Qendrium Gjata Architectural Portfolio

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Memorial For L’AquilaFirst project, Year 3

L’Aquila has approximately 30 earthquakes a month, but usually

around 1.5 Richter scale. In 2009 a disastrous earthquake at 6.5

Richter scale struck the heart of the city which devastated most of the

architecture and killed 309 people. Most died in their homes due of a

lack of war ning from the authorities, and those in charge of sending

warnings are now imprisoned for their impotence.

I visited the site in 2012, after a brief time spent walking around the

site and talking to the habitants, I immediately started understanding

that the people were very frustrated with the government for the l ack of

effort to rebuild their homes. 3 years pass, yet people were still displacedinto ‘temporary’ homes and were no closer to moving back into the city.

The brief was to design a mo nument or a memorial that signifies or

records a significant event as part of the cities collective memory so that

the events that had happened could never be forgotten and to further

the resilience of the community and raise moral and spirit.

In this short project I address many issues; mourning for the dead,

preparing the citizens of L’Aquila for the future and making the

community stronger by creating a method for new friendships and

connections to be formed.



Concept Development Anthony Gormley



THE STAGES OF THE SCULPTURE

People will ask each other for help to stand on the touch pads, this will

give reason for people to make new friends by creating the situation

and the moment for them to open in conversation. Once all 5 touch

pads are stood upon, two other people will need to help erect it by

untangling the wires.

The structure here is erect, no sign of Earthquake, morale is high. Here the structure is in rubble after an earthquake, representing the

earthquake.

The idea is to create unease within the people, keeping them alert and

aware of the earthquake prone area they live in. People will not w ant to

see the rubble, so they will go and stand on the touch pads to erect the

statue.



Once all the touch pads have someone standing on them, the statue will

start to erect itself, the people would need to stand on the touch pads

until the statue has fully erected itself, while someone is helping untie or

positioning the cubes so they do n’t get in a twist.



THE PHASES



SEISMOMETER



FINAL IMAGE



THE EAGLES NESTFinal project, Year 3

L’Aquila after the disastorous earthquake was left in ruins, buildings

collapsed, and places where people used to meet and socialise like shops,

cafes and bars closed down. The citizens were pushed away from the

town, some social houses were made 10 miles from the city, and some

were sent to different cities. Friends were seperated and dispursed. The

city itself was left in ruins, some shops opened and the government is

doing very little to help rebuild the city because of the great cost.

My brief was to design a workshop that taught people how to program

and connect arduino boards so that they could help rebuild their homes

and city through modern technology. Arduino is a tool for making

computers that can sense and control more of the physical world

than your desktop computer. It’s an open-source physical computing

platform based on a simple microcontroller board, and a development

environment for writing software for the board. Using the arduino

boards they could build 3D printers so that they could ancient details

within buildings that were damaged.



SITE ANALYSIS- Piazza Del Palazio

The site faces Piazza Del Palazio, a square

that incorporates the town hall, one of the

university buildings and many bars and shops.



Concept

MC ESCHER



THE FEATHERS ON THE EAGLE

18 Degrees Celsius 20 Degrees Celsius 22 Degrees Celsius



CARDBOARD MODEL

This model shows the open plan spaces for the arduino workshop.



SECTION AND DETAILS









Rootsby [Maden Group]Qendrim Gjata,

Ideal Vejsa, Florim Kukaj and Besjan

Kryeziu from Albania

AC-CA Design For Death competition

In this project, the 3Ds Max, Photoshoping,

and all the graphics were done by me.

2327 designers from 89 different countries

participated, and we were short listed in the

top 100.

Caring for the dead is an important part of

any society, and how it is done reflects the

prevailing culture. As societies evolve, the

customs and traditions surrounding funerals

and memorialization also change. This

competition asks architects, designers, and

creative talents worldwide to re-think and

re-imagine death care for the future. It seeks

to challenge and change perceptions about

the ways in which families honor, remember

and celebrate the lives of their loved ones,

unveiling the next-generation designs for

requiems of the future in the place of repose,

sites of bereavement and remembrances.

Organized by Design-boom, in collaboration

with the LIEN FOUNDATION and ACM

FOUNDATION



RUINS

The brief of this competition was to

design a memorial for the women who

had fallen during the Kosovan war

of 1999 and also designing an urban

spaces around it. I came up with a

solution to transform an unused space

under the trees and make walkways

and benches around fallen and broken

statues signifying the fallen, and raped

women during the war.



ESTABLISHED NGO‘THIS CITY OF OURS’ TO PROVIDE URBAN - JANUARY/APRIL 2014

During the time I was living in Kosovo, I saw a

predominant problem with the infrastructure of the city

as a result of the recent war in 1998-99. The country

started rebuilding rapidly but without the proper

regulations and management within the government

and suitable master planning, the spurt of grow th has

now started to over ill nurture its inhabitants. Towns

and municipalities are now overgrown and have very

little recreational spaces and those few and very modest

spaces are deprived of any sort of entertainment.

I established a Non-Governmental Organisation called

‘This City of Ours’ and decided to use my k nowledge

to design a cheap urban space and try and present my

ideas to the government for funding and landowners

for charitable donations. This organisation aimed to

design; smart, social, urban spaces to solve the very

dominant problem with the lack of public spaces in

Kosovo.

This particular project focused on Fushe Kosova, a

municipality 4 miles from the capital. This municipality

has a very rapidly rising population, over 10,000 new

apartments were built in the last 6 years and has no

recreational or public spaces within walking distance.

Children played in the streets and walkways by the

roads were blocked by parked cars.

The inhabitants urgently needed a park where children

could play, people could meet and go to unwind.





MAPPING THE AREA DENSITY

Police station

The thickness of the pen show s the density of traffi c

and pedestrian flow around the site.

These images show the current state of Fushe Kosova,

the current condition of the public spaces and the lack

of security in the streets.

Site location



IDENTITY

The desire to maintain a positive conception of

oneself has been regarded as a central motive by

many writing about the self (e.g. James, 1890 Gecas,

1982), specifically within social identity theory

(Tajfel, 1978; Hogg and Abrams, 1988;Abrams,

1992). With regard to the environment,Korpela

shows how favourite environments can support

self-esteem. Children described the sense of

positive self-esteem they gained from being in

their own rooms during times of distress. Through

living in an historic town a person can feel a sense

of pride by association (Lalli, 1992; Uzzell,1995).

On the images below, you can see two similar

houses; one with a well kept front garden and one

that inst. By looking at the way the people living

there have presented their homes, you have in

your mind unconsciously already imagined what

kind of peo ple to expect from each house as they

have displayed their identity by decorating their

front garden.

This is also true in the larger extent such as the

town square, or the public streets within a town. It

is critical for a town to have an identity to represent

the town and the people.

The train station before the war used to be the mo st

popular and most active place in Fushekosova.

There were very popular coffeehouses and was

the main station that connected the Balkans to

Kosovo. It was always busy and swarming with

youth. FusheKosova was known for its train station

which gave the people of the town an identity.

Now the whole area close to the train station has

dropped in value and very rarely people go down

there to gather.

SECURITY

The center of Fush-kosova is seen as the main

roundabout which connects most of the cities

in Kosovo with Pristina but also other countries

like Albania with the new motorway. The roads

are layed out with 1 meter wide pedestrian

pavements which are usually entirely blocked

by parked cars pushing the pedestrians onto the

road, endangering the life of the pedestrians.

Homes and urban spaces with a good urban

design are generally more secure. Take for

example a Cul De Sac where all the homes

around it can see one another, where in case of

a break in, they can help each other by calling

the police. Where as in Fushekosova, and

generally all of Kosovo, you cannot see past the

house next to you.

FusheKosova needs its own Piazza or square

where people gather outside to sit, play, read,

exercise, relax and unwind away from the busy

streets. A place where the people of Fushekosova

can call their own, a place to satisfy all ages and

all need with the luxury of security for children

and lighting for when its dark.

THE URBAN PROBLEM



APPLICATION TO FUSHKOSOVA

MANHATTAN Jannette Sadik Khan- New York Urban Planner

UNUSED

SPACE

MONUMENTAL

SPACES

DECORATIVE

GREEN SPACE

WITH TREES

AND BUSHES

By closing the road here and applying paint and tables has had a great economical effect

to the shops in the area. Rent increased three fol d, accidents reduced by 30%, the more

people on foot, the more people enter the shops.



CENTRAL STAGE AND SEATING

The central stage made a few years back has never been used again

after its opening ceremony when they hired rappers to sing on it. For 2

years now it has been a baron concrete eye sore for the people of Fushe

Kosova and a waste of money. I aim to not let the effort go to waste be

using the stage wall for a cinema and the floor for group games. There

will also be wooden pallet seats installed on the concrete steps and 6

picnic benches with free power set up on either side of the stage on the

grass.

Provisions at stage

Wooden seats

Cinema (playing twice a week)

Music box (insert 10 cents for 15 minutes of

music)

Bean bag darts

Twister

Other organistional group games

Provisions at the picnic tables;

6x Tables

2x power sockets at every bench

WIFI available



Key;

Current traffic flow that will not change:

Current traffic flow that will change:

New traffic flow deviation:

Dangerous impact prone area:

Area to be cleared:

Anti-skid application:

SECURING THE SITE



CENTRAL STAGE AND SEATING

The central stage made a few years back has

never been used again after its opening cere-

mony when they hired rappers to sing on it.

For 2 years now it has been a baron concrete

eye sore for the people of Fushe Kosova and

a waste of money. I aim to not let the effort

go to waste be using the stage wall for a cin-

ema and the floor for group games. There

will also be wooden pallet seats installed on

the concrete steps and 6 picnic benches with

free power set up on either side of the stage

on the grass.

Provisions:

Swings x 4

Zip wire

Roundabout

Sea-Saw

Rocking Horses x 2

Monkey bars

Sit Up exercise bench

Tunnel

Slide

Sandpit

Optional:

Castle

Outdoor exercise equipment:

Treadmill

Cross trainer

Flypress

Exercise Bike



DIRT BIKE TRACK

It is important to have vigorous and tougher games to challenge even the adults. A dirt bike track can be very tough and can really

challenge your athletic abilities, and as humans, we need competition in our l ife to move forward and evolve. Th is bike track can be

set as a goal for every child, in hopes of one day completing it. There would be a shorter and easier track for the younger child also

seperate from the hard track.

The track can make space for anyone wishing to make a business of renting mountain bikes for the sport.



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This section of the portfolio includes drawings and 3D images that I have produced for my

current employer at DK Architects. The architecture practice was established in 2008 by

RIBA Chartered Architect Nadir Khan. For the first three months of working at the practice

I was the only employee then a senior technician was hired. The practice is very successful

landing some large projects such as a restaurant at the Hoover Building in London.

Working for a small company and also being the only employee for the first three months has

allowed me to develop my know ledge of how an architectural practice really functions. It has

allowed me to learn first-hand the handling process of projects because all work was going

through me at some point, so I was able to analyse the amount of wo rk needed and the quality

of work required.

Since October, my technical skills have improved drastically, I am now very confident in

producing drawings to a professional standard and am able to gather, produce and prepare

works to that comply British design standards and regulations.

The following drawings and renders have all been drawn by me with the guidence and close

supervision of the head architect.

DK ArchitectsOctober 2014 - May 2015





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I started freelance rendering in 2015 and created this website

to display my work. These images show some renders and

models I have produced using Revit, Sketchup, Lumion and

3D max.







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