IVAN SKIBNEVSKY
EDUCATION 2012-2017
Moscow Architectural Institute Department of residential and public buildings Bachelor degree
WORK EXPERIENCE 2016-2019
Sergey Skuratov Architects, architect Competitions, detail documentation Moscow
2015
junya.ishigami+associates, intern Competitions, models, El Croquis publication Tokyo
WORKSHOPS
IVAN SKIBNEVSKY
2016
MLA+ urban workshop Maryino district research/redevelopment Moscow
CONTENTS
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Intro
adress Russia, Moscow, 127051 Trubnaja st. 25.2
2016
Verenitsa: saving wooden temples Preservation of a 17th century church Kargopol’, Volosovo
phone +7-903-156-16-86
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The large place. City
2015-2016
Point of View workshops Architecture schools research, presentations Ekaterinburg, Samara
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Chapter 1. Cultural center
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ĐĄhapter 2. Philharmonie
MARCHI summer practice Sketching, painting workshops Kirillov, Vologda
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The medium place. Park
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Chapter 3. Visitor center
COMPETITIONS
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Chapter 4. Observation tower
Kemeri Bog competitions by Bee Breeders Participant
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The small place. Dacha
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Chapter 5. Shishkovitsa
2016-2017
120 hours competitions Participant
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Chapter 6. Window pavillion
2014
Terradeck. Terraces in landscape design Finalist, 2nd place
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Drawings
e-mail vnskbnvsky@gmail.com
2014
languages russian - native english - IELTS 7.5 german - beginner software ArchiCAD, Revit, Rhino+Grasshopper Adobe PS, IND, IL QGIS, Excel handwork skills sketching, drafting, modelling 3d printing, foam cutting, sculpting
2018
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THE TALES OF THREE PLACES
Everything you do shows your hand. Everything is a self-portrait. Everything is a diary. — Chuck Palahniuk, "Diary" This portfolio aims to tell about three different places with their own unique qualities. Being located far from each other, they differ in sizes, typologies and functions. Each place: a city, a park and a countryside (dacha) is important for me and each contains two projects of mine, which either complement each other or act in contra. I tend to believe that every single architectural project, conceptual, educational or the one under construction, tells a story about its designer. It is technically his self-portrait, projected onto the landscape. These projects of mine are never to be realized, which is why they are only tales. Tales of how once in my life I saw these sites in my head. And the portfolio, which collects all these tales that are parts of myself, is therefore me. 3
THE LARGE PLACE. CITY Irkutsk, Russia The first tale is the largest in scale. It meets us with a wonderful Siberian city of Irkutsk. Being chosen by a chance as a designing site, the work took me almost a year, which is why it was divided into two projects, which form a single whole. Even though Irkutsk is located very far from my place of habitat, I have absolutely no pity about visiting it and falling in love with its nature, views and its peculiar self-consciousness.
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SITE INFORMATION location: Surikova st., Irkutsk, Russia site area: 4.2 ha design year: 2016-2017 type: educational program + competition CONDITIONS The site is located in the historical center of Irkutsk, on the embankment of Angara river. Nowadays, the site is a huge abandoned industrial zone with an old heating station on the site, several scattered facilities and no approach to water. COMPETITION TASK 1. to design a residential complex, a trading center and a Philharmonie 2. to redevelop the Angara embankment
Embankment redevelopment will reconnect the riverline
Cultural quarter together with the trading center will create a solid entertainment city structure
PLOT After analyzing the territory thoroughly, I came to the decision, that Irkutsk lacks cultural events and facilities. Nowadays, there is a large trading quarter in the city, so the idea of creating a whole cultural quarter appeared to be extremely relevant and helpful both for the city and its citizens.
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The other important aspect of the project was to reconnect two parts of the embankment, separated by this former industrial site. Eventually, I excluded residential and trading functions from the task program and substituted it with cultural functions. A list of positions was added, such as coworking, art galleries, a library, an auditorium and others. To preserve the atmosphere and the history of the place, I also decided to preserve the heating station. 6
ĐĄHAPTER 1. CULTURAL CENTER
One part of the quarter is the cultural center. Due to the site’s adjacent positions to important historical buildings, such as numerous churches and the town hall, the significant aspect of the project was to be simple, light and reflective. Keeping in mind this and the number of functions, the spatial solution turned out to be a composition of white prisms, which intersect each other and seem to flow on the site space. Prisms are arranged that way, so that light and air transfuse the complex in various directions.
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The old heating station is being preserved, so it also filled up with a variety of functions, which blend with those in the new building. Pedestrian routes, bridges and open spaces create a lot of opportunities for people to spend their time both inside and open-air. Underground parking allows keeping all the vehicles off the street. Thereby, the city gains a whole public quarter, that affects positively its cultural life, marketing (hotel, food court, coworking) and other aspects.
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Purity and freshness of the new building combined with heaviness and age of the heating station create a very expressive pair: glass and brick blend together to create a single whole. While the bearing walls of the station are thick and rough, white prisms are covered with u-profile beams filled with aerogel. This way new building seem white from the street and yet allow diffused light inside, which is important for such spaces as galleries and the library. Where direct sun rays are necessary either aerogel is missing or glass changes with perforated metal panels. 9
ะกHAPTER 2. PHILHARMONIE
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The second part of the project is the city Philharmonie for 1200 people. Due to its location alongside Angara river, its shape is stretched in length. Being relatively low and made of weathering steel, the building mimics an old rusted barge, very common to Irkutsk. Structure aims to attract attention and simultaneously calm the embankment view after it being filled with motley modern residential architecture. Even though the total length of the building is approximately 300 meters, its body is split into three parts to allow citizens to gain access to water.
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The main conception of this heavy appearance is to deliberately create a form that would be irrelevant and heterogeneous. This will lead to citizens to be shocked, to have questions and eventually to lure them inside due to their curiosity. On the inside however the absolute contrary awaits for them - soft, comfortable and haptic interior in addition to charming qualities of music will create dissonance in peoples minds and hopefully turn them into more open-minded ones.
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Concert hall of the Philharmonie is hidden inside the tough core, like a yolk in an egg. The building around it consists of three parts: cafe with a ticket office, the main part with a lobby and concert hall itself and the third part -music school, which can also be used by artists to prepare to a concert or by musicians to perform little chamber concerts. 12
THE MEDIUM PLACE. PARK Kemeri national park, Latvia The second tale narrates about a true nature cradle, hidden in one of the greenest countries in the middle of Europe. A magnificent nature park with a heart of a bog, surrounded by pine forests charmed me almost instantly, so when there were two competitions held on this site, without hesitation I decided to participate in both.
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SITE INFORMATION location: Kemeri, Jurmala region, Latvia site area: 382 km2 design year: 2018 type: architectural competitions CONDITIONS The site is located in the middle of Latvia. There is an entrance to the park and a few walking routes, leading to the bog and back. Nowadays, park facilities are prepared neither for a big quantity of visitors nor for people with disabilities.
ARCHITECTURE COMPETITION
GREAT KEMERI BOG VISITOR CENTER COMPETITION CONDITIONS
The center of ther park is a picturesque bog, which is surrounded by pine trees
COMPETITION TASK 1. to develop an entrance field and design a visitor center 2. to redevelop access to the bog and design a new observation tower PLOT Nature is the main character on this playground, it dictates specific rules on its possessions, so it was important to create humble and relevant structures on one hand, and to keep my own dignity and style on the other.
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CHAPTER 3. VISITOR CENTER The first project in Kemeri national park is the visitor center and the entry field surrounding it. The site is surrounded by a dense pine forest, it is almost completely plane and it pierced with just one pathway. The visitor center would be the only permanent structure on the site, but the zoning consists also of a parking lot for 100 cars and 4 buses, a camping site and a playground. Children playing features are scattered all over the site, so it is one big playground. The site is defined by a field on one side of the road, but I decided to involve the adjacent field in the project too, enlarging this whole entrance complex. The idea is to supply it with stone and wooden sculptures, external furniture and different plants and therefore turn it into a chamber landscape park, which could hold various concerts and exhibitions.
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When one enters the meadow, he sees a typical vernacular building with a sloped roof and made of timber. But as one starts getting closer, a peculiar metamorphosis is happening with the building. I imagined that there is an unseen border between Kemeri and outer life, and the field plays a role of the gates to nature. Keeping this in mind, the visitor center is placed right on this border. Eventually, it looks all serious and rectangular on the “human side�, but starts imitating or even melting into nature on its side. Straight lines turn to curves, air and light start sneaking inside: a building merges with nature. To sum up, the visitor center has two appearances, two personalities, while remaining a single whole.
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All the staff rooms, storages and bathrooms are fitted compactly in one part of the building, whereas the rest of it houses a multifunctional 7 meters high open space. Its main function is the cafe with a souvenir shop, but a different furniture arrangement can easily turn the space to either an auditorium or an exhibition hall. The building is made of wood: a core made of glued timber frames and the decking made of silver discoloured aspen. The visitor center is effective in terms of vandalism since elevation decking could be easily replaced and windows and doors have shutters.
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Conception of the building’s expansion under nature’s influence leads to a picturesque opening in the open space. Opening’s plane is slightly turned to the sun path to allow more light inside. Under the window frame, there is a custom metal pattern inspired by a pattern of the bog. Sun rays that go through the pattern create a charming atmosphere, which allows the building to claim itself as a temple of nature.
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CHAPTER 4. OBSERVATION TOWER If one will continue his journey, he will enter the walking route leading to the bog. After walking for some time a surrealistic dark structure will show up on the way. One may be surprised to know that the horizontal structure is an observation tower. Nevertheless, the explanation is the most simple: stairs are changed to the ramps so the inclination becomes more gentle. A tower lies down and yet lift its visitors to the height of 6 meters. 19
One of the competition’s most significant tasks was to create the tower accessible for people with disabilities. Almost instantly an idea of an incredibly long ramp came to my mind. After placing it on the plane site, the ramp structure was bent to create unique perspective views both on the exterior and on the top of the tower. The structure exists as a part of the walking path, so a random visitor will be almost forced to get inside and make it to the top.
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Tower’s structural idea is simple and compact: two parallel ramps go in different directions and then there is a plane diagonal path that connects tops of the ramps. This way you climb up by one ramp and get down by another. Decking of the tower is made by “yakisugi” technology - a burnt wood greatly withstands precipitation and decay.
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THE SMALL PLACE. DACHA Teatral'naya station, Moscow region This tale is the smallest and the most private one. It tells a story about a place I grew up, then left it for a long time and then returned back there to as a place for meditation and creativity experiments.
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Awake at night – the sound of the water jar cracking in the cold. — Matsuo Basho SITE INFORMATION location: Teatral'naya st., Moscow region, Russia site area: 900 m2 design year: 2016 type: ambitions realization CONDITIONS The site is an old countryside of my family, which is located not far from Moscow. It is relatively a small piece of land surrounded by 5 other countrysides. Grown-up trees are scattered everywhere on the site: there are pines, birches, oaks, apple trees, maples and many other. Because of all the trees' branches, it gets dark early in the morning, which causes a tiny bit of melancholy when alone in the evening.
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PLOT Together with my brother, we used to spend almost every summer here when we were children. Many years have passed since that time, but since 2016 I have revived this tradition. I enjoy staying there tidying up the site, meditating and at some point, I realized that I could materialize some of my design ideas. 1
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CHAPTER 5. SHISHKOVITSA The first such idea came to my mind when i was tidying the site and suddenly collected a huge amount of cones. Its shape and the ability to transform due to the weather inspired me a lot and I decided to cast it into a single structure. It was only the next year after I had collected them that together with my friend Victoria Matryuk we started assembling it, and only even a year after that we finished it. But there was no rush, the work was meditative and painstaking.
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After a few sketches and ideas we decided to crown the entrance to the house with an arched shape made out of cones. We created a digital model in a computer and carefully started assembling the structure. Technically the whole form is a metal grid attached to the portico ceiling, and cones attached to the grid on different heights with a transparent fishing line. Hanging in the entrance this cone form creates a cozy, meditative and welcoming atmosphere. 25
At first, the grid was attached to the ceiling. Then a total quantity of 748 cones was attached to the fishing line and hanged on a specific height, dictated by the digital model. It was a truly painstaking work to put one row of cones after another. We started our work in early may - when it became warm and paused in late october, when it became chilly. The structure consists of cones from surroundings and also a few were picked in the Alps during a ski trip.
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CHAPTER 6. WINDOW PAVILLION The idea of the second project was in a way similar - collecting and recycling, but this time my intentions were more grandiose - it was all about collecting old window frames. It attracted my attention that all these frames lying on the dump were different and unique, all from different houses, keeping different stories. I decided to assemble a structure, a little houses out of them and began collecting.
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1. Dump treasures: 32 unique window frames
2. Frames in miniature are a jigsaw puzzle
3. Solution to a puzzle creates a project.
The total amount of collected window frames was 31 plus one door. Since these frames were my initial, I decided to copy them in miniature and solve a puzzle of how could they fit together. Based on its size and structural abilities, I created four elevations, and then a 3d model of the house. A wooden skeleton, floor decks and transparent roof and it will all set up. Unfortunately, it is still hard for me to make some time and finish the project in situ. 28
There are a lot of trees on the site, and I dreamed of a tea house, where you could sit, enjoy the tea, listen to the whispering of leaves, birds’ songs or raindrops falling onto the roof and ground. Alone or with someone by my side, I believe the place would turn out to be meditative and lyrical. 29
DRAWINGS I have been drawing since early childhood, always getting classwork paper sheets filled with lines and figures and characters, whereas everybody else had nice clean textbooks. Never attending art school before the Moscow Architectural Institute took away some practicing time, but granted me my own distinctive style. I do believe that sometimes the Thinking Hand wakes up before mind does, so sometimes I start drawing without having any idea of what will it be. I have also figured out an interesting behaviour speciality of myself: I draw mostly patterns at work, plants at home and architecture on planar.
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above: a cloud above right: snowflakes were falling and i recorded their paths bottom right: stones 31
vnskbnvsky@gmail.com +7-903-156-16-86 Moscow, Russia
