chichikova alina architecture
installations
land art
Alina Chichikova Personal: date of birth: 8.03.1991 languages: Russian, English, Italian Graphic skills: AutoCAD, ArchiCAD, Photoshop, Indesign, SketchUp Education: 2008-2014
MArchI (Moscow Architectural Institute) /Urban strategies/ 2014-2015 ÂŤFree WorkshopsÂť at MMOMA (Moscow Museum of Modern Art) /Contemporary Art/ Employers: 2008-2010 2010-2013 2014-2015 2015
VELKO-2000 /Architect assistant/ Yunaya.Bureau /Architect/ yunayabureau.tumblr.com internship at Junya.lshigami&associates bureau WALL /Architect/
Contacts: alina.chii@gmail.com togdakogda.tumblr.com +7 (967) 078 10 87
Exhibitions and Installations
Competitions and workshops
2010
GORODA festival (goroda-fest.ru) Greece, Vido island installation «Rhizome» /prize for the most conceptual object/
2011
«12 Towers» competition, Moscow /short list/ x Yuriy Milevskiy
2011
Exhibitions with Yunaya.Bureau (yunayabureau.tumblr.com)
2012
Workshop with Werner Sobek Russia-Germany friendship year /finalist/
2013
«120 Hours» competition Geiranger Port project, Norway
The Museums Night 2011, Darwin Museum, Moscow installation «Birth» MIGZ festival of electronic music 2011, Moscow Red October Festival area design, installation «Flying Whales» Moscow Design Week 2011, Tsvetnoy Boulevard installation «Sea Creatures» MMOMA Art Festival, Moscow installation «Spaces» 2012
Exhibition Arts&Crafts, Gallery VKHUTEMAS, Moscow installation «Ear» winter festival GORODA, ArchFarm, Kaluga region Installation «Sun» /special prize/ summer festival GORODA, ArchFarm, Kaluga region Installation «Nature Chapel»
2013
Exhibitions with Yunaya.Bureau (yunayabureau.tumblr.com) CHA (Central House of Artists) Festival Youth Now, site design Midsummer Night’s Dream festival, Serednikovo site design, installtation «Flower Petals»
With Yunaya.Bureau NCCA New Building competition, Khodynka, Moscow Closed competition Design for Kuznetskiy Most
Contents: 1. Student projects 2. Work and internship 3. Art and installations 4. Projects and competitions 5. Other works
Student projects
School project MArchI, 4year 2011
Building area is located in Moscow, 8 Marta street. It is a territory of an existing school which does not fulfill required capacity. The residential area is outside the city center, it is very green and is full of architectural monuments of art nouveau. So the environment is very friendly and human scaled and creates a feeling of an old Moscow which is nice to live in. The idea was to create a building that will use the whole site while creating an inner courtyard for scholars to play. The building itself is wooden and should not burden the environment and the atmosphere. A school should be a place where children can feel themselves like in a countryside - happy and free to investigate the world around. Classes should have a lot of light and there should be a lot of space in school where children can play and use their imagination to transform the spaces
The morphogenesis of the building was done in a principe of filling the area while creating an inner courtyard for safety when children playing outdoors. The form was cut to create passages and lifted in some areas to make a view into the courtyard. In some way, the classes are located on a circular building from left to right in order if rising class number and student age. The highest part of the building is holding the higher classes and their laboratories while the lowest and closest to the yars have the space for the first class students. Construction is done with light wooden shell in shape of pitched roof, where classes are ahnged up, creating a lot of free space between them.
Morphogenesis scheme
Filling the area
Classrooms Location
Creating the courtyard
Auditorium Hall
Differ classrooms spaces
Gym High School
Canteen
Entrance
Activity Hall Classes are located according to their number increase, clockwise and the last classes are at the highest point of the building.
Primary School
First floor plan
Second floor plan
Museum project MArchI, 4year 2011
The decisive moment in choosing a theme for a museum project was a mistale found at Yandex.Maps while searching a free area in the center of Moscow. This phantom building in the Hitrovskaya square has disappeared in the plan, but in the street view it can still be seen. Museum is the monument of a place. A monument for enither lost building in our city which can also work as a storagefor information about all destroyed historic houses. Main collection could consist of information garthered by ArchNadzor, MoskvaKotoroiNet, MAPS (and other organiations thas save our architectural heritage and collect data about the lost ones). A timeless place that can regenerate the surroundings and become a new city landmark. An activity point and a collectioin of memories about the city that does not exist anymoe so it begins to live in a museum space.
Collective memory is an image of the city. Now City is rejecting the Citizens and Citizens reject the city. The town is hidden under layers of symbolic people activity (ex. street chaotic advertisement). Pedestrians don’t feel the space. They try not to raise their sight up from the road they’re walking. They are lost on faceless streets, and anyway pedestrians find themselves in the center. City does not offer you any rhythm, it only have pulsar activity flowing in the center. And City itself - sensitive, interactive, alive - remains only in memory. Instead of the feeling of the City people get only sight on the cars and advertisement rubbish. Nowadays museum is a very strong formation. It can regenerate culturally extinguished parts of the city, divide and navigate pedestrian flows (rhizomatic scheme instead of overcrowded center). Museums can create aggregation points that become meeting places. We can hardly resist demolition of historic building and the best thing we can do - create an organized cultural center that will store the information and show exhibitions about the history of the city architecture and remind us the past of the Place.
View from the Podkolokol’nyi side-street (from center)
View from the Hitrovskiy side-street
View from the Petropavlovskiy side-street View from the Pevchenskiy side-street View from the Podkolokol’nyi side-street
Dominant (The Tower of Memory) This location is seen from all the side-streets. Tower is the monument of the Place. It saves the scale of previous buliding on this site and creates the landmark for the pedestrians. Observation tower is located in the top opening the view on old quarters of Kitay-Gorod.
Pyramid Central volume opens up for temporary exhibitions. It has skylight in the roof opening.
Long Lectorium This volume includes library and lectorium. It has open plan with big windows on both sides allowing pedestrians walking from Hitrovka and Petropavlovskiy street to see the inside and visit the museum.
Searching solution lections, seminars, workshops, library, archive
Permanent exhibition Lectorium Library
Temporary exhibition
Administration Foyer
Problem p e r m a n e n t exhibition about the ÂŤLost cityÂť
New Moscow area development Bachelor project MArchI, 4year 2012
Development territory is located in 40 km from the center, in Big Moscow area. The bachelor consists if two parts - urban development - new residential area project and typical housing for the district.The project had a real client, and his main points were declared as: - redevelopment of the area, creating comfortable environment for people of all age - new city has to be tolerant to the existing environment - maximise the usage of the land - create a fully equiped infrastructure
Main issue in this project was how to create a typically new environment - a critical edge between city and village. How can one live with all the infrastructure needed 40 km away from the city center? What is the feeling one should get to be satisfied with adequate ÂŤcityÂť? How to get rid of disadvantages of living in a countryside or city and make a hybrid settlement that would be comfortable? Main criterias that I made during the analisys period are: - sensitivity in relation between heights of the City and Village - simple transport system (two crossing main roads connecting the primary entrances in the area + the railway station) - public transport system + bycicle routes - try to use remodelled typical elements, make them livable, rethink the standart techniques - create a nature friendly environment, semi-village semi-city feeling
Principal schemes
Centers
Height scheme / Activity center creation
Height boundaries
Building heights increase approaching to the center.
The area has a sophisticated shape so main idea was to connect transport entrances by straight chords and create a city activity center in their node - equidistant to the boundaries. The roads are followed by green boulevard chords, which give air and space for meeting points, markets and are the arterias of the City.
Local activity, production and farming to be used
Building heights
Transformation of the quarter
Functional zones
Transport
Bachelor project MArchI, 4year 2012
One of the first row blocks of the urban design project of a new residential area in a Big Moscow territory (closed square shape) was chosen for the design. Main issue was to create a universal housing model, giving space for all family types. The house should be made of redesigned typical elements allowing to use them in a different order for a different situation. The elements stacked together create variable building height according to the context. This allows creating an interesting environment with complex perspective although using typical elements.
The typical housing block (100 by 100m) consists of four types of apartments (three, two. one-bedroom studio and two level apartments) and two types of stair sections. The house has an underground parking on the -1 and -2 floors. The first floor is empty and has only entrance blocks for lifts and stairs. Empty space can be used as needed (ex. bycicle parking). Big inner courtyards create space to rest and its greenery lets the City breathe. The houses can be different colours to evoke a new and yet sterile environment. Outer walls are made with concrete panels. While in production, the colour is added, and the panels varify in tone from each other to create an effect of squama.
Morphogenesis
Apartments types
bedrooms:3 orientation: east-west on 2 floor 1 floor - east or west
Lift/stairs location
bedrooms:3 orientation: north-south
Different height
bedrooms:1 orientation: south
Block types
Moscow redevelopment MArchI, 5year 2013
district
Development territory is Lefortovo - a historical districs in Moscow 10 minutes away from center. Territory is full of architectural monuments and beautiful streets. Main problem in the area is existence of hufe area of former industrial factories. Kamer-Kollezhkiy ring out if the Sadovoye ring in 19th century was the periphery of Moscow where this factories were working. After extremely fast growthh of Moscow agglomeration, the ÂŤindustrial ringÂť became derelict useless territories which although are still polluting the city air.
First, the analysis of the site was made: - history of the area - functional zones - terms of demolition for all buildings in the area - cultural heritage of the site - transport situation - existing green areas - main perspective activity aggregators This way we get the whole image of the area and this works for revitalisation processes.
Sortavala city redevelopment Diploma project MArchI, 6 year 2014
The project is based on idea of Decentralisation of territories anfd research on Linear urban strategies. This system is the most appropriate decision for situation in our country where all big cities are extremely centralised. Cities pull the activity on themselves including all infrastructure. This causes huge problems in cities around and almost makes living there a survival. Other fact that centralised acitivity makes the periphery practically deserted. Regions/countries/city districts focus all the infrastructure in their center, although the Borders should bear the the function. On the borders informational activity reaches its maximum level - two different regions recieve all possible characteristics from both sides which rise the level of activity and give space for a new formation (ex. any small European country which has regional particular qualities which meet at the border and through the mixing we can see new cultural formation). So this way borders are no more dividing - they become perspective development directions, where unlimited motion and exchange is provided. Centralised systems are blocking themselves allowing only development.
This idea was developed into a project of Local System of Settlements along the border of Russia and Finland. Previously in our class several projects were made creating the Linear Settlement along the border of Russia and Europe from Black Sea to Gulf of Finland. My diploma finishes this whole project opening the Line into Barents Sea. This programm is called ÂŤ33 MeridianÂť and goes along it all the way. This idea involves creating the systems of connecting cities located on the program territory, analyzing the transport infrastructurem natural complexes including creation of continuous system of reserves; cultural heritage complex - which allows tourists easily transferring from one place to another. The cities included in program are given a strong developent impulse and when the exchange system starts working every element of it increases the gain. On the territory on the Russia-Finland border a big reservation territory is settles allowing the continuous motion between reservation parks and his limits possible activity on the site to presentation and new forest growth. There is a big difference between relations to land in our country and in Finland, so this way we will have a chance to save the Karelian forests and bring them to sustainable level. Karelia itself was one land with almost one nation (Karels) which were divided into two countries and recieved different evolution process. So this was ine of the main points - to make this land integral as it is possible. Through the history of Karelia the territory was divided several times, passing from finland to russia. This left a lot of Finnish architecture in the cities and their urban structure is often Finnish. This all comes with incredible Karelian nordic nature with lakes, granite stines and 600 years old forests.
33 Meridian program Territorial settlement system Linear Urban Complex from Black Sea to Barents
Karelian nature
Sortavala city analysis Although the city is a lot alike Joensuu, its territory is not being used properly.
Transport
Heritage
Main problen is the highway dividing city into two parts (blue road).
Sortavala has a lot of historical buildings of 20 century - finnish romantism and art-nouveau.
Functional zones Sortavala hasn’t got proper cultural and educational centers. In whole Karelia there’s only one University in Petrozavodsk. While in J o e n s u u there’s is one of the most perspective universities in Finland.
Green zones Sortavala has vast green area around the city and also the shore greenery is very essential. There’s a hill in the city contour which can be a park for jogging and sunset watching.
Transport problem was solved by moving the highway away from the center - along the railroad. Also several district roads were added and local roads created in new districts.
Several new zones were added on the deserted lake shore - University cluster(turquoise); Sport cluster(sea green); Museum clusters(grey blue). All the city factories move to industrial cluster(grey). Orange refers to residential area. On the periphery the agricultural area is located
Competitions
Competition entry short-list x Yuriy Milevskiy 2010
The project was created for the ÂŤ12 TowersÂť competition for entrance monuments at the hoghways in Moscow. With this simple dot object we tried to solve several problems of our city: - supersaturation of center - excess of car numbers - a complex and difficult fro understanding postcapitalistic environment with excess of street advertisement - absence of effective public transport system - very poor involvement of citizens in life and development of city
To realise the program we chose a simple form that will work - a volumetric screen with different zones. A person interacting with the screen can get any information needed: - public transport timetables and routes - city events - tickets purchase - take part in interactive discussion of city problems and connect to the city portal Car users passing by will see the latest news, temperature, traffic jam - all the needed information. This simple shape can make the environmenr react on it, interact with it and use it. It can become a fullsize screen in the evening , and attract people of the nearby district.
Three different scale functional parts for three types of users: - cars passing by catching short current information on weather and traffic short info - weather/news/traffic - pedestrians passing looking through current event info - interaction zone for buying transport and event tickets, synchronizing with app, voting on current city issues
Interaction tower
Interaction Public transport ticket system Information of city events Participation in city current issues
Different scale information
Technology Using E Ink technology
Synchronization Smartphone application
Multifunctional
Three vertical zones for thee distances
Decentralisation
Moscow activity is very centralised, all the main functions flow to the center and this causes problems. The city needs to distribute its current life into several functional centers.
Innovation
Following the «national idea» of modernisation and innovation, we suggest 8 popular functional city strategies for every administrative district (except central), which would distribure Moscow functions evenly on its territory. As a result secondary centers are formed due to their function (art-center, financial center, educational cluster, R&D, etc.)
Participation Reactivation
Stimulation of participation - is the main problem in cause of city self-realisation. Function of traditional society of 19 century in the 21 century is always working in the internet area, flowing into the concept of city public space 2.0 - a new instrument of people working reactivaion.
Integration
The city center 2.0 forms as an interaction of multiplicity of ideas - instead of concentration of sovereign government. From now on the center is not only forming the «national idea», but that’s the ideas interlacing makes it real. City center now is an open public space for unlimited interaction.
BUSINESS IN HIGH TECHNOLOGIES
EDUCATION, R&D
RECREATION
FINANCIAL CENTER
SCIENTIFIC PROUCTION
CITY AGRICULTURE
ART-CLUSTER
SUSTAINABLE ENERGETICS
People should be the mechanism that creates the City - not only by governmend and business. City can recreate itself only by active participation of people in its life. City as an integer, realising the potential of identity.
Competition entry 120 Hours 2011
The competition theme is announced when the time begins and every participant has to submit the project in 120 hours. This year theme was a new port for the Geiranger fjord in Norway. A simple line as a metaphore of the ÂŤwayÂť. Landmarks are connected by space-dividing semitransparent glass docks. People take their first steps to the Land on the middle-surface, the others cand take a long walk on the white line finding themselves in the Place. Nordic natural intenses cannot resist rough intervention. It should be sensitively supported are rightly underlined.
The system of white docks is spread on the shore. It includes walking docks that connect all the distant landmarks and allows tourists to have a walk along the coast. They connect the Ferry center, Fjord center, Fjord campings and Geiranger tourist service pavilion. The new Fjord center consists of several semi-transparent rectangular pavilions aligned on the shore. It includes mini-cafe, picnic areas, bike rentals, micro hotel.
Geiranger ferry center
Geiranger ferry center
Walking docks
Geiranger tourist service
Fjord campings
New Fjord center
Embankment walkways
Variety of materials that can be used for the docks and pavilion
glass
metal sheets
polycarbonate
System of docks lead their way to the pavilion that inlcudes all the functions the port needs in its simple line structure.
LINE PAVILION
Picnic / rest areas watching-the-Fjord-platform
Walls move on rails
Art / Installations
Installation Greece, Vidos Island 2010
The installation was created during the Goroda architectural festival. Festival task was to create an object according to any philosophical thesis. In our project we tried to express the Jilles Deleuze’s «Rhizome» theory and develop a spatial composition. The construction was made of natural materials found nearby. This expresses the idea of particles flowing into the center and creating the Object. Every piece of nature find its own place in a new organised formation.
Rhizome is phiIlosophical concept developed by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari in their Capitalism and Schizophrenia (1972-1980) project. It is what Deleuze calls an «image of thought», based on the botanical rhizome, that apprehends multiplicities. The Rhizome does not begin and doesn’t come to an end, it is always in the middle, between prophetic, between-life, an intermezzo. The tree is a continuity, and a rhizome - the Conjunction, only the Conjunction. The tree imposes a verb «to be» and a rhizome is weaved from the conjuction «both..and..and..». In this conjunction there is enough force to crack and uproot a verb «to be». Where do you go? When do you leave? Where do you want to come? These are useless questions. To come back to tabula rasa and again begin with zero, to search for the beginning or the base - all it includes the false concept of travel and movement. The matter is the middle at all average, on the contrary, is a place where things speed up. «Between things» means not a localised relation which goes from one to another and back, but a movement in perpendicular direction, cross movement which transfers one and others, a strea, without beginning and the end, which washes away the coast and is dispersed in the middle. .. from «A Thousand Plateaus» by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari
Mirror
Is located nearby in the forest reflecting the rhizome.
Cocoon
As a metaphore of a birth, center, core material:synthepone
Inside
It is warm in the object due to specificity of construction and lighting devices; soft because of natural materials - fir tree needles
Boundaries
Walls are made with local materials found on the island - bamboo construction, branches weaving the net and filling the voids with material found around - ( leaves, sticks).
Window Intro
A hidden footstep, connected to sound elements (metal sticks), located in the constuction of the installation; this part denotes Beginning of interaction. material: wooden plank, rope, metal tubes
The center of the Rhizome takes us back to ourselves, to the place where we all started; at the very culmination we suddenly appear face to face with ourselves in the vacuum space darkness. Through the window we see our reflection in the mirror. Because of location specifity we see only a lighted face in the dark.
Building process
Installation Arch Farm 2012
The installation was made during Goroda architectural festival. It took place at ArchFarm - a renovated farming complex 200 km from Moscow. Main task was that the participants should rethink in their objects festival theme which was «Fire». We analyzed the philosophical interpretations of the term and came to Heraclitus ideas. Fire as eternal motion. As a seen form of burning process - it is the most suitable definition of the Element itself in a meaning of a substance that is an everlasting process, blazing dynamics of matter. So the fire is constant although it can damp. He also understood outer space as a process of constant burning. So in our project we tried to freeze the moment and represent the constant motion. The edge of the sun or maybe an unknown star constantly rising/setting on the horizon. Or this is an enormous scale disc which has crashed into a frozen lake and now is glowing illuminating all around.
Object was made with the ice blocks which were pulled out from the lake near the installtion area. Due to the fact that the winter was very strong that year, the ice was thick enough to make a firm wall and a very clear for the lighting. The blocks were stacked one on the other and after fitting with chainsaw they were poured with water and this made them sealed together firmly. The lit object was seen from any part of the ArchFarm territory as an exhibition say was foggy and the light column was very high. The «Sun» stood on its place until the springtime and melt back in the lake.
Sizes of an artwork were measured from the distance to create a proportional impression on the viewer. The scale was chosen for better visibility.
Ice blocks were pulled out of the lake with cars, after cut into regular blocks and then compiled one on anoter and cut separately attaching the blocks together forming the shape of the disc. The blocks are attached with water.
Panoramic view on the lake
Building site
Ice extraction
Installation Arch Farm 2012
The installation was created during the Goroda architectural festival in ArchFarm. The festival theme was «In the place. Together». The little chapel is a sacred plavce for nature. Chapel of a place. A little fragile construction in a shape of a house with a pitched roof. There’s no inner space, so one can just pass through the «concentration» but at the same time be in the environment and see all around.
The object was made with wooden materials. First, the float was build as the object could be installed either in the field or it could be put on the lake. After the volume was made with small aspen trees cleared from the branches and painted white. Installed object had to be loghted and be a point in a route through the ArchFarm lands.
Concept collage
Building process
Art object 2014
An artwork for ArteLaguna competition 2015 in Venice. The monument for the epoch that freely exists in time and space. The totem made by peoples hands with the found material which find their new life. This material does not serve everyday life, but now it is a part of a monument, which carries its age and its story. It is made accidentally, in the way spontaneous motives appear in the modern environment. This motives appear in fencing and covering in extreme need, which are made only to serve the function, excluding the esthetic context. But as a result they form it and become its component. This is one of the main images of contemporary city environment in a context of our country.
The object appears first as a silhouette in a contour light, one recognizes its form and proposes the idea of a function, but coming closer one can start to see and explore how it is made, what story do the materials tell. The back side of the obelisk s made of mirror stripes, that create effect of infinite space that goes inside the obelisk - the infinity of worship form that people are creating for themselves.
Details / texture
Back side
Work at Junya.Ishigami & Associates
Work at Junya.Ishigami & Associates Model making
Work at Junya.Ishigami & Associates Experiments for the installation Soap bubbles
Work at Junya.Ishigami & Associates Experimental project presentation Ice Installation
Work at bureau W.A.L.L.
Work at bureau W.A.L.L. concepts of redevelopment for Rublevo-Archangelskoye
Work at bureau W.A.L.L.
Masterplan and fragment development
concepts of redevelopment for Rublevo-Archangelskoye
Navigation plan
Work at bureau W.A.L.L. KRISTALL Factory Redevelopment competition Masterplan Navigation concept
Work at bureau W.A.L.L. KRISTALL Factory Redevelopment competition Visualisation
conceptual models for the installation ArchMoscow exhibition Work at bureau W.A.L.L. Conceptual models Installation at ArchMoscow exhibition
conceptual models for the installation ArchMoscow exhibition Work at bureau W.A.L.L. Conceptual models Installation at ArchMoscow exhibition