Category: Architecture

The aim of the design for was to create a dialog with the historical surroundings of Dublin’ downtown. The primary goal was to align the new building to the existing ones by maintaining the building heights and creating a fully integrated extension and urban fill, through the building form and materiality. The building is designed as two separate forms intersecting each other – the glass box, directly attached to the neighboring building, as well as the grey-brick form, with the roof height aligned to the building on the opposite side of the street. The designed form is made of brick, to create a direct dialog with the traditional architecture of Dublin. Even though, the façade material is monumental, the deflection of the façade makes the building dynamic.

Typology: cultural
Location: Dublin
Size: 2,200 m2
Year: spring 2021

The goal was to design a user-oriented building, where people of all ages can visit for learning, participate in cultural events and socialize with other people from the neighborhood. The building accommodates different kinds of spaces for different purposes, such as inspiration, learning, meeting and performance. The variety of spaces will contribute to improving experience of the visitors through the spatial and functional design.

Libraries, as the places with the services accessible and affordable by anyone, become the most frequently attended cultural buildings. The project brings the social and environmental sustainability into focus. The library design has been particularly oriented on the youngest user group – children and aims to respond to their needs in regards to functionality and indoor environment. It also carries a mission of strengthening local community and promoting culture and knowledge in largely undeveloped urban area in Poznań, Poland, however, with a great potential, due to its historical value and new cultural initiatives. The building will enrich the area with established new social and cultural functions, in order to enhance the quality of the place and encourage more people to visit library. The building’s form will be strongly related to the identity of the neighborhood and form an extra value by creating new public space.

Typology: cultural/educational
Location: Poznań
Size: 2,200 m2
Year: spring 2020

The building creates a transit between Chwaliszewo district and the city center. The main entrance to the library is framed by the high greenery and broad recreational space.

The building form is compact, which provides high energy efficiency. The daylight factor is improved by decreasing the building depth and designing skylights and double height spaces. The concept has a high potential of utilising natural ventilation effectively with the strong western wind. The orientation and shape of the building minimizes the risk of overheating; the sloping roofs can be utilised for gaining solar energy.

The building is divided into four zones. The library foyer is the most public, established on the grounfloor, and its role is to encourage people to explore the building through public events, exhibitions and spaces for children to play. The main library space is located on upper levels, with the largest spaces oriented towards the north, to provide more intimate and comfortable environment for children to learn. It offers a variety of spaces for different kinds of learning activities. The administration is the zone is on the top floor, where the staff can manage the library. The back of house is in the basement, where storage rooms, service rooms and underground parking can be found.

The indoor materials determine the quality of interior spaces. The goal of the interior design is to make spaces perceived pleasant aesthetically, tactilely and acoustically. Therefore, the wooden elements are instrumental, due to its porous, rough and warm surface. Solid wood, as an element of interior design, in a form of a board mounted on the wall or floor, has effective sound absorbing properties, due to its surface structure and elasticity. Moreover, it gives sounds extra warmth feeling. The furniture is designed to provide flexibility and comfort of the spaces – for learning and playing. The furniture is oval to ensure the safety of usage for the youngest users. Mellow colours of wooden furniture are supplemented with vivid elements, such as colourful seating, associated with the theme of the space, to make the library more vibrant and attractive for its users.

The project focuses on users’ experience through spatial design, functionality oriented towards both patients and staff, materiality influencing sensory experience and perception and finally atmosphere of the place, which includes fresh air, daylight, acoustic comfort as well as harmony and clarity of the place. The goal is to design an architecture enhancing well-being and process of recovering. Furthermore, the architecture aims to be in a close relation and harmony with nature through the use of natural and sustainable materials and the design of passive solutions in order to reach the zero-energy building demands in sustainable way.

Typology: welfare building/healthcare
Location: Egholm
Size: 640 m2
Year: spring 2019
Team: Abhay Kumar Kandula,
Drashti Shantiv Mehta,
Eleni Iro Papadopoulou

The aim of the project was to design a sustainable writer’s cabin by the Pebermosen Lake in northern Jutland.

The purpose of the project was to design an urban fill within the historical and picturesque development from XIX and XX-century in the Old Town in Poznan, Poland. The building creates a workplace with manufacture (winery), trade (wine store) and consumption (bar and wine tasting). The house relates to the neighbouring buildings in the form and creates a new hub of interesting activity in the city.

Theme: urban fill/workplaces
Year: autumn 2016
Individual work