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Orpa Rodnizki, interior design

Personal Details
Date of birth: 31/10/1979
Place of birth: Israel
Family status: unmarried
Email: orparodnizki@gmail.com

Education
2004-2008 The College of Management, Academic Studies, Rishon LeZiyyon, Israel - B.Des Interior Design
1995-1998 Ort Shefaim High School

Employment
2006-2008 Max Brenner – management position in the main store of a national chocolate chain called Max Brenner. In this duty I dealt with ordering and receiving merchandise, sales, implementing sales methods and reaching sales targets. 
2004-2006 Mercazim – working in a children’s home in Kibbutz Yakum, the children were in the age of elementary school. The job required high responsibility and management of the place, organizing activities and working with the kids.
2003-2004 Toy Store in the USA – worked as a sales woman, doing shifts, management and being responsible for the stock.
2002-2003 LDH Company – events producing company. During this job I designed and edited events, which required work with a variety of materials, and organizing and designing them at the scene.

Languages
Hebrew mother tongue
English high

Continuing Education Program and Courses
2003 Portfolio from Senkar College
2002 Professional English Course at the British Consulate in Tel Aviv

Skills
- Professional Software: Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, AutoCAD, 3D Studio Max, Revit, Office.
- Design abilities, planning and editing in high quality.
- Frontal working skills, verbal abilities. representative appearance, willingness to learn.
- Plans for the near future: earning a second degree in design.

Today I woke up, drank coffee, smoked a cigarette and fell in love

design website: Erwin Sala (AARGH! designers, Netherlands

Vampire video clip (Heidi Arad)
The movie is an experiment in 3d design in film industry. It is inspired by the script of a well known vampire movie: Interview with a vampire. By the use of different camera angles, one virtual 2D set is used to create the illusion of a 3D space. The 2D set is designed by taking a single element from a Gothic cathedral in Wales.

Trance party project (for HaPolim Bank) (Carmela Yakovi Volak)
Design of a surface by using forces. In the project the forces are used on a mathematical surface.
A surface was created for a trance party that takes place in an open environment. The surface is to be used for a variety functions such as dancing grounds, storage places, meeting points, corridors, bridges, sun protection, cash withdrawal, etc.
The surface was inspired by the movement in movie clips. First by taking frames from the movie Brazil and translating the movement within the movie to a plain mathematical surface, thereby creating a distorted mathematical surface. This distorted mathematical surface was later again changed, by applying the forces from a movie of a girl dancing over it, creating a 'superdistorted mathematical surface'. This so called superdistorted mathematical surface became the places for dancing grounds, storage places, etc. at the trance party.
The 'superdistorted mathematical surface' is present in every part of the construction. In parts that need to be stronger, the scale of the mathematical surface is reduced to create a stronger construction. Therefore it is ever present from large scale to small scale. It is constructed by using beams and putting over it a translucent skin. The beams were used to display advertisement and visitor's information.

The white elephant (Tal DeLange)

Eget platforms, floor 6
The new central station of Tel Aviv
Neve Sha'ana neighbourhoud
Lewinski Road 108
Tel Aviv

Concrete program

Central idea was breaking the dichotomy within the present system. The present dichotomy divided the area into two separate areas, by that dividing also the functions of the area. By breaking the defined boundaries a new multi-space was created, which can contain a range of viewpoints, mix of function, feelings of disorientation without really losing control in space.

The functions that are to be created are as follows: a kiosk, a bar/cafe, a waiting point for the bus, a space for relaxation for bus drivers. They are to be created with following design terms in mind: copying, flipping, distortion, breaking and assembling.

Research process

The methods used for research are video, still frames and pictures. The research material was edited to resemble the feelings of estrangement and isolation that are experienced when walking around on the scene of the Neve Sha'an neighborhood and the new Tel Aviv Central Station. This research resulted in the following core terms: kaleidoscope, copying, turning, distortion, disorientation, movement, space and time.

The building and the bus area

The building (the new central station of Tel Aviv)
The building creates feelings of estrangement and isolation in its visitors

The bus area (Eged platforms, floor 6)
The area contains a system that divides one area into two, which are radical towards one and another.

Inspiration and test-case
The movie Coffee and cigarettes, that is filmed mainly from top view, which gives the spectator a different angle to look at a story, but still leaves the ability to comprehend it.

Planning
The planning method for this project was inspired by the way the architect Gordon Matta-Clark works. The core terms used in the beginning of the process are: fixing and braking. The following part of the process was to make a visual translation to other media like sketching, computer software and modeling. These media were used parallel to one another applying the core terms copying, distorting and turning to them.

Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-1978) artist of deconstruction
He was an architect dealing with: sculpture, alchemy, architecture, photography, cinema, writing, cooking and real estate. In the late 1960s Matta-Clark tried to make statements with his ideas about urban and domestic planning by deconstructing and breaking apart buildings. This resulted in Matta-Clark sawing through walls and floors of buildings that had lost their purpose and were about to be destroyed. He used them as a source for his daily research, which relates to temporary urbanisation, suburbs, recycling property, left-over spaces, alternative architecture, and the order of society. His physical acts in existing structures make a statement about cooperative modernism, which to his statement is mechanistic, vulgar, distorted and complex. His interruption makes a clear statement against environmental and societal damage which is invoked upon the earth by modern architecture. His findings resulted in the conclusion that buildings designed at the time won't make a difference in social change.

Splitting
The most recognized work of Matta-Clark was also the first act of his so-called 'Anarchitecture' that he started in 1973. 'Anarchitecture' was a group of artist and architects that didn't have a manifest on purpose. They were creating critical alternatives for urban environments and buildings. In 1974 Matta-Clark asked the owner of the gallery that represented him to cut his house – that was about to be destroyed – into two. It was a two floor house designed in a typical post-WW2 suburban way. The method of planning where to cut the house, combined two different media: the projection of a video clip of the house and over it a sketch that shows the places to cut.

Matta-Clark cleared the building, installed supports for keeping the building together during the process, marked the cutting lines and sawed a perpendicular cut in the centre of the house. After the sawing he removed the supports and the two pieces of the building moved away from one another. In an interview he said that this work lacked illusion, association or symbolism. It was from his words 'a physical, very calculated act. Like construction, but the opposite'.

No 1
Movie clip filmed in an Indian bar in the Neve Sha'anan neighborhood called "Sub Cutch Milega", with projected text dealing with feelings of isolation and foreigners.

No 2
The movie clip was edited with Adobe Premiere with the feelings of isolation and estrangement. This process resulted in new core terms: mirror and kaleidoscope. Where mirror equals copying and kaleidoscope equals copying and turning.

No 3
Still shots that were taken at floor 6 of the new Central Station of Tel Aviv. They were inspired by the movie 'Smoke', (1995) directed by Wuyne Wan. The shots were taken within a time-span of 4 hours wherein every 15 minutes a new shot was taken from the same spot.
Conclusion taken from the experiment is that the natural light that changes the scene during the day. The movement of people in this part is linear, and in order.

No 4
Video clip of 1,5 minute taken from a fixed camera standpoint. The light in this spot is artificial and the movement of the people is chaotic.

No 5
This part is a conceptual interpretation of the previous works (No 3 and No 4). A model is breaking apart in two radically different ways: one part falls apart linear and in order, the other part falls apart in a chaotic way. New core terms resulting from this are breaking and fixing.

No 6
This is a sketch, using the core term 'falling apart'. The 3d model is broken into different media.

No 7
A conceptual space, created by combining the works of No 1 till No 6 together, using the core term 'fixing'.

No 8
A video clip that contains all material from the previous research process and had the terms 'fixing' and 'breaking' applied to them. New scenes were made.

No 9
Sketch, inspired by the way of working of Gordon Matta-Clark. The new scenes were visually broken.

No 10
Drawing. Projecting the sketch in Photoshop, visually breaking it to create a form language.

No 11
Super-positioning of works No 3 and No 10. The testing of a new space within the existing space.

No 12
Breaking apart of work No 11 in Photoshop. Excluding parts of the picture. Thereby looking for potential spaces (for instance: a bar, a coffee shop, a kiosk).

No 13
Perspective. A new made perspective created by super-positioning the images from No 12 and fixing them together.

No 14
Model. Copying from one medium to another. Testing construction and skin.

No 15
Free hand sketches. Copying from one medium to another. A perspective view from and inside the coffee shop. As well as a top view, etc.

No 16
A model in 3d Studio Max. Copying from one medium to another. The evolution of a shape to a space. Using parametric core terms: copying, distorting, turning, Edit Poly, FFD 4x4x4, mirroring.

Final impressions

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Linear point of view of the entire space

3,jpg
90 degrees point of view of the bus stops

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Point of view to the coffee shop

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Linear point of view to the coffee shop

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Bus stops

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Concept- "It is like the Kawasan Rd just without Israelis"

It is like the Kawasan Rd just without Israelis.
It is like landing in Colorado after 200 hours of flight, get out to smoke a cigarette and then a stranger comes to you asking for a spare cigarette and you understand that you are traveling by your self in the world. Hell.
How did I get here?
What are you doing here?
It is like walking fast each time from the beginning without any ability to stop looking around and understanding where you are because it is not smart to stop.
Neve shanan 2007.
The place is full of people but not from here.
Foreign language, foreign clutter, foreign habits, foreign people.
It is like I went abroad but did not go through customs.
The area is sad and loaded and doesn't belong to me.
Labour workers, ghetto, past, present, future. Life = essentiality. The white elephant, culture, foreigners, Dim sum.
I have been there but elsewhere, it felt the same but still different.
In the corner of the street a sign was sparkling
The name sounds familiar from somewhere
I was looking for the place but only when I crossed the street for the second time I noticed a regular but unnoticeable door.
I got in.
The atmosphere was calm, the people were smiling and there were swings next to the bar like on a Mexican beach.
It was great fun, like being abroad
but still without the customs.

Boom Chair (Kaplan)
Project of designing a chair from one piece to mass-production.

Quito, Parque Del Lago - Hyper Seasonal Park
Proposal for the void left by the old international airport of Quito, Ecuador. Mariscal Sucre International Airport, has in its 48 years of its operation served as a ‘fantastic’ entrance to the city of Quito. The legacy of the landing strip, marking the city's longitudinal midline, affords a unique opportunity to leverage the existing runway and the vast linear clearing as a new public amenity.
We propose to use one of Quito's most distinguishing features - its equatorial potential - as the park's primary driver. Located 20 kilometers from the equator, Quito is characterized by a perpetual nature - a monthly median of 159 hours of sunlight, an almost constant annual temperature, half a year of rain, followed by half a year of dry weather and a perennial plant life-cycle. Capitalizing on the site’s persistent backdrop, a park infrastructure of hyper-seasonality will serve as the site’s ever-changing and transformative identity. Phased seeding of the site - opens up a world of possibilities and curated experiences. Summer juxtaposed with winter (Swinter), spring crossed with fall (Spall) or even three seasons in one. New meldings of seasons make use of the sites inherent assets to serve as Parque Del Lago’s enduring force of nature, capable of generating a new macro centrality for the city and reconnecting the north.

Project with FAR architects (Marc Frohn and Mario Rojas) and Megama (Rebecca Sternberg)

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