Elena Orap is an architect and researcher. She practises architecture and design in various forms: designing spaces and objects, creating installations and curating exhibitions. She is interested in mass housing, cartographies and borders, as well as emergency architecture. Born in Kyiv, Ukraine, she moved to Switzerland in 2022 after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. And later joined EPFL(The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne) with the research project “Ukraine. Architecture of Emergency”, which investigates the agency of architecture in the current state of emergency in Ukraine through the reading of buildings and structures which appear during the war. IWM Vienna (Institute of Human Sciences)) Documenting Ukraine grantee with a project Landscapes of Emergency, that focuses on mapping and archiving the material histories of conflict-affected sites.

PUBLICATIONS

Orap, E., & Mompean Botias, E. (2024). MAPPING EMERGENCY IN UKRAINE. 
Materia Arquitectura, 1(26), 10–23. https://doi.org/10.56255/ma.v1i26.580

http://materiaarquitectura.com/index.php/MA/article/view/580

Frías-Sánchez, A., Perailes-Santiago, J., Orap, E., & Jiménez López, D. (2023). Learning from Chernobyl: Reverse Colonialism and Feral Architectures. 
HipoTesis Numbered Issues, 11, 39–51. https:// doi.org/10.37536/htsn.11.2023.156

https://hipo-tesis.eu/serienumerada/index.php/ojs/article/view/pdf58/78

Orap, E., & Mompean Botias, E. (2023). Protocols of fragility in Ukraine.

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PROJECTS

Landscapes of Emergency: Cartography. Materialities. Urban reconfigurations.
https://www.iwm.at/documenting-ukraine/grantees/elena-orap

FRAGILE BRUTALISM BY SERIA__
https://www.instagram.com/seria_number/

Coach at CAS Rebuild Ukraine at Bern University of Applied Science
https://www.bfh.ch/en/continuing-education/cas/wiederaufbau-ukraine/

UKRAINE. ARCHITECTURE OF EMERGENCY
https://actu.epfl.ch/news/ukraine-architectures-of-emergency