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15/18 by Nikita Tugarin
Moscow/ Berkeley 2015/2018
Selected works 3-8
Stadium
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Vanya Special House
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Essential Grid
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Residential complex + district
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Fire House Theatre
Bachelor degree thesis project of multi-functional soccer stadium. Moscow Architectural Institute, semester X, 2016.
Residential villa in Krasnovidovo, Moscow Oblast. CMSD Architectural Comradeship: N. Tugarin / P. Mironenko / M. Guketlov, 2015-present. Urban redevolopment and architectural proposals for LIma based on research of the Huacas, CED Berkeley, semester II, 2017.
Multi-functional residential complex and district. Moscow Architectural Institute, semester VIII, 2015.
Teaching staff: I. Lozinsky, D. Karelin, M. Bausheva.
Client: I. Zakharov.
Teaching staff: R. Davids.
Teaching staff: L. Rezova, M. Ponomareva, S. Fadeev.
Fire House in Oakland. CED Berkeley, semester III, 2017.
Teaching staff: D. Guthrie.
Drama theatre for 1000 visitors. Moscow Architectural Institute, semester IX, 2015.
Teaching staff: I. Lozinsky, D. Karelin.
* all works included in the portfolio are completely created on my own or have a special description
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Transport
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Multi-functional soccer stadium
Stadium | 4 |
This is the proposed design for a new stadium located in Overtown, Miami, Florida, for a prospective MLS team established by David Beckham. Overtown is one of the five poorest towns in the US and has an exaggerated crime problem. Overtown unemployment rates are frightening, 40% of the population is younger than twenty years old, and the average annual salary is $ 12 000. Every new construction in Overtown is met unkindly, therefore the new stadium aims to be integrated both visually and functionally into the site. Another purpose of the project is to create a new cultural center of attraction as well as a reason for pride for local citizens. There are functions for daily utilization incorporated into the project such as a variety of gyms, entertainment and recreational facilities, and even a rollerdrome beneath the upper bowl. What’s more, the multi-functional stadium provides Overtown with new job opportunities. The building itself will be visually related to the image of the American ghetto. Old brick, raw concrete, corten steel - those are the main finishing materials. Moreover, the inevitable emergence of graffiti will make the industrial appearance of the building even more authentic. As it is required by FIFA, the stadium should have 18-25 hectares of territory to provide the essential function. As there are only four hectares on the site in Overtown, it was decided that the field should be located above ground level. Area for parking lots was designed on ground level, as well as an underground parking lot. In this way, the required minimum parking places for staff and people with limited mobility is provided. This decision increased operational area by three times. Separate research showed that in the radius of pedestrian accessibility there is enough parking space for the other patrons.
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Vanya Special House
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Vanya | 10 |
In the Summer of 2015 I received my first order as an architect. To work on this project, I created a team of three members and established CMSD Architectural Comradeship. The main features of our approach were a delicate understanding of our client’s intentions in order to design a project that is completely based on both Vanya’s desires and our architectural manifesto. As a result, ergonomic and rational spaces appeared in the plans; honesty and modernity appeared on the facades. Horizontal concrete stripes are used to save masonry tectonics.
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Second floor plan Vanya | 12 |
*** Even though Vanya was a good a good client, we went through the process of misunderstanding. Right after we CMSD submitted Schematic Design drawings, he niotified us that byulders are already on site and ready to begin. He didn’t want to orded Construction Documentation and believed that house can be executed with conceptual plans and low-skilled workers. Mostly because his friend built a house without expensive architects, and his father did the same as well as his father’s brother. After series of negotiations (and problems on the site), we were successfull to prove him that house of his dream cannot come in sight without thorough detailing and, after that, supervision. Construction workers were sent back from the site, all needed cobsultants (including Passice House Institute Russia) were invited and all required drawings produced. In the Spring of 2016, the building’s execution has started. It is still in progress, and I lead the process remotely.
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Detailing axon | 13 | Nikita Tugarin
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Essential Grid
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The project is dedicated to the redevelopment of existing urban condition in the historical part of Lima. Remains of so-called huacas (ancient pyramids) are spread all over suggested work site. The huaca in this context was the place of social attraction, worship to the gods, and sacrifice for Incas and their predecessors. At the beginning, the goal of this project was to create touristic pedestrian and bicycle connection between the huacas to turn them back into social attraction places. After careful examination, I revealed the street which can optimally connect huacas remains with each other. While working on a site plan, I found out an interesting regularity in the huacas’ emplacement, that is to say, all of them have the same direction axis. Apparently, the Incas were guided by the Sun position while executing the huacas. This fact is the basis of the approach I propose to apply. Based on a historical huaca direction, I revealed “essential grid”, which interestingly
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contrasts with existing city environment. I combined it with convenient twofeet construction module and got a universal design method, based on both random and ordered color functional differentiation and 3D extrusion. To show the possibilities of this “essential grid”, or “city DNA”, I designed the sequence of images which appear in spectators’ sight while exploring pedestrian ways. In spite of geographical location in the city, the grid stays the same and creates various possibilities for urban design and literally intersects with city history even though there are no hints of the past. In some places “essential grid” transforms into three-dimensional DNA and street furniture appears. To notify the spectator about coming closer to the sacral Inca’s worship place randomly placed street furniture blocks become denser, higher and ordered.
All images are shown from the point of view of the cyclist. This method of representation is chosen to better show the contrast and connection between my proposal and existing situation. Non-architect rarely pays attention to architectural details of common dwellings, especially while riding a bicycle. Therefore Lima stays in his memories as a diverse colorful environment. On this background, my architecture can serve a purpose of concentrating attention on the huaca area. Simple smooth shapes with several symmetry axes are nothing more than a release of any causeand-effect relationship and a demonstration of possible rethinking of the “essential grid” and its extrusion shown in contemporary objects with solid qualities of the huacas. In this way, the huacas, as well as Inca’s urban ideas, are brought to a new life. In spite of visual contrast, this approach has a direct connection with history.
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In this particular project, I developed two buildings in details. The first one is the community center on the huaca Culebra site. Becoming more dense and organized 3D DNA transforms to a visually solid shape hollow inside. Thus, the community center building, as well as the huaca itself, promotes the spiritual connection with the Sun. However, unlike the huaca, the building is not only Sunoriented but also invites the Sun inside and makes it concentrated in the huaca. Visitors are able to see Inca remains from the atrium. Dense column grid is to create an experience of user’s connection with ruins which dictated this grid. After the order to disorder city DNA transformation, there was my intention to dissolve the building back to the environment through the site plan design. In this way, a kind of a sequence appeared: essential grid => 2D disorder => 3D disorder => 3D order => solid shape => 2D disorder => essential grid. It illustrates on of the project goals that is not only to preserve the huaca but also to push it to the modern world and to reveal the sacral and spiritual experience of Inca’s heritage.
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The second building of a national market and museum uses the concept of the first one but occurs as more experimental. My suggestion is intervention into the huaca. The main statement is that on the one hand complete huaca preservation doesn’t have much sense. Nowadays, people don’t pray to the sun god and don’t sacrifice, and huacas are nothing but ancient souvenirs. From this point of view, I propose to use the huaca in a more interactive way and to give it a new way of existence in a contemporary reality. To achieve
this, I suggest a small cutout from the southern part of huaca San Martin (cutout is to be made on a part that has no wall remains). The building is placed on this cutout and literally connects San Marcos with the neighboring huaca as a bridge. The resultant pedestrian way is part of the designed urban touristic circuit. It is possible to see the inner huaca structure through the transparent walls of the building in places of the cutout. This unusual experience is impossible to be found anywhere else in Lima.
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Residential complex + di
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istrict
This multi-functional complex is located in the residential district on Berezhlovskaya quay, Moscow. Both building and districts are designed by me during my studies in MARKHI. The building maintains the idea of differentiating pedestrian and transport currents, as well as minimizing the traffic being a part of the elaborate system of pedestrian ways, bridges, and car parking as well.
The building consists of four residential towers, united by stylobate with public spaces on the first floor. The public spaces are represented with banks, cafes, libraries, and recreation areas. Habitants’ underground parking is provided under the courtyard. The decision not to combine the main building’s and parking’s structures was dictated by both constructing comfort and engineering systems placement.
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The project of the residential district and advanced design of separate buildings attempted to implement the eco-friendly urban project into the centre of a modern megalopolis. Office buildings with apartments and mechanized parking lots in the north of the district maintain noise defense from the railway situated nearby. They also protect the district from smog (based on the airflow research). The trees are planted in a way to contribute to the delay of acid gases. There is a scientific research complex in the east part of the district. Its location is caused by the thermal power plant that imposes restrictions on residential development in its effect radius. The complex, in its turn, is detached from the living units by a park alley with an artificial pond and compact sports facilities for habitants’ leisure. The main living units of the district are six multifunctional residential complexes with a public space on the ground floor and dwellings above. At the level +6.000, all MFRCs are connected by pedestrian bridges. The three towers and three section-type houses are also devoted to a dwelling. However, they are not a part of the aboveground footbridges system.
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The main target while designing this district was to differentiate pedestrian and transport currents, as well as to minimize the traffic. The underground parking system with access from only two trunk roads eliminates the need for regular use of the other transport ways. Also, there is a pedestrian bridge, which runs through the district to connect subway station “Studencheskaya” and “Novodevichy convent” to provide people with a straight way to another bank of the Moskva-river without any hindrances. District dwellers are able to implement pedestrian access to school, kindergarten, and hospital, located in the center of the district.
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- Scientific Research Complex - offices - public spaces - education and health care - parking - sport - apartments - dwelling - pedestrian bridges
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Fire House Fire House is located in Temescal neighborhood in Oakland, CA. Architectural image is a postmodern mimicry of the surroundings of Bay Area. San Franciso wharf buildings industrial elements are exaggerated and mixed with contemporary materials and are scaled to the size of the Oakland residential housing. Divided into five “bays”, Fire House building correlates with the stacked residential environment of Bay Area.
Fire House is initially a big garage/storage with a residential function. The goal of this project was to keep the industrial aesthetics and make the building friendly to the neighborhood at the same time. That’s why the building also mimics churches and schools of the surrounding area. Considering the approach I used and the final result appeared, I called the architectural style of this building “Contemporary Romanticism”.
Second Floor Ground Floor
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Living quarter B-B Section
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Corridor
Living room I designed this Fire House as a part of Comprehensive Studio at UC Berkeley. The main goal was to show not only conceptual idea of the project but technical solutions as well. Since I feel frozen all the time in Berkeley, I decided to use continuous insulation over the wooden frame with insulated cavities. Two polycarbonate-finished bays are designed to be transparent and don’t have insulation. Nevertheless, I provide supply air access into the cavities. Continuous air circulation coming from HVAC system with heat recuperation works as insulation. Operable shades are installed under the polycarbonate roof to control overheating. I also avoided thermal bridging by thoroughly revising all the details. Bay Area is not the hardest climate zone for the architect, but I believe there is a huge field for the improvement in building construction here.
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Drama theatre
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Plan at -4.800 Theatre | 32 |
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The drama theatre for 1000 visitors is the project I designed in the fifth year of studies in Moscow Architectural Institute (State Academy). The building is located at the intersection of Sadovoe Transport Ring and Prospekt Akademika Sakharova in Moscow Central Administrative District. Character or the theatre exterior is dictated by both the building of the Ministry of Agriculture by the Russian architect A. Shchusev and Le Corbusier’s Centrosoyus building, which is situated nearby. Сircular plan form maintains the crossroads’ rotation momentum.
The theatre building is performed as a kind of a bowl on the “stem”. The consoles reach 25 meters in length in the most extreme places. The structure is represented by frames made of reinforced concrete, which are united on the underground level. Those frames support structural columns, which sustain the construction of the roof. The visitors’ entrance is located in the “stem”. The vestibule, ticket offices, and dressing rooms are all located in the stem as well. Through the “stem” the guests are able to
come to the foyer using the main staircase or the elevators. The foyer itself represents a wide, open, boundless space. Thence visitors enter the main theatre hall and additional rooms such as cafes, decoration workshops, administration cabinets, etc. Eccentricity, added to the circular form, provides stage equipment storage and services to be easily delivered to the stage.
Thank you.
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