SUN PROJECT
Faina Tyagay architectural portfolio
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From three years of age I showed clear yet questionable architectural intentions.
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PERSONAL:
D.O.B: 3 July 1991 Languages: Russian (native), English (fluent), German (basic), Swedish (basic)
EDUCATION:
2012/2014: Ume책 School of Architecture Laboratory of Sustainable Architecture Production. (Postgraduate) MOSCOW INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTURE (MARKHI) Industrial building department. (Postgraduate) Currently enrolled in Master Thesis. 2008/2012: MOSCOW INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTURE (MARKHI) Industrial building department (Undergraduate)
CONTEST AND FESTIVAL EXPERIENCE:
2013: Architectural Association Workshop, Strelka Institute, Moscow 2012: INTERNATIONAL TOWNS FESTIVAL (Tarusa, Russia) Special jury price.
EXHIBITIONS:
2012 VHUTEMAS Gallery (Moscow) 2009 Russian Architectural Association Centre Participant in year exhibition with student work
EMPLOYERS:
2013/2014 architectural assistant at A20M Moscow http://www.a2om-buro.com/en Currently involved in a private house project in KHOLMI village, Russia as a freelance architect
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
2014 BAUHAUS Dessau International Architecture Graduate School workshop (Dessau, Germany) Assistant Teacher
GRAPHIC SKILLS:
Adobe package: Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign Autodesk products: AutoCad, 3dsMax, Sketchup, V-ray, Velux daylight visualizer, Ms-office
VOLUNTEER WORK:
2014 RESTORATION PROJECT Russian northern wooden churches measurements expedition. 3
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MOVING FROM SWEDEN
In 2008 I started studying to be an architect in Moscow Architectural Institute. Moscow Architectural Institute is the best school to get an architectural degree in Russia. During the period of my studies, not only did I discover the basics of the profession, but I also developed a strong classical approach. My projects have often been noted by the commission of professors and guest architects in MARKHI. I have successfully participated in competitions, workshops, exhibitions and have several publications. I have also been taking part in some grand architectural festivals in Russia. The undergraduate curriculum in Architectural studies in Moscow introduced me to a wide variety of subjects related to different aspects of the discipline. Various courses like; Building Construction, History of Art, Architecture, Urban Planning, Drawing, Painting and Sculpture provided me with a strong footing in the theoretical and practical knowledge. On the way to my bachelor degree, I discovered a master program about sustainable architectural production at UMA School of Architecture. The LSAP Master program in Ume책 School of Architecture is focused on bringing sustainable approach on every level. The general idea of sustainability is complex and consists of different views
on many different aspects of creating a human habitat; such as cultural, social, economical and environmental. This approach I have found generally well developed in Sweden as a whole. Also, the way our programme is emphasized on these aspects made me begin to understand the whole process differently and in a much deeper manner. I understand that the essence of sustainable architecture can be defined as an ethical architecture which is definitely how everything should be produced in the future. This complex approach I was developing in various semester projects. My diploma also displays a complex sustainable agenda at both research and design phase. My work experience at A2OM buro brought a valuable understanding of team work and architectural cooperation. During the work in a young small practice I improved my technical skills and got an insight of the complexity and responsibility of the profession. After graduating with a distinction from Ume책 School of Architecture I am relocating to London with my partner. I discovered your office and I really love your complex approach to the profession. Attention to details, artistic skills and sustainable vision is what I want to put in my architectural experience.
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Plectranthus parvula
Angelica archangelica
Protea floreo
Plectranthus hainanensis
Angelica archangelica
Protea conum
Plectranthus obliquifolia
reseda alba
Vaccinium uliginosum
Plectranthus cirrosa
reseda alba seed
Vaccinium myrtillus
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RECLAMATION OF INDUSTRIAL: A CLIMATE CHANGE CENTER ON A FORMER FACTORY SITE. Master thesis project
A Climate Research Centre project complies of several levels of development and includes several major components. Multiple aims and issues it is dealing with were dictating a versatile approach to the design and perception of the project. On the National scale it deals with a need for a network institution specialized on climate change issues and connected with other organizations forming a global vulnerability reduction network. On the Urban scale the project is facing a matter of an increasing town growth on one and the a need of a particular industrial object site reorganization on the other. The prime asset of the design process was to materialise the message of the climate change problem through the building. Through the building process, construction methods, through the buildings life span functioning solutions, in it’s organization principles and appearance
the project reflects on the matter of climate change. The sustainability issue is essential in this matter. By deconstructing all the functions and careful study of all the processes interconnections a substantial sequence was extracted. The issue of making an educational building non hierarchial was granted for me after the study of existing UmeĂĽ biology science center. Talking to scientists there made it clear how ineffective usual rigid laboratory organization is. The matter of transparency dictated a certain agenda of an educational part of the project, namely the museum. A consistent study and testing of different scenarios of interconnection between the institution work and visitors revealed certain points where they can meet each other with no disturbing for the research work.
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THE RESEARCH CENTRE CONTENT the connections covered in the report soil formations Terrestrial ecosystems forest ecology Terrestrial spieces
agricultural industry
atmosphere wind
consequences
Meteorological agricultural industry
ďŹ shing industry
freshwater spieces
freshwater plant ecology freshwater biodiversity river formation
During my investigation I found a Final report from the Swedish Commission on Climate and Vulnerability done for the Swedish government on the topic of climate change. This document includes 679 pages of investigation on the climate change records, it’s current situation and set of proposals done by the commission on various levels. One of the key proposals for the future national agenda is to establish a Climate change Institution which will have a network structure and will be funded by the government. This document is a key factor for my proposal decision. The assets stated there make the necessity of such an institution
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primary. Below I put the compilations from the document about the current climate change dynamics. The transfer of the knowledge is following the sequence of the ecological institution principle. The collection of material is performed at the freshwater and soil/ forestry outposts. Both of them are situated on the sites where the samples can be collected directly. The museum building is following the whole proses as well. This displays the whole logic of the knowledge development already in the building structure.
THE CONVEYOR OF THE KNOWLEDGE the sequence principle of the departments arrangement collection of the materials
freshwater ecology centre
soil microbiology forest ecology
chemical analysis
physical analysis
meteorology analysis mathematical outcome - future scenarios
environmental chemistry
applied engineer physics
biochemistry
engineering department
atmosphere research
mathematical biology
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THE RESEARCH CONFIGURATION research centre function balance
The main agenda for the institution development is the “knowledge conveyer�, the chain of departments which follows the sequence of climate change studies development. Each department contains several functional components which are integrated in each others work. The departments contain of laboratory units together with offices (first floor) and have and set of highly accessible technical, washing rooms and fixed temperature chamber storage spaces (ground floor). In the diagram, laboratory and office
spaces are differentiated. The laboratory spaces of the ground floor are the technical and storage laboratory parts. These spaces do not need so much daylight, as the working spaces above. The exclusion is an engineering department which should be accessible from the first floor. The tower in the middle of the building is an important asset of meeting of the public with the inside research life without disturbing the workers. It act as an observational point which penetrates through the institutional building in a glass shaft. At the same time the sensors outside the tower collects the atmo-
spheric data making the tower the main flux point of the research. The field based freshwater and soil/ forest ecology centers are shown separately.
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FIRST FLOOR PLAN
1. Environmental chemistry laboratory 2. Environmental chemistry offices 3. Applied engineer physics laboratory 4. Applied engineer physics offices 5. Atmosphere research office 6. Atmosphere research laboratory 7. Mathematical biology offices 8. Mathematical biology laboratories 9. Cafe 10. Soil ecology laboratory 11. Forest ecology laboratory 12. Forest ecology offices
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NYNÄSHAMN FOLKHÖGSKOLAN a retrofitting project to design a adult education centre in a small swedish town
Above top- View from the waterfront towards the school; Above bottom- Project elements scheme
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Above- City panorama drawing, pencil The approach in the Laboratory of sustainable architecture production implies building design to be profoundly research based. This is why the First semester of the Master course was entirely dedicated to the urban analysis and a diverse investigation of the city. All the later design project decisions are implied with the connection of that previous investigation. Nyn채shamn is a small city to the south of Stockholm. There is a drastic demo-
graphic gap for people aged between 18- 29. This is the reason for a low social interaction in the city. The other specificity is a Nyn채shamn being a harbour city. Though the city is located on the waterfront, due to the topography and the road position, it is still very disconnected to the harbour and to the sea. A third urban factor considered was the ex Ericsson factory, an abandoned area in a key position. The project is aimed to implement a link between the sea, suburbs
Based on the research semester, there was a decision to renovate this area with the designing of an adult education center with wood workshops, a sailing school, boat building courses, a restaurant, redevelopment of the surrounding industrial and harbour area. Together, this responds for a higher education alternative as a factor to keep young people in the city as well as restoring local city identities; sea based wood crafts.
and the city.
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A double facade system with the use of low energy glass and high efficiency polycarbonate allows the building to reach a specifically low U-value (0.188 W/m2K). Together with the unventilated air layer between the glass facade makes heat losses much lower. Three different levels of material transparency allows views and different light conditions where it is needed.
The transparency of the glazed auditorium on the back facade can be regulated with blinds. The space has an access from both the third and fourth floor.
The interior demonstrates a visual connection not only through the whole building but also to the view of the sea outside.
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The main central stairs connect all of the common spaces.
1,2 million people per year travel through Nynäshamn to GÜtaland. Where commuting cars pass the building is the point where the city begins. This fact remains completely hidden to people heading for the harbour. The new bridge connection acts as a city gate. Such a landmark creates a sign of the school area and the town life for visitors.
The newly organized spaces help to generate a variety of day-time and evening social activities (there is a particular lack of them in the city). Facades can become a summer cinema and restaurant functioning as a bar.
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THE SUN PROJECT ice installation building
Goroda Fest is an international architectural festival in Tarusa, Russia. In 2012 I was a part of the team which designed a sun disc, seen from the boarder of the lake. The metaphor is referring to the sun rising from horizon when there is an impression of its whole
body under the water. The sun is represented by an ice parabola 30 meters in length and 2.5 meters in height at the center. The piece wall is made from blocks of ice which were pulled from the lake and shaped individually during 4 day period. The sun was
back lit by red projectors. The red glow from the sculpture could be seen from 300 meters away in the darkness. The installation won the first prize and was published in the Russian architectural digest.
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BOARDERS OF CHANGE Architectural Association workshop
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There is a particular word in the Russian language that defines a fence as a spatial border only. It is not the essential bearing element, it is a paling, a fence, cutting through an area and splitting it in two. This type of fence appeared to be a given element of every Russian landscape, especially countryside, which is a beginning point of this broad place. One can say the immensity of a country is one of the factors causing this peculiar
need to designate a boarder, trying to organize land. From a lath fence, to a fortress wall, fences are always a continuation of an object, they surround, it is a second skin of a special place which belongs to it. The typology and history of the fence is so quite continuous and reflecting on every activity mankind had concerning their personal and common real property. Fencesfacades, Fences- defenders, fences- organizers, fences- decorations- they all meant to serve in their own way.
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Inner walls- cities within a city Brought to a highly complex city landscape fences mutate into a hierarchy of borders, into sometimes weird hybrids, which depending on scale and purpose control our ways, our timetables, our safety, our accessibility- our life. It also creates a certain number of phenomenon such as emptiness framing. Places like that can be found everywhere around Moscow. It is usually some construction area, or abandoned zones, or some massive badly organized storages. Closing places like that makes it legal, makes it impossible for us to know what is there and of course questions the relevance of it. The Fence as a basic spatial controlling device, is used broadly and easily, especially in Russia. This influential side of a fence we wanted to investigate. Looking at Moscow- the city which grew
up from the Kremlin-fence made us think about this city- borders, these massive modified fences, which have a number of purposes. Now, when the city is so overgrown its first footprint so much, we can still find chains of fences, surrounding Moscow as you move from the center. Now they are high rise living houses, fence shaped, hive- structured living fences. To question this hierarchy, this circular system we created this utopian scheme which divides the Moscow plan in several slices, turning existing highways as guidelines of the division. Predicting the possible scenarios we made this grand scheme where every zone takes its own piece of a center area, which always was the most interactive in the city and probably in some future this little attractions of each place will move to the center of
the zone they belong to be maximum accessible to all its citizens. But what is still crucial about how all this regulating process works is what appears to be a fence. Changing the opacity, density, mass of possible walls can generate ambivalent effect on an object containing. Appearance of the structure begins to dictate a further scenario. For testing this set of qualities another scale was chosen. By placing up the same square fence on different sites of Moscow- as it is now- a powerful character of a fence was discovered. Abstractly placed on various squares- absolutely different in their historical , geographical and urban context it was interpreted as sundry boarders with its own climate inside and outside as well. Changing physical aspects of a wall moderated surroundings as a scene.
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THE BRIDGE Wood workshop
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PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT
PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT
times). The geometry was inspired by an ancient Japanese technique. None of the given three meter long glulam beams were cut shorter.
The construction is going over the river and can be fully be used as a pedestrian bridge (Tested by the team various
The project was mentioned in several publications and formed part of the Virserums Konsthall wood exibition.
PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT
The nine meter span construction was designed, fabricated and built during 5 days. The whole structure, created from glulam, is done entirely by geometry
manipulation, without any use of screws, nails or glue. This was an incredible exercise for the practical knowledge of the material properties.
PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT
The wooden bridge project was a workshop completed in the south of Sweden during the first year of Masters.
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RETROFITTING MALMĂ– HOSPITAL Cardiology renovation design
New urban strategy for the area MalmĂś hospital is one of the biggest in Sweden. One of the main problems, stated when visiting the existing hospital is logistics, which is difficult due to wide spread functions. The Healing environment project has several scales. The First scale is the urban strategy for the whole hospital area. There is range of problems in the existing structure. One of the key ideas in the new urban strategy was to group and system-
ize the existing order of functions. During the process the area was not only reorganized but also densified. Another scale is a renovation of an existing building. The reorganization of the cardiology department implies two new floors added with new patent wards. Structure of these new floor plans is based on the existing column grid and load baring walls with existing windows.
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RETROFITTING MALMÖ HOSPITAL Patient room daylight simulation
One of the biggest factors in healing environment design is the creation of the maximum optimized daylight solution. The simulation studies of one of the two room design types helped to define the most adequate decision. All of the inside surfaces show relatively even and quite high lux index annually, with no drastic difference at the northern and southern side.
This type of room has a “winter garden” window integrated between the rooms. This special window system is not only an added daylight source but also an individual climate control device. It preheats incoming air (up to +8° C in winter) to lower energy demands.
As it is visible on the annual daylight simulation, the daylight index doesn’t get too high most of the year and spreads through the room quite evenly. An automatized blind system allows the patient to regulate the optimum condition themselves. 30
Above- patient room design.
The present situation of hospitals in Sweden states that there are a minimum four people in a room. To make a situation when everyone has a private room more realistic there is a shared toilet and shower. A room size is optimized according to all the accessibility requirements possible
(as well as for a disabled patient and for the doctor and nurse.) Integrated transformable furniture, remotely controllable blinds, doors and electronics, optimized daylight solution and choice of materials; -all that was integrated as a result of various studies, tests and investigations.
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TEACHING EXPERIENCE Assisting on a Workshop in DIA Bauhaus Master Course
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The workshop at DIA Bauhaus Architecture School was an exceptional professional, methodological and creative experience. In the studio we were developing an exercise which was generating a whole new approach to design. This exercise initiates a deconstruction of the creative process. Technically any creative process is a translation from one language to another. A principle of the metaphor is based on the principle of expressing specific data in another syntax. During the exercise a syntax language was developed by each of the students, based on the specific picture they wanted to capture. The plan for each student was to imply these translations to a found object. Both translations are meant to capture the perseverance of it before and after the manipulation. So through the change between the two diagrams the language dynamics begin to evolve. After this development and study of each individual didactics the part of final expression. This part is crucial in a sense of taking data back to the analogue material. Analogy is a mapping of a of knowledge from one field into one another. It is a way of focusing relational aspects of complex organizations or systems. It is a deep abstract operation.
Working on the 1st and 2nd translation didactics, we found that the same “Base Field” (The same abstract digital diagram) can yield different Analogical Mappings (different second translations), depending on how it best matches the “Target Field” (i.e. the relationship between materiality, assemblage, context or others). The final object created is a piece which is an expression of the diagram developed. Each module of materials is a tool of pronunciation of the initial didactics. By each design manipulation in creation of the new object each decision is responsible for capturing something. It’s how a language is being materialized in a creators unique manner. The workshop methodology develops a strong self-study in a design process. It evolves an eager to understand complex principles of creation of architecture and generates a clear critical thinking agenda. This experience significantly strengthened my understanding of architectural creative process and form finding. The exercise developed together with professor Carlos Campos evolved into the great trigger in my design activity. Also, the teaching experience developed my cooperative approach and my personal methodological agenda.
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VOLUNTEER WORK Restoration expedition on Russian north
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Obshee delo is a fund which is engaging in the revival of the wooden temple architecture in the Russian North.
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The expedition took place in the Arkhangelsk region of Chamovo village. Three churches which are situated there were built in 1897, 1887 and 1880. Two of the churches are completely abandoned and
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damaged. All the churches were accurately measured and captured. All the details were also documented by the team. The elicit information was used to develop elevations, plans and sections which will be a base for a restoration project. The project is now in progress.
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DRAWING Academic studio works and sketching
above - sketchbook ; pen left - human anatomy structure studies; pencil
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above - berlin block architecture; watercolour right - life drawing ; watercolour
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