misha semenov design portfolio
welcome! Ever since I was little, I’ve been obsessed with drawing my fantasy cities. Since then, my passion has extended to projects that are a little more real. I now know I want to use the tools of design to make a difference, restoring a healthier relationship with the environment and an inclusive and just society.
places to visit academic projects
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ICU (?)
Pleasant urban water park with a touch of political content; bring a bathing suit.
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The Interchange
Today, I invite you to come take a stroll through the city of my creative work from the last four years.
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The Furniture Showroom: All Scaled Up
Begin by consulting the guide at right. I hope you enjoy your visit.
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All Roads Lead to...
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The Cinema: One with Time
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Board Game Shop: O Marx the Spot
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The University: Academic Research and Projects
Pavilion and performance space; watch out for moving elevator platforms.
Come take a sit in a unique chair covered with over 900 scales.
This building may cause psychological damage or depression, enter at your own risk...
UniTess Plaza
A local hit, this black and white film turns the camera on Snøhetta’s architecture.
Explore Burle Marx’s landscapes through a fun role playing board game.
Set aside at least a day to read through these archives of urbanism and architecture.
professional work
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The Planning Office
A sampling of professional designs for buildings and cities.
A lovely place for a picnic; watch your step on the cracked stones. independent projects
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The Office Store: Project Paper Clip
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Miami Apartment Building
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The Folding Shell
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The Art Museum
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Danteum21
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The Photography Studio
An unique art installation made with one thousand paper clips.
Famous as the world’s largest inhabitable origami.
Be sure to bring along your copy of Dante’s Divine Comedy.
Tour an exciting new building that’s bringing urban apartment living to Little Havana.
Visit this broad-ranging collection of sketches and paintings.
This attraction features exhibits of architectural and urban photography.
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ICU (?) (InterClass Unity?) mario gandelsonas’ studio fall 2014 princeton soa
(project developed in full collaboration with Kassandra Leiva: final renders by Kassandra Leiva; plans, sections, and axons by author) During our visit to São Paulo, we found that the city is a patchwork of rich and poor, yet the two worlds are segregated from each other physically and architecturally, exhibiting two larger architectural trends: the Favelesque and Securitese (luxury glass boxes hiding behind barbed wire). Where, in the context of segregation and exclusion, is the modernist Brazilian architecture that was promised to be the true expression of Brazilian modernity? Our project proposes that for the idiom of Niemeyer to have relevance today, it must be harnessed to generate devices that can insert themselves into the discourse of segregation, mediating between the strictly divided classes. Thus, based on an intensive study of segregation in architecture, we manipulated Niemeyer buildings from Ibirapuera Park into architectural devices that serve to physically express and reinforce the economic divides in São Paulo and can be applied to sites where rich and poor meet, such as the inner-city Favelas we studied. We then added the element of water, which brings the social and physical construct of segregation into plain sight; it is only through water, which flows freely in each “device” in a way people cannot, that the two sides experience each other. 4
manipulation of Niemeyer’s architecture into two-sided segregation devices The Marquise: Layering
curvy high-security fence enforces a visual boundary between top and bottom while channeling modernism
playground of the rich
---water park for the rich---
Favela underbelly of the poor
The Dome: Slicing
on top, concrete dome is source of shade for the rich clients’ pool deck
on bottom, glass dome is source of light for Favela
The Shaft: Pumping
shaft acts as an elevator; goods and food are sent up from the Favela, trash is sent down for processing. People, however, cannot circulate
“arms” act as water pumps, taking water up and down from ramps and pools.
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glass bottom pool offers only visual connection between top and bottom
glass-walled pool reveals the Favela below the pool deck
deployment of devic
COMIDA
favela
formal buildings
roads and fences
this intervention, an agglomeration of the dome, marquis, and shaft, fits nicely over buraรงao Favela
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ces at buraçao favela
COMIDA
although the Favela is covered up, only getting light through the glass pool, it receives a direct economic benefit: thanks to the Shaft device, the Favela can become the service area and kitchen for the cafe and pool; prepared food is transported up the shaft’s elevator, while trash is delivered down--perhaps the Favela dwellers will even make some money selling or recycling it!
This cut through the shaft reveals its function as a water pump. Here too, the poor get a benefit: used water from the pool is re-pumped into a well in the Favela, allowing dwellings that may not have formal water infrastructure access to relatively clean water.
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deployment of devices at colise
greens
plazas
favela
formal buildings
roads and fences
The office buildings’ original overhangs and restaurant’s second floor have been extended into a marquise-like elevated walkway that fits perfectly over the Favela. Because the marquise is only accessible through the buildings or the restaurant, it is naturally secure--like helicopter commuting. Yet swimmers in the pool are acutely aware that they are in fact suspended right over a Favela.
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eu favela / millenium office park
network map of favela interventions
FIDALGA PONTO DO JAGUARÉ CORTIÇOS
BURAÇAO
COLISEU
IBIRA PUERA
MARIO CARDIM NEIDE APARECIDA
JARDIM PANORAMA REAL PARQUE
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ASCENDINO REIS
SOUZA RAMOS
the interchange hayley eber’s studio spring 2014 princeton soa
A pavilion designed to go over the former train station at Princeton University, The Interchange proposes to turn circulation itself into a performative act. Taking advantage of its location, a crossroads for eight paths, and its diverse cast of characters, from senior theatergoers to fast bikers, the design elevates these paths into half-pipes, connects them to each other using a branching web structure, and then, through the use of an enclosing green thicket akin to that used by West 8 in its Garden of 10,000 Bridges, generates a special performance space on the underside of these paths accessible by a series of platform elevators. Because the elevator platforms are pieces of the paths themselves, an elevator that is transporting passengers or stopped at ground level to be used as a stage becomes a roadblock. In this sense, the project, originally intended to highlight circulation, can also slow down, block, subvert, even choreograph it.
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THE GOAL:
Design a Circulation Diagram that connects each entry point to all 7 other entry points, accommodating varying speeds and modes of movement.
“tree” path structure
LANE
3’
ROAD
4’
HIGHWAY
5’
ideal diagram
watch a video of choreographed circulation in the project at http://youtu.be/rIsSyK4Xuv4
distortion of the ideal diagram to fit site conditions
adding pipe thickness and nodes at intersections
ground plan: green thicket and stages/elevators
use of a pathway grid to generate seating...
...and structural columns
precedents
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A 1”=15’
1”=15’
B 1”=15’
A
1”=25’
B
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SECTIONS
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all scaled up
jesse reiser’s studio fall 2013 princeton soa This chair was designed to play with the contrast and interaction between surface and substrate, soft on the inside yet covered with a series of rigid scales. The design and manufacturing were a complex, computer-assisted process; I wrote a program using Grasshopper modeling software that used a torus-shaped surface based on the curves of the human body to generate 968 unique scales. Each of these scales was then laser cut out of birch plywood and sewn onto a pillow-like substrate encased in computer-generated pieces of fabric stitched together on a sewing machine and equipped with pneumatic adjustable legs. The ultimate result is a chair that is a unique experience for the body, both rigid and flexible, hard and soft, while being a beautiful object in itself. Since all its components are systematically labeled and organized, it can be easily cut out from scratch and put together by anyone.
precedents for surface treatment
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5) SCALES
15 the “pillowcase” for the polyester-stuffed body of the chair was made from these 11 shapes of fabric, sewn together on a sewing machine.
44 radial strings of fishing line act as “vertebrae” for the scales in the vertical direction. These allow for some flexibility of movement while maintaining structure.
tion to indicate 22 concentric cir- the cles of elastic cord
seating area.
the directionality of the scales change 22 concentric circles a of comfortable elastic cord “ridges” to create seat tie the scales together into colhow the chair should be occupied, Ma or-coded bands. As shown above, occur at ringsscales 19 and 12. directhe attached change
44 radial strings of fishing line act as “vertebrae” for the scales in the vertical direction
Next, I wrote a grasshopper programming script to analyze the grid of points and create 968 unique scales based on the specific geometry of the torus. The script took groups of 6 points, projected them onto a plane, and then used those points to draw an hourglass-shaped scale. I used the HoopSnake plugin to run through many iterations.
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michael meredith’s studio spring 2012 princeton soa
precedent: the iron maiden, building as torture device
precedent: de Chirico’s lonely landscapes
In this architectural exploration of solitude, three tunnel-pathways with three different points of origin were carved out of a solid cylinder. Inclines that spiral up through the building, all three terminate around the same location in plan. In section, however, the three pathways never actually meet; the convergence is but an architectural illusion. the building’s elements add to the effect of loneliness; the only windows that exist between the passageways show views of others’ feet; the great hall, three stacked spaces separated by frosted glass, allows only shadowy glimpses of others; fortress-like windows hide the outside world. Visitors can finally see each other at the very ends of the paths, where the tunnels open up to face each other, yet physical interaction is still impossible and the only way to meet is to jump out of the architecture itself. The project also explored the tension between additive (as a computer model) and subtractive (carving out of a solid clay cylinder) conceptions of form.
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hayley eber’s studio spring 2014 princeton soa UniTess (Unification through Tessellation) is a sculpture garden containing three important pieces from Princeton’s collection, designed to be inserted into a central site on the campus, unifying the surrounding ensemble of four of the university’s prominent historic structures, each built in its own style and stone type. The surrounding context was used to generate a site-specific design. First, major vista lines to Whig Hall and Blair Arch were determined and used to generate a grid over the site, which was then turned into tiles and further fragmented according to other important sight lines. Next, each tile was extruded a set amount from the ground surface to create a raised stage at the center, with more intimate depressed spaces for two pools, an amphitheater for a hundred people, and a quieter lawn garden located in the space between raised paths. Finally, each of the extruded tiles was assigned a color to correspond to the closest historic campus building. The garden brings these buildings together while creating a new public space on campus.
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michael meredith’s studio spring 2012 princeton soa (in full collaboration with Vivian Gao, David White, and Injee Unshin) Our group stitched paper clips together to invent a new fabric with its own properties of stretching, folding, and contraction. We then hung this fabric in the south stairwell of the architecture school, molding the shape into a landscape integrated with the space. During the day, visitors can use the intricate patterns as a semi-transparent foreground for looking out the large glass windows. During the nighttime, the glistening fabric becomes the central focus of attention, defining the space of the stairwell. 100,000 paper clips kindly donated by ACCO and Staples.
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michael meredith’s studio spring 2012 princeton soa this model-based project, inspired by the form of a seashell, creates a hierarchical series of interconnected spaces, from a smaller, tighter cave to a larger, airier hall. The project is folded entirely from a single surface, along a regular series of fold lines, giving order to the more organic shape. triangular windows on the back wall can be opened or closed to create patterns of light within.
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one with time
hayley eber’s studio spring 2014 princeton soa (in full collaboration with Kassandra Leiva) Called One with Time: The Performative Pavilion, this project is a black-and-white film meant to illustrate the design conception behind the 2008 Snøhetta Serpentine Pavilion as itself a kind of a performance, in three ways: the structure itself as a dynamic performance in time (spiraling, rotation, movement), the building induces performative user behavior (circulation, cycling, promenade), and it frames and stages users as they use and circulate through the building (surveillance, lighting, framing devices). The film was done using a combination of stop-motion animation and computer graphics. Follow the link or QR code below to watch the full film.
watch the complete video (4 minutes) online at https://www.youtube. com/watch?v=UkJdOEUX2eI
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mario gandelsonas’ studio fall 2014 princeton soa
Brazilian students playing the game, São Paulo
(concept developed in collaboration with Jose Escamilla, Kassandra Leiva, and Injee Unshin; game rules and player tokens by author; game board graphics by Injee Unshin) This board game acts as a device for reading Burle Marx’s Flamengo Park in Rio de Janeiro. Seeing the linear park, which largely serves the function of circulation, as an archipelago of unique islands connected by pedestrian, jogging, biking, and car paths, our group pulled out specific sensory experiences of each of these islands as “tokens.” Four characters, who represent the four speeds and thus four distinct experiences through the park, are each represented by a game piece corresponding to its field of vision. Each turn, equivalent to 15 seconds of time in the park, players move across the board at the speeds appropriate to their characters, picking up experience tokens on the way. A car drives quickly, picking up only the top token, perhaps a tree or a color; a pedestrian digs deeper into the well, discovering textures and details. Staying even longer, he may discover more subtle details and even architectural references to Marx. But not all experiences are positive; scattered throughout the park are negative experiences: getting robbed, getting hit by a car, stepping in poop. The ultimate goal of the game becomes to discover the unique experiences of each island. 32
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A proposal to densify and reconnect Hammonton, NJ through the useit isofnow, a green infrastructure loop. The way some businesses use their back spaces for
gardens and seating, but most commonly for unterutilized parking. Based off the San Francisco Parklet program, the Loop proposes that the city incentivize property owners to turn parking into usable public space, creating a network that can be connected with the loop. In this way, much of the loop is accomodated without the need to alter existing streets, and thanks to the loop, parking demand will drop. Because spaces are narrow, the downtown loop will consist of a shared biking/walking path that links larger green
A system design for a bike sharing program for Princeton, NJ, featuring cargo and commuter bikes.
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Filling the Void: Tracing Changes in Global Value Systems through two Latin American Incremental Housing Projects
Figure 1: Howard’s “Donut” scheme from Garden Cities: strictly urban lands surrounded by strictly agricultural lands
Green Roofs’ Effect Figure 2: The organic creation of Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes in an Edgeless City, from VIljoen’s book on CPULs.
From the Garden City Donut to an Integrated Landscape; An Analysis of the Garden City Movement’s Influence on Urban and Peri-Urban Farming and A Case for the Reintegration of Agriculture into Urban Life as Reconciliation of Urban and Rural. Misha Semenov ARC 401: Theories of Housing and Urbanism Professor Andrew Laing Princeton University School of Architecture
An analysis of the successes and failures of greenbelts and urban farming legislation 1
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PREVI, Lima, Peru, 1970 Image 1: Organized outings were part of “collective dachas” for Soviet youth, as shown in this photo of boating on the Moskva River, in Smena (1930, No.11-12)
Waterproofing Membrane Degradation Rates
An Avant-Garde, Collectivized Dacha?
An Investigation into the Benefits of the Butler College Green Roof
Elemental, Iquique, Chile, 2004
Misha Semenov Globalization, Architecture, and the Environment Professor Esther da Costa Meyer May 2014
Misha Semenov, ENV 340, Princeton University March 9, 2012
A research project using data from Princeton’s Green Roof to estimate membrane longevity.
A comparison between two Latin American housing projects and their larger political frameworks.
Abstract This experiment attempted to quantify the difference between the degradation rates due to thermal oxidation of the “Burmastic” bitumen waterproofing membranes on the green and conventional roofs at Butler College in Princeton University. As predicted, the green roof did display a reduction in degradation rates (a 9.0% difference by conservative and 26.5% by generous estimates), thus ensuring a longer service life (from 3.3 to 8.9 years longer than the conventional roof), and was effective especially during the summer months. These numbers were computed without factoring in additional important variables not covered by this study, such as UV exposure and daily temperature fluctuation.
Thank You to Matthew Mulane for his guidance with this paper. Thanks are also due to Sharif Kahatt for providing source material.
Intersecting Utopias in the 1930 Competition for the Moscow Green City Misha Semenov Princeton School of Architecture ARC 575 / Fall 2013 / Jean-Louis Cohen All Russian source translations are author’s own. An investigation of the conflicting Communist and Western ideals in the Moscow Green City of 1929.
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The Geography of Exclusion:
The Peasant Architect
BART’s Angry Architect Problem: How the 1966 Bay Area Rapid Transit Design Controversy Raised a Storm over the Role of Design and Landscaping in Public Projects
The Bronx “Slave Market , ”
the 1935 Harlem Riots, and the Shift in Black-Jewish Relations in New York City Misha Semenov
An in-depth analysis of racial relations between Blacks and Jews in 1930s New York
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9B: Dulevo Club, Elevation 9B: Dulevo Club, Elevation 9A: K. Melnikov, Dulevo Workers Club, 1928-30, Original plans 9A: K. Melnikov, Dulevo Workers Club, 1928-30, Original plans 9A: K. Melnikov, Dulevo Workers Club, 1928-30, Original plans
9B: Dulevo Club, Elevation Grounding Konstantin Melnikov’s Innovative Architecture in Russia’s Architectural, Religious, and Artistic Tradition Misha Semenov
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Halprin and Emmons shown at their most dramatic in a San Francisco Examiner article.1
A look through the Halprin Archives at controversies in the design of Bay Area Rapid Transit stations.
Comparative analysis of Melnikov’s work with neighboring Narkomtiazhprom Building—is original and has, as far as the author is aware, no churches, with surprising findings. precedent in the scholarship on Melnikov.
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My ongoing Thesis research focuses on the use of codes and rules in self-built housing projects
professional work East Frederick Neighborhood, 2014 DPZ was invited by a local developer to create an urban plan for a new neighborhood just outside of Frederick, MD, in collaboration with community groups and the municipality. In line with the city’s goals, the development was to be well-connected to the city core and encourage independence from the car. After meeting with the client and residents, I worked for two days with designer Mike Huston to design and hand-draw the proposed greenways plan (at left). The idea behind the plan was to thread a “green loop” through the development, a park that would connect the riparian ecosystem with more urban boulevards and greens while serving as a drainage infrastructure and wildlife corridor. While the final collaborative version (below) differs from our proposal, many of our ideas, including the green loop and the use of existing farm buildings as centers for small squares, were kept.
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These studies for full development of a T4-Zoned block under the new Miami21 Form-Based Code were completed as part of a larger effort to force the downgrading of parking requirement under the code, arguing for greater density.
Downtown Monroe Revitalization, 2013
I was given the opportunity to redesign the floor plan for an apartment building under the guidance of Xavier Iglesias. This building is for a project in Brazil, occupying an important site over the main shopping street in the planned development. In line with local environmental conditions, the building features balconies and natural ventilation through an internal patio, as well as built-in shading devices.
For this project, the DPZ team was invited to a workshop in Monroe, Louisiana with the aim of coming up with proposals to reinvent the currently decaying downtown core and make it an attractive place for a walkable, sustainable lifestyle. I dedicated my efforts to putting together proposals for the Desiard East area. These proposals, in color in my hand drawing below, included a new parking facility with liner buildings, the use of existing alleys as “pedestrian lane” public spaces and restaurant seating, and the restoration and expansion of historic buildings.
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Miami 21 Capacity Studies, 2014
Brazil Apartment Building, 2014
miami apartment building independent project summer 2014 miami, fl
while living in Miami, I became inspired by the architectural vernacular of Miami Beach and Little Havana, places that mix Art Deco and Moorish influences with a more tropical aesthetic of white walls and brise soleil. Seeking to express my own interpretation of this idiom, I designed an apartment building for a lot currently under development on eighth street, featuring four retail spaces, twenty-one residential units, a parking garage, and a pool all organized around a central patio on the Spanish/Moorish model, a private shaded gathering space. By placing a structural grid of columns and balconies outside of the building itself, all sides of the building are ensured protection and shading from the hot Florida sun, and most units are given generous balcony space. The alternating rhythm of the facade and the spiral patterns at the corner help give the building a dynamic overall composition.
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Princeton University Chapel, New Jersey
Bo Bardi’s Pompeia Center, São Paulo, Brazil
I think of the sketches presented here as “reading exercises” I undertake in order to get to know a building or urban space in all its detail. All these sketches were made within the space of an hour or two, on site.
Abandoned Foundry, Caja de Maipo, Chile
43 Old Customs House, Key West, Florida
Calle Tizol, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Main Square, Iquique, Chile
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El Morro Fortress, San Juan, Puerto Rico
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Plaza Libertad de la Prensa, Santiago, Chile
Bo Bardi’s Museu de Arte São Paulo, Brazil River Mansion, Tigre Delta, Argentina
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Shenandoah Houses, Miami, Florida
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Sultan’s Palace, Istanbul, Turkey
Arcade, Bologna, Italy
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Old Church, Mexico City
Casa Bo Bardi, S達o Paulo, Brazil
Overpass,before Overpass Williamsburg, the Rainstorm, New York Williamsburg, City New York City
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Colonial Street, Puebla, Mexico