Portfolio
Alexandra Vdovina
ARCH 101 City College of San Francisco, spring 2017
Mapping This is the map of the neighborhood I grew up. It is located in small Siberian town called Yeniseysk(Russia). The project is an analysis of most significant places for me. Finally, it become an attempt to refresh my memories of my childhood.
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Topographically, the place has a little slope in the middle. I tried to show that with wide black lines. The middle sized lines
Here is a different technique I use for emphasizing the slopes and curves of the place. Dark lines show that the surface goes down, while the grey one are the opposite.
This variation gets more details such buildings. Besides that, I inverted the colors of the surface, so lighter lines represent slopes, while the darker lines show the flat surface.
represent the less curved surface, and the thin lines are the flat surfaces where most of the buildings are located.
My next attempt was a refreshing my memories of the roads which are not marked on the map. These roads are unpaved, so there is probably no map I can find. So I decided to walk through my memories, and draw the one I still remember. Most of them are connections between residential buildings. Three on the left side go to the river called the Yenisei. Even though these are a very popular routes there is no map I can find.
After I found all the roads, I decided to go deeper in my memories and mark the roads people used the most (gray roads on the upper left map). The black roads are a representation of ones I and my friends used the most (going to school, to the downtown, connections between our houses). Empty rounded spaces are the houses of my friends and my parents (upper right circle). The last and final map is a representation of my parent’s house and all the problems we encounter in life. I tried to show that I always can come back home, where I can get a support of my family.
Piet Mondrian “Boogie -Woogie”. Pavilion
The parts of the form were born from the Mondrian’s painting “Boogie-Woogie”. The form has a strict order of its parts but still looks irregular. It represents mix of rigid form and fluid structure.
Connection of the points on the painting and avoiding horizontal and vertical lines gave me a good start. I rounded the corners on the intersections to get fluid shapes. The main volume was made out of these new shapes, which are a contrast of the Mondrian’s simplicity.
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slot to connect all the parts
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How does it work?
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The pavilion is a multifunctional structure. The main advantage of it is disassembly and reassembly in different shapes. It
consists of 17 different parts,
one of which has slots for connection of one size.
site plan
front view
right view
left view
3 main variations of usage: warm and sunny climate; cold climate; indoor.
Warm and sunny climate
The pavilion will be functioning as a ticket machine and an information guide about the city it would be installed in.
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To serve the LCD panels, energy will be coming from the solar panels installed in the upper parts. It will provide the energy for plugins, where people can charge their phones.
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The lower parts will be used as transparent LCD panels with a screen touch, where users can get different sorts of information.
Since the pavilion can be reassembled, it’s easy to find the right angle to provide a better shading in sunny climate, what is one the advantage of the pavilion. Material can be different (from painted metal to wood), but color needs to be white. White color keeps the pavilion colder, because it reflects the sun rays.
Cold climate
The pavilion can be used as a bus stop. In this case, the “roof� can be reassembled in order to get safety way of falling a snow from the roof. In order to make interaction with the pavilion more pleasurable, it should be made out of wood. Natural properties of wood include a higher conduction of warmth, compared to a metal or concrete.
Indoor
The indoor pavilion can have the same function, but it has more variations in color and material. Considering only white color, it could be used in any public spaces (airports, malls and etc.), because white is neutral color. It also can be made out of metal/wood, painted in white and covered with lacquer.