GALINA MIHAILOVA PORTFOLIO
Galina Mikchailova 5.10.1993 Minsk, Belarus Contact Information +(375) 29 692 8332 galinamikchailova@gmail.com Education Belarusian National Technical University, Architectural Faculty 2011 2017 Riga Technical University, course UrbanLivability 2014
Experience Studio 11, junior architect december 2015 - june 2016 Rhizome group, intern architect july 2016 Varabyeu Partners, architect february 2017
intern
Belarusian Architecture Students’ Association, chairman may 2014 april 2015 Dobre company, architect september 2017 - january 2018
Skills Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Revit, AutoCad, 3ds Max, SketchUp model making, hand drawing
CIVIL CENTRE OF PEACE IN STOLBCY Modern society has recently shown need for places, where different people with different cultural backgrounds can discuss global challenges and feel free to share opinions. My idea was to create an international cultural and political centre in a small town to give it a new identity and to change the way powerful players see ordinary people and local communities.
In the 5th year in our university we have a course project named «City Community Centre». Every student should choose a small Belarusian town and create a multifunctional centre, that will not only bring the population of the town together around the new facilities but will also attract investment and public attention.
My task was to create a community centre in Stolbcy, a small town of 17 000 inhabitants with an average appearance and dramatic history.
The questions I had designed and aimed to answer throught my work were «What can the world bring to a small town?» and «What can a small town give to the global society?»
Troughout my project I endeavoured to create a centre that would be able to protect global community from being unheard and small towns from being unseen. New center will transform a town that has nothing special within it into a powerful symbol. Not-special towns and ordinary people are those who suffer most from «big decisions» made by «powerful players». Civil Centre of Peace will unite people of different social status within the territory where you will feel free and encouraged to make the world a better place. By introducing plain spacial composition I was trying to step away from the common image of governmental buildings and create more sincerer and more open architecture. Orthogonal system of streets and buildings is split by a wide central «alley» which connects the town and the centre and leads to the Square of 17 Thousand People (the population of Stolbcy is approximately 17 thousand people). The only dominant structure in the complex is the Archive Building.
principal schemes
HOUSE FOR CHEKHOV CLIMATIC STATION FOR WRITERS What it would be like to design a house for a writer? What it would be like to create a place where everyday life of its inhabitants becomes a part of theater performance and interior resembles stage scenery more than just walls and ceilings?
In the summer of 1888 got an idea of buying an estate in Poltava Province of the Russian Empire and establishing there some sort of house-commune for writers where they can live, write, share visions and insights. Unfortunately, Chekhov wasn’t able to bring this dream to life because of the health problems and deteriorating financial situation. I tried to imagine in what way this dream could be converted into architecture. I tried to design a house beyond time and beyond common interpretations of modern architecture. Probably the house that has no qualities but
Interior space of the house is formed by three enclosed volumes grouped around central ÂŤyardÂť which can be used under various form (theatre performances, literary meetings, tea parties, etc.). The first floor level of the house accommodates a reception room, a kitchen-dining area, library and a reading room for visitors. It also facilitates communication among the inmates, and contributes to the liveliness of the place. The second floor houses more private rooms. Thus within one enclosed space the house provides both easily accessible range of public spaces on the first floor and private rooms on the second. With reference to traditional estate architecture, the house adopts principles such as enclosure, symmetry and repetition, and reinterprets these in a simple and honest architectural language.
second floor
ground floor
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VDNH RENOVATION Situated in the centre of Minsk, the Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy pavilion is the first and still the most significant modernist building in our city. The maintenance of this building was neglected over past three decades. Recently city government has taken a decision to demolish pavilion and build a new private hotel on its site. Thus the most significant part of Minsk will soon lose its’ identity and become inaccessible for city residents.
The renovation of VDNH pavilion was my course project in 2015. My proposal was based on the intention to create an extremely bold piece of architecture in the centre of Minsk that will stand out from the range of city buildings the same way the transparent pavilion made it back in the day. The new extension keeps the site open to people and can be used under many different forms in accordance with the city programme. The pavilion itself is adapted for a new function of city library and reading hall.
save the original image of the exhibition hall
use the ÂŤprovisionalÂť identity of spontaneously constructed commercial pavilions
create an internal structure that will accommodate all administration and technical rooms of the library
aerial view
DRAWINGS
VARIOUS PROJECTS Studio 11 Rhizome group Belzarubezhstroy
private residence refurbishment
pavilion
residential building in Astana
design concept for office in Minsk