TEODOR DUHNEV

EDUCATION

UNDERGRADUATE PORTFOLIO

SKILLS

EXPERIENCE

University Of Illinois in Chicago 2011-2015 Proficient

Working Knowlege

CIEE Barcelona 2013

DomingoFerre Arquitectes 2013

VHT Properties 2014-

Bachelor of Science in Architecture Rhinoceros (w/ VRay)

Revit

Semester Abroad (ESARQ University Home Institution)

Architectural Intern

Floor Plan/Drafting Specialist

Minor in Spanish AutoCAD

SketchUp

PhotoshopInDesignIllustrator

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ACADEMIC WORK

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DIFFUSING OUTOF REALITY

FACELIFTS

LAKESHORETOWER COMPLEX

CONCEALEDWITHIN

NATURAL BANDCITY

LIGHTWELL WITHINTHE RAVAL

EDIBLE GARDENMARINA

Field SystemsFacade Abstractions

Interior UrbanismBuilding Vertical

Large Scale Planning

Abandoned City Lots 1

Abandoned City Lots 2

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p 31-36p 9-14

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“Diffusing Out Of Reality” is a park which draws its form from the way fields of raindrops form in nature. Just as raindrops form bubbles of different sizes and in different combinations with each other, the main area of the park is formed by a series of bubble-like circular voids, each with various programs and overlap-ping conditions. Through a densely vegitated perimeter and lowering of ground level, the park seperates itself from its post-industrial and abandoned surround-ings and creates a distinct atmosphere, which continues in the form of different circular forms over the river and on to nearby transporation hubs, to invite the city of Chicago onto the site.

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On the upper, main part of the park the “raindrop” voids disperse throughout to form 6 different types of program zones: Activity, Leisure, Green Space, Water, Public Gallery, and Energy. Each type of zone appears many times in different variations, and in some areas several voids fuse together, to create hybrid zones.

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Site PlanCirculation PathsProgram Zones Distribution

Diagonal Section Through North Portion of the Park

Underground Tunnels

Activity Leisure Green Water

Energy

Spa Centers

PublicGallery

Upper Level Trail

Ground Level Circulation

Connection to CTA

Paths Above Spa

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Render displaying the center of the park, containing the largest “bubble” voids and hybridization of multple program zones, all flowing into each other.

Activity

Children Playground Picnic Area Small Scale Forest

Pond

Marble Tricircle Exhibition Solar Powered Cell Generator

Greenhouse Power GeneratorOrganic Circle Exhibition

Circular Voids Exhibition

Beach With Pool

Tropical Garden

“Under the Tree” Worlds

Amphitheater

Soccer Field

Basketball Courts

Skate Park

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On the top left of the spread is the zoning catalogue showing detail axons of each category and sub-category of program, along with the ways visitors interact with each. Undernteath are 3 photos of a diagramatic model, highlighting the different program zones of the park through aerial as well as eye level views. The right render zoomes into a section of the park near the northwest street entrance, displaying its perimeter edge conditions.

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The park is powered throughout by a series of selfsufficient systems, with the lumination done by solar panels on the top of lamp posts, while the portion of that park which lies south of the river contains underground spa centers which use filtered and purified water from the Chicago river, through water filtering tanks and algae with filetring bacteria along the edge of the riverwalk. Energy efficieny is also the theme of 1 of the 6 programs zones, where either solar panels or greenhouses collect energy and use it to heat the ground in the zone during cold weather, or power overhead lighting at night.

Long Section Cutting Through the Entire Park

Natural, continuous purification of the river through algae bacteria along the riverwalk

Serving as both a public garden and energy collector, the plants inside the greenhouse collect sunlight, which is then stored into the power generator underneath

Wide-spreading, flower-like petals open up on top in order to collect the maximum amount of sunlight

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Section Axon through the southern part of the park, cuttingthrough the underground saunas and water purification process and displaying the public circulation above.

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Located on a lot surrounded by a downtown Chicago residential neighborhood on one side, and lake Michigan and LakeShore Dr from the other, this tower complex aims to adress its busy surroundings and utilize them in the maximum amount of ways. A high-rise hotel tower leans over LakeShore Dr towards Lake Michigan, giving the guests a full view of the city and lake. To ease access, the base is raised to be on the same level as the surrounding neighborhood, featuring a park outdoor area as well. A wing also stems out of the tower and reaches over the surrounding buildings, providing workers and visitors with a dynamic view of the nearby life.

LAKESHORE TOWER COMPLEXBUILDING VERTICAL2nd YEAR, FALL 2012

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Cross Section Long Section

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Along with an outdoor leisure space, the base level features a small shopping center underneath the main lobby where hotel visitors, office workers, and local residents have the opportunity to interact. Parking is also available on levels further down. The floors of the tower hold regular and VIP hotel rooms, as well as a fitness center and large sky lounge on the top floor. The reaching wing functions primarily as office space, with a small theater as well as an open view concert hall towards the outer end.

The wing is held together by a series of exposed trusses, to give the space a mechanical feeling, hovering over the park

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Base level Site Plan

VIP hotel plans with office space the concert hall on the wing Connection floors between the tower and wing Regular hotel floor

Perspective view of the base level park and tower entrance

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Restaurant and sky lounge on the top floor, with the view of Chicago and the lakeRegular hotel floor 14

“Natural Band City” is a hypothetical city located on an island, with different geographical terrains shaping the way the city looks and functions. Isolated and having its area limited by a sea on the perimeter and a mountain in the center, the city is squeezed into 3 different “bands”, with each band working through urban issues arising from its environment.

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As a precedent to analyze the way cities and their centers are structured, a series of urban components of the city of London were researched and diagramed. Using a zoomed in portion of the center of London, urban issues like transportation, population density, and neighborhood distribution were documented.

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NEIGHBORHOODS

DENSITY

TRANSPORTATION

PARKS + MONUMENTS

PRECEDENT STUDY

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The researched urban issues were then applied to unique circumstances and enviornmental conditions. Being isolated by water, the city has to sustain itself by utilizing its land where possible. Suitable soil in the mainland is used for farming, while the water edge is used for aquaculture and water powered factories.

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Physical Model of the city center

Aerial View showing the center square

Plan and Section cutting through the city centerCity infrastructure- highway running around theperimeter of the mountain and main city road underneath

The inhabited area and population density of the city is also affected directly by its surround-ings. The safe, stable land is near the mountain where the population is very dense and housed in pencil tower high-rise buildings, which allow for living on an incline. The city center and urban life occurs on the land directly underneath the mountain, where it is a safe dis-tance from the water yet on the easy to circulate flatland. Getting closer to the water edge, the population denisty decreases, containing mostly single family homes of people working the land or factories.

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The “Lightwell in the Raval” is a project to revitalize one the many abandoned lots in the old part of the city. It strives to bring the liveliness and organic design of the modernisme style, that have become synonymous with the city center of Barcelona, into the seemingly isolated Raval neighborhood. Unlike the center, the Old City remains very monotone and regular looking, along with being overcrowded and lacking public spaces. The area surrounding this lot is home to many restaurants and cafes, but has very limited access to outdoor eating and gathering space. Along with adding a residential building to shape out the void between the two nearby (previous) party walls of the buildings, the base level offers a gate-way to a public courtyard designed to provide space for outdoor eating and socializing area, as well as bring a taste of the Barcelona modernisme style into the area.

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Long Building Section Cross Buidling Section Building Circulation DiagramThe building itself also takes on the characteristics of the outdoor space, through organic elements in its facade as well as shape and structure of the floor plans

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Along with the building’s organic, “modernisme” facade and floor plan, the courtyard space introduces other elements typical of the movement and region’s history, such as Catalan vault ceilings and birck vaulted pavillion.

Outdoor courtyard Site Plan

Flow of Movement Diagram showing the way the space is accessed by both neighborhood residents, and nearby restaurants.

Base Level restaurant and passage Plan

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Flow of Movement Diagram showing the way the space is accessed by both neighborhood residents, and nearby restaurants.

Base Level restaurant and passage Plan Floor Plan of Residential Floor Street Facing Facade 26

“Facelifts” is a series of facade abstracting operations, seeking to create something new while preserving the prominent char-acteristics of the old. In the intial phase, historical Chicago buildings, like the Reliance, are researched and then abstracted into new forms, some retaining literal elements of the building’s facade while other retain only the hidden concepts and inner elements, such as the structural system. Each form is modeled through a distinct material, highlighting its conceptual qualities. Concrete is used to for ones shaping the facade in detail and filling in the rest, while wood and thinner materials are used for ones exposing inner qualities underneath the facade.

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PHASE 1

Taking ideas from the different tech-niques used on modifying and re-reading the faces of Chicago buildings, groups formed to combine ideas and apply different technique to each side of a cubic model, while maintaining a strat-egy visible throughout each face. A final model was made from vacuum formed plastic with wooden molds.

6 sided, “facelifted” 36”x36” model

Each side consists of a group member’s ab-stacted model of a historical building

Composition Exploded Axon, showing the mold makeup of each side

Orthographic Model Drawings

Group Project among 5 membersResponsibility: Wooden mold for 4 sidesof the model + parts of the orthographicdrawings

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In the final stage of the project,“facelift” abstractions are appliedto the Charnley House to createan alternate museum proposal. The facade and interior of the house gets further simplified in shape in order to allow for more open space and encourage visitor circulation throughout.

The only preserved characteristic of the Charnley House is the open atrium through the center. Тhe house consists of 3 stepped layers, each providing for a different program of the museum, all linked through a giant tunnel with multiple entry points.

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Set of Drawings for the museum proposal

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This project focuses on creating a public space strictly through the qualities of a building’s interior. “Concealed Within” is a multiple theater complex which brings its visitors into a new world upon step-ping foot inside. Located on a park near the downtown area of Miami, the complex strives to seperate itself from its busy surroundings and offer its visitors an escape into nature, in the form of a cave-like interior lobby which encloses and circulates between 4 different theaters. The natural environment of the inside is completely concealed by its skin, which does nothing to suggest of the different realm within.

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The formal composition of the complex is driven by constant movement and passage-ways between the four seperate theaters. With circulation occuring on a raised platform surrounded by seating area on the perimeter, the passage ways also serve as a lounge lobby, giving the visitor the option whether to engage in the ever flowing rhythm of the space, or sit back and enjoy the cave-like walls on fuzzy seating. Just like the distinct quality of the interior circulation space, each theater is of a different category and offers a brand new experience to the viewer.

Main Level Plan, displaying the Lobby Space and the theater entry points.

Giant Thrust Theater More Intimate ProfileTheater

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Lower Level Plan, consisting offices, storage, and rehearsal areas

Audience-Involving Arena Stage

Proscenium Theater

The interior form is based on a placement of the 4 theat-ers which allows the maximum flow of movement.

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Model photo of the meeting point between the circulation platform and seating area

Long Section through the complex

Edge of the platform has the ability to provide additional seating and social interaction spots

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Cross Section through the complex

Edge of the platform has the ability to provide additional seating and social interaction spots Tall, cave-like walls serve to fully engage the visitor, erasing any trace of the urban surroundings 36

The “Edible Garden Marina” is a proposal for the reconstruction of an abandoned lot in Barcelona, into an urban edible garden space with a series of kitchen classrooms where the harvested crops are to be cooked. The kitchen classrooms are to be used by the local students from the nearby youth center, where they will both learn about crop growing and harvesting (and raising plants inside the greenhouse), as well as participate in cooking activi-ties. Since the space is to be made for private use (by the nearby youth center), to avoid breaking up the flow of circulation around the site (which includes a metro station, the busy street of Marina, and other nearby parks), a bridge platform rises above the kitchen classrooms and greenhouse in order to provide a connection through the site without interfering into the private program below

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Site Plan showing the activity happening on the platform

Site Elevation

Site Plan cutting underneath the platform, showing the private program

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Site Plan cutting underneath the platform, showing the private program

Along with providing a public circulation route, the platform is also shaped to work with the program below. Above the greenhouse, it is made of a transparent glass while above the kitchen it holds a food stand, where students can sell part of the crops they cook and harvest.

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The gardens and crop area on the site get their water supply through a solar-powered irrigation system through a series of arches going from the platform to the site. The arches (with solar panels attached to its exterior) are connected to further solar panels on the site, which use the sun’s energy to pump water collected from rain from the platform, onto the garden fields in a drip system

The Drip Irrigation System take water and distributes it to multiple places through ground

Rainwater gets collected in storage tanks which then pump itout throughout the fields, using solar energy

Rainwater storing and transporting arches

Precendents

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IRRIGATION

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Eye level view from the platform, looking above the site 42