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DENIS SERDYUKOV
EDUCATION PROFESSIONAL BACHELOR OF ARCHITECTURE Summa cum laude Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL 2013-2018
619 Martin Ln, Deerfield, IL 60015 serdyukov.dsd@gmail.com (224) 619-0480
EXPERIENCE
OBJECTIVE To learn, learn, and learn some more from knowledgeable, experienced profesisonals in a critical, creative, and no-nonsense collaborative environment. To break through the political, social, and economic barriers dividing the urban centers of the United States and the world through the creation of a human interaction-oriented built environment and atmosphere.
VISUALIZATION Adobe Suite: Ps, Ai, Id, Pr, Ae V-Ray for Rhino Lumion 3D Artlantis
8 years 3 years 2 years 2 years
DIGITAL DRAFTING AutoCAD ArchiCAD Revit
5 years 4 years 1 year
DIGITAL MODELING Rhinoceros Grasshopper
5 years 4 years
GIS Quantum GIS
4 years
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE C# Python
LANGUAGE English Russian Spanish
Tasked with research, modeling, graphics, and written work directly related to the CTBUH Technical Guide: The Space Within Tall Buildings. Responsibilities include the three dimensional modeling and analysis of qualitative and quantitative features of case study buildings, production of diagrams and orthographic drawings, and the development of supporting written material. LIBRARY ASSOCIATE I – LEAD PROGRAM ASSISTANT Vernon Area Public Library, Lincolnshire, IL 10/2011 - Present Assist in the organization and execution of library programs such as author visits and concerts and work closely with patrons to solidify the library's community center role in the village of Lincolnshire. Develop techniques to improve and streamline communication between library departments to ensure adequate and timely response to staff and patron requests.
SKILLS
MISCELLANEOUS Public Speaking Professional Writing
ACADEMIC ASSISTANT Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, Chicago, IL 05/2018 - Present
1 year 1 year 6 years 4 years
Bilingual Proficiency Native Proficiency Elementary Proficiency
GRAPHIC DESIGNER Kofman Technologies, Champaign, IL 05/2016 - 01/2018 Design company brand media, such as the company logo and event banners, and direct the creation of product-specific visual marketing elements to increase the company's exposure and familiarize the audience with the product.
ACCOLADES TEDX SPEAKER “Passing the Salt Across the Cultural Divide” - TEDx Vernon Area Library: Crossing the Line AIA HENRY ADAMS MEDAL Award for “excellence in the study of architecture” given to the top student in the graduating class of an accredited B. Arch program CAMRAS FULL TUITION SCHOLARSHIP Merit-based 5-year scholarship: Illinois Institute of Technology DEAN’S LIST CERTIFICATE Diligent scholarship and academic excellence: Illinois Institute of Technology College of Architecture (all semesters in attendance)
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RIVER DETOX: LOOP 3 Mixed Use, Urban Design, Environmental Design, Parametric Design Partners: Julia Mosqueda, Ngoc Le Bright candies in the box of Chicago’s urban fabric. A new, continuous pedestrian-focused path through the heart of Chicago. A new millennial-focused vertical urbanism within a sustainable armature focused on filtering and remediating the water of the Chicago River.
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The words “Chicago” and “Loop” go hand-in-hand. In fact, there are several different loops in the city. The term’s original usage was brought about by the public transportation “loop” created in the city center by the elevated rail lines in the 1890s. Later, the term became synonymous with the central business district and the fervor of commerce that occurs there. There is a third loop, however, that the city is missing to this day, and it is arguably the most important of them all.
The pedestrian loop. The LOOP3 project seeks to create just that - a pedestrian experience that offers its users a continuous, engaging path along the river, lake, and parts of the city with an uninterrupted flow of new environments that does not require one to stop, turn around, and experience the same sequence again. 5
Nested into the crucial southwest corner where the pedestrian experience turns from the river to the lake (or vice versa) a mixed-use development of mid- and high-rise gem-like structures brings the density of the loop to the former industrial area on the corner of Harrison and Wells. A transit hub featuring a new CTA Blue Line stop and two River taxi stops makes it easy for high volumes of people to access the site, and a new redistribution of program within each building creates interactions, collisions, and connections between people who would not have had them otherwise. Additionally, this sustainable development seeks to do its part to clean and remediate the Chicago River, while increasing public awareness of sustainable water filtering and retention practices through a sequence of water focused public spaces that filter and slow the flow of stormwater. 6
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The adaptable micro-living pods start off in an orderly fashion, completely closed and waiting for their inhabitants to make them their own.
As people begin to inhabit the pods, they are able to open and configure them to suit their lifestyle, move them around, and join them with the others, forming neighborhoods. 8
Behind the wooden fin facades, the public “loop� meandering throughout the building is hollowed out and highlighted with a reflective acetate cladding.
Groupings of four fins come down to touch the ground using a dramatic single-bolt pin connection. Terraces position themselves between the fins and the glazing. 9
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Columns
Columns Sliced Vertically
Slices Separated with Regular Spacing
Density of Spacing Altered
Select Fins Twist Around Base
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From the exterior, the facade creates a texture of light, wood, and warmth that playfully varies in accordance to internal program, catering to needs such as light, view, and privacy.
On the inside, a series of public terraces form a path through the building, bringing a sense of community and neighborhood, even to those living high off the street level. 13
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The GROVE Community Center Partner: Arian Garcia A third space for the public of Evanston. Three bands catering to patrons of Mind, Body, and Spirit program with specific hybridized intersection points to facilitate the creation and strengthening of bonds across divides of culture, interest, and worldview.
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BODY Floor 4 Floor 3 Floor 2 Grade Floor -1 Ice Sheets
Seating
Concessions Track
Gymnasium
Fitness
Pool
MIND Floor 4 Floor 3 Floor 2 Grade Floor -1 Library
Kitchen
Multi-Purpose Spaces
Maker Space
SOUL Floor 4 Floor 3 Floor 2 Grade Floor -1 Sport Viewing
Park
Theater
Dance Viewing
Baths
The building is a compositions of three spatial sequences, each catering to program serving the human Body, Mind, and Soul respectively. The potent sequences, however, intersect with one another at strategic points to create collisions and interactions between members of separate programs that could have never occurred otherwise.
The modular, adaptable facade comprising of primary structural members, secondary glass frame elements, and tertiary light-filtering elements caters to internal programmatic demands while offering varying degrees of permeability to light, view, air, and circulation. 17
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The three sequences twist and fold around one another, creating opportunities to see and move into neighboring sequences. The facade continues both into the site and into the inside of the building, controlling the permeability from sequence to sequence while structurally supporting the building. This system is crowned at the top by a flitch beam system hybridizing heavy timber and steel, visually expressing the bending moment forces in each span by varying the geometry of the steel while allowing for said spans to be longer and not interrupt the internal space with vertical structural elements. 20
Aside from allowing for variations in geometry and density to cater to programmatic demands for light, view, and privacy, the flexibility of the facade and structural system has the capability to directly support a wide variety of activities that can seasonally take over various spaces both inside the enclosed building as well as on the exterior throughout
the site. A space can cater to a group of trapeze artists conducting a public performance one day, and provide the environment for an artist’s exhibition the next thanks to the variety of sizes of spaces, non-rigid programming, and adaptability of the system that supports it all. This ensures all of the spaces are constantly used throughout the year. 21
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Park the Void Mixed Use Partner: Garrett Bernhagen An experimental proposal for the coexistence of people and vehicles, filling the no-man’s land of central River North. Carved out of a parking garage are expansive open-air vertical gardens around which modular residential and retail micro-units cluster on a supply/demand basis.
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Although River North consists of several highly vivid and densely concentrated programs (galleries, restaurants and bars, and stores), these programs occur in separate corners and quadrants of the neighborhood, separated from one another by a No Man’s Land without any distinct neighborhood-like atmosphere. And all of that doesn’t even mention 26
the severe need for parking...lots and lots of parking. This prompts the concept of the coexistence of two things determined by traditional urbanism to be mutually exclusive - the human-centric neighborhood and the private car as a mode of transportation.
EXTREME CASE 1: Glorified Parking Lot
EXTREME CASE 2: Drive-Through Condos
Possible Cause: - Metra fare hike
Possible Cause: - Vacation season
Floor 2: - 35 parking spots - 0 residential units - 1 spot / 46 enclosed sq. ft
Floor 2: - 10 parking spots - 13 residential units - 1 spot / 508 enclosed sq. ft
Entire Building: - 180 parking spots - 0 residential units
Entire Building: - 65 parking spots - 99 residential units
The project attempts to address this existing conditions by interweaving these different programs with residential units that spiral up two separate voids in the structure, voids that cut through a consistent field of aisles and stalls that comprises a parking garage. Each unit is modular to an aisle or stall dimension to allow for a better integration with the flow
and dimension of a car, and the residential units take the extra leap of becoming erectable and removable, replacing 2 or 3 stalls (depending on unit size) of parking when demand for residential spaces justifies it, and disappearing when tenants move out and parking spaces become more profitable. 27
Such an arrangement focuses inward - after all, River North constantly changes an evolves, and the project cannot depend on specific outward views as they may change or be entirely obstructed at any point in time. It is the void, then, that begins to act as a focal point of the ensemble of spaces for both pedestrians and drivers. The small pockets of tertiary gathering space play host to a Jane Jacobs-esque sidewalk life, and this vertical street created by the voids and stairs takes on a truly neighborhood-like atmosphere through the blending of commercial and residential program. Both residents and guests alike get to mingle amongst one another, developing a community and sparking interactions and relationships. All of this is wrapped inside a car-focused environment, generating contrasts and oppositions - vehicular order and pedestrian chaos - coexisting and serving one another. In this part of the city, the people cannot quite exist without their cars, and the cars surely cannot exist without the people - beyond mere tolerance, however, there is mutual benefit. 28
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WAVE Digital Fabrication - Installation Proposal Partner: Tanil Raif Competition proposal for a CNC-fabricated, human-scale seating/pavilion structure directly in front of Crown Hall’s south porch.
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The concept of the WAVE stems from the desire to make a static object imbue the qualities of motion. Taking cues from stop-motion animation, a series of plywood sheets are tilted vertically and arranged in a sequence. A flowing surface geometry is then generated and subtracted from the panels, excavating a tunnel-like path from the inside of the assembly, allowing for the human body to enter and travel through the assembly. The trimmed sheets, like frames in a motion picture, advance the movement of this wave overhead, conveying its progress as stillframes or snapshots in time.
The spacing of the sheets is not kept static either, and instead dramatically densifies at various points and spreads out at others throughout the journey through the installation. The points of de-densification allow more light into the interior while conserving material, while the areas of greater density allow for enough material to create a comfortable seating surface. At these points, the geometry of the wave lifts itself off of the ground and creates flat, ergonomic, bench-like sections, with the one on each end meant for solitary contemplation, while two in the center of the WAVE face each other to foster conversation. 33
ake sure this thing doesn’t fall over
ASSEMBLY To make sure this thing doesn’t fall over
In an effort to conserve material and lower the cost of the proposal, the original concept of solid plywood panels was substituted with one featuring hollowed-out panels, assembled from separate CNC-milled pieces. Allowing for a greater number of pieces to be fit on a single 8’ x 4’ sheet of plywood, this proposal minimized wasted material, substantially decreased the weight of the structure, and allowed for more light penetration without significantly impacting external appearance. 34
The pieces comprising a single “panel” would be milled with integrated lap joints that would align to those of its neighboring pieces. Those connections would be aided by two bolts each. All of the pieces would be secured together by a series of slotted 2’ x 4’ members placed at the corners and midpoints of each side. Each connection would be secured by a 90 bracket fitted into a pocket milled into the panel and 2’ x 4’, offering greater rigidity with a lessened visual impact.
The experience of the WAVE is one of light and space. The spacing and orientation of the slats offers an interplay of light and shadow, sending dancing patterns into the interior space. While one feels more sheltered from the outside and can take part in more mediative activities, the space still remains connected to the exterior due to its porosity. The beholder is brought to a greater sense of spatial awareness as they journey through the installation, allowing it to encroach from one side as they
enter, pass overhead and enclose, and then open up once more on the other side. Such an experience creates a dialogue between what is solid and what is void, and how the human mind interprets abstract space. Positioned immediately across from the iconic S. R. Crown Hall’s south porch, the installation begins a dialogue and potential critique using the difference between its rigid, rectangular exterior boundary and more fluid, human-scale interior void - a new take on form following function. 35
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