ARCHI TECTU RAL PORTF OLIO UBOREVICH BOROVSKAYA ANNA
ANNA UB O R EV ICH-BOROVS KAYA 23 years old Flat 5 49 Palace Court W24LS London, UK annaubub@gmail.com +447519614140
EDUCATION UCL - The Bartlett School of Architecture (London, UK): Master of Architecture Architectural Design (material researches, industrial robots, 3D printing, coding) Moscow Architecture Institute (Moscow, Russia): Bachelor of Architecture (Distinction). Achievements: Awarded for the Diploma project (2016, 1st place, in the portfolio); 1st place in the Competition «City of the Future» (2016); Best project of the Contemporary Museum (2014, 1st place, in the portfolio) Ecole National Supérieure d’Architecture Paris - Val de Seine (Paris, France): one year student exchange program (B. Arch). Achievements: Awarded for the Europan project in St. Brieuc (2015, team work, in the portfolio)
2016 - present 2011 - 2016
2015 - 2016
EXPERIENCES 2016 april - 2016 sept. Architect assistant: ub.design architecture bureau (Moscow, Russia) 2014 august - 2015 july Internship: «MOSPROJECT» - architecture and urbanism government company (Moscow, Russia) 2015 sept. Workshop: Ecole National Supérieure d’Architecture Paris- Val de Seine (Paris, France) 2012 july Workshop: restoration of a Russian church in Florence with MARCHI students (Florence, Italy)
SKILLS Revit
Photoshop
Rhino
Illustrator
3ds Max|Vray
InDesign
Grasshopper
3D printing/CNC
AutoCAD
Lazer Cut
Unity
Robots (ABB/Kuka)
LANGUAGES Russian - native English - fluent French - fluent
INTERESTS Architecture, Industrial Design, Industrial Robots, Digitalisation, Sporty lifestyle, Horseriding, Travelling
CONTENTS
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Seguin Island in Paris
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Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow
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Robotic Assembly Building Blocks (London
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Urbanplanning of Kurskaya area in Moscow
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Skyscrapers (Moscow)
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Urbanplanning of Saint-Brieuc (France)
Seguin Island | Paris feb-june 2016
URBANPLANNING OF THE ISLAND study site 12Ga
Diploma project made in Moscow Architectural Institute. Island of Seguin, abandoned by the Renault car factory 20 years ago is located in the middle of the Seine in Western Paris. It has passed through many hands and transformations, from renault’s manufacturing plant to a cultural development master minded by Jean Nouvel, to Tadao Ando‘s pinault foundation contemporary art museum which was never actually built.
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4. Schema of the general idea
The project proposes creating an independent area for both, working and living functions. There are 12 office skyscrapers and 12 resendential houses that are united with a single stylobat with commercials and a parking zone. Photo of Seguin island 1999
Photo of Seguin island 2015
The Seguin Island project demonstrates a new way of thinking the city in the urban plan based on principles of body types, shapes and sequences of spaces. Masterplan
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OFFICES
OFFICES
HOTEL THEATRE
COMMERCIAL MALL
RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS
MUSEUM
Location Schema
Apart from the living and working space, there is a museum and a theatre that are «concluding» both narrow sides of the island. An upper stylobate unites all the skyscrapers at the higher level so the workers and visitors can cross over the buildings enjoying the green zone.
Axonometric drawing of office and residential buildings (middle part of the island) Skyline (front view)
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Section of the skyscrapers Skycsrapers’ facades
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Typical floor plans (offices + appartments)
CNC wooden model - island location
CNC wooden model - island location
3D visualization (upper open “passageway�)
3D visualization (ground floor stylobat)
3D model placed on the captured bird-view 9
Museum project | Moscow sept-dec 2014
PROJECT OF THE CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM
Individual work at Moscow Architectural Institute.
3D printed model
Moscow Contemporary Art Museum is located in the centre of Moscow city in «Plushiha» area. The hole in the middle of the building serves for the entrances and separates the museum into two parts. Main part is designed to create principal space for the excibitions and temporary collection. Lower part of the building is serving as a conference hall together with the space for archives located at the lower ground floor. As a result of the building’s twist vertical galleries enjoy natural light from overhead.
Plan of the museum 1st floor
Section of the museum
3D visualisation
3D visualisation interior
Main Facade of the museum
Robotic Blocks | London 2016 - 2017
Robotic Assembly of Ultra High Performance Concrete Blocks.
Teamwork at The Bartlett School of Architecture. The case-study project ÂŤRobloxÂť considers the possibilities of using robotics at the large architectural scale and contributes to the discrete and digital architecture. A digital building block have been created that combines with itself in several ways, and that is suitable for robotic assembly. Rather than creating hundreds of different elements, our research is focused on creating high-varied and articulated space with only one type of standardised building block. The block is reversible due to its unique interlocking system that allows snapping units together like Lego pieces. As the project aims to be fully reversible, we avoid usage of glue or any other joining material. Instead, the pieces are connected with triangular joints and screws. Using the combinatory library, coding and aesthetic preferences, fabricated building blocks can be assembled forming different shaped constructions. This prototype can be viewed as a skeleton of the building. We additionally create a curtain wall system by using a clipping panel which is also suitable for the robotic assembly.
Robotic Assembly
Phase I: Phase II: Plywood (LaserCut) Concrete (Molding, Casting)
Phase III: Ultra-Performance Concrete (Molding, Casting)
Phase IV: Geometrical Optimization
Photo of the phases of the material testing
Weight and material optimization
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6 kg (foam inside)
12.8 kg
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3D printed units + joints
Structure optimization (Grasshopper) 3D printed units + joints
The industrial robot is used for pick-andplace tasks, replacing manual work in order to commit repetitive, dull motions assembling the blocks together. Among the robotics provided by the university (ABB and Kuka brands), we chose ABB 1600 due to its larger scale which is essential in our case as it allows the building of a bigger structure. Initially, we designed the robot wrist, which is formally called an endeffector. Considering the shape and scale of the units, a gripper based on a pneumatic solenoid was chosen, and unique steel clamps have been cut. The custom-made pneumatic gripper attaches to the robotic arm, being mechanically fixed with screws. Casted UHPC bloicks
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2 hanging 6 axes robots operating together
Construction up to 5 meters high can be assembled in a time
Off-site Robotic assembly
“On-site assembly� means the following scenario: a future user can order pieces which will be delivered on-site together with the robot for the fast construction. In this case, there is no a big issue for the logistics as the discrete blocks can be directly packed in the standard boxes. At the construction site, after dispatching, the building elements can be picked up by the robot and placed one by one. The conveyor-like feeding system is designed whereby the blocks are manually fed. Nonetheless, there are larger-scale machines, and if we imagine them being in a kind of moving track system, then we would be able to build pavilion-scale aggregations at a time. So, we introduce a second scenario of an automatic assembly using a Gantry system with hanging robots.
Off-site construction experiments at the large-scale are possible with an existing in ETH Laboratory Gantry system where 6-axis ABB robotic arms are hanging from a ceiling-mounted surface portal. The robots can cooperatively work, moving on a 3-axis gantry system that can cooperate on architectural fabrication tasks within a maximum building volume of 43 x 16 x 6m into it. The assembly strategy is similar with the on-site one, but the principal advantage of the Gantry system is the extended robotic operational range. The assembly may be fully automated with the following idea: one robot performs pick-and-place of the building members which already include the joints while the other screw them together. Such cooperative robotic building approach requires only two workers for the whole construction process.
One is for the conveyors that should be manually fed by a human worker and one specialist that keeps track of the machines. Ultimately, large building elements that are robotically assembled in a factory environment are being transported to the site where they can be quickly combined with the help of a crane-like lifting machine in one day.
Assembly of robotically pre-assembled (offsite) big parts of the house
Units are put in the same position according to aggregation logic
Conveyors for the units
1:1 scale units are assembled one by one
Could be assembled up to 16 units at one time
Wood base
On-site Robotic assembly 14
Modularized Curtain Wall Facade
Glass Frame
3300 mm 500
Additionally, a curtain wall system was created by using a clipping panel which is also suitable for the robotic assembly. Using the combinatory library, coding and aesthetic preferences, fabricated building blocks can be assembled forming different shaped constructions. The image below shows one of the house prototypes which is 14 x 8 x 7 metres.
UHPC Block
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300 mm
Interior space
3D visualuzation 15
1. Calibration
2. Fixing the designed gripper
5. Blocks are fixed to the base
6. Assembly process
3. Robot + base + units
4. Robot picks-up and places the block
7. Assembly process
8. 16-piece construction ready
Kurskaya | Moscow feb-march 2014
URBANPLANNING OF NORTHEAST MOSCOW study site 400Ga
Teamwork at Moscow Architectural Institute. Reorganization of ex-industrial zones of north-east Moscow. Kurskaya used to be an industrial zone in the centre of Moscow (north-east). The aim was to convert partly abandoned area into attractive residential disctricts. The chief objective of the project was the necessity to reconstruct them into attractive eco-districts with advanced infrastructure, sport clubs, schools and kinder gardens. First of all, the masterplan was created together with 3 other students. After, eash person detected an area to focus on. Personally, I was working on 4 residential scyscrapers and 15 houses from 4 to 9 storeys. As there are many historical architecural sights in Kurskaya, a lot of attention was paid to preserve them and create an access for visitors.
Functional schema
Buildings height schema
Masterplan
Green zones schema
Analysis schema
Zoomed-in mstarplans of particular areas
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Skyline (Moscow city)
9.3 Ha for 6500 habitants
6.3 Ha for 5300 habitants
9.5 Ha for 6500 habitants
6.6 Ha for 5500 habitants
Axonometric drawing of the study site Wooden model 1:2000 (lasercut)
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Skyscrapers | Moscow march-june 2014
RESIDENTIAL PLANNING
Individual work at Moscow Architectural Institute. Kurskaya used to be an industrial zone in the centre of Moscow (north-east). The aim was to convert partly abandoned area into attractive residential disctricts.
Axonometric drawing of form creation
First of all, the masterplan was created together with 3 other students. After, eash person detected an area to focus on. Personally, I was working on 4 residential scyscrapers and 15 houses from 4 to 9 storeys. As there are many historical architecural sights in Kurskaya, a lot of attention was paid to preserve them and create an access for visitors.
Facades of the Residential skyscrapers
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Facade + Section Constructions drawing of the facade Plans
Upper floor
Miidle floor 3D visualization
Lower floor
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Saint-Brieuc | France march-june 2014
EUROPAN URBANPLANNING COMPETITION study site 350 ha
Teamwork at Ecole National Supérieure d’Architecture Paris - Val de Seine. The main aim was to increase the “attractiveness” of the city. Owing to topographical complexity of the town, some parts are difficult accessible. There is lack in connections of the city center with the sea port and other parts of town. We proposed to connect them with a nice boulevard that has some top-view points, cycle roads and pedestrian access. Also, we made a proposal for reconstructing the central squares and designed the new eco-district with the huge park-zone in the north part of town for the purpose of increasing the population of local habitants. Masterplan of St-Brieuc
Schema of the attractive points at the valley
Section of the valley
Section of the park-zone
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Masterplan of the new eco-disctict
3D visualization of the park-zone
3D visualization of the city-centre 23
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