Portfolio Druzhinina Evgeniia 2023

PORTFOLIO PORTFOLIO

Saint Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering

WORK EXPIRIENCE

Landscape architect and visualizer

I am a team-leader of visualizers. Besides, I develop sustainable concepts for the public space improvement. I can find and analyze the identity of territories and implemented it in architectural guidelines or projects. Our team took second place in the East River Development Concept competition in Yekaterinburg.

Landscape architect

I developed landscaping concepts and invented a new graphic style of visualizations for the bureau.

I was a guest lecturer in graphics at my university, I taught individual compositional and stylistic features of architectural visualizations, taught students Photoshop.

Visualizer

Tutor Intern

did visualizations for the bureau.

Hi, my name is Zhenya, and in the photo on the left it’s me.

My biggest passion, in addition to changing hair color, is creating atmospheric visualisations, the second passion is generating ideas, exploring territories in search of their highlights, and my third passion, but not in importance, designing a comfortable anthropomorphic environment, thinking through scenarios of people’s lives in the space that I create.

My portfolio begins with a bachelor’s degree project, continuing with more mature and severe commercial projects as part of architectural bureaus. Still, the main narrative of dreaminess, creativity, and ingenuity, which is so much in the first diploma project, tried to stretch through all the portfolio and all my places of work.

DRUZHININA EVGENIA

Age 25 Phone +995 591704986 Location Georgia, Tbilisi Language English, Russian Mail jradugaa@gmail.com Telegram t.me/jradugaa

CONTENT

Landscape architect & Visualizer

STRELKA

Diploma project

Type diploma project

Location RUssia/Nizhny novgorod/ confluence of the Oka and Volga rivers

Conception

Creation of the educational platform inside the designed embankment to make visitors pay attention to the problem of the environmental pollution. This is a study of the positive impact on the environment that can be made by an ordinary person. My goals is to preserve the memory of the place and to connect the historical spirit with the present time by uncovering the curious history of the city to its citizens and tourists. There are 4 main historical territories which were formed by the events happened in each part of the embankment.

1721 FAIR

Historically, there was a city fair in this place. The main concept of this project is to preserve the memory of place, so here are renovated historical buildings which then became a commercial premises. People could buy products brought by local farmers or rent a place for a workshop to craft something and to sell it. The main characteristics of the Fair territory:

Leisure Food court Stalls

TWO LEVELS

Previously, the ground level was lower, so I suggested to partly excavate the street that was in this place historically and to create a double-decked street.

a square on the lower level of the street an eco products fair

a fairground with the view on the church an urban construction

the rink workshops street cafes

1817 PORT/LANDSCAPE

in the modern context, the Port embankment territory is transformed into a Landscape and provides free access to water (a beach, a pantoon-path) and to nature (a natural park) which was destroyed during the construction of the historical cargo port at this place. Here are the main features: Communication Movement

Naturalness

FLOODING

The territory is occasionally flooded so I developed a system of hiking trails for visitors to have an opportunity to go everywhere and have free access to water.

a beach bar a bioswale

a flower field with the opportunity to pick flowers

the main pedestrian area an open-air coworking space

The embankment is flooded

1928 EXHIBITION

Due to the abandoned warehouse structures after the All-Russia Industrial and Art Exhibition, thus the main features of this node:

Observation Education

Cognition

a bioswale a greenhouse

MEDIA-LIBRARY & GREENHOUSE

Warehouse structures are the core of the environmental agenda of this project. A lecture space with a large library and a greenhouse is designed to inform and teach people the principles of an eco-friendly lifestyle.

a sports area for climbing and crossFit

a media-library workshops

the view on the hill in the historical part of the city

a kids area made from the port equipment

2018 stadium

The Stadium territory is named after the large Stadium constructed for the FIFA World Cup next to it. I analysed the needs of the residents of nearby areas and decided to design a sports cluster and a pededestrian area for quiet promenades. The main features of this territory are:

Sport Strolls

Filtration

Most of the park’s eco-education consists of the system of rain water distillation gardens -- bioswales. They are located on each territory and show visitors how ecofriendly water purification process works.

a bioswale an existing shopping mall

a skatepark

the main pedestrian area

a basketball court and a fitness pavilion a treatment facilities

a bike path

Competitive project

NAME ROBIN

Type competitive project (as a part of mla+ team)

Location RUssia/Ekaterinburg/ embankment of the iset river

MY PART Head of a team of visualizers, researcher the identity of territories, co-author of the main idea of the project

Conception

The embankment of the Iset river is urbanized very fast -- this is a threat to its untouched nature. But how can we open the river to the city and citizens and what is the Iset river lifestyle? The competition was targeted for beautifying the river in very thin project borders and we realize that current problems can’t be solved like this. There is needed the whole strategy for river valley development. So we decided that the base of this strategy will be the balance between nature values and residential construction.

One way for everyone natural shores

Identity of the districs

New city centers

one way for everyone

The principal value of the territory is untouched nature. The main danger is the planned development of natural shores. Our statements: The river is a corridor of alternative mobility, where you can drive in the shade of trees. The path can be simple, the main thing is its presence and connectivity between the shores and the city center. The path runs along the upper part of the embankment, preserving the natural shore and fixing the building’s line. A system of bridges is organized for the track not be interrupted and becomes part of the daily routes of citizens.

WATER TOUCHING

One of the values of the territory is the river that permeates the city from top to bottom. The main problem is that the river is cut off from residents. Bicycle and pedestrian paths are not enough to interact with water. There should be an opportunity to come up and «touch the water» -- listen, look, touch, inhale. To do this, we offer several unique objects. The way the path to the water is arranged depends on the type of shore.

the way to the water unique objects sloping shore swampy shore

Ecology

Birds and animals become rare species in urban places, but they are the main helpers for nature’s health, this is their normal connection. In this project, we decided to support biodiversity by working with vegetation and with riverbeds. The project solutions -- special vegetation which helps to find food for animals and birds, houses for animals and insects, maintaining the tortuosity of the riverbed, and respect for nature by the visitors.

districts identity

Iset is the main vital axis of Yekaterinburg, a river that flows through the whole city, stringing together the districts of the city with its own history and image. I studied the history and visual identity of the vernacular areas adjacent to the design site. I highlighted the key events and vivid visual associations, on the basis of which collective images were compiled -- collages for each district and identified the characteristic colors and materials. These images become the basis for the design gideline of the elements of the improvement of the embankment

pine forest district

Botanika district bus-station district

uktus district

Axonometric view on the «Water imitation» yard

The builder of design-code 1 3 4 2

The basic material of the tracks and elements is neutral so that the design code is readable. These are immutable items. Individual materials and patterns are used in the elements of benches, trash cans and entrances. These are mutable items

Find the local identity of the districts

Define the material and pattern for each area

Select basic immutable embankment objects

Apply material and pattern in mutable objects

Uktus district

The main images and associations are mountainous terrain, the factory theme, the progenitor of Yekaterinburg. The material is aluminum panels for copper, the main pattern is factories, factory atmosphere, as a memory of the place.

COR-TEN

pine forest district

The area used to be called Therapeutic, it is associated with recovery, rest, tranquility, a forest sanatorium. The main building of the district is wooden low — rise houses, with wooden masonry «herringbone».

Wood

herringbone

factories

bus station district

The two lines of the district’s identity are modernism and transport themes. We use yellow painted metal, since the first trams there were yellow. in the pattern, the silhouette of a preserved building of the Art Nouveau era.

painted metal

Botanika district

One of the key buildings of the district is the Uktusa airport of the Constructivist era of 1930, which was demolished in 2021.

The most recognizable color in the botany area is the green panels of residential buildings of different shades.

aviation modernism

painted concrete

NAME ECO YARDs/ meadow & Aquatic

Type concept development (as a part of scape team)

Location RUssia/moscow/ yard space for comfort class housing

MY PART co-author of the main idea of the project, planning, vizualization

Conception

There were 2 territories for development and residential buildings which are located at the place which was the village in the past. The village was located on the bank of the Moscow river and there were beautiful meadow fields. The concept of Eco Yards (Meadow and Aquatic) is based on the history of the place.

Shaping of the Meadow yard Shaping of the Aquatic yard

chaotically located bubbles meadow plants

the river seems to flow into the courtyard

chaoticness is saved but in some bubbles appears functional zones

It is formed the main pedestrian paths and functional zones

it turns out a field garden with some playgrounds

it turns out an inward-facing courtyard structure inside which «streams» of pedestrian activity flow

masterplan of Aquatic Yard

Axonometric view on the «Among herbs» yard

among herbs

The chaotic structure of the landings is permeated by the main pedestrian path. But inside the garden, you can always turn off the route and find a platform hidden behind the hills.

water imitation

The main pedestrian road-the river is taken out of the yard, but narrow paths like streams separate from the general flow and flow into the green yard.

Axonometric view on the «Water imitation» yard

SACHALIN

architectural guidelines

Type Architectural code (as a part of MLA+ team)

Location RUssia/sakhalin island

MY PART development of the architectural code of the territory

Conception

This project is about making the global architectural guideline for the whole Russian Far East. I needed to do some research to understand what is consist of the local identity of the Sakhalin island. based on the research I needed to design distinctive architectural objects and formulate principle solutions for future landplanning.

Architectural concrete

Metal with the effect of water ripples

Painted surfaces

Bleached wood

The Unique object

After detecting fundamental visual features of the Sakhalin island I formalized a new palette of materials and colors. Also, I understood what kind of lifestyle do have locals, and in this way, the idea of the unique object was born. For the local people living on an island surrounded by the sea is part of their identity. So I decided to express this kind of living in architectural typology - a little pontoon island which includes 2 main amusement of the people there - swimming and fishing.

defined new palette of colors and materials

the use of wood of different colors refers us to the main riches of the Sakhalin region — red fish and caviar

reflective metal details as a metaphor for silver salmon scale

in support of the fishing culture «caught — cooked», the pontoon for fishermen is equipped with a grill area

built-in cages for caught fish and stands for fishing rods

a screenshot from «Miro» in the process of reserch

selection of equipment

One more challenge was street furniture, it should not be an individual production, it has to be furniture in stock. In this way was do another research on the whole street furniture Russian market, collected at one place and typologies. Now it is the main source of equipment for the bureau.

The booklet

The result was a booklet with guidelines for several regions of the Russian Far East. This design code should begin to be implemented in 2024.

VIZUALIZATIONS

THE TASK

The project of a tourist cluster in the village of Teriberka. It was necessary to feel the whole atmosphere of northern nature and plant architecture that was modeled out of context on a certain territory that has a relief and its own characteristic landscape (the whole environment is Photoshop). Achieve a reflective texture of the materials on the facade and construct an atmosphere of the harsh north.

THE TASK

The project of a residential complex in Nizhny Novgorod. It was necessary to make visualizations for advertising the bureau and for advertising the residential complex for the developer himself. There was time to work out the model, to work with the atmosphere and detail of scenes and textures.

THE TASK

Continuation of the previous project in Nizhny Novgorod. The task of these angles is to show the building spot in context and draw the viewer’s attention to the different heights.

THE TASK

The Kama Lights project in Perm.

It was necessary to show a clear vertical division with the help of light and shadow, to build a strict «architectural» composition and show the texture and color of the materials on the facades in accordance with the materials already selected at the factory.

THE TASK

The Kama Lights project in Perm.

It was necessary to show a clear vertical division with the help of light and shadow, to build a strict «architectural» composition and show the texture and color of the materials on the facades in accordance with the materials already selected at the factory.

THE TASK

Exterior visualization for projects in the Russian Far East. In a very short time, it was necessary to create visualizations without having a designed plan for playgrounds. It was necessary to design them, make models, render and post-process them in Photoshop.

Taking into account all the introductory ones, it was decided to focus on the atmosphere and first impression, and not on specific architectural solutions.

THE TASK

I needed to fit a project model in a panorama from Google maps, create a sense of realism of what is happening, and add an atmosphere of «life».

THE TASK

A competitive project of a residential complex in Moscow Tushino. Since this is a competitive project, it was necessary to show the main idea and make a spectacular presentation quickly, without a well-developed model. The composition of the building that rests on the front of three white towers and then - a fine grid of courtyard spaces with low buildings.