Vladimir Shumovych
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1289 east 19th street apt E1 Brooklyn, NY 11230
Vladimir Shumovych Silverlunas@gmail.com
Student ID 7117 1-347-692-9451
Education
MIDWOOD HIGH SCHOOL AT BROOKLYN COLLEGE -Graduate, June 2008 -Graduate of the medical science program Experience Coney Island Hospital, Volunteered (12/07-12/08) -Volunteered for over 180 hours -Worked at reception desks, storage departments, and as a volunteer nurse assistant Richard S Berry M.D. P.C. (6/08- present) -Work as a translator Russian and English -Responsible for paper work sorting and filing -Some reception desk experience Skills
Computer skills -Autocad, Microsoft Office, Adobe Photoshop, and may other programs including video & audio edit software like Adobe Premiere. Languages -English (proficient in reading, writing, speaking ) -Russian (proficient in reading, speaking) -Ukrainian (proficient in reading, speaking)
Table of Contents Fall 2011-Summer 2010
1. Inwood Housing Development ARCH 47100, Prof Peter Gisolfi & Michael Piper completed 12/08/11
2. Culver Museum ARCH 36100, Prof Antonio Di Oronzo completed 05/13/11
3. Geometric Memory ARCH 36100, Prof Antonio Di Oronzo completed 3/10/11
4. Transition ARCH 36100, Prof Antonio Di Oronzo completed 2/24/11
5. Gowanus Canal Houses ARCH 35100, Prof Elisabetta Terragni completed 12/09/10
6. Precedent Study (MVRDV Borneo Plots 12 & 18) ARCH 35100, Prof Elisabetta Terragni completed 10/21/10
7. Transference ARCH 35100, Prof Elisabetta Terragni completed 09/23/10
8. Barcelona Classic Cinema Center ARCH 51318, Prof Fabian Llonch completed 06/26/10
Final model
Table of Contents Spring 2010 - Fall 2008
9. Library AES 24000, Prof Arthur Haritos completed 05/13/10 10. Analysis of Library (Seattle Public Library) AES 24000, Prof Arthur Haritos completed 02/18/10 11. Precedent Library (New York Public Library) AES 24000, Prof Arthur Haritos completed 02/09/10 12. House For An Ecologist AES 23000, Prof Arthur Haritos completed 12/10/09 13. Device AES 23000, Prof Arthur Haritos completed 09/17/09 14. Weather Station AES 12000, Prof David Judelson completed 05/12/09
15. Spatial Sequence AES 12000, Prof David Judelson completed 03/10/09
16. Precedent Study (Rietveld Schroder House) AES 12000, Prof David Judelson completed 02/24/09
17. Place AES 11100, Prof David Judelson completed 12/9/08
18. Path AES 11100, Prof David Judelson completed 11/6/08
19. Threshold AES 11100, Prof David Judelson completed 09/25/08
Inwood Housing Development
Scale : 1/64� = 1’-0�
The goals of this project were to develop a housing master plan for the Inwood area in upper Manhattan and to design one large apartment building. I chose my sites based on how available the sites were to begin with to reduce the amount of demolition that had to be carried out and to try to densen up the fabric which seemed to be quite empty. Next I redeveloped 10th ave in order to hold the street better against the looming dyckman houses which are much larger than any other structures in the surrounding areas. The houses all were oriented in a way to try and maximize exposure to the south and are mostly single corridor in design. This allowed for through apartment natural ventilation and increased heating gained from the sun during the winter. By reducing the window surfaces on the northern sides the buildings would better hold in the heat during the winter when the north side is exposed to cold winter winds. Lastly the terracing was to reduce the amount of shadow that is cast on other apartment houses as units that are located farther away from Harlem River.
Design Studio III
Fall 2011
Scale : 1/64” = 1’-0”
Scale : 1/256” = 1’-0”
Culver Museum
The aim of this project was to introduce a piece or architecture to the gowanus community that would help improve the fabric issues in the area such as the multitude of abandoned lots and a community that’s not engaging the usually most sought after waterfront property. The first step was to understand where the fringe condition occurred and I isolated culver viaduct as almost like a wall that separated the healthier residential but unstable fabric from the unhealthy gowanus canal fabric. I decided to try and introduce a connection between the two conditions right under the culver viaduct which seemed to be the barrier. I then worked on creating an architecture that would add a venue for sharing of local culture. In the hopes that this would offer the spaces that the residents need within the area to decide to settle down within the area (in effect stabilizing the fabric) and not just live like passerby’s. At the same time the community would be able to easily view the failing situation on the other side of viaduct from this local cultural hub and hopefully with time try to expanded into it and create the beautiful water front community that it could one day be.
Design Studio II Spring 2011
Sect. A
Sect. B
Sect. C
Sect. D
Scale : 1/64”=1’-0”
Design Studio II Spring 2011
Geometric Memory
This project was very open ended. The only goal was to think of a place you been to or something meaningful in your life and represent that in some shape or form. I took the idea of memory in general as what I would represent. I then came to the conclusion that memories are like a network of important events “nodes” and minor events “the connectors”. But it wasn’t that simple because all memories are different and aren’t made in a linear fashion, the brain adds/sorts what it learns about things in a much more complicated fashion. I thought that by using size as a measurement of importance since more memories or information can fit inside and by using a multitude of interconnecting varying geometries that hint at the connector memories I would be able to create an object that manifests how memories might actually look like it they were physical shapes.
Design Studio II Spring 2011
Transition
This project was a study into the meaning of “transition” and where/ when it exactly does it exists. I tried to create a physical representation of transition by showing a change and the parts that make up that change. By showing the parts that make up the change I managed to manifest the points of the beginning of their interactions between the parts in both directions. I then stated that transition exists from the points where parts being to interact with each other till there interaction ends. So transition can’t ever exist as a point but only as a zone.
Design Studio II Spring 2011
Vladimir Shumovych
Fall 2010 Gowanus Canal House
The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School Of Archite Professor Terragni
1/32”=1”
Gowanus Canal Houses
This project was based around creating a residential community on the large abandoned area right on the gowanus canal. The site is heavily polluted due to its long history of being used as a sewage dump location and industrial zone. Because the canal doesn’t flush out naturally a pumping station had to circulate the water, so during times when the pump is broken the sewage sits with in the canal further adding to the problem. The class as a whole designed the master plan and every student was responsible for designing two small residential buildings. In my design I focus on creating a public pathway in between the two houses. At the same time I tried to create counter balance between the buildings by using more traditional methods of construction and materials. The second building used modern materials and construction methods to accomplish similar goals within similar parameters but also had a sizable part of the program dedicated to a greenhouse which would in theory become as one of the hubs of the community.
Design Studio I
Fall 2010
Final model
PLOT 18
Ground
Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
Roof
Streetside Facade Plot 18
Waterside Facade plot 18
Streetside Facade Plot 12
Waterside Facade plot 12
PLOT 12
Precedent Study Ground
Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
Roof
(MVRDV Borneo Plots 12 & 18)
This was a precedent study of MVRDV plot houses 12 & 18 in borne. The goal was to understand how architecture was done in restrictive space conditions.
Design Studio I
Fall 2010
Force Distribution
Force Distribution on Area
Result
0.25 lbs/inch
Nothing Occurred
Without a Knife
5lbs of Force
Transfer of Force
100 lbs/inch ZOOM 2X
With a Knife
Material Breaks
Cut
Leg lift
Lean forward Lean forward
Leg lift
3x spins 3x spins
Walking phase Walking phase
Lean forward Lean forward
2x spins 2x spins
2x spins 2x spins
Walking phase Walking phase
8x steps 8x steps
6x steps 6x steps
Walking phase Walking phase Ends withEnds bow with bow
Transference
Balerina Balerina “carving” “carving” kitchen kitchen series series
This project began as a study of “transfer”. Everyone was tasked to pick an object and to diagram out transfer as it occurred in relations to the object. We were then given clients with specific project details attached to them and a restrictive program of keeping everything we design within the shape of a cube. This project was a response to the assigned guidelines of a kitchen for a ballerina and a garden for an entomologist. The idea of transfer was carried over in the form of the ballerinas dancing cutting away from a Material to form what is the kitchen.
Design Studio I
Fall 2010
Barcelona Classic Cinema Center
This project was worked on during a summer studio in Barcelona. The program and site were that of a cinema center already finishing up construction. We were given less than a month to design an architecture that would be a derivate of what we learned about local architecture in the area dur ing our stay. This project was strongly influenced by plaza designs in the Barcelona as there uses. All design work was done in quick study models and sketching.
Vert. Design Studio Summer 2010
Library
With the arrival of the computer and internet a media revolution began. Books and newspapers have begun to become digital materials and not physical entities. Likewise the places used to hold the Pre-media revolution texts have slowly begun to lose there importance. This project was an attempt at giving the library a rebirth. By separating the Stack from the rest of the buildings functions and turning it into a presence that could be felt from any vantage point inside of the building as well as the outside the library gained a voice that would constantly remind the world of its existence. The void created between the stacks and the rest of the building would flood the building with indirect sunlight and provide a large outside public space. The faรงade took on a form that responds to surrounding features such as trinity cemetery and shades the inside spaces from a large portion of direct sunlight with its form as well as a shading pattern film which would be built into all the outside glass panels.
Comm. Studio IV Spring 2010 structural sections
Analysis of Library (Seattle Public
Library) This project is rooted in the analysis of how the Seattle Public library functions are distributed in relationship to each other and how as a whole does the library succeed or fail at accommodating all these functions.
Comm. Studio IV Spring 2010
Precedent (New York Public Library)
The library has become one of the last truly free indoor public spaces in our society. Libraries are supposed to act as beacons of social activities and not just places where books are stored. The Central New York Library has been designed in a way that would allow it to adapt to the changes that occur with time and at the same time keep it’s dignity as a palace to knowledge. The library is covered in a variety of marbles, woods, and metals which give it the feel of richness and importance that one would usually associate with a palace. But the crown jewels of this library aren’t it materials; they are its huge barrel vaulted and basilica like spaces which each can stand alone as magnificent examples of architecture and human engineering. The grandeur of these spaces is magnified by the narrow in comparison hallways and stairs which link together the spaces and slow down the viewer to give him or her a cool off period until unveiling the next awe-inspiring space. This repetition on aggrandizement and elongation makes the Central New York Library a place that will remain a Breathtaking Palace to Knowledge for centuries to come.
Comm. Studio IV Spring 2010
plans
House For An Ecologist
This project was to create an architectural intervention into one of the community gardens in east village. The intervention had to act as a public hub and a home for a community organizer. this project was a the outcome of trying to create a building that would accomplish everything it had to while at the same time preserve as much of the garden that it was built on. In order to accomplish this, the building was designed not to drop any shadows on the garden and while taking up the smallest possible footprint on the site. The form of the building was generated from the geometries of neighboring buildings and their relationships to the site. the functions of the buildings where separated by floors, top 2 floors act as a work live space for the community organizer while first 3 floors are completely public. In addition to main building a second portion was created in order to house the community auditorium and give the main building something to balance its sharpness of against. The placement of the auditorium was crucial because it subdivided the garden into a front and back portion, creating a public part of the garden and a more private part of the garden.
elevation
Comm. Studio III Fall 2009
sections
Comm. Studio III Fall 2009
Device
This project was based on creating a device that would assist or enhance one or more of the human senses. This device was created in order to allow a person to measure wind speeds by simply listing to the rhythm of the sound generated by it. The way it works is by having the wind spin a fan in a similar manner that windmills are turned by the wind. The fan turns a shaft to which a cylinder is attached which contains dozens of beads that generate sound. The faster the cylinder spins the louder and more repetitive the sound generated allowing a person to read wind speeds true hearing.
Comm. Studio III Fall 2009
plans
Interior prespective
Weather Station
Most weather stations today are essential a rectangular mass with a tower next to or on top of it and a few windows. The people working inside usually only get to experience and understand the weather trough computers and reading that there instruments give off. This project was focus on creating a weather station that would connect the people working inside it to the outside environment and let them understand and record weather not just by looking a computer screens but by actually viewing the weather as it occurs.
Comm. Studio II Spring 2009
section & section prespective
Comm. Studio II Spring 2009
elevation plan axonometric
Spatial Sequence
This project revolved around creating a spatial sequence or better yet a system from the study of the Rietveld SchrÜder House’s second floors panel movements and design. The entire system is open to allow interchanging of panels so that just like in the Rietveld SchrÜder House the user would have a lot of freedom in what kind of space they need. But this system is designed to take user freedom to the next level, the user could replace floors and ceiling panels, replace exterior solid walls with windows or other type of panels and place functions like stairs anywhere he or she desires. The system may seem to be based on the panels but it is actually based on the rails which are the structure and the only static parts within the whole, they place the only restriction on user freedom but even then certain portions of the rails can also be manipulated such as the central rail grid which can move in a vertical direction.
Comm. Studio II Spring 2009
plans
Rietveld Schröder House This was a study of the Rietveld
Schröder House, its De Stijl qualities, as well as the way in which this somewhat small house dealt with privacy & family. The way that the Schröder House dealt with privacy and family was by using the same space for both types of functions. When family social activities were occurring the upper floor of the house acted as one large living room. When privacy was needed the large living room would be divided into a multitude of smaller rooms by sliding panels which get stored near the walls when the space is open. This function of the Schröder House made the somewhat small house act as if it was a house twice if not three times its size. The De Stijl movement can be seem in even inch of this house even the structure is part of the De Stijl expression of the house. Every part of the Schröder House is designed according to the De Stijl principles, even the furniture. This gave the Schröder House a large amount of coloration and variation which would remain interesting to the user for a long time to come.
section
Comm. Studio II Spring 2009
sections
Comm. Studio II Spring 2009
section
section prespective prespective
Plan
Place
Usually the most recognizable locations in the world are constructed of repeated features. The oceans consist of water; the deserts consist of sand, while mountains consist of rock. From this one fact it became apparent that to create a place that would have a lasting appeal as a place the use of repetition was invaluable.
Comm. Studio I Fall 2008
section
Path
Anywhere that a person can go can be called a path. Because we as human’s can traverse almost anything including land, water, air and even space; it was clear that for a true path to be created the users freedom of choice had to be at the very least limited if not eliminated. When reaching the beginning of the path the user is faced with a large wall with only the entrance to the path as a way to continue moving forward. Next the floor under the path disappears making it clear that the path is the only way to continue. At the same time the end of the path comes into view and remains in view for most of the experience as a temptation for the user who would ideally want to reach the end after seeing it and would make the user strive to move along the path.
section prespective
Comm. Studio I Fall 2009
Plan axonometric elevation and section
Threshold
This project was an exploration of the meaning of “threshold�. After some study it became apparent that threshold is something that can exists anywhere there exists two different elements. In order to represent threshold in physical form, elements running perpendicular to each other were placed near each other. The point of which the elements meet became transition from one element to the other creating a threshold.
Comm. Studio I Fall 2009