Rashid muydinov resume portfolio by Rashidbek Muydinov

RASHID MUYDINOV EDUCATION

EXPERIENCE

2014 Present

Yale University School of Architecture New Haven, CT Master of Architecture (candidate)

2015 Present

Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies New Haven, CT Master of Environmental Management (candidate)

2012 2014

Boston Architectural College Boston, MA Master of Architecture (transferred)

2004 2007

Tashkent State Tech Univ, School of Economics Tashkent, Uzbekistan Bachelor of Business Administration (awarded)

Summer 2015

20132014

INTERESTS

Yale School of Architecture Gallery New Haven, CT Graphic Designer Assist with Dean Robert Stern’s upcoming exhibition in 2017 - prepare drawings, diagrams, and other graphic presentation materials for the educational institutions Meridian Realty Group, LLC Boston, MA Graphic Designer / Marketing Coordinator Designed and directed graphics, marketing packages, and website for the multi-million dollar development project Winter Place Residences, the real estate firm’s largest commission to date (www.winterplaceboston.com); coordinated company’s all graphics, website and social media updates; trained incoming graphic design and marketing interns in computer applications

Spring 2014

Boston Architectural College Boston, MA Teaching Assistant / Lab Leader, Sustainable Material Assemblies Assisted students in implementing, exploring and challenging their acquired knowledge in sustainable practices and broader implications of material use through graphic representation, research and case studies; directed discussion sections; led tutorials in computer applications and fabrication equipments

Spring 2014

Meetinghouse Farm Cape Cod, MA Community Project (with Sasha Francoeur and Hannah Smith) Collaborated on landscape design of a historic nursery/ researched on plants and trees, and their performative and aesthetic qualities/ designed water drainage and storage systems

Summer 2013

SKILLS

rashidbek.muydinov@yale.edu / rashidmuydinov.com / (970) 393 3012

The Nexus House Beyond the Grid Competition Entry (with Ge Wang, Luis Rodriguez et al) This collaborative and competition project called for a prototype of an off-grid, self-sustaining dwelling. My research in this project involved sustainable building practices and climate mediating techniques of the vernacular architecture in an arid, hot climate; and these studies were later implemented into the design of a small dwelling with an inverse roof, rammed earth walls, and a windscoop. O’Bos Enterprises, LLC Vail, CO Retail Management Intern Carried out business operations and prepared accounting and sales reports at one of a small chain of gift stores in the ski resort; trained incoming international interns and new employees; coordinated visual merchandising and stock management; assisted customers

- Creative problem solving and design skills - Strong academic research and writing skills - Critical synthesis of different academic disciplines - Excellent communication, organizational, and presentation skills - Project management, teamwork and collaboration skills - Enthusiasm to learn and strong work ethic - Proficiency in 3d modeling, drawing, and Adobe Creative Suite applications - Fabrication and material studies: 3-axis milling, vacuum-forming, casting, woodworking - Languages: Uzbek (native) / Russian (conversational)/ Turkish (conversational) - Material investigation and fabrication/ Design-build/ Arts/ Urban design/ Photography - Volunteered for Habitat for Humanity of Vail Valley, CO - Summer 2011 - Works and thoughts published in Boston Architectural College’s Student Work, YSoA’s Paprika Journal, and Archinect

Rashid Muydinov / Yale University

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Architectural Design and Research

Center for Environmental Studies Design Studio 1011a / Spring 2015 Yale School of Architecture West River Park, New Haven Critic: Brennan Buck

The West River Park is divided by the highway into seemingly two opposite domains: a strip of the retail boxes on one side, and the idyllic natural landscape on the other, which in fact is a construct of man-made infrastructure. The Center for Environmental Studies on the West River of New Haven inquires into this perceived duality between the natural and man-made environments, and seeks to utilize the landscape as a learning ground. Immersed in the river, the building connects the banks as a bridge, accommodating recreational and research facilities. The sectional variations of the greater site generate building envelope, whose spatial and performative qualities rely on the seasonal and daily changes in the water.

Superimage: West River Park reinterpreted

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Environmental Center and its components within the site, and the building context

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Final model

Study models

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Envelope

Primary structure

Perspective section

Walls and floor slabs

Site plan Perspective section

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Designed Adjacencies Saugus, MA Landfill Project Design Studio C1 / Spring 2014 Boston Architectural College Location: Saugus, Mass. Critic: Aneesha Dharwadker

Regenerative Urban Design and Adaptive Infrastructures

As the world population continue to grow, and rapidly urbanizes, a question arises of a suitable infrastructure that will have to facilitate these urban conditions, and to respond to the changing scenarios of the challenges environmental, economical, logistical, and social. The conventional infrastructure, for the most part, is inefficient, costly both to build and maintain, and ecologically detrimental1. It parallels to the way many of our cities have been planned and evolved as a product of industrial activities. Patterns of ecologically destructive urbanism can be observed in the Greater Boston area, when we examine urban systems - landfills, transportation, and industrial elements in relation to those of environment. Majority of the landfills, albeit inactive or closed, are located next to the water sources and coasts, despite the risk of leaching of pollutants. This type of conflicting adjacencies is particularly evident in the Saugus/Revere coastline, where a waste incineration plant and its three-hundred acre landfill adjoin the Rumney marshlands, a wildlife preserve. The plant processes municipal solid waste from the surrounding communities, and disposes of the generated ash in the landfill. This process is of both economical and ecological consequences: the plant reclaims and sells energy enough for 47,000 households; while the preserve, an important habitat for migratory bird and diadromous fish species, is now declared an area of environmental concern (ACEC). The landfill, operating for about forty years, is dumped 150 tons of waste combustion ash each day, which includes heavy and toxic metals such as lead, zinc, arsenic, and cadmium2. Additionally, Climate Central, an environmental think-tank projects one quarter of the area to be affected by the rising sea levels, which poses a risk of leaching these toxic elements into the environment3. My research seeks to address the conventional thinking that prioritizes separation between urban and ecological systems, which is the main part of the problem. It revisits the notion of waste as a commodity to be traded4, rather than something to abhor, to be sent away "out of sight - out of mind." In this approach, the infrastructure is no longer a static skeleton on which the city is built; but assumes flexibility to adapt to changing conditions. The inhabitants of the city cease to be merely consumers of goods and services; and actively start to engage in this multidirectional process. This intervention envisions minimizing urban footprint on the environment through cradle-to-cradle process, where virtually every product in the end of its lifecycle is used to maintain another. Acknowledging the importance of gradual and long-term adaptations in addressing reclamation, I envision my proposal for the site to be a problem-solving exercise, representative of, and applicable to, other brownfield reclamation issues throughout the country and around the globe. It involves all the agencies in the process of waste generation: manufacturers, consumers and industries; and a broader understanding of waste: from physical (municipal solid waste - MSW) to landscape (wastelands)5, and everything in between (geographies and logistics).

Belanger, Pierre, “Landscape as Infrastructure,” Landscape Journal 28, No 1 (2009): 80-95.

For more information about the WTE plant and landfill of Wheelabrador Technologies, please see http://www.wheelabratortechnologies.com/ linkservid/565B73FE-5056-B35E-2C36596DDD4F19AF/showMeta/0/ (accessed April 7, 2014). 2

Sea level rise analysis by Climate Central, http:// sealevel.climatecentral.org/surgingseas/place/ cities/MA/Chelsea#surge=10&show=cities&cent er=15/42.4395/-70.9765 (accessed March 15, 2014). 3

“In the 21st century, it seems that waste will be new food”, Belanger, 89.

Berger, Alan, “Drosscape,” in Waldheim, Charles, ed., The Landscape Urbanism Reader (Princeton Architectural Press, 2006), 203. 6

Belanger, 89.

Comprised of stages, the proposal starts with waste reduction and commodization. Programs that encourage recycling and penalize waste generation would extend from households (such as, paying the trash disposal service by the volume of garbage bin - small in scale, but significant in scope) to industries (recycling of durable goods would create 100,000 jobs in the States6). The organic waste and sludge will be processed in anaerobic digesting facilities, and the resulting compost will be sold to farms and home improvement stores, while in the process, a clean energy is reclaimed. This cradle-to-cradle process would free up acres of the landfill for the subsequent phases. In Stages 1 and 2, the site will be phyto-remediated and colonized by wildlife species. Stage 3 involves programming of the site to zones of Ecology, Recreation, and Industry. The existing waste incineration plant (now in the Industrial Zone) will be re-purposed as a bio-fuel factory, while the Recreation Zone will accommodate facilities to utilize the natural habitat for educational and recreational purposes. This stage also includes constructed terrains to resist the possibility of sea-level rise, and maintain the wildlife habitat. The subsequent Stage N introduces human habitat to the site. Comprised of higher density, tall towers, these multi-use buildings accommodate residential units, offices and commercial stores. The waste generated by the inhabitants will be processed within the same building. By incorporating these seemingly disparate and opposite systems in the same integral network, my proposal attempts to achieve an order of urban conditions, in which each system assumes equally balanced role, and facilitate each other's existence.

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Haverhill 11,000 Lowell 12,890

Rockport/ Newburyport 7,337

Fitchburg 9,648

Providence 20,373

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Franklin 13,500

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Wooster 17,382

Middleboro 9,930

Commuter rail: ridership volumes and daily entries to stations

Wheelabrador WTE Plant

Site

Landfills and adjacency to a water source

Migratory bird routes and settlements

Anadromous and diadromous fish routes

Brooksby Farm

Whole Foods Home Depot

Rocky Hill Farm

Whole Foods

Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;brienâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Farm

Marblehead Garden Center

Robinson Farm

Home Depot

Wheelabrador WTE Plant

Holcin US Aggregate Industries Boston Sand & Gravel

Blue Circle Cement

Aggregate Industries

J&J Masonry

Graziano Inc. Weymouth Concrete Inc.

Waste commodization: electricity supply to Northshore communities

Waste commodization: compost to stores and farms

Waste commodization: fly-ash supply to cement manufacturers

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Saugus Population: 26,078/ 2.1 mi Swampscott Population: 14,412/ 4.7 mi

Stage 0:

Lynn Population: 91,253/ 2.5 mi

MSW from Northshore communities incinerated and converted to energy; resulting ash dumped in landfill within Rumney Marsh reservation

Revere Population: 53.867/ 4.5 mi Peabody Population: 51,867/ 7 mi

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Commodization of waste - compost and fly-ash sold to local farms and commercial entities

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Phytoremediation of brownfields

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Stage 3: Wheelabrador ash landfill, satellite view

Establishing zones of residential towers and recreation

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Phytoremediation of brownfields; colonization of landfill by natural species

Stage 1 & 2:

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Industrial Zone

Residential Zone

Regional map

Natural Preserve

Recreational Zone

Site zoning map

Residential Towers with commercial programs

Museum of Ecology, Recreation Center, and outdoor plaza

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Current

Museum of Ecology, Rec Center, and train station sites

Massing studies in terrain: excavated soil is reused on residential site

Aperture

Train station connects to Museum of Ecology; a stepped outdoor platform on the building

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Current stage

Excavated soil is used to elevate the terrain against sea-level rise

Massing studies for residential towers

Connection of landscape with the water through building

Ground level commercial spaces and underground service units

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Layered Thresholds New Haven Housing Prototype Design Studio 1012B / Spring 2015 Yale School of Architecture New Haven, CT Critic: Joeb Moore

The project describes a dwelling where daily activities take place, and a mechanism constituted by external inputs (gas, electricity, etc) that enable those activities. This mechanism not only facilitates those activities, but also produces personhood itself as a social construct. These domestic activities are then ritualized in a spatial arrangement of the stair in the Kunsthaus Bregenz by Peter Zumthor. Each procession along the stair is tied to shifting of the boundaries between the private and communal. This systemazed coding of the minimal dwelling lays the conceptual ground for a housing prototype for New Haven as an initial phase of the J. Vlock Building Project, Yaleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s affordable housing initiative.

Dwelling code

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Dwelling code superimposed on a stair

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Site plan

60 feet

193 Winthrop Ave., New Haven

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Open to below

Second floor plan

10 feet

First floor plan

Section through Winthrop Ave

Section though Scranton street

Final proposal: 1/4â&#x20AC;? partial model

Drawings

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The Monolith Material Immaterial

YSOA Vizualization III 1015a / Spring 2015 + Paul Lorenz & Alexander Stagge Critics: John Eberhart + Brennan Buck

This project investigates specific relationships between material, texture, and form that would conceal, complicate or contradict its materiality. The monolithic form was created through a process of painting and oblique-laminating CNCprofiled OSB panels, and carving an undulated exterior surface. The faceted interior surface revels the process of contouring.

CNC-milled exterior surface

Contoured interior surface

Process of laminating and milling

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Material grain

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Analysis: Toledo Glass Pavilion Building Technology 2015b / Spring 2015 Yale School of Architecture Critics: Alan Organschi+Adam Hopfner

In 2006, the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio opened its new wing, the Glass Pavilion to house its wealth of glass artwork. Designed by the Japanese firm SANAA, the Pavilion embodies the spirit of the glass manufacturing industry once flourished and led here by Edmund Libbey of Libbey Glass Co, the founder and benefactor of the museum. The Glass Pavilion, built of curved glass sheets manufactured overseas and transported to the site, also reflects the decline of manufacturing industry and investment in high-tech sector in the United States. My analysis maps the economy of the glass in the Pavilion in terms of carbon output in the process of manufacturing, transporting, and assembling.

Shipping to Hamburg Port Distance: 631.5 km Load: 295 tonnes EE Trucking: 0.08 kg per tonne-km of cargo, totaling

14.75 tonnes

Shipping overseas

Hamburg

Distance Hamburg-Shenzhen: 21,179.5 km Load: 295 tonnes EE Cargo Ship: 0.023 kg per tonnekm of cargo, totaling

Weiherhammer Germany

Glass Manufacturing Raw material extraction 0.3 t Melting furnace 0.7 t Float bath 0.2 t Cooling/annealing 0.01 t Cutting 0.01 t 1.2 tonnes CO2 per each tonne of float glass, totaling

350 tonnes for 295 tonnes of glass (500 sheets @ 1,300 lbs each)

Material Outsourcing

143 tonnes

Pilkington Glass of Germany Distance: 6,964 km Typical Business Class flight EE: 0.27 kg CO2 per km Total per Toledo, OH-Weiherhammer, Germany flight:

1.6 tonnes

Total distance traveled:

51,762.5 km Total CO2 emissions at minimum:

711 tonnes Toledo, OH

Shenzhen, China Toledo, OH Tokyo, Japan Design 2004 building comissioned to SANAA Distance: 10,346 km1 Embodied energy (EE) per business class flight, measured in weight of CO2: 0.27 kg CO2 per km2, 3 Total per Tokyo-Toledo, OH flight:

4.8 tonnes

Shipping overseas Distance (Shenzhen-Toledo, OH): 21,179.5 km Load: 295 tonnes EE Cargo Ship: 0.023 kg per tonne-km of cargo, totaling

190 tonnes

Replacement of a broken sheet over air freight Distance (Shenzhen-Toledo, OH): 12,641 km Load: 1 sheet @ 590 kgs EE Air freight: 0.023 kg per tonne-km of cargo=

3.5 tonnes

Toledo Glass Pavilion, Material Geography and Carbon Footprint of Glass Arc length is representative of a corresponding distance of transportation; radius length represents weight of carbon emitted in each process (design, manufacturing, and transportation).

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Anodized aluminum fascia Insulation Roofing membrane

W12 girder

Mechanical conduit Primary roof structure Metal decking Rocking mechanism (damper) Load

1/2” steel plate

Deflection line

Radiant heating panels 3/8+3/8” low-iron laminated glass

Cavity

1/2+1/2” low-iron laminated glass

Neoprene load transfer block Teflon slip pad Head support steel angle

Stainless steel glazing channel 3” concrete topping Rocking mechanism (damper) Radiant heating panels Circular vent grill Concrete slab Water retarder Porous layer (gravel) Metal drip Stainless steel glazing channel

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Toledo Glass Pavilion, Plans Solid walls (indicated in red poche) within the glass maze (in grey) serve as shear supports. The left diagram shows the irregular girder system supporting the beams; and transfer loads to slender columns.

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Drawings

Spherical aggregation Rhino 3d+Grasshopper script+Adobe Illustrator Visualization III / Critics: Brennan Buck+John Eberhart

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Self-portrait White Conte crayon on black Canson charcoal paper Freehand Drawing (BAC) / Critic: Michael Daniels

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Metamorsphosis of the circle Twin churches of Reineldi and Bernini; Rhinoceros, Adobe Illustrator Formal Analysis / Critic: Peter Eisenman

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Rashid Muydinov M.Arch+M.E.M. 2018 48 Edwards Street New Haven, CT 06511 970 393 3012 rashidbek.muydinov@yale.edu

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