Architecture Portfolio 2014-2017

Maria Kortiashvili A rch ite c ture Por t fol i o

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Masterplan and Large scale

Residential

Masters Degree

Art Center in Pollokshields, Glasgow

Masterplan for Kinning Park, Glasgow

Double Villa and Alexander «Greek» Thomson

Development of new masterplan for historic area of «Alekseevskaya Pumping Station №II» in one of Moscow historic areas

Glasgow School of Art

Projects 2016-2017

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History and Preservation

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Masterplan for Lefortovo district, Moscow

«Turgenevskaya Street» in Moscow city center

120 Hours Competition entry 2014

Dissertation

120 Hours Competition entry 2015

«The possible influence of Soviet Constructivism on British architecture on example of works by Tecton group and Berthold Lubetkin»

Moscow Architectural University Projects 2012-2016

«Vinogradovo» Community Hall, Moscow

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The Art Gallery and Studio Spaces for Pollokshields, Glasgow The Building Compendium Glasgow School of Art, Makintosh School of Architecture 2016-2017

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Art Center in Pollokshields, Glasgow Introduction

Pollokshields Art Center is an outcome of 5-month project by group 4th year architecture students at the Glasgow School of Art. This design is a continuation from a previous project at Stage 4 - Urban Housing project (pages 28-43) for Pollokshields - masterplan development for Kinning Park, Glasgow - an 8-week group project. This chapter is a progress diary, which shows the whole design process as it developed from the beginning.

The site The site is located in the heart of Pollokshields - historic area which was developed in Victorian times. This city area was originally designed in 1849. Today Pollokshields is a very quiet and residential area of Glasgow, connected to the city center with underground, bus routes and railway lines.

The designed site is located on the corner of Leslie and Kier Street (in front of the Maxwell square). It is an empty corner of a tenement block, which was built in the end of 19th century.

Since the site is opened towards Maxwell square, it is important to incorporate Maxwell square into design, it is also important to take into consideration the height of the surrounding tenements buildings.

Glasgow Site Plan

Concept The main concept of the whole structure is to create the different levels (floor plates) which are connected by number of stairs and ramps and end up in a complex scheme of platforms on several levels which can be seen from the outside. The building has 6 ÂŤstoreysÂť with these platforms in-between them. The building is divided into 3 main blocks - the central part of the building represents the main reception hall, entrance and circulation; the tower part on the left is allocated to studio spaces and is the highest part of the building; the left part of the building is 3 storeys high and has gallery spaces inside.

Many views of Pollokshields

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Art Center in Pollokshields, Glasgow Sketches

Relation to the Maxwell square

Facades of Pollokshields

Initial design scheme for the Art Center

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Art Center in Pollokshields, Glasgow Research

Figure plan, Maxwell square

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Local greenery, Maxwell square

Art Center in Pollokshields, Glasgow Research

Public spaces and places of interest, Maxwell square

Masterplan for the new design, Maxwell square

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Art Center in Pollokshields, Glasgow Site model/3D vizualization

Axonometric view over Maxwell square

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Overall axonometric view of the building

Arial view over the Maxwell square Clay and foam model

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Axonometric view showing new design scheme for the Art Center and new development of Maxwell square.

Extending design solution to the square: it is important to engage Maxwell square into design solution as it creates ÂŤopennessÂť of the Art Center towards urban fabric and creates relationship with local area.

The square is to be an open-to-public small park, with pedestrian routes leading to the small pavilion structure (art center pavilion, open to public on special occasions and/or summer time) and playgrounds for kids.

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Art Center in Pollokshields, Glasgow Site/Axonometric Views

Axonometric view over Maxwell square, many ideas for square re-development

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From above: Ground floorplan, 1st floor plan

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Entrance/Reception area

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Library

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Art Center in Pollokshields, Glasgow Interior visualizations

Studio view I

Studio view II

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Art Center in Pollokshields, Glasgow Structural model views

Structural model views, exterior

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Structural model views, interior

The idea to create various floorplates on separate levels, with random heights between them resulted in complex open space with many artist studios connected with each other via stairs or ramps, all of which can be over seen from different floors and from the street.

This interior concept is to bring spirit of community and connectivity to creative groups of people.

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Interior studio visualizations

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Art Center in Pollokshields, Glasgow Interior views

Studio view III

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Art Center in Pollokshields, Glasgow Concept drawings

The concept sketches were used to create complex floor level system with floor plates of various levels, which can create new experience of an open space.

Concept interior sketch I

Concept interior sketch II

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Art Center in Pollokshields, Glasgow Main section/Main facade view

Main section view from Maxwell square

Main facade view from Maxwell square

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Art Center in Pollokshields, Glasgow Square section

Maxwell square «long» section

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Art Center in Pollokshields, Glasgow Floorplan visualizations

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Ground floor

1st floor

2nd floor

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Art Center in Pollokshields, Glasgow Floorplan visualizations and street views

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Street visualizations, Maxwell square

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Art Center in Pollokshields, Glasgow Architectural technology

South facade sun radiation study

Winter sun shadow study

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Summer sun shadow study

Structural section study

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Masterplan for Kinning park, Glasgow The Urban Project Glasgow School of Art, Makintosh School of Architecture 2016-2017

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Urban housing, Glasgow Introduction

Pollokshields in 19th century

Pollokshields in 20th century

Pollok Street is the outcome of an eight-week group project by 4th year architecture students studying at the Glasgow School of Art. This chapter tells a concise story of the process behind the scheme.

The site is on the Southside of Glasgow, close to Shields Road subway and below a railway line and the M8 motorway. It takes twenty minutes by car or subway to central station, or only a ten-minute cycle.

The land is left partially vacant, like an island surrounded by a mix of building typologies on all sides.

The area of the site is 78,000 m2. As the site is so large we have decided to focus on the East end. On this side much of the existing housing has been demolished or elements still standing are in despair.

The east half of the site includes villas, a school and an Islamic center, all of which are well used and in good condition.

This project was created with other students from Stage 4 Glasgow School of Art: Cameron McCue Dan Brown Ho Pui Hong Daniel Maria Kortiashvili Kitty Byrne Robert Hillman

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Urban housing, Glasgow Axonometric view over the site

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New park for local area

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Urban housing, Glasgow Masterplan concept and street views

Pollokshields site map and extension of McCullich Street

The is a clear boundary between the two parts of the site across St Andrew’s Drive. The public green space is currently left vacant and neglected and needs to be reclaimed for the residents to enjoy.

Keeping a green buffer between the busy road and residential areas will protect the residents from the noise and views.

3D views of existing conditions of the site

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Urban housing, Glasgow Masterplan concept diagram

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This scheme illustrates the connection and amenities surrounding the site. Schools are blue, community buildings are colored in peach.

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Nan Mckay Memorial Community Hall

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Glendale Primary School couryard

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Urban housing, Glasgow Card Models

ÂŤThe courtÂť The Courtyard housing sits at the South of the site. The existing slab-block is re-created and refurbished.

New flats connect and step down in height towards Pollok Street to form shared courtyards.

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Urban housing, Glasgow Card Model

«Back to back» On the North side of Pollok Street sits the back to back housing.

There are flats facing onto the street with combined retail units which share a back court with the three storey terraced housing facing onto St. Andrews drive.

The «Tower block» The existing tower blocks have recently been refurbished, however the residents lack any private or shared green space. The single storey loggia space created shared courtyards for all the residents to enjoy. Where the plan is thicker there are some shared internal rooms such as communal kitchens or storage spaces.

At the top of the tower a glass communal view platform has been created.

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Pollok street main section Pollok street is a housing proposal in Pollokshields on the South side of Glasgow.

The scheme reinstates at the former Pollok street which once sat in line with Scott Street, before M8 was constructed.

The street stretches east and west to reconnect to the end of the site.

Pollok street as a scheme aims to incorporate a wide range of housing typologies and units to serve the wider community and acknowledge the villas and tenements in the locale.

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Urban housing, Glasgow Diagrams

Existing slab block re-clad and extended

Connections continued and widened between blocks

Great unused areas around existing tower blocks

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New flats connected

Retail, cafe and workspaces dottted on ground floor

Loggia spaces on the ground floor create courtyards

New flats step down to Pollok Street

Terraced houses back onto a shared court

Space around landscaped into a park

Urban housing, Glasgow Diagrams

Sketch section through tower blocks, existing appartment block, and villas

Views of the extended Pollok street

Views of the extended Pollok street

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The community villa for growing

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Views of the extended Pollok street

Views of the extended Pollok street

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Double Villa project in Pollokshields 1-week Project Glasgow School of Art, Makintosh School of Architecture 2016-2017

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Double villa, Glasgow Introduction

Alexander «Greek» Thompson

Double Villa or Villa «Maria»

Triangular site at the junction of Nithsdale Road and Darnley Road close to Thomson’s Moray Place, Lorne Terrace and Nithsdale Road Tenement

The objective of this project is to invite designs for a contemporary interpretation of Thomson’s “Double Villa”, otherwise known as the Villa Maria.

Accommodation is to be equivalent to that of the semi-detached pair of the original design, and comprise arrangements for sleeping, eating, dining, washing and relaxing which reflect upon a 21st-century lifestyle.

Alexander Thomson was born in 1817 and completed an impressive range of villas, terraces, tenements, warehouses and churches during a short career before his death at the age of 57.

His buildings – many of which survive today – achieved international recognition during the 1950s due to their perceived influence on Frank Lloyd Wright.

Concept.

The main concept for this design was to combine to contemporary housing schemes in one structure - timber cabin on the top with pitched roof and skylight windows and modern minimalistic concrete house on the lower part.

Double Villa or Villa «Maria»

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Double Villa or Villa «Maria»

Double villa, Glasgow Concept sketches

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Double villa, Glasgow Card model

Final cardboard model Scale 1:50

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Double villa, Glasgow Card model views

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Masterplan for Alekseevsky district in Moscow Final Project Masters Degree Moscow Architecture University 2016-2017

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Masterplan for Alekseevsky district in Moscow Introduction/Restoration and reconstruction

Views of the site - old pumping station in Moscow

«Masterplan for Alekseevsky district in Moscow» is final thesis project completed by myself at the end of 6-year course at Moscow Architectural University in 2015-2016.

This project consists of two parts: first part - research and analysis of chosen territory, including the data on ages of surrounding buildings and structures, transport links and infrastructure, public places and major attractions around the locale.

Second part: design scheme itself, which includes masterplan sections, models, axonometric views and visualizations.

The site Chosen site is located in one of the historic areas of Moscow, which suffered greatly during Soviet government rule, when many great structures and buildings from Russian empire were demolished and destroyed. «Alekseevskaya pumping station» and foster home are the rare masterplans which ware designed and erected before Red October revolution in 1917 and were preserved by enthusiasts and architects until our days, however the site today is completely neglected and government is planning to demolish it and replace with luxury flats in the future.

The masterplan was designed and built in 1900-1903 around Orthodox church built in the 18th century, the building complex includes old orphanage housing and service buildings plus old pumping station first erected in 17th century and rebuilt several times until 20th century.

The goal of this design scheme is to preserve historic buildings and provide new sophisticated function for historic buildings, which can bring new dynamic and productive life to the area.

The concept The main concept of this scheme is to create a modern museum of cinema, with gallery spaces, studios for learning open theatres and several cinemas on its territory. In order not to interfere with existing historic location of to-be preserved buildings, the new structures are to be located underground, or in some places semi-underground covered with artificial green structure, which can be accessible and has big skylight windows providing great amount of light to the underground spaces.

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The old pumping station (on the left) and foster house (on the right) The site, yellow is buildings of XXth century construction, black is buildings built before second half of XIXth century, dark grey - buildings built in 1950-1960, light grey buildings built in 1920-1930

Concept collage for the project - combination of old architecture and new technologies - ÂŤutopian cityÂť

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Masterplan for Alekseevsky district in Moscow Research part

Points of attraction. Cross - local green areas, square - railway stations and lines, triangle - local subway stations

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Infrustructure and function map and buildings age map

Masterplan for Alekseevsky district in Moscow Research part

One of the crucial points of this project was research and analysis stage before any design decision was made.

It was important to highlight main public attractions, understand how transport system works and record the local buildings age.

During the research part of this scheme was discovered many unknown facts about the area which helped to understand the site better and develop coherent and concise new design scheme for this area of historic Moscow

Public buildings in the local context of the site

Infrustructure and transport map

Site map of buildings age and current historical preservation status

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Masterplan for Alekseevsky district in Moscow Concept models

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Masterplan for Alekseevsky district in Moscow Final masterplan design

Final masterplan shows the relationship between the old buildings comlex, which are to be preserved and renovated.

New structures are represented in white floorplans schemes, which in fact are projections of floorlevels located undergorund

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XIXth century Orthodox church

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From above: main long section, main facade

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Building typologies on the site: old and new working together.

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Concept pictures or interior main reception area (above), and open public space/square (on the right)

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At the main square staircase

The relationship between «old» and «new»

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Masterplan for Alekseevsky district in Moscow 3D Visualizations

Artificial green surface

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Masterplan for Alekseevsky district in Moscow 3D Visualizations

View from the main street

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Masterplan for Alekseevsky district in Moscow 3D Visualizations

Interior view for underground areas

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Masterplan for Lefortovo district, Moscow 5th year Project Masters Degree Moscow Architecture University 2015-2016

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Masterplan for Lefortovo district in Moscow Introduction

Lefortovo before 1917

Lefortovo before 1917

This project was completed in 2016, as part of 5th year course masters in Architecture program at Moscow Architecture University.

The main concept of this project was to create a masterplan for a practically vacant site in on of Moscow suburbs.

In the beginning of 20th century this site was used as military housing for officers, but later on the whole building complex was demolished.

In the opposite of strict military and laconic historic masterplan, I decide to place chaotic high-rise towers surrounded by park and covered by superficial net which creates its own ecosystem and can grow its own plants and trees which cannot survive in harsh climate of Moscow region.

Another idea is to place enough bio-farms in the area, that local residents can grow crops and animals and use their waste to produce electricity and create a sustainable community in the polluted city of Moscow.

The design scheme includes development of a masterplan and smaller aspects like floorplans and apartment layouts for high rises.

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ÂŤAround the blockÂť concept collage, imaginng the life in the suburbs

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Research part before developing design scheme of Lefortovo masterplan.

The analysis showed that this is one of the most polluted areas of Moscow region with many industrial factories around residential blocks with people suffering from lack of green spaces or simply fresh air.

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Lefortovo timeline development masterplan

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Masterplan for Lefortovo district in Moscow CO2 and Green energy in Russia research

The data was used to demonstrate the importance of eco-design in architecture of modern cities. Various diagrams show data results on growing number of cars in the world, population growth, including population growth inside big cities, damming of rivers which results in major droughts, water usage etc. It is important to understand uprising issues of ecology and incorporate solutions into own designs in order to stop upcoming ecological crisis.

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Masterplan for Lefortovo district in Moscow Massing ideas diagram

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Masterplan for Lefortovo district in Moscow Infrastructure and services diagram

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bio-reactor usage scheme

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Masterplan for Lefortovo district in Moscow Masterplan diagram

Masterplan concept scheme

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Masterplan for Lefortovo district in Moscow Foam and clay model

The concept masterplan model showing one of the initial design schemes for Lefortovo site.

The high-rises are formed as structures of blocks put together on top of each other creating complex massing forms and extension with canterlivers.

The whole area of the site is covered with artificial netting which creates its own ecosystem on the ground level.

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Masterplan for Lefortovo district in Moscow Foam and clay masterplan model

Second clay and foam masterplan model, showing more specific and regulated design scheme for Lefortovo site.

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Structural model for high-rise design, part of Lefortovo masterplan

The frame of the building is reinforced concrete, which is erected before installation of the prefabricated blocks forming flats.

The idea is that each tenant can create very own design for each flat and install into already existing high-rise frame.

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3D visualisations of structural frames of high-rises with cranes on each roof for lifting and installing pre-fabricated flats

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View of high-rises from the green park, connecting urban life and wild nature

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Chaotic masterplan for Lefortovo site

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Watching the installation of pre-fabricated blocks of flats into existing frame

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Section, facade, ground floor(below) and typical floor(above) for the high-rise design.

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Masterplan for Lefortovo district in Moscow 3D visualisations

Approaching the tower

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Masterplan for Lefortovo district in Moscow 3D interior visualisation

Inside one of the flats.

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Masterplan for Lefortovo district in Moscow 3D masterplan visualisations

Overall design view

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Vinoradovo Community Hall, Moscow 5th year Project Masters Degree Moscow Architecture University 2015

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Vinogradovo community hall, Moscow Introduction

«Vinogradovo» stables in 1905

«Vinogradovo» stables in 1905

«Vinogradovo» stables on masterplan

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This project was completed as part of the 5th year program at Moscow Architecture University. The aim of this project was to develop a coherent and concise concept for historic building of Vinogradovo stables, which used to belong to the royal family in the end of 19th century. Today the building is completely neglected and suffered greatly from fire in 2012 which destroyed almost all spaces of the second floor.

Before developing ideas for refurbishment it was important to draw technical drawings of existing facades and sections as historic archives of local council claimed they didn’t have any historic or original drawings for the building. The process of measuring the building and drawing it took almost 2 months.

Concept The idea for this building is to save as many historic details of the structure as possible and provide new function for it. The newly refurbished building is to be a community hall for the local area, with theatre and assembly area and small gallery spaces for local artists.

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Vinogradovo community hall, Moscow Facades and sections

Measuring the existing facade and section highlighting current condition of the building

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Referbished main facade and section view

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Vinogradovo community hall, Moscow Section view

Interior/Section view of the gallery spaces

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Vinogradovo community hall, Moscow Section view

Interior/Section view of the gallery spaces

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Vinogradovo community hall, Moscow Axonometric interior view

Exploded axonometric scheme showing the circulation inside the gallery space

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Myasnitskaya street research and analysis, Moscow 5th year Project Masters Degree Moscow Architecture University 2015

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Myasnitskaya street analysis &research in Moscow Masterplan layout

This project is an outcome of a 5th year research task to analyze and present graphical understanding of urban landscape of various scales.

This research started with looking at the position of the street in the city grid and discovering its most popular attractions and public spaces.

In the process of analyzing the street I have created a map of all buildings which main facades are forming the street and developed a scheme showing age, historic status and importance of each building.

I have also developed a diagram showing current and future, ÂŤidealÂť hierarchy of cars, public transport and pedestrians on the street.

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Myasnitskaya street analysis and research, Moscow Data visualizations

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120 Hours competition entries 2015-2016

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Masterplan for Alekseevsky district in Moscow Masterplan layout

Far to the North, on the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard, lies the deserted Russian coal-mining settlement of Pyramiden.

Formerly a prosperous community and a model of Russian endeavor and enterprise in the Arctic, all was brought to a sudden halt with the abrupt closure of its mines in the spring of 1998. Over the next two months, the entire settlement was evacuated, leaving behind an entire town as if frozen in time.

In a Norwegian as well as an international context, Pyramiden represents a unique cultural heritage site, tracing the century-old mining traditions of Svalbard´s recent past. Moreover, from the early wooden dwellings of the original Swedish settlers to the Soviet-era planning ideals, its architecture reflects the changing tides of history that have shaped the town in its wake. And as it was then, so it remains today, as the town and its surroundings continue to be shaped by a very distinct set of conditions, not only related to the local environmental and climatic extremes, but also in terms of the overall economic, political and cultural circumstances that currently impact on the Arctic region as a whole.

Today, Pyramiden remains a deserted town, but for a few hardened locals who welcome the occasional tourists to its harbor. Nevertheless, for all its desolate character and sheer isolation, the majestic scene of its glacial surroundings imparts on it a serene quality, as if waiting, one day, to be brought back to life.

Under the current practice of architectural preservation, the deserted town of Pyramiden could easily be sentenced to serve as yet another retroactive collection of outdoor museum pieces. The aim of this competition was to question this approach and challenge position on architectural preservation, to develop new perceptions and novel ideas and to experiment with concepts and programs for the preservation of Pyramiden that break the dictum of current practices.

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120 Hours Competition entry An emty space with no reason

2016 120 hours competition entry—“What Ever Happened to Architectural Space?”—which this year challenged to imagine a space without program or site. In a time when the discourse of architecture is influenced more by program and environment than spatial quality, the brief was uniquely challenging in its simplicity.

What is nothing? Because some people say there was nothing then universe was created, but isn’t an empty space still something?

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Dissertation «The possible influence of Soviet constructivism on British architecture on examples of works by «Tecton» group and Berthold Lubetkin» Research Project Glasgow School of Art, Makintosh School of Architecture 2016-2017

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Dissertation Research project

While British architecture scene was still inspired by Victorian era, six young architects were just completing their professional degrees at the Architectural Association. All six of them were studying the same 5-year course in architecture, which started in 1927. Godfrey Samuel (1904-1983) and Michael Dugdale (1906-1973) were already BA graduates from Oxford, where Valentine Harding (1905-1940) had also previously attended other university. Anthony Chitty (1907-1976) went to Trinity College.

Both Lindsay Drake (1909-1980) and Francis Skinner (1908-1998) entered AA directly from school.

Completing the course in 1931, the six architects decided to stick together, because in their opinion it was easier to face tough realities of post-war architecture practices and lack of jobs; they were thinking of opening their own architectural office, but none of them had any working experience, so they started looking for someone with radical vision and professional experience – Berthold Lubetkin, a sovietémigré who moved to the UK the same year.

Tecton group was not a traditional architectural practice right from the beginning, then it was formed, there was no initial program, no jobs, and, apart from Lubetkin himself, the firm had no experience of actual building.

Tecton design approach, however, with their goal to blend together technical and abstract forms, seemed to just the right choice for new architecture in the UK. Their designs starting from first commissions like Penguin Pool to the larger-scale projects like Bevin Court, show how the young architects desperately wanted to introduce the new styles of architecture to Britain among which, arguably, was Constructivism.

The theme of this Research Project is an exploration of Soviet-born architecture style of Constructivism and its connections and possibly influence on British architecture group called Tecton. Based on published books and journals, I will try and establish links between avant-garde style of Constructivism and work of Tecton group in the UK. My research is based on several books both published in Russia and UK, I compare different approaches to this subject and try to establish my own view on this matter.

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Most notable «Tecton» designs today

Timeline of

Gorrila House - 1932-1933 Penguin Pool - 1933-1934 Highpoint I- 1933-1935 Finsbury Health Center - 1935-1938 Highpoint II - 1937-1938 Spa Green Estate - 1943-1950

Tecton Group

The «Tecton» Group The «Tecton» Group was a radical architectural group co-founded by Berthold Lubetkin, Francis Skinner, Denys Lasdun, Godfrey Samuel, and Lindsay Drake in 1932 and disbanded in 1951.

«Tecton» (also translated from the Greek as «Tekton») has been traditionally translated into English as "carpenter", but is a rather general word (from the same root as "technical" and "technology", derived from Greek) that at the time could cover makers of objects in various materials, and builders, from tent makers to stonemasons.

In the UK Years between 1931-1951

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Constructivism

«Tecton» photographed in 1938, left to right: Francis Skinner, Eileen (secretary), Margaret Church, Berthold Lubetkin, Denys Lasdun, Carl Ludwig Franck, Fred Lassere (kneeling), Lindsay Drake.

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«Lubetkin gave us an identity and a direction on the strength of a single job», recalled Anthony Chitty of the Gorilla House in Regents Park, the diminitive and improbable comission with which «Tecton» made it’s debut in British architecture. After the desultory activities of the spring and summer of 1932, Lubetkin pounced on his real opportunity.

The «Gorilla House», London Zoo, 1932.

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The «Gorilla House», London Zoo, 1932.

«The design also reflected several contemporary images. The double helix, a motif foreign to English observers, was staple fare to an erstwhile Constructivist student and acquaintance of Tatlin [Lubetkin]. The theatrical spatial cameo suggesting an affinity with certain Meyerhold stage sets, in particular El Lissitsky’s then unrealized design for “I want a Child”, though it is doubtful that Lubetkin would have seen this…»

Penguin Pool, London Zoo, 1933.

Penguin Pool is considered the most powerful statement piece of all Tecton’s designs. It was designed to attract attention to both the architects an London Zoo. Its architecture is unique and unrepeatable. In a way it can be compared with Tatlin’s tower to the 3rd International, which was a statement piece, but in USSSR. “The tower represents to us today the first architectural project to constitute a complete break with the traditions and generally accepted ideas of the past in the field of construction.

In this sense, it is the first Soviet architectural project, and marks the end of era and the beginning of another.”

The «Red October» Revolution

The «Penguin Pool», London Zoo, 1933.

Октябрьская Революция 1934

The «Penguin Pool», London Zoo, 1933.

Highpoint I, High Gate London, 1933.

“I have visited the large block of flats just completed in High gate.

This beautiful building sets a question of principle: to follow tradition or to break with it? I reply unhesitatingly by stating my personal point of view; a new tradition must be created…so we find at High gate the seed of something, the seed of the vertical garden-city as opposed to the horizontal extension. The building is large enough to be an example, a proof…For a long time I have dreamed of executing dwellings in such conditions for the good of humanity. The building at High gate is an achievement of the first rank, and milestone that will be useful to everybody.” (Le Corbusier, 1935)

In the USSR Years between 1917-1932

Revolution in Russia led by the olsheviks which was instrumental in arger Russian Revolution of 1917. It k place with an armed insurrection in etrograd on the 25th of October.

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«Constructivism - russian artistic and architectural movement that was first influenced by Cubism and Futurism and is generally considered to have been initiated in 1913 with the “painting reliefs”—abstract geometric constructions—of Vladimir Tatlin. The expatriate Russian sculptors Antoine Pevsner and Naum Gabo joined Tatlin and his followers in Moscow, and upon publication of their jointly written Realist Manifesto in 1920 they became the spokesmen of the movement. It is from the manifesto that the name Constructivism was derived; one of the directives that it contained was “to construct” art»

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1922 Highpoint I, High Gate London, 1933.

Highpoint I, High Gate London, 1933.

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«Finsbury Health Centre is a monument to social idealism. When the building was completed in 1938, Finsbury, then London’s second smallest borough, was a densely packed slum scarcely relieved by green spaces and rotten with endemic disease. But Labour dominated local politics and was determined to make Finsbury a model of social progress: housing, education, hygiene and health were all to be improved, and seen to be so.»

End of the Civil War

Death of V. Lenin.

Beginning of J. Stalin goverment 1937

Realist Manifesto, Published by N. Gabo and er in 1920.

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Finsbury Health Center, London, 1935.

1938 Finsbury Health Center, London, 1935.

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Highpoint II is two joined rectilinear blocks that extend one leg of the street-front cruciform of Highpoint I. They are eight storeys high, with a shared lobby and roof terraces.

The facade scheme of the first building is continued in the second at the block ends, with two maisonettes per floor. The central zones are differently configured, with recessed two storey panels and a cantilevered balcony on every other floor.

Highpoint II, High Gate London, 1937.

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Vladimir Tatlin - «Monument To The Third International» or «Tatlin’s Tower», 1920 Vladimir Tatlin designed this project on the rise of Constructivism, but unfortunately it was never built due to it’s complexity. Tatlin’s tower can be considered a machine both literally and metaphorically.

It was designed the way that around it’s 400 meters central core were spinning 4 different extensions with different speed: Cube – the lowest and the biggest extension, was to rotate around central core once a year – was a space for big meetings and conferences.

Pyramid – was to rotate around central core once a month – was designed for offices of executive groups.

Cylinder – was to make one 3600 rotation around the central core once a day – was a space for publishing, typography and designers offices.

Hemisphere – was to rotate once every hour – the purpose of this shape, unfortunately, was never known.

Highpoint II, High Gate London, 1937.

1942 Technical advance, a higher standard of social expectations and official requirments, and Tecton’s extended opportunity for mature reconsideration raised the ultimate quality of Spa Green Estate by «Tecton».

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Highpoint II, High Gate London, 1937.

Spa Green Estate, London, 1943.

Spa Green Estate, London, 1943.

Moscow by architect George Barkhin. signed for Soviet-friendly “Izvestia” newspaper, so mission, it was essential to G. Barkhin to use ach in architecture, in order to highlight the i

Ivan Leonidov’s Graduation Project - «House for the Industries», 1928.

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Abstract drawings and artwork 2014-2017

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Abstract drawings and artwork Site and urban grid digital drawings

Site drawing for one of regions of Moscow city center

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Abstract drawings and artwork Adbsract ink drawings

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Concept site model of Moscow-river with roads as main point of attention (instead of traditional ways in modelmaking with mainly houses shown on sites)

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Concept model for the ÂŤVertical cityÂť - utopian project designed at Moscow Architecturae University

Experiments with clay and exploration of influence of order and proportion on the building facades.

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Museam of architecture main facade view Abstract collage attempt to re-imagine high-rise construction

Collage view ower the city of high rises

Concepr picture of shared public space

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Concept scheme for «Vertical city» project Axonometric view

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Visualizations for Art School in Moscow, on this page: axonometric view of the new scheme with media screens on II main facades.

On the next page: main facade close-up render

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