Architecture Portfolio

Klara Elezaj

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EDUCATIONAL CENTRE

Studio 02 |Spring 2024

Professor | Pablo Castillo

Habitat | Wentworth Center

47 Station St., Boston

Located in the Wentworth campus area, this project is a collaboration with Habitat for Humanity. The precedent studied was Casa Entremuros by the RCR Arquitectes, and the RCR architecture overall.

RCR implements services on placeholders invisible to the visual eye, and emphasizes particular, extended frames to the public. The simplicity displayed from their object inspired mine to appear alike, but complex within it.

The services are placed into two extruded volumes, in order to become invisible to the eye, and placing the main facilities into c-platforms, creating internal relationships between individuals.

The exterior limits the visuality of the inside facilities, and welcomes individuals into the building, framing a longitudinal view of the entrance to the garden. Some c-platforms are shifted outside of the rectangular frame to create shelter to people entering the building. The upward area of two of these platforms is used to create public spaces within the building, and thus contributing to the diversity of it.

The building is connected to the side ones, by a corresponding door on both of the buildings, and the gallery area is purposely placed on this floor in order to showcase to the people circulating from the buildings.

To avoid distraction from the exterior, the studio is placed in an underground c-platform, carrying an open area, allowing relaxation and sunlight to enter the space.

1 site plan

2 model photo

GATHERING SPACE

Cimitero San Michele

Studio 02 |Spring 2024

Professor | Pablo Castillo

Competition Style | Group Cooperator | Riley Zukas Venice, Italy

This project entails a building for reflection and memorial services, but the main space can double as event space for the nearby community. There will also be individual rooms for reflection, and a narthex/lobby with modest service functions required as well. The final design proposal serves a diversity of religious faiths, or even more broadly, a secular space for contemplation.

Design a small sanctuary where a visitor can observe and contemplate the passage of time and the nature of spiritual experience in a peaceful, stilled space. While limited in function and scale, what ‘contemplation’ means to each of us is limitless.

1 site plan

2 interior perspective | abstract

1 site perpective

2 concept diagram

CUBE SUPERCUBE

Studio 01 |Fall 2023

Professor | Christian Roidt

The characteristics of a spaceholding environment were established using the fundamental structure of a cube, and the numerous properties of wire mash, plaster, and wood.

Basing its performance on the lock and key theory, these cubes uses joints to accomplish their goal as not just a stable, balanced and strong ones but also a visually pleasant.

The principles of balance and contrast, using the theories of light, shadow, height and shape in a structure are introduced in this project.

1 photography board

Architectural Media

Spring 2024

Professor | Alexandru Vilcu

This trophe was constructed using the repetition of circular shapes, and by manipulating their symetry.There is a circular pathway the flaps experience as the top is approached, not only changing their rotation but also decreasing the scale of each flap. Thus, creating a hierachy and distinction in the shape of this model. Each transparent flap is connected to the wodden circular platform by joints. And the whole structure is held by a

support vertical alignment material assemblage

Architectural Media

Spring 2024

Professor | Alexandru Vilcu

This tower plays with the qualities of light. Through its openings it manipulates the pathway of light rays through the tower. Thus, the windows direct one’s sight to the upward center of the tower. The tower is based on the contrast between light and darkness, and the feelings experienced when entering from a wide to a narrow space in relationship to light, and vice versa. Another detail of this tower is the positioning of the widows in the angles of the inner space holder of it, which is a pentagon. This makes it possible for the internal space to appear enlarged and creates flat surfaces for the light to bounce through the tower.

1 inside perspective

isonometric diagram

Architectural Media

Spring 2024

Professor | Alexandru Vilcu

The story places a bird being exluded from the other birds. The storyboards display its journey as an outsider watcher to a relationship he intends to be part of, but which he is not. The bird follows other birds throughout the city, and moving nearer to the tower in avery storyboard. The two other birds enter the tower and are not visible anymore, thus the lonely bird enters the tower widow to, due to the curiousity of where the other birds went and what is inside of the tower. At the end, the bird ends up at the top of the tower, overlooking the whole city, and becoming friends with the other two birds, which were also enjoying the view from the tower.

Architectural Media

Spring 2024

Professor | Alexandru Vilcu

My project is located in the center of the site, which is being elevated from the two ends of it, and creating a minimal height in the center. There are two escavations of the site, positioned in the entrance and the excit of the building. The elevation of the site away from the center point, corresponds to the longituted window, that the building carries into it. This creates a feeling of compression when entering the building, and an eager of understanding the true nature of the site.

The building reveals parts of the site, while one passes throughout the building. Individuals will be able to face the real site once they excit it. The excit, displays a clear horizontal view, in which people have the choice to pass throug the inclining site, arriving to the top of it, where they can explore the whole site and building together.

1 site plan