Cecilia Dobosselected works 2008-2014

contentessential information curriculum vitae

selected academic worksselected professional works

few personal interests

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Cecilia Dobos Zuidhoek 262a3082 PT Rotterdam, NL

ceciliadobos@gmail.comp +31 (0) 621.358.507

EDUCATION

Delft University of Technology 2012 - 2014Delft, The NetherlandsMaster in Architecture, focus on Public Buildings

Graduated with a distinction, received the highest mark and nominated to Archiprix.

University of Pécs 1999 - 2002Pécs, HungaryDepartment of Architecture and Urban Design, Bachelor in Urbanism

Received a nationwide academic award for my diploma project on historical urban area rehabili-tation, and won a special faculty award for my final result;

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Group A 2012Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Assistant ArchitectParticipated in a different scale ranging from extra large to small, national and international com-petitions from design to visualization.

Responsibilities- sketch schematic design ideas;- transmit concept and schematic design ideas into architectural and technical drawings, plans, sections, elevations, details; - responsibility of 3D modelling for the European Patent Office competition tender- physical model making, overall and interior- prepare presentation documents for meetings and competitions

MAKS Architecture & Urbanism Oct 2011- Mar 2012 Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Architectural Design TraineeParticipated in social housing renewal from research to design. I was fully involved in an interna-tional competition for the extension of the University of Iceland.

Responsibilities - sketch schematic design ideas;- draw out architectural and technical documents; - prepare presentation documents for meetings and competitions;- model making both, physical and 3D

Froelich Kim Architecture 2006 - 2011Chicago IL, USA

Project Architect, Architectural Designer, Drafter My work at FKA bridged architecture and interior design from schematic design to construction documentation beyond project specific construction management from time to time. In addition to my daily design and documentation briefs, I worked on several national and international archi-tectural competitions with a group of designers involved and connected to FKA.

Responsibilities - sketch schematic design ideas;- translate design intent into architectural and technical documents (permit and construction); - create necessary construction details; - prepare presentation documents for meetings and competitions;- research sustainable materials;- interior design, with focus on kitchen and bathrooms;- 3D study and final modeling and documentation

Müépítész Architecture LTD 2003 - 2005Miskolc, Hungary

Urban Designer, Staff ArchitectDuring this years my concentration was on urbanism, master planning and small scale public space design. I was involved - together with a major architecture and urbanism firm VATI - in a regional urban planning design that addressed the rehabilitation of the lake Balaton region. These project developed into several smaller urban rehabilitation and small to large scale master planning.

Responsibilities - sketched multiple urban master plan schematics and carried them out until the final design;- created all the supporting documents for master plans;- outlined urban planning concepts, schematics and final town zoning;- composed zoning codes and built environment restriction for each urban plan; - worked on many multi-disciplinary designs that addressed developing public space: renovating historical buildings, designing public buildings and creating new green public areas;- prepared presentations for competitions, meetings and exhibitions;- involved in schematic design and drafting of residential and small commercial architectural projects.

VOLUNTEER WORK EXPERIENCE

Pisco Sin Fronteras April - Jun 2010Pisco, Peru

Design and construction field workI volunteered to rebuild the city that was hit by a devastating 8.0-magnitude earthquake in 2007. The epicenter of the quake was very near to Pisco and it destroyed 80% of the city’s built envi-ronment. I designed a playground (project is on hold) and participated in a mobile home project using recycled materials.

SKILLS

computerAutoCad (proficient); Rhino5 (advanced); SketchUp (advanced); Adobe Master Suite: Ps, Ai, Id, Ae, Pr (advanced); Kerkythea 3D Image Renderer (basic); Artlantis 3D (basic); V-ray (basic); Precise and quick in physical model making; Advanced in MS applications.

design & professional skillExplore and develop unconventional ideas into rich spatial design; Ability to translate concep-tual ideas into spatial design; Communicating design concepts through sketches and technical drawings; Well organized with project drawings and able to quickly revise them; Maintaining a positive attitude in any situation; Highly motivated with a strong work ethic; Easily communi-cate with others in team works, cooperative attitude in any situation; Intercultural skill: work and connect with people from different backgrounds without difficulty.

LANGUAGES

English (fluent); Hungarian (native); German (basic)

AWARDS, DISTINCTIONS

Archiprix nomination TU Delft 2014Diploma Award from the Hungarian Urbanism Society 2002

EXHIBITIONS

U Play: Column Pavilion: Sound, Space & Body | TU Delft BK Expo 2014Vertical Spa | Berlin, Sachsen-Anhalt State House 2013Come In: Digital Photography featuring Peru | Beans & Bagels, Chicago IL USA 2011 Light & Shadow: B&W Darkroom Photography Truman College, Chicago IL USA 2010Space & Form: B&W Darkroom Photography Truman College, Chicago IL USA 2009

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selected academic works

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“Wherever we are, what we hear is mostly noise. When we ignore it, it disturbs us. When we listen to it, we find it fascinating.”

John Cage. The Future of Music: Credo

From research to design, my graduation project focused on exploring one of the immaterial phenomena of space: sound. In this project I studied and tested how sound challenges the limits of architecture and how architecture affects the sound of space. During the re-search and design I was seeking to explore the aesthetic significance of sound in relation to space and body.

Having taken from the research the phenomena of absorption and amplification (reflec-tion), I used experimental models to test how these opposing qualities can be spatialized. I concluded that absorption is layering. Amplification as a spatial phenomenon can be understood as a multiplication or repetition of a single architectural element which not only visually but also sonically amplifying (extending) the perceived space. The recurrence of the same spatial element not only amplifies the space, but it also dissolves boundaries, blurs where material and the immaterial begins and ends, binding the invisible and the visible character of space into one notion: space, sound and body.

Columns, a fundamental architectural element that defines the solids and voids in the space, is by nature a theatrical spatial artifact. Sound created by the reverberation of the columns is an interactive, emotive and performative medium of space. The thin struc-ture of the columns blur boundaries and create a sense of disorientation in a similar way to the overlapping of many sounds in space, especially in the case of Istanbul.

The column pavilion is a dynamic pause in the urban dissonance emphasizes the relation-ship between sound, space and body, engaging the public in a playful kinetic spatial design while offering an immersive ‘silence’. It genuinely invites the visitor for interaction, for a play, while creating a rich visual and sonic atmosphere.

U Play column pavilion for sound space and body | Istanbul | Master of Architecture | graduation project | TU Delft 2013-2014 | Archiprix 8 9

Space distorted by reflection:reflection, whether material or immaterial, is the amplification of space existing in both the visual and the sonic world.

Space distorted by absorption:absorption is layering that consumes all material and immaterial matters of space, creates fading away and isolates elements on a complex structure.

movie still: amplification (expansion) and absorption (contraction) of spaceas sound interacts with space, it expands or constrains the perceived space through reflection and absorption Deformation of space: amplification of space by multiplication of one single element.

In the perception of sound in space, the observer is the vantage point, the ‘center’ of space, and based on his position sound is able to deform and distort the perceived space. In the material and im-material matter of space reflective surfaces amplify the percieved physical space visually as well as sonically, while absorptive materials have a constraining effect. Based on these two opposing effects, sound is able to deform, distort and reshape the perceived physical world. Exploration and Design Principles

2. Column labyrinth:- absorbing the visible and the invisible of space;- amplifing spatial effect by a single foundamental architectural element - a structure for creative play; - a blurring through its gentle devision of solids and voids

3. Thin canopiesIntersecting pillars with canopies of different size to emphasize the relation of body and sound by cap-turing the space.

1. Spatial amplification and absorption: The repitition of one single foundamental element amplifies and at the same time absorbs compo-nents and objects (body) of the space.

1a, amplification by one architectural element

1b, densification to create voids in the “solid”

1c, fading by height variation

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model S=1:100, layered columns are defining the solids and the voids, creating spaces for gathering, plat-forms for a play and ‘stages’ for the urban performing arts Construction of space by columns:

The Columns are of varying types. Each column type is set on its own grid, but responds to the other grids to create structuring densification and softening. These grids, together, allow the methodical playfulness of the design. Each column type is organized and layered on a labyrinth-like structure, not only creating absorption, but also generating a dynamic space. The structure of the labyrinth suits for constructive organization, and structures the creative method of the design, while spatially rendering a noble dialectic between solids and voids, a constraint (absorption) or expansion (amplification) of the percieved space allowing solitude and communion.

1. grid 300mm: kinetic col-umns, base for ‘dislocation’ of columns from their own grids to create densification

2. grid 600mm: kinetic, struc-tural & performance stage columns

3. grid 900mm: seating col-umns and ‘stage’ for dancing

4. grid 3600mm: structural columns

5. absolute absence (negative space) of columns are loca-tion for water and light

6. diversified columns on a grid: concrete seating; steel and glass fibre; kinetic and structural

7. thin canopy with perfora-tion: the absolute absence of columns at level +0.00 pro-jected to the canopies

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space constructed by diverse columns: concrete seating columns, kinetic steel and glass fibre columns, water columns, light columnsDrawing of the overlapped plans at +9.00, +1.20 and 0.00 ground plan with lighting

model S=1:100, the space is composed of 2320 of varied columns, which is enhanced with 2320 fixed and kinetic light and 680 water jet columns creating a dynamic, visually and sonically rich ambiguous space.

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model S=1:100, a dynamic pause in the urban dissonance, a space with reverberation of human activities, a vibrant public space with rich visual and sonic atmosphere composed by one fundamental element: columns.up: longitudinal (south) elevation, down: cross section with basement for facilities and water cisten

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up and down: appropriation of the column pavilion at day and nightpavilion as an interactive performing space engaging the body while producing a rich visual and sonic atmos-phere

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Detail: kinetic column footing detail with movement responding water column connected to water cistern S=nts

model S=1:100, the absence of columns define the lighting which form a constellation field of fixed and kinetic in-ground fixtures activated by the movement of the columns. At night the pavilion is like walking on the milky-way among columns. The space is open to gathering, performances or for a play.

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Vertical Spa Schierke Germany | Master of Architecture | TU Delft University 2013 | Exhibited work in Berlin

Our design propsal addressed to create a spa or a wellness center that will regenerate Schierke, a small dead end town in the middle of the Harz Mountains, once used to be a vibrant village but now struggling with population decay and unemployment. The nature in and around the town is very impressive and dominant. The “verticality’ of the pine trees inhabiting the entire landscape, the gorgeous view above tree levels was the main inspiration for this project. These characteristics of the site arose the idea to cre-ate a narrow water tower like spa that leads the visitor above the tree levels that opens up to the magnificent view of the adjacent and far ahead landscape. The tower intents to blend into the landscape, be part of it. To create a vertical structure for the spa the construction of water towers were taken as examples and become the main structural design that allowed to create a bowl like floor structure for the pools and to ‘free’ the facade for framing the view towards nature.

The program of the spa is based on Turkish baths as a ritual bathing and therefore com-posed of three main parts. The lower levels are turkish tea house open to the public all times. These levels are an important starting point of the bathing ritual. Middle part of the tower is the reception, changing rooms, followed by hot dry rooms to prepare the body for the hot water tubs. The water ritual is a progression through circulation along the outer perimeter of the spa that gradually changes your view to the landscape. The dynamic of the facade constantly reveals or hides and therefore very specifically frames the visi-tor’s perception of the outside landscape and the inside of the bathing ritual.

The design proposal was selected for an exhibition in Berlin, published in a Sachsen-An-halt magazine and discussed at a round table forum as a possible pivot hinge proposal in the life of Schierke.

left: visual of the vertical spa at level 13, observation pool reaching above the tree levels opening to the magnifi-cent view of the surrounding mountains.

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visual of approaching the building from the mountains: a hidden tower among the trees rising tall from the valleysite plan model S=1:2000

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visual of a snowy day looking through the public lobby, shop and tea house: indestructible continuity of nature is allowed by the thin “water tower core” structure for circulation up to the spa at the tree trunk levels site section S=1:2000

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bathing ritual: circulation through steam baths up to the observation pool model 1:100, columns and slabs of the tower rendered into the surrounding environment. Walking up to the observation pool along the perimeter of the tower engages the visitor with an ever changing perspective.

08 Steam baths 28-32C

07 Dry hot room 24-28C

09 Steam baths 32-36C

10 Steam bath 36-42C

11 Observation pool 28-30C

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structural steel frame with thermal brake 100/150/5such as schüco parallel window systems

steel frame with thermal brake 100/150/5such as schüco vertical sliding window systems

insulation only around warm baths

custom groove for overflowconncected to water filtering system

W1waterproof epoxy finishing layer 5 mmreinforced concrete 100 mmMW insulation panels (mineral wool w/ wood fibres) 2* 80 mmreinforced concrete 100 mmMW insulation panels (mineral wool w/ wood fibres) 2* 80 mmgalvanized metal sheet 0.3 mm

W2double layerd glazing 2 mmcement panels reinforced with glass fibres 13 mmventilated layer 40 mmMW insulation panels (mineral wool w/ wood fibres) 2* 80 mmreinforced concrete 100 mmMW insulation panels (mineral wool w/ wood fibres) 2* 80 mmstucco 20 mm

W3double layerd glazing 2 mmcement panels reinforced w/ glass fibres 13 mmventilated layer 40 mmMW insulation panels (mineral wool w/ wood fibres) 2* 80 mmreinforced concrete 100 mmMW insulation panels (mineral wool w/ wood fibres) 2* 80 mmreinforced concrete 100 mmwaterproof epoxy finishing layer 5 mm

W4double layerd glazing 2 mmcement panels reinforced w/ glass fibres 13 mmventilated layer 40 mmMW insulation panels (mineral wool w/ wood fibres) 2* 80 mmreinforced concrete 100 mm

W5uncompressed ground layer 900 mmgeotextile 1 mmclinging synthetic indented membrane 10 mm XPS insulation panels 2* 80 mmwaterproof membrane (bitumen based) 1 mmreinforced concrete 200 mm

F1waterproof epoxy finishing layer 5 mmreinforced concrete 150 mmMW insulation panels (mineral wool w/ wood fibres) 2* 80 mmreinforced concrete 150 mm

F2sealed cedar wood decking 50 mmsubconstruction IPN 80 80 mmsynthetic waterproof membrane (such as ‘Rhepanol) 1 mmMW insulation panels (mineral wool w/ wood fibres) 2* 80 mmcement topping slopped 100 mmreinforced concrete 150 mm

F3waterproof epoxy finishing layer 5 mmreinforced concrete 150 mmMW soft insulation (mineral wool) 2* 80 mmreinforced concrete 150 mm

F4polished cement topping 100 mmelastic layer (EEPS elastic expanded polystyrene) 30 mmvapor membrane (polyethylene foil) 1 mmreinforced concrete 150 mm

F5polished cement topping 150 mmelastic layer (EEPS elastic expanded polystyrene) 30 mmvapor membrane (polyethylene foil) 1 mmreinforced concrete 150 mmXPS insulation panels 2* 80 mm

visual of level 8 to 10: routing through the steam baths with narrow and wide window opening to create ever changing perception of the spa as well as the surrounded nature.

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Woven Media Mediatheque of Marseille | Master of Architecture | TU Delft University 2012 | with Kelly Otter & Martine Duijvis

The starting point to this project was a hypothesis that public spaces of the city are highly articul-ted by the pavement as we were given to analyse and design on a significant public square. Through the thory of Semper we concluded that pavement is an abstract progression from immaterial to mosaics that articulates a public sphere. The theory of Semper and the outcome of the research lead us throughout our design for the Mediatheque of Marseille. Because of the charming ambience of the square with a beautiful view to the harbour attention was paid to avoid the destruction of this existing vivid outdoor public life adding new meaning and experience for its inhabitants.

A mediatheque weaves media and people into a social, cultural and intellectual tactile. The me-diatheque is woven into the stereotomic fragment of the square connecting the above ground temporary gallery and sculpture park with the below ground experience of intellectual density. The two main entrances, seen from the harbour, circulate throughout the building creating a storyboard with experience involving the senses through intensified natural lighting and materials for touch and sounds. Spatial experience is amplified from wide open space to narrow walkways and stairs that link each programmatic space into one fluid plan from social interactive space to an individual space and visa versa as a continues woven textile. The excavated limestone is used for all tectonic elements inside as well as outside. The reinforced inside retaining wall and the lowest level’s floor are bare concrete contrasting its stereotomic work from the tectonic which pilled up by limestone.

The limestone roof sculptures, which are also light shafts with its form and material create a connecti-on between inside and outside. By the differing heights of the light shafts the roof become a sculpture garden in the public square with temporary exhibitions on display. After end of the Cultural Capital the rooftop will be released from the temporary program providing seating steps for the public. The pulled up light wells remain on the square becoming a sculptures themselves and offering local art display though its urban vitrine openings. The mediatheque not only itself provides media, but it also provides an experience, therefore it becomes a medium itself.

model S=1:100, mediatheque carved into the slopped site to cause no destruction to this existing vibrant urban public square overlooking to the historical harbour of Marseilles. On the public rooftop temporary pavilions provide exhibition space for the time of the cultural capital.

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model S=1:100 , the rooftop as a lively public square with the light wells as permanent urban exhibition space overlooking to the historical harbour.

Hypothesis: Pavement is a progression from immaterial to mosaics that articulates a public sphere. The progression is, ac-cording to Semper, the fundamental motivation of the technical arts, such as textiles, stereotomy, ceramics and tectonics. Among those arts, textile lends many aspects to the other three. It defines the knots and joints (the tectonics), the methods (the stereotomy) and the form (the ceramics). The knots and joints are the most sig-nificant elements of these technical arts that bind all the different compartments together into one coherent homogenous one.

1a. stereotomy 1b. tectonic knots 1d. tectonic joints

1. pavement material progression

the abstract progression of the design based on the research

1c. textile

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left up: entry form the rooftop; left middle: view towards the harbour from the highest point of the roof; left bot-tom: carved out main entry in level with the harbour walk; right up: permanent gallery space; right middle: study spaced of the library lit by light-wells from the square; right bottom: view toward the hanging reading book area

plans S=1:2000 left: level +0.00, main level with grand cafe, gallery; middle: level -2.00, exhibition hall, library study spaces; right: level -4.00, cinema, bar, lounge, in background: siteplan 1:1000

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cross section

south elevation

east elevation

longitudinal sectionS=1:1000

carved out main entry lit at night, temporary exhibition pavilions on the rooftop square

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Vineyard Nests Dwellings in a vertical garden | Amsterdam | Studio Workshop Rotterdam Academy of Architecture 2012

The project is located on a vacant block in Amsterdam Oud-West, few minutes from the ring-canal. The site is confined from one side with a canel and from other side by an old tram garage planned to host a tram museum, a hotel and a covered market. The project aimed to achieve a set of goals; one is to transform the traditional back yard gardens into a variety of green space accessible to all residence, and the other hand to create flexibility both on the site and in the dwellings. To the context the dwelling complex’s volumentry responds with its height and follows the rhythm of the windows and the building width.

Flexibility and the transformation of the traditional gardens into variety of greens gave the basis for a vertical garden solution, where public, collective and private gardens appear in different directions, horizontally and vertically. The combination of housings and gardens on a vertically level allows each user to access variety of green spaces that are directly connected with their living environ-ment, but not necessary attached to their inner living space.

The housings are a cluster of larger and smaller dwellings plugged into the vertical garden’s I-beam ‘mega’ structure. The structure of the garden defines the width of the dwellings creating typical “nar-row” housing typologies that are stretching out vertically. The dwellings are flexible to different configurations, giving opportunity to divide or combine. Extending the units are eased by the ver-tically aligned stair layout as well as by locating them mirrored on the horizontal plate. The open floor plan gives opportunity to each dwellers to create their living style.The floor to ceiling windows provides maximal daylight and natural ventilation.

The ground level park’s landscape is limited to gravel and grass to keep the focus on the climbing green. In spite of the publically accessible ground floor, the upper level decks are only reachable by the habitants giving privacy and security. The upper floor decks are themed differently by the variety of green surrounded and by the wide range of deck furnishing. Each habitant pleased to live in an urban vineyard that creates different atmosphere in each season by the colors and the density of the leaves and flowers. This merriment ambiance is elevated by the play of light and shadows cre-ated by the ‘sky-rise garden’ impaired with the sounds of birds, flies and bees inhabiting the garden.

left: model S=1:200, vertical inner garden with steel structure and hanging collective decks. The seasonal climb-ing greens not only creates a dynamic nature dominated garden, but also provides shading from the summer heat, while after leaves fall the open steel structure allows the winter sun to reach the living spaces.

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model S=1:200, vertical garden at each level provides a different ‘podiums’ to observe man made ‘urban na-ture’: the ground level is a place of a semi-public garden, upper levels has different size over hanging decks furnished with diverse garden furnishings to indicate specific use but not limited to.

Climbing greens surrounding the complex to provide private ‘hanging garden’ deck to each dwelling

Living-living connection: puzzling the dwellings to connect day and night time activities as adjacent to reduce noise annoyance. This setting of the complex creates dwellings where the living on the upper floor, while the night time spaces are in the lower level giving the sensation of going back to a bunker, an earthy space to be restored.

circulation: gallery type routing to the dwellings through the frame structure of the garden. Circulation is set minimum 5 meter from the dwellings to allow privacy.

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site section

cross section

longitudinal section

model S=1:200, housing in a vertical garden in its context. The dwellings are facing to towards the canal and the inner gardens, enclosing the gardens with a grid structure of climbing greens from the two side elevation.

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selected professional works

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Goparaju Residence Completed 2008 | Chicago USA | Froelich Kim Architecture

Our starting point for this project was two crowded homes with a very narrow 4m interior span, which we had to combine into a single family home.

From the very beginning, the key focus of our de-sign was allowing as much natural light as possible into the central part of the house. Large east/west windows at each end provide sunlight in the morn-ing and from mid-afternoon until sunset, as well as natural ventilation.

The recently renovated private home with a large garden on the side of our lot gave us an opportunity to place large glazing systems on the south side of the building, providing plenty of light in the center of the home.The entire ground floor serves as a daytime living area, with the entry, formal living room, dining area and kitchen. The wood panel wrapped elevator box separates the formal living space from the informal family room that faces the back yard.On the first floor, bedrooms are placed in a long wood-covered architectural “container” that is stacked into the building and overhangs the first floor. In the centre, a gallery divides the office and guest area from the kids’ bedroom and bathroom. The double height open space also brings natural light into the middle floor hallway.The uppermost floor is completely occupied by the master suite. This flows out to a large semi-covered terrace that gives a gorgeous view of the city’s skyline.

The entire house’s interior as well as the exterior was custom made which required us to detail all elements of the design. In this project I was involved from the concept and schematic design to the construction documenta-tion and management. In addition, I coordinated the team and oversaw the design and project develop-ment at Froelich Kim Architecture.

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South Dwell housings | research and design developments 2008-2010 | South Chicago, Chicago USA | Froelich Kim Architecture

exiting situation at the time of the research

left: visual of the housing type inhabiting the appart-ment complexes expending over the entire floor

The project is a result of a winning proposal for an urban renewal and development on the south side of Chicago, a highly problematic area with low quality housings, low income residents. The draft asked for housing that partially site constructed and partially prefabricated to reduce site waste.

Our proposal created an easily transformable varia-tion of dwellings, which were set on a open ground level concrete or brick construction extending the foundation of the building. On these masonry set and connected the prefabricated modules of the upper levels with a final finishes.

The inside of the dwelling are highly flexible with the only necessary sheering cross walls to the two side walls, keeping the structure stiff. All the inte-rior are tailored then my the need and wishes of the dwellers.

The project include two housing types: a multiple apartment complex in a three story building, and a two story low cost family housings. Both types ex-tend to several blocks occupying all the vacant lots adding 150 new housings.

I work on this project from research to the final design and documentation with Sig Froelich and Martin Kim.

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Green360 Loft Towers | Cerros de Camacho Peru | Competition 2009 in collebaration with Froelich Kim Architecture

This competition called us to design 8 luxurious towers with 4 apartments occupying each floor. The project needed to address sustainability in an undefined way that was left open to the designers. Following the local topography, we arranged the towers in a fan like formation, affording dramatic views of the city and sea beyond. Pushing the tow-ers slightly into the hillside opens up a view for the public from the park behind our site. The section line of the hill inspired the roof garden entry to each apartment.

The orientations and entries of the buildings make them blend harmoniously with their natural setting. As one approaches the towers from the road they have the appearance of a series of private villas - low and demure, each with its own private driveway and pedestrian bridge. In between the buildings there is a semi-public garden, and a reflecting pool which spills over the edge and fills the space with the sounds of falling water. The repetition of a 1.6 m x 1.6 m grid throughout the apartments keeps the design clean and rigid. Simple yet elegant wood paneling compensates for this rigidity, filling the space with warmth. A continuous retaining wall that gently follows the road curve is topped with an indigenous vegetation filled planter. It is tiered and planted at each of the floor levels, and provides an arboretum light well between the rear of each tower and the road.

Each residential tower has its own private front gar-den that provides a pleasant welcome to residents or visitors. The towers are constructed from three environmentally responsible materials: concrete, steel and glass. The site cast concrete construction common to the region is both cost effective and en-vironmentally responsible due to the natural source and the re-useable nature of the material.

I worked on the concept and schematic design with Fausto Ferrara. We prepared all the drawings and renderings with Sig Froelich and Aaron Gist.

Towards main entry

view of living/dining

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EPO European Patent Office | competition 2012 | Rijswijk NL | GROUPA

Among five other selected architects Group A was shortlisted for the second round of the international competition to design/build the new headquarters of the European Patent Office in Rijkswijk. The required size of the program of 80,000 sqm would have generate a building that has a significant im-pact on its surroundings. In orientation to the urban context the two horse shoe shape volumes were carefully chosen with its position, composition and appearance in combinantion to the function.

The tower of the headquarter intends to act as an urban sign along the busy highway to the business district of the area. The tower act in the urban set-ting with its extensive public/semi-public garden as a dominant actor and transformer of the business district.

I worked on this project from Group A with Maarten van Bremen, Maarten Lever, Pia Fischer, Dennis Berger, along the office of Cordeel (NL) and Art & Build (BE).

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The extension of the city hall focused on creating an open workspace for the bureaucrats .The reno-vation of the ground level lobby was necessary after the reorganization of the offices. It was important to enhance with the design the existing three story high void in the lobby allowing visual contact be-tween the visitors and the office workers.

The extension of the offices was chosen as a par-asite that contrast with the existing main building and uplifting the character of the brick work on the main facade. I worked on the design and documentation with a team of four.

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Office spaceKW2 City Hall | competition renovation & extension 2012 | Leidschendam NL | GROUPA

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Bevewaard dwellings | research and design developments 2011-2012 | Bevewaard Rotterdam | MAKS Architecture and Urbanism

model S=1:200an alternative restoration design for studios and one

bedroom single apartments

exiting situation at the time of the research

left: model S=1:200an alternative restoration design for single parents dwellings as an answer to a current social problem

model S=1:200an alternative restoration design for kangaroo dwell-

ings for cross-generational living

This urban renewal project is a product of a new housing type after a in depth research. Renewal projects often emerge out of necessity to preserve or salvage existing infrastructure, rather than act as an opportunity to improve living conditions. This predisposition is even more apparent in poor-er, unattractive and socially problematic areas. In The Netherlands, approximately 25% of all hous-ing was built during the 70’s and 80’s according to the “Bloemkoolwijk” or “Cauliflower” planning model. Now after 35 years, many of these housing areas are in drastic need for physical and “social” updates.

Starting an ambitious master plan for the entire area, Woonbron decided to focus their energy and investment on three pivotal blocks in the neighbor-hood, one of them the De Haerestraat intoduced here. Our team researched various options to transform, update and optimize these blocks as well as their immediate surroundings. The team pushed the limits of what to preserve and change in order to balance existing qualities while creating new opportunities.

I work on this project from research to the final de-sign and documentation with Marieke Kums, Maart-je Franse, Christiaan Harmse, Adriana Suarez.

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University of Island Language Center | Competition 2012 | Reykjavik | MAKS Architecture and Urbanism

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View of the coffee hall

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This competition was called to design a building to house The Vigdís Finnbogadóttir Institute of Foreign Languages at the University of Iceland’s School of Humanities.

The design proposal needed to create a new cen-ter in 3.000 sq meters in addition to a car park and a connection to the University Centre, while it re-quired a master plan proposal with a new posible extension up to a 7.200 sq meter building.

The banding floor plan around a center courtyard provide transparency and interaction through an entierly glass facade. The ground floor courtyard host different activities, such as outdoor concerts, summer theather, and ice-skating in the winter. The yard is a semi-public park, used by the campus res-idence and the visitors. One the ground floor public-ly accessable auditorium, cafe, exhibition room and central desk awaiting for all. The inner activities are transmitted into the court yard by the transparent facade and the large double doors. The building acts as a band around this central area, where all activities take place all year around.

The first floor hosts large classrooms as well as the library with a narrow corridor on the south, where sitting is provided with a perfect view towards the city’s center. The most upper floor is allign the teachers’ offices with a clearness and transparency to stimulate in-teraction and collebaration.

I work on this project from schemetic design to the final presentation documentation with Marieke Kums, Thanasis Ikonomou, Christiaan Harmse, Adriana Suarez.

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few personal interests

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Traveling seeing the world

I enjoy exploring new unfamiliar worlds. I see each of my trip as stepping towards new knowledge, learning about new culture, a world that I have not yet contacted with that with an open eyes and ears I want to explore.

Photography Gelatin Print Chicago, 2007

Due to richness and depth of shades combined with simplicity, black and white photography greatly interests me. I am fascinated with capturing forms and feelings of the city and the way people interact with it.

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Interactive art Otto Piene: Proliferation of the Sun, Berlin summer 2014

I am passionate about art and installation art that engages our perception, and enriches our spatial experience while also reconfigure the inhabited space into a new spatial composition, bringing new ideas into the space.

Canopy of our world natural phenomenas, such as storms, clouds, forest and their spatial relationship to architecture

When I was eight years old I wanted to be a meteorologist. I wanted to figure out the structure of the clouds, their movement, their power and layers. I saw it as a fascinating natural phenomena that still intrigues me today.

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Waves of Space science of sound and light rays in relation to space

Rays of light and sound determine our sensible space. I am deeply interested how waves behaving and interact-ing with elements, and how these physical phenomenas influencing, changing and expending our known world.

Music John Cage graphic score

I am fascinated with the process of composing a musical piece as I find it very similar to composing a piece of space, an architecture. A composer through drawings creates and foreseen a spatial experience yet intangible.

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contact: +31 (0)6 21 358 507 ceciliadobos@gmail.com