Portfolio - Anastasia Fedotova

Anastasia Fedotova

Bachelor of Architecture 2023

Bachelor of Fine Arts 2023

Rhode Island School of Design

Providence, RI

afedotov@risd.edu

www.anastasiafedotova.com

Instagram @anaarchitecture

Education:

Rhode Island School

Bachelor of Architecture

Bachelor of Fine Arts

UC Berkeley (IN ARCH Brown University (Cross Drexel University (Interior

Work Experience:

Managing the shift staff student-run Carr Haus

Mentoring new students

Program, RI, USA

Teaching English, private including teaching Garage

Teaching kids as a volunteer school for refugee children

Teaching drawing and tours and working as Architecture and House Russia

Designing sets and direction, commercial Moscow, Russia

Communicating with Museum of Contemporary

Academic

BArch Thesis, RISD:

«National by Form, Socialist if the first generation extension of the Soviet and understand present-day through housing in occupied to revisit the Soviet mass-housing «Storytelling» Studio, I learned to incorporate my design process, as [IN]ARCH ADV Studio,

I learned to design large-scale well as to apply my abstract process

School of Design (GPA 3.75)

Architecture 2023

Arts 2023

ARCH ADV Summer Studio/GPA 4.0) (Cross Registration Student/GPA 4.0) (Interior Design/GPA 3.8)

Experience:

staff while working as a barista at Haus Cafe at RISD, RI, USA students at RISD ARCH, RISD Mentorship

private group and individual classes, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art staff volunteer at «Kids Are Kids» non-profit children

and abstract composition, guiding as a translator at Schusev Museum of House of Konstantin Melnikoff, Moscow,

props as well as giving artistic commercial for Amediateka-Home of HBO,

with and guding the visitors at Garage Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia

Experience:

RISD:

Skills:

Sofrtware:

Rhino 7

Revit

AutoCAD

SketchUp

VRay

Enscape

Photoshop

Illustrator

InDesign

Premier Pro

Lightroom

Climate Studio

Microsoft Blender (Basic)

Art + Making:

Woodshop

3D Printing

Model Construction

Screen Printing

Laser Cutting

Architectural Drawing

Academic Drawing

Abstract Composition

Painting

Sculpture

Film Photography

Graphic Design Basics

Concrete Casting

Languages:

English

Russian

Spanish

Socialist by Content» is looking to determine Soviet mass-housing project is an Soviet imperial agenda, so as to better identify present-day practices of Russian imperialism occupied territories using analytical drawing mass-housing typology

Studio, RISD: incorporate personal stories and experiences into as well as look into restorative justice design Studio, UC Berkeley: large-scale urban buildings and spaces, as abstract composition practice to my design

Soft Skills:

Fine Arts Background

Teaching Skills

Adaptivity

Communicability

Quick Learning

Quick Pace of Work

Awards and Competitions:

RISD Honors Student, multiple semesters

Hyundai Future Mobility with «Architecture for All» student club

Exhibitions:

«Provisional Artifacts», RISD BEB Gallery

«Art Haus» at Carr Haus Cafe, RISD

RISD Fleet Library Special Collections, «On the Outside Looking In», 2022 (now in permanent possession of the RISD Fleet Library Special Collections)

Student Visa Exhibition, CCA and RISD ARCH

Ross Commons Group Exhibition, Drexel University

EFS Design Exibition at Waterman, RISD

Push and Pull

San Francisco, CA

UC Berkeley Summer 2022

Project situated on the intersection of Octavia, Rose and Haight Streets in San Francisco designed as a multi-functioning apartment complex.

Located in the area with focus on pedestrian movement and public program, the complex responds to the needs of the community and supplements for elements missing in the area. The skate park on the ground floor is a reaction to the small make-shift skate area on the sidewalk next to the site. An open-door theater also located on the ground floor is designed to host the film screenings happening on the Octavia Street every summer. The solid wall on the inner side of the ground floor is open for artists, as the neighborhood is densely populated with murals and graffiti. There are also a biergarten on the ground floor and a bar on the rooftop which are created in response to the neighborhood becoming a hot spot for nightlife. A recreational pool is located on the upper floor of the rooftop to supplement for the lack of recreational swimming facilities in close proximity to the site, while also acting as an attraction for the bar at night.

The dwellings occupy the rest of the building and are divided into three types: one bedroom, two bedroom and three bedroom. Each type of dwelling is then divided into accessible and non-accessible types. There is a system of occupiable outdoor staircases and terraces that serve as a main entrance to the apartments, while also being accessible by elevator.

The inspiration for design of the building is coming from studies of transparency, color and composition of generated shapes. The building is described by tension: the push and pull of the volumes on one side and the stretched fabric on the other side. The two facades have differing purposes: on the western side it is covered by fabric to reduce the cooling load in the summer and harsh sunlight into the dwellings, while the eastern façade is open and defined by networks of small operable windows.

Top Left:

Typical Residential floor with shared terraces

Bottom Left:

Typical layout of three different types of apartments, each type also has a fully accessible version

Right:

Perspectives of the dwelling spaces and shared areas ranging from two-apartment terraces to «fire escape» style terraces located between the outer facade and the main mass of the building

Next Page:

Perspective of the ground floor looking at the skate park, theater, biergarten and entrance to the terraces

Top Left: Plans of the two roof levels

Bottom Left: Views of the swimming pool located on the roof, as well as the view from the terrace space between the «skin» of the facade and the apartments

Right: Plans of the three ground levels, going from bottom to top: skate park, theater, biergarten, restrooms, bike storage, lobby, stroller storage; next ltwo levels - biergarten seating area.

Top Row: 3D printed massing model of the whole building

Bottom Row: A detailed fragment study model of the «skin» of the facade, the mass of the thermally enclosed building and the «fire escape» terraces in between.

What Cheer Flower Farm

Providence, RI

RISD

Fall 2022

In collaboration with Luna Kim, Ruth Suarez

As part of the tecnical Integrated Building Systems course, we have worked on providing a new space for the What Cheer Flower Farm - a non-profit that supplied flowers to hospice and hospital patients, as well as to elders in nursing homes. The farm keeps growing and is now opening its doors to those who wish to learn to farm, process and arrange flowers. To accomodate their expanding program, the center we propose offeres spaces for growing, processing and selling flowers, as well as classroom and workshop spaces, public auditorium and offices.

The building is divided into two wings on the ground floor, which then connect on the upper levels. One wing serves the publicoriented program, the other is geared towards the administrative services. The mass of the building is inward-facing, to draw attention

The building was designed in accordance to state and international building codes, taking into consideration occupancy loads, exit location and access, properly designed fire stairs, as well as meeting ADA requirments.

The smart roof provides the structure with enough energy to be selfsufficient by using solar panels, as well as collects and stores rain water for grey water and flower watering needs. The location of the water tank on the roof eliminates the need for a powerful water pump, simply using gravity.

The double height spaces on the ground floor separate the more public program from the more private, student- and employee-oriented programs on the upper floors.

As part of the sturctural design of the building, I was responsible for creating detailed sections of the facade, designed around a balcony system, the exterior walls and floors. The design features CLT interior floors, drywall with exterior wood cladding and light-weight hollow wooden balconies. The three zoomed-in parts of the section demonstrate the critical moments in our design. Each material is carefully sized and noted on the section.

Anastasia Fedotova

One of the special features of our proposal, as briefly mentioned above, is the adgustable balcony shading system. We propose to use discarded fisherman’s shaded, if desired. This system does not only reduce heating loades by providing shade in the summer and, when removed, allows the light to warm the Pictured above:

(1, 2) The facade system from view from the garden and view from the balcony.

(3) Ground floor entrance to the shop.

(4) Shop, stem processing/bouquet arrangement space and lobby.

fisherman’s rope on rotating steel panels. The panel do not only rotate, but also slide sideways, so the balcony could be completely open or completely the building up in the winter, but also creates adjustable conditions for grawing potted plants on the balconies.

Library On the Edge

Providence, RI

RISD - Architectural Design Studio Spring 2021

This library is a place for social gathering, study, and debate. The concept emerged from the duality, or two-sidedness, of the “wall building” where a longitudinal separation allows for different experiences of the city: one side compressed against neighboring buildings, the other open and extended to free the ground. The open side relates to the constructed ground which serves for collective inhabitation and public events. The building’s internal structural wall remains sectionally intact as a guide that takes on different shapes on each floor adapting and including the program.

The first floor of the library is open to the public throughout daytime. The space is not seen from the sidewalk, but rather, as one descends into a lower ground by way of large-scale steps. The public entry opens under the hovering mass of the building to offer full experience of this compressed condition.

Left:

Axonometric view of the building and the ground conditions, demonstrating splitting of the ground into two levels and pushing the building to the edge of the site to maximize the use of the site by the public, as well as provide space for gathering, protest, play and performance.

Right: Diagram of the core of the building and how it adapts to the needs and uses of each floor: from lobby to cafe, to study spaces, to an auditorium and an accessible roof.

Left:

Plans of the building:

G) Steps with theater seating leading up to the main entrance

1) The shipping/staff entrance, office spaces (this floor is skipped when going to the library from the ground floor as a visitor)

2) Cafe and open study area

3) Stacks, individual and group study spaces

4) Stacks, individual and group study spaces

5) Auditorium, open study space

R) View deck with seating and swings

Right

Sections cutting through (top to bottom) open areas, sides cut by the core in the middle, and an open area by the circulation block. See the

Top Left: View of the steps/seating leading to the entrance to the library.

Top Right: View of the roof.

Bottom Left: View of individual study spaces on the fourth floor.

Bottom Middle: View of individual study spaces on the third floor.

Bottom Right: View of the auditorium with the skylight.

In-process work: pavilion prototype as a starting point for the design (pictured in top row, and bottom left), early development of the facade drawings (bottom middle and right)

This or This?

Providence, RI RISD - Storytelling Studio Fall 2022

In collaboration with Tamara Malhas

(Zine in collaboration with Alexis Violet, Jennifer Pham, Tia Miller)

One of the key concepts for our early experiments were the processes of breaking and restoring. In applying these concepts to architecture, we designed a multi-level intervention into the Department of Architecture of Rhode Island School of Design to combat immense amounts of waste produced in the building. We also related the patterns of wasteful production to unhealthy social and academic relationships in modern architectural education.

We started off by designing a manifesto, a zine that would outline every issue regarding waste and unhealthy studio culture in the department, and provide our solutions to each problem posed. On the other side of the zine there were different iterations of posters, one of them titled “This or this?” to show the three steps of our plan: current situation in blue, the near future in yellow and the same space in 10 years, to show the transformation the plan offers. The zine and the project that followed use CMYK color pallette inspired by the ink waste in the printing shop of the department.

We use an analogy of building a model to convey ideas of the change needed in the department. Some of the more social and behavioral propositions include providing adequate time to complete projects, distributing work evenly during the semester to prevent allnighters, comfortable seating and working areas for students, lounges and spaces for rest, negotiation with the students regarding the final deliverables of projects, make using recycled and scrap materials part of the classes, as well as old model upcycling.

Paper Making Process:

1. Shredding paper

2. Mixing with water and moulding

3. Pressing and drying

Materials:

Paper

Wood

Plastics

Foam and foam core

Our architectural intervention proposes a system of chutes running from the top floors of the building (occupied by studios) to the basement which would be converted into recycling and scrap hub. The chutes would be distinguished by color: black for foam, cyan for plastic, yellow for wood and magenta for paper.

The basement, now housign a woodshop, would be partially converted to a materials hub. The chutes would terminate there and the materials would drop into respective boxes for students to pick up the scraps and reuse the materials. Paper, however, would be collected by the students and recycled. The recycling duty is seen as a mandatory activity for students to advance their understanding of material recycling and the waste produced by the production of models. Due to the large number of students, one student would only be required to spend several hours per semester helping the recycling process, but would be able to use the scrap materials and the new recycled paper for free.

The paper recycling process is relatively low-tech and easy, it follows the paper-making practices that could be done at home, but done here at a large scale. The collected scrap paper is first shredded, then mixed with water and moulded, pressed and dried on the large drying rack.

Through these practices of scrap re-use and recycling, as well as with a more mindful attitute towards studio culture and waste, we hope to introduce adjustments to the curriculum and the behavior In our large building scale drawing, we do not only show the system of the chutes collecting materials, or the recycling/materials hub in the

introduce a less wasteful and harmful studio atmosphere for the future students. These changes need to be seen as one strategy, because without the behavior of students, the system will not change. the basement, but also incorporate furniture design by our classmates that utilize scraps from printing (bean bag chairs, coffee tables and shades).

The strategy of reusing materials was successfully applied to our own work. We have built the model of the Architecture Department building with the proposed chute system entirely out of scraps found in the building. We documented which material scraps and cut-offs were donated by whom to record the history of materials, as every material has one. All of the materials were sources in less than two hours and ranged from paper and cardboard to wood and acrylic. Thus we demonstrated the large number of cut off material in the building that could be used instead of going to waste.

Transitions

Providence, RI

RISD - Urban Design Studio

Fall 2021

In collaboration with Ben Roland

This project focuses on the creation of systemic support for excluded populations such as people experiencing homelessness and housing instability. This community has been neglected and overlooked by systems created via industrialization, capitalism, and colonization. The proposed housing redefines the notion of a healthy city by creating access to housing, fresh food, and general wellness. This framework interrogates the intersection between access to varying need-based housing types and important community resources.

Our project strategy regarding healthy living and rehabilitation is broken down into three categories:

Housing: starting from shelter, which provides immediate support, moving into transitional housing with more privacy, but still a considerable amount of resources, and then permanent housing - a private living unit for two families.

Rehabilitation: these resources are open to all members of the community and are conveniently located in the shelter and transitional housing where support is needed most.

Health: a site-wide intervention that prioritises the means needed for healthy living such as, increased pedestrian movement, accessible green space, nutritious food on-site in the produce shop, supplied from the community garden, and the addition of sunrooms which encourage bringing greenery into social and living space.

The shelter, in orange, provides immediate support to the displaced The transitional housing, in blue, is centered around a community garden that is accessible to all residents. Open Permanent housing, in green, is intentionally less connected to the resources, blending in with

displaced homeless community and serves as the resource hub. Open terraces located on the interior of the complex lead into the shared greenspace with direct access from all units. with the existing multi-family home urban fabric to combat the stigmatization of its residents.

Transitional Housing

Transitional housing is a step designed to help people experiencing homelessness to transition from housing instability to permanent housing. It functions as apartment units for individuals, couples or whole families, supplemented with communal spaces, such as a big community garden as the center of the housing complex for growing food or community kitchens where people can learcn to cook from each other. The apartments are divided into two types:

Unit B is designed for a family and has compact amenities that are supplemented by larger shared resources. As every unit, it also has shared balcony spaces that lead into the garden.

Unit C is designed for one to two people and relies more on the shared social and household resources than bigger units. The shared outdoor space makes up 1/3 of the unit to foster the connection to the neighboring unit and the garden as a part of our health initiative.

On the Left:

Views of the transitional housing buildings’ open terraces facing the community garden, park and playground.

Next Page:

Plans of the transitional housing block and section through the communal theatre spaces, communal kitchen and lounge, as well as dwelling units.

Permanent Housing

Unit D is a permanent housing dwelling for two families. While it is the most private housing type out of three, it still has a shared sunroom, and rotating walls in the living room which provide opportunity for social interaction. The house structure serves as a transition from the highly unban closed-off street edge in the front to the green backyard through the sunroom as a buffer between the inside and the outside, bringing the greenery indoors.

Topt:

View of one of the permanent housing duplexes from the backyard looking at the shared sunroom.

Bottom:

View of a dining room looking into the backyard and the shared sunroom. The space is divided by operable wooden «fins» that could be adjusted to block or welcome the sun, divide or open up the space.

Top:

Variations of the permanent housing duplex that adapt to the lot size and shape keeping the same logic of the interior.

Bottom: Section through the typical permanent housing duplex, showing one side of the home occupied by one family.

A Brief History of Oppressive Type

RISD, «Am I Your Type» Studio Analytical Book Spring 2022

In collaboration with «Am I Your Type Studio»; «Big Houses and Prisons» chapter in collaboration with Tamara Malhas and Joseph Inglima.

«As a studio, we examine a selection of architectural types salient to the economic and political situation in which the profession of architecture was emerging as a distinct practice. Further, it is through the drawing of distinctions between types that architectural knowledge was demonstrated by practitioners. This situation calls into question the validity of typological distinction as well as genealogical connections between past and present building forms and spatial arrangements. To begin engaging with and questioning these histories, we perform our own series of typological analyses within the transatlantic space, 1610–1929.»

«Big Houses and Prisons» Introduction:

«The Big House Type, also known as Plantation Homes, were symbols of power and oppressive control over the enslaved populations which were the backbone of the Planation economy. The design of the homes were closely managed by the owners of the plantation, generationally remodeled and expanded to meet their political, societal, and moral standards.

The Prison Type contains precedents from Cuba, England, France, and United States. Solitary confinement was commonly seen as the best method for reformation of individuals in most precedents, especially in France and the United States. The concept of the Panopticon arises to redesign these prison ideologies which often possessed heinous brutality towards the prisoners. The panopticon optimizes the resources needed to adequately survey the cell block, but ultimately inventivenesses corruption within the guards.»

Right: examples of analysis, big houses

The analysis was performed from gathering and documenting precedents in each type, representing them them through traditional methods such as plan, section and elevation, as well as an analytical drawing of site lines as a means of control and power within these precedents.

Right: examples of analysis, prisons

Comparative Typological Analysis

«Through the study of precedents within each typology and across the two types we reach an understanding of a specific design language. This understanding is informed by distinguishing symbolic facade typologies within Big Houses. Comparing the repetitive sectional order of prisons. The modular geometric systems used in prisons to promote uniformity. Similarities within the programmatic layout of different Big Houses. Finally, by comparing across the types we begin to understand how design contributes in establishing a hierarchy of governance and promotes systems of containment, surveillance, and dominance»

Suburbia Forever

RISD, «Am I Your Type» Studio Analytical Drawing Spring 2022

In collaboration with Crescent Feng, Jaime Dunlap

This analysis was started by studying plans of pre-fab homes from the 1950’s and 1960’s from archival catalogues. We studied floor plans of typical middle class suburban homes from each decade from 1950’s to 1990’s and reconstructed these homes. Through the means of collage we documented not only architectural trends of each decade, but broader social issues. For example, living room shows the progression of family values and women’s role in the family; the kitchen shows the progression of women’s domestic labor; bedroom - progression of the self of the woman; the bathroom - privacy, cleanliness and sexual liberation of the said woman. The drawing becomes a sort of treasure hunt for small details elaborating on the life of women in American suburbia from the 1950’s to the 1990’s.

The time periods we selected can be categorized as consumption (1950s), reduction (2050s) and survival (2150). Throughout all decades we collaged in easter eggs which communicate our satirical and critical analysis of these times.

Pictured on the lest are drawings from consumption (1950s) and survival (2150).

Consumption (left):

Our group started out research by studying the origin of the modern American suburban home and reconstructed the ideal home from pattern books and magazines, tracing the disposition of these domestic spaces. The 1950s in America are categorized by booming consumption encouraged by the government to re-build post-war America. Consumerism and participation in capitalism (not communism) were deemed as patriotic. In the drawings we demonstrate the obsession with branded goods and the commodities that show status and middle-class standing. The post-war optimism disregarded the limits of non-renewable resources and thus largely contributed to waste culture.

Survival (right):

Even though the ecological effort of the 2050s is notable, the responsibility of an individual does not compare to the impact of the large companies which continue to contribute to environmental damage. and global warming.

Additionally, continuing population growth and hotter climate threaten suburbia as we know it to be. We imagine that the suburban home and the other types of the built environment would move under the ground to withstand the increasing global temperatures.

The typology of a single family suburban home is changed by compounded living, where many generations of one family or even different families come together to survive. As the food is scarce, the kitchen becomes the focus of the home, where the compound gets together.

Technology is tasked to remedy the lack of natural environment and outdated connections to nature. The transportation and community connections also move under the ground as a web of tunnels.

On the Outside Looking In

RISD, Intro to Photography

Interactive Architectural Photography Book

Winter 2022

Book in possession of the RISD Fleet Library

Special Collections

“Outside Looking In” is a project centered around walking in a regular Moscow neighborhood at night and photographing lit up windows, peeking into different apartments in mass-produced housing. The project looks for individuality and customization of repeated, typical living units that comprise much of the Ochakovo neighborhood. It serves as a record of the windows in 4 different housing types. Studying the actual use and appropriation of masshousing is the first step to understanding better dwelling design in urban setting.

Types of Housing:

Disease, Urbanization and Colonization Analytical Model

Providence, RI

RISD - Urban Design Studio

Fall 2021

In collaboration with Ben Roland

Urban development in Providence through time disregarded the voices of underrepresented groups and destroyed the natural landscape which led to surges in certain health outcomes in those underrepresented communities. We take two contrasts as a paradigm for the study of these conditions. Indigenous peoples’ first contact with Europeans happened in Rhode Island in 1600’s which led to a 90% decrease in population. And today, the occupants of the modern-day West End, most of which are people of color, who are more likely to suffer most from common health conditions due to the lack of resources and the highly urbanized landscape of the lower-income neighborhood. In one axis, we track the demographics of the West End, while in the other, we depict development in the city of Providence from the site to the center of Water Place. In the third dimension, the prevalence of urbanization-related health outcomes exists as the connection between the axes of development, race, and time. The diseases represented are: plague, cholera, syphilis, smallpox, tuberculosis, COVID-19, heart disease, diabetes, asthma, cancer.

Toshiko Mori THREAD

Analytical Drawings

RISD - Architectural Analysis Spring 2021

Reconstruction of TREAD Artist Residency by Toshiko Mori and series of analytical drawings exploring, water, roof and tiling conditions.

Amediateka Home of HBO Commercial

Set Design and Artistic Direction Summer 2018

Work as a set designer and artist for a commercial shot for an official HBO streaming service in Russia - Amediateka. My responsibilities started with the visual direction for the commercial, color and composition sketches for each frame, collecting, painting, mounting and arranging props and creating a painting as one of the backgrounds.

Right: Stills from the commercial.

Abstract Work

Combination of hand-drawn or computer-drawn

abstract compositions and posters

2015-2021

Abstract Collages