Galina Lalova is a freelance 3D artist, architect, and photographer based in Sweden. She has over 15 years of experience in fields related to 3D modeling, visualization, architecture, and urban design. Her educational background includes a BSc in Architecture, Visualization and Communication as well as various certification courses in 3D modeling software. Galina is skilled in programs such as 3DS Max, SketchUp, Blender, and Photoshop. She has worked on projects for visualization of public spaces and on her own architectural designs. Some of Galina's areas of focus and interest include sustainable urban design, transforming existing city environments, and reflecting changes in technology and society through design.

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Galina Lalova work & tools
eDUCATION certificates
3D artist
Architecture critic
Photographer
fr Apr 20144Freelance
3D modelling and visualization
Nov 2014-Jan 20154CGI Illustrator
Visions for public spaces
City Planning Office, City of Malmö
fr Apr 20164Writer for Reflect
House Publishing
20154University of Malmö
BSc Architecture, Visualization and
Communication, 187,5 hp/credits
20144Kanisco Sofia,
3DS Max Design 2015, certified
course
20164 Gävle University, 3D Modeling
and Animation in Open Source 7,5hp/
credits
20114Linnaeus University
Dwelling Design 7,5hp/credits
20104University of Ruse
BSc Marketing, 248 hp/credits
19994Professional Highschool for
Architecture, Building Constraction
and Geodesy, V.Tarnovo
Visualization: Photoshop, Illustrator
SketchUp, Blender, 3DS max, V-ray
Sketching: by hand and Wacom tablet
Drafts: AutoCad and ink
Layout: InDesign
Photography: Canon 7D
Articles: www.reflecthouse.
com/author/galina
Visualization: https://www.
behance.net/galina_lalova
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Statement of
Purpose
Why there are cities in the
world you love from the first
time you are visiting and why
in some cases living in the
same city for years doesn’t
make you feel home at all? As
if one inhabit the wrong house
can be damaging in a physical
och psychological way the
same applies for the cities
because they are our reality,
our everyday life.
These questions had been
addressed in recent years
and they are becoming more
and more important as the
technology, politics, and the
social construction around
us is evolving. I believe that
through design the professio-
nals can reflect those chang-
es into our everyday environ-
ment and I want to be a part
of this quest.
Throughout my professional
training I’ve been able to
achieve knowledge and abili-
ties in the field of architectu-
re, spatial planning, urban
built environment, visual cul-
ture and communication. The
Master program in Sustaina-
ble Urban Design would give
me the knowledge to work
with excisting resources and
transform city environments
in the most efficient way.
Contents
Vol.01:
01 Villa Phoenix
02 Visualizations
Vol.02
03 Clemens Square
04 The Rowing Club

3. VILLA PHOENIX
Frame
This house is a private project
on a lot at Bejersparksgatan in
Malmö, Sweden. The program
followed is to design a house for
a single parent of two. The neig-
hbourhood’s typology resembles
suburban village with houses of
a same, box-shaped and two-slo-
ped-roof small houses with cour-
tyards. The lot is plane and with
no significant vegetation. A row
with parking spots on North is
present but with no importance
at all as there is a lot of space
elsewhere. The more so as they
are on a private land the spots
will be removed.
Design concept
At the core of this project is the
idea of creating a nest, a com-
fortable shell, shaped by the two
children. As an inspiring example
from the nature is found the wal-
nut shell, shaped from the inside
by the nut.
The planning of the spaces is
subordinate to the following
conditions: evolving, flexibility
and freedom of movement. With
those in focus the spaces are
organized so that the transition
between the spaces is gradual
and include “in-between” spaces.
The house is meant to change
in reflection to the changes
of the owners life situation: as
the children grow their needs
change and therefore their spa-
ces will open wider with time.
BabydragonbyFeyth.Source:http://
polymerclayplanet.blogspot.se/2013/10/
baby-dragon-by-feyth.html

4. VILLA PHOENIX
Transition between activities:
Shared: gardening-cooking-social
gathering
Kids: sleeping-playng-studying-so-
cial gathering(roof)
Parent: sleeping-reading-wat-
ching TV-social gathering
legend
1. Entrance
2. Kitchen with dining
room
3. patio
4. Living room
5. Master beroom
6. kidsroom
7. bathroom with washing
room
8. gardening
9. rooftop terrace
10. study
11. storage for rooftop
furniture
in-between spaces
Sliding glass
panels
Sliding wood
panels
ground floor plan
emporé with rooftop
plan
roof plan

5. VILLA PHOENIX
Environmental shiftings
Transition between pravite and shared pre-
misses is happening gradually. The shared
premissesare are closer to the ground level.
As the children grow older they will need to
separate their private live from the parent.
The rooftop together with the kids’ room can
then play a role of a house in the house. If the
owners wish, the rooftop terrace can be co-
vered with translucent cover and in that way
the space can be used year round as well as
the private space grows wider. The terrace is
intended to be used as a transitioning room
between indoor and outdoor taking advanta-
ge of the privacy provide by the hight.
The transition between indoor and outdoor
spaces also occurs gradually with the help of
flexible edges and multifunctional furniture
and surfaces. example for that are window
edges used for sitting and the fireplace.
The fireplace can be fired both from
the inside and from the outside and it
serves several functions: to warm the
house, to be used as a grill (from the
outside) and for sitting and chatting (in
the livig room. The kitchen is at lowest
level because in that way it has a
natural connection to the small herbal
garden and the patio.
The connection between indoor and
outdoor is positivly drawn
with the help of visual
axes. One of the most
important is the one along
the B section as it provi-
ides with view to Bejers-
park. On the other side
the view provides visual
access to the backyard
with the basketball ter-
rain. To enhance the role
of this axis I designed a
sitting places by the big
round window in the kids’
room at the windows in
the living room
Perspective view along the B axis with Bejers-
park at the background.
Visual axes (see also Section B)
Section a
Section b

6. VILLA PHOENIX
Materiality
The main materials used in this
project are wood - to create cozi-
ness and comfort, concrete - as
a fluid material it can form orga-
nic shapes and translucent ma-
terials like polycarbonate panels
to shelter outdoor comfortable
microclimates and to create a
nice ambient and diffused light.
Parametric concrete: allows
creation of organic forms
”Perforated” concrete: allows
merging with organic species.
The Seed, a project by
MATSYS. Image sour-
ce: http://matsysdesign.
com/2011/09/17/p_wall-se-
venstar/
San Telmo Museum Ex-
pansion, Nieto Sobejano
Arquitectos. Image source:
https://arch5541.word-
press.com/2012/09/15/
material-focus-san-telmo-mu-
seum-expansion-nieto-sobeja-
no-arquitectos/
Combination of concrete and
wood as contrasting materials
Vario wood by Sebastian Herbst.
Image source: http://selekkt.
com/otono-design-vario-wood.
html
Wood meets concrete. Image
source: http://nelsoncuper.
typepad.com/blog/2011/05/
glebe-house-tour-1.html
Translucent roofs for ambient
light coming from above and a
weather protection. Flexibility
achieved with the help of sliding
panels
A project by Andrés Cardoso,
Mariana Zúñiga. Image sour-
ce: http://www.fadu.edu.uy/
casa/historia/casa-2008/
South-East Elevation
Coloured parametric concrete
Polycarbonate
translucent roof
Sliding glass panels
Perforated
concrete wall
to allow vegetationto grow
through
Glass roof
Coloured smooth concrete
See-through dark grey painted
wood
North-East Elevation
South-West Elevation
North-West Elevation

7. VILLA PHOENIX
Thespaceoutside
Themainentranceischosentobe
onNorthatÅkerögatanbecause
itisonelevelmoreprivatethanthe
other threeopensidesof thelot.The
decisionautomaticallycreatesthe
opportunitytomeettheneighbours
moreoftenandtoencouragesocial
interaction.TheEastsideof thelotis
Livefencefromtrainedapple
trees.Image source:: htt-
ps://www.pinterest.se/
pin/464996730246416983/
liftedabitandtreeswillbeplantedto
createavisualbarrier andtoorien-
tatethechildren´splaytowardsthe
house.Atwestthereisacar gate
for bigger socialeventswherethe
guestcanparktheir cars.Otherwise
thespacecanbeusedfor sport
training,for examplebasketball.
Thefencearoundthe house is
supposedtoletsun lightand at
thesametimetoprotectfromthe
intencecar traffic.On North.Eastit
willletthesunlightoutto sustain a
smallfloweringgardensbetweenthe
sidewalkandthefence.
Northperspectiveview
Section b Section a
site plan
Micro spatial relationships

8. VILLA PHOENIX
Site morphology
The existing urban tissue fall in
with the aim of my planning to
take advantage of the sun posi-
tion and the of use the courtyard
in most efficient way. Therefore,
the position the house aligns
with the others closer to Åkerö-
gatan on North. From there I in-
tend to create conditions for site
limits which preserve the privacy
of the family but in a way that it
doesn’t enclose it in a defensi-
ve way. A gentle edge between
the neighbourhood and the site
would enable sound personal
connections.
Important connections in a lar-
ger scale are the links between
the house and the library, the
park and the bus stops along
Musketörgatan and Bejersparks-
gatan.
BUS
BUS
section c
DahlhemKundergarden
Kirseberg’sLibrary
Bejerspark
Rostop
Playground
Musketörgatan
Åkerögatan
NorraBultoftavägen
Bejersparksgatan
site plan
Macro spatial relationships
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9. VISUALIZATONS
COMPOSITES
ITriangeln. A project for the City
Planning Office in Malmö, Sweden.
The task was to present a vision
for a new project for renewing the
area around one of the most im-
portant stations in Malmö, namely
Triangeln. As existing the empty
area used now for a bike parking
will be replaced by a mix-use building following
the program of the city development.
The image is used when communicate with
the potential designers of the new building.
The request for this task was to accent on
the mood and diversity of the place without
focusing on the facade of the building to avoid
interference with the entry ideas. Following
that I worked with possible activities like
climbing on terraces, shoping, drinking cof-
fee, going to dance studio etc. An important
contribution to the concept from my side
was to identify the potential of the passage
between the new building and the school (at
left).
Tools used: DiSLR camera, SketchUp, V-ray,
Photoshop. The site, as existing.
triangeln-location
Skala 1:2543 © Stadsbyggnadskontoret, Malmö stad

10. VISUALIZATONS
COMPOSITES
Lindängen. A project for the City
Planning Office in Malmö, Sweden.
For this project I made an illustra-
tion of a vision for a mixed-use
environment in connection with a
kindergarden. The new buildings
which will appear are the building
on the left, nowadays a parking lot, and an
extension of the kindergarden which will be
used for a shcool with older children. The
request was, in alignment with the program
of the city, to imagine a kindergarden without
fence..
Mypersonalcontributiontotheconceptwasto
identifytheneedtochangethebicyclepathwith
thesidewalktoencreasethemovementspeed
graduallyandtoprotectthechildrenfromthe
bicycles.Further moreIwasgrantedacomple-
tefreedomtovisualizethelandscape.Idecided
toworkwithsittingplaces,groundcovers,small
pondstoseparatethedifferentroomsandthe
renewingofthekindergarden’scourtyard. The site, as existing.
lindängen
Skala 1:2545 © Stadsbyggnadskontoret, Malmö stad

11. 3D ART
VISUALIZATONS
The following are personal projects,
through which I study architecture in a
more detailed level. Here I explore form ty-
pes, material characteristics and lighting.
The tools used: 3Ds Max with V-ray
Winter in the city
Micro spatial design and lighting
Santorini dream
Exploring form types
of the Greek island
architecture

12. Between the blocks
Exploring the form types as well as use
types in the city of Patras, Greece. Typical
form types are neoclassical buildings and
concrete dwellings with balconies. Use
types are usually of insula type with some
3D ART
VISUALIZATONS
sort of commercial activities
taking place on the street
level.