05_ISLAND OF DESIRE - Tempelhofer feld, Berlin master thesis project
O5.1_The refugee camp
O5.2_The library
O5.3_The circus
O5.4_The museum
WORKSHOPS
O7_HIDDEN EXISTENCE
exploration of the reality of blinded people and how they relate to their home and its spatial organisation
PHOTOGRAPHY
personal ongoing project
My story began when I was four years old. I would gaze at people’s windows and imagine how their apartments would look inside. I would make up stories about what objects the inhabitants had, where they put them, and how and when they used them.
My focus and engagement with the project were to arrange the floor plans of all apartments of the existing building and to outline the vertical planning of the installation shafts.
I participated in the graphical representation and the presentation preparation.
WORK EXPERIENCE WORK EXPERIENCE
O2_FOOD COURT
Kaufland, Sofia, Bulgaria
Studio Ho_ra
completed
03_PUPPET THEATRE EXTENSION
Competition
Bulgaria
Studio Ho_ra
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
A concert hall and urban reactivation
Imaginary worlds in between
In order to fully immerse oneself in the world of sound-activated fantasy, one needs to be cleansed of the influence of the environment that can be traced in the image of nature. A garden in its iconic sense (a form that resembles a meaning) invites man to separate himself from the dynamic city in which the utilitarian triumphs and to turn his gaze inward.
a place to be astonished to slow down to shut off the external and to turn inwards
the music can now touch you innumerable worlds are created imagination dances the social structure collapses
you are a creator again you dictate the rules contemplate you could be anything you are free music is not the end point it is a springboard
to yourself
the place opens gently towards the city, the person is invited to desover the garden through various sneak peaks before fully emersing into the garden of delights
it creates an additional outdour spacece for performances and thus allowing more program variety and events happening simultaneously
the pavilions are central to the project concept as they create profound contemplative experience bringing the visitor closer to the divine
The concert hall
The assembly consists of fragmented pre-existing buildings unified by the wild vegetation newly planted in between. An underground link connects the old industrial tram depot and the electrical substation building. The main foyer distributes the visitors to the main concert hall and the chamber hall. The multifunctional hall is located under the restaurant and accessible from two points. The access between the concert hall and the multifunctional hall could be controllable by moveable walls in the cloakroom area.
In the most distant part of the park, there is an open-air stage where visitors can enjoy musical concerts on the warm summer nights in the city.
Musical pavilion
Another essential is the surrounding wall that derives from the densely built space typology of the complex and encloses the garden space creating a safe space for enjoyment.
The pavilion installation consists of vertical steel tubes in different sizes and cuts to conduct the sound of the rehearsal rooms underground to the garden above.
In this way, an environment of serenity and calmness provokes profound contemplative experience bringing you closer to the divine moment of creation. Here one forgets about the mundane everyday dynamics and could travel in their own time and space of fantasies.
Fragment 1
Fragment of the installation in the musical garden and the rehearsal rooms underneath
The Tempelhof airport was built between 1936 and 1941 and is no longer functioning.
It is now in the city’s heart as the urban sprawl left this large territory untouched and like a fresh breather in the dense surroundings.
The airport was part of West Germany during the Cold War and particularly belonged to the Americans. For this reason, it holds physical evidence of this cultural junction as the basketball hall just above the main hall, bowling, and furniture.
The numerous investor inquiries didn’t lead to a transformation of the area into a residential one because of the activists’ groups of architects and citizens.
Case study on borders
Belfast, Northern Ireland
Berlin, Germany
good-bad good-good
In this case, both sides perceive themselves as good and reject the values and morals of the opposition. This approach leads to the strengthening of the physical and mental borders and differences.
experiments in search of common structucal language symbolic gesture that marks the methaphorical island
morphology of the towers
I explored the morphologhy of the existing towers of the airport building in search of a new sutble formal expression that has a poetic meaning.
The variable configurations and variations symbolize different borderline conditions according to their relation to the inside and the outside of the circle.
Paradoxically the inner part portrays “the utopian no man’s land” where one could be free of inherited connotations, whereas the outside stands for the old world order.
The opposition between ideologies where one is portrayed as better than the other creates a strong desire for borderline crossing.
When the Berlin Wall was erected, the area along it became uninhabitable, and most of the buildings became vacant, leading to the marginalization of some groups. At this point, the center acquired the qualities of the periphery and vice versa.
O5.1_The refugee camp
The refugee camp suggests a new linear form of a camp. It envisions part the existing towers as living units - for families and single users, and another part for public and integration functions.
There is a school, multipurpose hall for gathering, roof gardens for vegetables, sports fields, cinema and science center.
The projects reimagines the conditions and the everyday life of the refugees, giving them the opportunity to live with integrity and to built sustainable community.
view at the main square and the community gardens
newly added walkway under the console construction towers transformed into living units + 28.00 m
physical model of the new hanging structure
O5.4_The museum
Here, the museum is the space in itself. Key to the organization of the exposition is the central hall in its original form, which is a kind of time capsule transporting visitors to the last century.
The hall is now a freely accessed vestibule space before the controlled area. Thus, the former fascist architecture is symbolically exposed without the need to buy a ticket
01 exsiting playground integrated into the exhibition trail
