-east are forced to use cars or walk very unpleasant way to centre.

The Spine of Lambrate, Milan, 2020

A4

Via Rombon

Via Caduti Marcinelle

Tram Via Rafaelle Rubatino

A4

Transportation Proposal

Parco Lambro

Parco Forlanini

Green Connections

THE SPINE

Our proposal, that we call “The Spine” leads from the important node Remembrance square and leads throught the southern part of Lambrate to undepass in Ortica.

In order to create better connections for people living in southern part and moreover in order to create more livable street, we propose to extend the tramline and design two new tram stops along the spine. In these stops appears new local centres and squares with facilities, shops and livable atmosphere.

Furhermore, among existing retained buildings there arise also smaller local squares with possible extension behind the wall and to courtyards. These squares are filled with public furniture, greenery, shops and are easy to transform for different occasions, such as markets, outside concerts, etc. we also change the material of pavement in these plazas to be able to distinguish where the person is located in terms of orientation.

UPP

COWOR

4 squares on the spine

6

ART RESIDENCE

Location Year

Šuňava, SLOVAKIA

2017

Studio Professors Authors

Architecture Design Studio at CTU in Prague

Pavol Paňák

Rudolf Nikerle, Jakub Kender

The urban plan is based on the principles of the classical village urbanism, where the cottage building was representative at the front and the stall and the barn were at the back part of the site.

These are also the names of the buildings. Furtheremore, the construction process is divided into 2 phases. In the first phaseis planned construction of a building called cottage and in the second phase planed the other buildings.

The Cottage is a gallery building with a café and an apartment. It is a long, simple building with a generous view to the High Tatras. We designed it to be an independent building to the other parts of the coplex. The gallery place offers spaces for concerts, theaters and other cultural events. The flexibile combination of closing or opening spaces between gallery and café is provided by two glass walls with big doors.

The Stall provides accommodation for artists visiting the complex in simply individual cells. Through the glass facade it’s possible to see a beautiful view on High Tatras mountains.

The Barn has a workshop and studio function. Thanks to sawtop roof is provided northern light which is perfect for work. With three heavy sliding doors we can open the entire space to the country. First floor studios are designed for clean work. They allow variable partitioning of the space using sliding walls. On the ground floor there is warehouse, graphic studio, kitchen with dining room, showers and toilets.

1 cottage

2 stall

3 barn

3

2

1

Art Residence, Šuňava, 2017

Art Residence, Šuňava, 2017

Ground Floor Plan

7

RECORDING STUDIO

Year

2015

Studio Professors Author

Architecture Design Studio at CTU in Prague

Michaela Brožová, Jiří Hůrka

Rudolf Nikerle

Recording outdoor is today very popular. Music gets outside a new dimension, due to no acoustic reflection. So if we place the entire recording studio underground, we can record music outside and the sound waves will not be reflected.

The light is very valuable in the underground. It can come here only through the roof skylights, so the basic concept is the shape of the bathtub. The surface of the roof is therefore larger than the floor surface.

Recording Studio. 2015

Ground floor

-1. floor

-2. floor

SECTION A-A’ SECTION A-A’

SECTION B-B’ SECTION B-B’

Zošikmené steny príjemne odrážaju svetlo prichadzajúce zo strešných svetlíkoch na oboch koncoch.

Zošikmené steny príjemne odrážaju svetlo prichadzajúce zo Hlavné schodiska sú umiestnené v samostatných strešných svetlíkoch vnaštúdiu oboch koncoch. boxoch na boku, jedno schodisko slúži kapele a zvukárovi, druhé Hlavné štúdiu sú umiestnené v samostatných je určenéschodiska návšteve, vteda producentom, manažérom a pod. Tieto boxoch na boku, jednonavzájom schodiskonerušia slúži kapele a zvukárovi, druhé dve skupiny sa teda a majú každá skupina je určené návšteve, teda producentom, manažérom a pod. Tieto svoju vlastnú zónu pohybu. dve skupiny sa teda navzájom nerušia a majú každá skupina svoju vlastnú zónu pohybu.

Section A-A’ & B-B’

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