Practitioners Interview Series | Lidia Egorova

Lidia Egorova is an Associate at Space&Matter. She received her postmasters degree in architecture at The Berlage (TU Delft). Before joining Space&Matter, Lidia ran her own practice. She focused on transforming office buildings into hospitality spaces and planning innovation campuses. Lidia joined Space&Matter in 2019 as a Project Leader, leading various circular projects. Notable projects include designing the Strandeiland neighborhood in Amsterdam, LeeuwenDeel in Delft, and Common Woods in Amersfoort. Lidia believes in creating buildings and neighborhoods that promote social interaction, incorporate nature, and have a positive environmental impact. Space&Matter collaborated for the Common Woods project with Holistic Development, DELVA Landscape, Metabolic, Viridis, Karbouw, Treetek, B-group, and BoomBuilds.

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Julia Gospodinova
Julia Gospodinova
Architect

Ir. Julia Gospodinova holds an M.Sc. in Architecture, Urbanism, and Building Sciences from TU Delft. Specializing in Building Technology, she graduated cum laude in 2023. Being passionate about circularity and humanitarian architecture, she combined those topics in her thesis, titled: “Circular Transitional Housing for Displaced People in Extreme Conditions: The Case of Pakistan.” The project won the Circularity in the Built Environment Graduation Award in the category of Buildings & Neighborhoods. Currently, she is the secretary at Project Safe Refuge, a foundation dedicated to providing architectural aid to displaced communities.

Circularity for Educators

The platform is intended to provide with content on either circularity or pedagogy for and about circularity. It is one of the outcomes of the Circular Impulse Initiative (CII), a project intending to enhance the integration of circularity in the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment education. The platform mainly aims to help tutors get better acquainted with circularity in the built environment by providing a series of resources on this subject that they can either view to get better informed or directly share with their students in class or online. A large number of the Faculty's professors and researchers have contributed substantially both in creating a coherent narrative for circularity in the built environment as well as further elaborating on different aspects of it. Besides this one, a new platform for interaction and direct exchange was also established in parallel that we call ‘Educators for Circularity‘. This one offers the opportunity for all of us to meet and share our experiences and learn from one another.

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