design project

Well, life happens. Yet, here we are finally. Five years later and the project is about to take off, so here is a little recap what have you (not) missed so far.

2019

I bought the property, got started and then I left you hanging.

2020

Despite the crazy world and pandemic, I managed to safely travel to Slovakia for a week and we got to adress the issue of wet northern outter wall. Then I got married, moved and the wolrd went to lockdown again.

2021

Beside pandemic, this year was evolving about me being pregnant the first half and then have a newborn for the second half, so not much progress onsite was done.

2022

Organising our bilingual wedding reception, getting back to work, getting pregnant with second baby and getting started on apartment renovation in Germany where we live took priority. Not much direct progress on the house was done this year (I did plan and supervise renovation of our flat and even got hands on – so I was collecting valuable experience along the way).

2023

After second child was born and we were still in the middle of apartment renovations I had my hands more than full. I might do a post on it as well because our apartment turned out cute and when we finished shortly before Christmas, I have returned back to the drafting final plans for the house.

2024

Two kids and a new job, I have decided to get professional help finishing plans for building permit, which turned out to be the right step as they require awful amount of documents. I am used to dealing with German way of doing things and let me tell you, slovak burrocracy is on another level, especially if you play by rules – which I am too german not to. However, were getting really close to finish the plans and actually start building! I will also traveled to Slovakia in September to finish stabilisation of old substance before I turn the project over to contractors.

2025

Good year for the project. We managed to obtain building permit by June and then were deep in structural details. Despite it being a simple dettached house, it sure has some quirks which needed to be adressed. Details were drawn and I found a contractor to actually build it and finalised contract! As this post goes live, next week should excavators start rolling. Exciting chaper is ahead of us!

DRAWINGS

plans

museum design (2nd year)

TASK

design a museum using contrasts of light materials and mass

LOCATION

somewhere in swiss mountains (without any further specifation)

FOCUS

mass, concrete, wood, light

IDEA

Designing a robust concrete shell to withstand the rough outdoors and playing with wooden elements floating inside to present the artefacts. Arraying a set of shells along the edge and opening them up to the south in common area, yet facing nothrern light when exhibiting sculptures. The lower floor with painting exhibition stays completely hidden inside of the hill.

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summer house on the skerries (2nd year)

TASK

Filled with the impressions of ferry ride through skerries during the excursion in Scandinavia, design a simple summer house.

LOCATION

skerry coast somewhere in Scandinavia (without any further specifation)

FOCUS

landscape interaction, light, views and connection, family time

PROJECT PARTNER (Models)

Luisa Schulz

IDEA

Emphasising the flat and scattered character of the coastline, yet setting contrast to the smooth washed out counturs of the rocks.

The summer house structure was broken into four funtional space units, arrayed on the ridge overlooking the bay and encosing a courtyard to offer a place to directly interact with outside, yet sheltering the inhabitants from cold wind. The horizontality of the landscape was underlined by the horizontaly streched windows to enable widened vistas.

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scandinavian landscape of skerries

elevations

model

bird eye view of design

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Attached Capsule (3rd year)

TASK

revilatise Kafr Ashry and Minet el Bassal, develop a new approach to reuse abanonded warehouses

LOCATION

former industrial area of western harbour Alexandria, Egypt

FOCUS

site analysis (workshop in Alexandria, 11|2013), develop an approach and revitalisation plan based on the needs of community, elaborate housing typologies (focus on climate aspects)

SUPERVISOR

Prof. Heinz Nagler (urban design), Prof. Bernd Huckriede (design)

IDEA
Reattach the Mahmoudia canal to the sea and transform it into a new green spine of Alexandria, providing leisure and sports activities. Embrace the unique form of intervention area in urban pattern and establish connections as to the neighbourhood as well as the city center itself. Create hew housing units in the warehouses (concrete skeletal structures) and accomodate new services, e.g. health care centre, education and cultural centre.

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Spa and Hotel (3rd year)

TASK

design a hotel and spa complex in tourist resort at the Northern Sea

LOCATION
Trawemünde, Germany

FOCUS

design, optimise costs, structural details, preliminary calculations

PROJECT PARTNER

Felix Schaub

IDEA

Based on additive and layering principle spread over the neighbourhood of the resort, implement a new interpretation of combining two materials – bricks and concrete. Build corridors and communication areas in a rather open way – use large openings and reduce the partition walls to create a continuous space flow. However, hide the private rooms behind the closed, brick curtain wall facade and sun blinds.

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St. Concrete (2nd year)

TASK

design a simple, multi-functional, sacral object in reinforced concrete (a quiet place for meditation, a chapel, a landmark at a highway)

LOCATION

a highway in Germany (without any further specifation)

FOCUS

light, space ow, views and connection, structural details project

PROJECT PARTNER

Felix Schaub

IDEA

Turn the impressions of taking a break from fast road and finding a quiet place to relax into the form itself. Break a block of concrete aparts, so that the light infiltrating the space in between these halfs creates a transcendent atmosphere. Ultimately, a simple crack opens up and offers a magnicent view into the nature, setting the spirits free.

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Entrance Pavilion (1st year)

TASK

design an entrance pavillion for the site of Alvar Aalto‘s summer house (based on experience from excursion to Scandinavia)

LOCATION

Muuratsalo (island nearby Jyväskylä), Finland

PROJECT PARTNER

Mathaeus Nierzwicki

IDEA

Induce the former impressions, that visitors had when arriving in the past by boat and climbing up the granite cli, in the new entrance pavillion at a modern, car-accessible road.

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