The project deals with the unsatisfying present of the manufacturing facilities and their possible future. The 20th century factory is a horizontal and linear structure. This is caused by the process of production, which goes on in it. The result is an excessive use of land, high inner and outer transportation costs and pollution.
As a main cause for all these issues, I look at the manufacturing workflow, which demands mostly horizontal and linear development. The new methods for digital manufacturing such as 3d printing allow for the workflow to shift from horizontal to vertical.
-Pavel Tsochev

The small footprint can bring back manufacturing into the dense city environment. This would lead to a reduction in the transportation of goods, bringing them directly to the final consumer, thus helping to improve our environment by one more way.
-Pavel Tsochev

People in cities tend to spend almost all of their life indoors. Out in the open, we learn to adapt and react to the environment. While inside, this role is trusted over to the building envelope. If the envelope fails to adapt, the health of the people inside suffers.

Building envelopes look differently mostly based on lightening and in rare cases of the wind. Heat delivers the next big influence for the overall state of the building. Never the less the influence of the temperature to the interior and exterior of the building is completely invisible for the outside observer. I want to give people a chance to witness the great difference that temperature can have to the activity of the building and vice versa.
-Pavel Tsochev

The project explores the development of a single building typology. I seek to foresee how modernistic typologies can evolve in the new era of manufacturing and what place can they have in the overwhelmingly urbanized planet. I wanted to provoke the imagination of people that will design the next step in the evolution of factories. I stand by clarity for the overall design and I also want to put more detail in depth as a reward for the sharp-eyed public.
-Pavel Tsochev

I believe the edge of the design consists in the building being a cohesive design product, influenced by several independent fields of inspiration: manufacturing technology, parametric design and high-rise architecture. The good design edges the others by the ability to establish the exact links between design fields while revealing a strong and clear concept.
-Pavel Tsochev

I would describe my style as analytical and philosophical, I seek for a strong theoretical base and try to avoid judgment. I want to foster the individual perception of the viewer by delivering a non-material concept and laconic design while leaving the conclusions for the public.
-Pavel Tsochev

I'd give them an advice to be clear about their leading motives and stay true to them throughout their career. I would be happy to see individual statements, illustrated in their designs. I believe that having something to say is the first step towards doing a valuable work.
-Pavel Tsochev

About Pavel Tsochev

Pavel Tsochev is a young architect, and currently working at A&A Architects, Sofia, Bulgaria. He has a masters degree in architecture from UACEG Sofia. He truly believes in the value of diversity, the field of design is multicultural and he seeks to take and combine trends with the traditional way while undertaking a design task. He often take part in visionary competitions and seek to place his work in the near future, trying to guess the next step in technology and design. See more of his work on Behance.