This document contains images and descriptions of artwork, architectural models, and design projects created by Varvara Boruch/Koroleva. It includes self portraits, religious icon paintings, ink drawings, watercolors, 3D digital models of architectural structures, and presentation boards for two architectural design projects - a toll booth with a lenticular design and a building to house bees in a parking lot. Details are provided on materials, scales, software programs used, site plans, diagrams, and other aspects of the design work.
5. 3D Models
The Aluminaire House Case Study
complete digital model made to scale
Rhinoceros 5.0
Strawberry Morphology
organic structure and representation
Rhinoceros 5.0
6. Architecture & Design Presentation Boards
LENTICULARTOLLBOOTH
Your names here.
map description here.
graphic description here
DIAGRAMS
The pillars of the toll booth represent the density of automobiles
at any given point in the process of decreasing/increasing
velocity. As cars slow down, their density becomes greater,
reflecting the greater of density of pillars in the center. As velocity
increases after passing through the center, the density of pillars
decreases again.
The density of pillars is a function of vehicle velocity
as it passes through the toll.
PRECEDENTS
Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield MA shows a similar
lenticular concept of turning a fragmented panel display intoa
whole
CONCEPT
The tollbooth is a representation of the vehicle’s passing through the toll as a function of decreasing and
increasing velocity. To greater emphasize this aspect, the pillars were arranged in a lenticular fashion to
accomplish a greater illusion of compression and expansion.
Varvara Koroleva
7. PLAN 1/8TH SCALE
ELEVATION 1/8TH SCALE
SECTION 1/8TH SCALE
Rendering of the tollbooth from a car’s perspective showing the
lenticular quality of the structure with compression on the right
and expansion on the left.
ELEVATION 1/8TH SCALE
Axonametric showing the in ground construction bolting the
structure to the ground.
8. THE BRIDGEA BORDER CROSSING STATION
BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES
AND CANADA
MOVEMENT DIAGRAM AND SITE
PLAN AT 1/32 SCALE
9. SECTION 1/16TH SCALE
ELEVATION 1/16TH SCALE
ELEVATION 1/16TH SCALE
FUNCTIONING AS BOTH A SYMBOLIC
BRIDGE AND LITERAL BRIDGE, THIS
STRUCTURE CONNECTS THE TWO
COUNTRIES WITH A CUSTOMS HALL
AND A CULTURAL EXPOSITION
CENTER ON THE TOP FLOOR WHICH
CONSISTS OF AN OPEN FLOOR PLAN
TO HOST A VARIETY OF EVENTS.
WARREN-TYPE THROUGH-TRUSS OF THE FORMER
SEABOARD AIR LINE RAILWAY, LOCATED NEAR THE
VILLAGE OF WILLOW, FLORIDA; ABANDONED
SINCE THE MID-1980S
VARVARA KOROLEVA
10. THEPARKEDBEE
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Varvara Koroleva
SITE PLAN WITH ROOF PLAN 1’=1/8”SCALE
SITE ANALYSIS
THE PARKED BEE is a structure that is meant to be located in the waste space of
parking lots. Its purpose is to give honey bees a place to live in a more urban
environment. The design of the building is based a lot on a cellular and rhythmic
pattern, something that parking lots and bee hives have in common. The pattern
that parking lots create is the main reason why I chose it as the site for this particular
animal habitat. This parking lot in particular was picked because of its proximity to
the UMass campus as well as to the main street. The building is meant to be in high
visibility locations that are easily accessible to pedestrians and therefore the BigY
parking lot is a prime location for this structure.
STRUCTURE ANALYSIS
The building is composed of four floors. On the first floor is the café and shop area
along with the public restrooms where visitors can enjoy products such as honey,
wax, mead and tea, all made from the efforts of local bees. On the second floor you
can find a small exhibition space, the caretaker’s office and observation/education
stations where visitors can observe the bees in their natural habitat and watch the
caretaker do their work. The third floor is the caretaker’s main living space as well as
a way for the public to access the rooftop gardens where volunteers tend to bee
friendly flowers. The fourth and final floor houses the caretaker’s bedroom which is a
loft connecting directly to the floor below.
11. A rendering of an older design with the screen on the outside face of the building
FIRST FLOOR 1’=1/4”SCALE SECOND FLOOR 1’=1/4”SCALE
How first floor look initially A section showing a previous design
PROCESS
The process was mainly done through altering a 3-D model in Rhino. As soon as the
basic modular envelope was developed, there were many alterations to the inside
floor plans. Also screen positioning changed a lot in various iterations.
A long part of the process was figuring out how the outside of the building would be
reflected on the interior structure. I struggled a lot with relating the massing model
to its interior. Here you can see the very light and airy structural model and the solid
and bulky massing model, neither one really reflected what would be on the inside
and that was by far the greatest challenge-figuring out the floor plans without
altering the outer look of the building, since the outside design is so integral in its
purpose and design.
Initial massing model Structural model
CAFE/SHOP
EDUCATIONAL AREA
OFFICE
12. THIRD FLOOR 1’=1/4”SCALE FOURTH FLOOR 1’=1/4”SCALE
BIG’s Mountain Dwellings
PRECEDENT STUDY
I was greatly inspired to move towards modularity and cube-like patterning by
multiple precedent studies, including BIG’s Mountain Dwellings and Kisho
Kurokawa’s Nakagin Capsule Tower. Both of these studies had a strong cellular
pattern and involved a repetition that I wanted to emulate in my design. I thought
that these elements along with a parking lot site would be the best way to pay
homage to the unique design of the bees honeycomb.
DIAGRAM
This diagram shows the relationship of
‘threes’ in the design. There are three
bee types: Queen, Drone and Worker.
These correlate with the three types of
people involved in the program: The
Caretaker, Volunteers and Visitors. And
there are three types of spaces within
the building: the caretakers living
quarters, the educational and
demonstrational areas with the
gardens, and the café or shop area.
Kurokawa’s Nakagin Capsule Tower
PROGRAM WALKTHROUGH
Located on the first floor are public restrooms, a café/shop and a seating area where
visitors can gather. Here, patrons can purchase a variety of items including honey,
wax, honey tea and mead, all made from produce coming from local bees. This first
floor is the initial level of involvement that progresses as you go higher in the
building. The first three floors are accessible by stair and elevator while the bedroom
on the fourth floor can only be reached by stair.
On the second floor demonstrations take place, people can watch bees living their
lives in four large observation hives. Each of these is accessible to the caretaker
through small screened balconies which protect the bees and the caretaker. Small
exhibition cases along the stairwell showcase various bee related objects like comb.
On the third floor is the exit to the large 750sf green roof. Here, volunteers can tend
to the community bee gardens which contain an assortment of flowers favorable to
bees. From this floor is also the entrance to the caretaker’s living area.
The fourth floor is a loft bedroom with a closet and balcony.
LIVING SPACEBEE GARDENS
BEDROOM