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qualifications EDUCATION
EXPERIENCE: DESIGN WORK
THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY, Columbus, Ohio • Master of Architecture • May 2014
August 2012 – May 2014
KENT STATE UNIVERSITY, Kent, Ohio • Bachelor of Science in Architecture, Minor in French
August 2008 – May 2012
DESIGNGROUP, Columbus, Ohio Summer 2015 - present TRINITY HEALTH GROUP, Westerville, Ohio Summer 2014 – Summer 2015 R E D ARCHITECTURE + PLANNING, Columbus, Ohio
LDA ARCHITECTS, Cleveland Heights, Ohio
EXPERIENCE: TEACHING
KNOWLTON SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, Columbus, Ohio • Graduate Assistant
KENT STATE ACADEMIC SUCCESS CENTER, Kent, Ohio • Peer Mentor and Tutor
EXPERIENCE: INTERNATIONAL
Fall 2013 – Summer 2014 Summer 2012, Summer 2013
August 2012 – May 2014
August 2011 – May 2012
ARTA GRANT: TEL AVIV, ISRAEL March 2014 • Scholarship for independent study for the project Tel Aviv: An Architecture of Deviance EUROPEAN ARCHITECTURE STUDIES STUDY ABROAD
May 2013
TAGLIT BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL December 2011
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EXPERIENCE: LEADERSHIP
AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTURE STUDENTS, OHIO STATE CHAPTER • Treasurer
August 2013 – May 2014
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY, KENT STATE CHAPTER • Secretary, Vice President, Volunteer
August 2008 – May 2012
SPECIAL SKILLS
• Drawing, painting, model-building • Revit Architecture, AutoCAD, Sketchup Pro, Rhinoceros 3D v5, Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Design Standard • Fluent in Russian, advanced in French
HONORS
KNOWLTON SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE EXIT REVIEW/THESIS WINNER AUSTIN E. KNOWLTON MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP KENT STATE UNIVERSITY INTEGRATED DESIGN COMPETITION FINALIST MODERN & CLASSICAL LANGUAGE STUDIES PRIZE IN FRENCH OSYP MARTINYUK ARCHITECTURE SCHOLARSHIP
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SUSTAINABLE MIXED-USE HIGH-RISE studio: year 4 semester 2 location: Pittsburgh, PA comprehensive studio capstone project team project with Anastasia Markiw Kent State Integrated Design Competition Finalist Problem: A vacant site on the Allegheny River in downtown Pittsburgh has great potential to bring new life to the city. The surrounding area lacks pedestrian congregation spaces, nighttime activity, and a connection to the beautiful nearby waterfront. Urban noise from the bustling street prevents people from stopping to relax. A new iconic piece of architecture for a corporate figure can solve these issues. It must stand as unique among other downtown skyscrapers while also achieving modern demands of sustainability, as those outlined by the Living Building Challenge. Behnisch Architekten proposed a master plan for the site, including a redeveloped pedestrian-friendly waterfront. One block out of four is selected for a new building. Response: Amazon.com is chosen as the corporate client for the building, the “Amazon Center.” The company is picked for the steps it has taken towards reducing the environmental impact of its operations - cutting down packaging waste, saving power and saving shipping fuel. The site engages the busy street by peeling back the building corner and creating an open plaza. Pedestrians are drawn in to navigate toward the riverfront. Visitors are drawn in by the “x-factor,” an open piece of program that was selected to be a cabaret for the Amazon Center. Because dining and theater often come separate in Pittsburgh, they are combined into one cabaret in order to encourage prolonged nighttime activity in the area. The building features a waterfall on the facade which dulls out urban noise and also acts in conjunction with a raised floor system for passive heating, cooling, and ventilation. The waterfall is part of a living machine system within the building that saves and recycles water.
bringing the river to the site form studies
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SCROLLING MEDIA SCREEN advertises the Amazon Center Cabaret within
WATER ORCHESTRA hydraulaphone: a water organ that creates music and masks street noise
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PROGRAM X-FACTOR: AMAZON CENTER CABARET
a fitting addition to Pittsburgh’s cultural district, an attempt to encourage nightlife, and an attraction for Amazon Center visitors
lobby bar
second floor plan
dining and stage
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NATURAL VENTILATION • dessicant waterfall in atrium cools incoming wind • air travels through raised floor systems to reach spaces • warm air exits spaces through vents and leaves via a northern solar chimney
GREEN ROOF • drainage to ground through wet column • extra insulation • recreational opportunity
RAINWATER COLLECTION • rooftop cisterns collect water for living machine • water reaches underground storage tank via wet column
LIVING MACHINE • grey water recycling system • interactive educational space
GEOTHERMAL HEAT PUMPS • earth serves as a heat source (winter) or heat sink (summer) • geothermall wells transfer earth’s natural temperature to the building for cooling or heating • water returns to the aquifer in the closed loop system
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SOLAR ENERGY COLLECTION • onyx building-integrated panels
onyx solar spider glass panels waterfall wall automatic blinds kalwall curtain wall
catwalk custom vent carbon fiber closure plate
SUSTAINABLE FEATURES
WALL SECTION THROUGH WATERFALL WALL 10
4K OFFICES: A SAMPLE SPACE
transverse section: natural ventilation
The Amazon Center features prime office spaces as well as several floors of 2000 (2K) SF, 4K SF, 6K SF, and 8K SF spec spaces for tenants. This sample 4K space demonstrates an efficient layout for all the parts of a typical office. It also displays the raised floor system that pulls air entering through the waterfall facade through transom vents and to the solar chimney in the hall.
president’s office vice president’s office executive restroom mechanical room team conference executive secretary associate offices work area work/copy room kitchenette waiting/ reception conference room
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MASTER PLAN AND SKYSCRAPER studio: year 5 semester 2 location: New York, NY graduate school independent project Problem: Midtown Manhattan is in dire need of improvements. There is an overabundance of pedestrians, but a lack of pedestrian breakout spaces, resulting in numerous traffic accidents. Bikers experience similar issues, forced to dodge busy traffic as they ride. The estern entry to Grand Central is tunnel-like and narrow. Moreover, the Met Life building is so wide that it acts as a wall, blocking views down the street toward Grand Central Station. The historical jewel is lost in the center of the city. The business district always has room to grow - vertically. Travelers need a midtown hotel after a commute through Grand Central Station. Met Life needs to fit into its context. And, New York City has a thriving art culture - but little of it spills over into Midtown, where people are too immersed into the business world. Response: Two towers are developed to “frame” Grand Central Station and create the impression that Met Life is a necessary part of a triad. The two additions to Midtown start as towering pillars and are carved away in reference to Met Life’s folded faces. Meanwhile, a new bike path is installed throughout the Grand Central area, running as an addition along the Station’s existing raised-up road (the Park Avenue Viaduct). With the master plan in place, focus shifts to the development of the eastern-most building. The “tunnel” entry into Grand Central that previously existed on the site is replaced with a semi-private sunken plaza that pulls pedestrians in and allows an opportunity to relax outside before entering the Station. Programmatically, the building is filled with new office space and a hotel for commuters. Also included is an art school, as a nod to the small art academy that existed within Grand Central Station in the 1920’s, and a present-day piece of culture for hectic Midtown. The interior of the skyscraper is carved by “bubble” atrium spaces, eating away at floor space that is unusable due to poor light penetration into the depths of the building. These spaces act as galleries referencing the core of the building, a bubble within which the art school resides.
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MASTER PLAN STAGE GRAND CENTRAL AREA ISSUES pedestrian traffic with no congregation spots scattered bicycle traffic with no bike amenities tunnel-like East side entrance to Grand Central Station new architecture
new plaza
new bike path
PROPOSED SOLUTIONS sunken pedestrian plaza new elevated bicycle path through Midtown open East side entrance to the Station
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city blocks
subway system
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PROGRAM the Grand Central area needs: • more office space • a hotel to replace the one currently on-site • an art school to revitalize the art community that once existed in the Station in the 20’s
clearance for existing train tracks
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CONCEPT: SECTIONAL VOIDS
the art school proliferates its artistic influence in free-form sectional voids that penetrate the hotel and office sections as breakout spaces, and the art school as the form of its floor plates
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east-west section
typical art school level
typical office level
north-south section
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get your hands dirty
LANDSCAPE DESIGN AND MUSEUM
zip lining & adventure
studio: year 2 semester 1 location: Mantua, Ohio undergraduate independent project (with 4-person group work in master planning stage) Problem: Lakeside Sand and Gravel, a family-owned mining company, is on an ever-transitioning site. The landscape changes daily as miners carve away at the earth. Overburden, or extra soil and gravel that has been piled off to the side, grows constantly. As the land on the property is mined, operations will diminish. Within the next 40 years, old machines that are put out of use will need to be stored and simultaneously celebrated for their mining significance. A master plan must be set into place for the future of the company that will still allow the owners to profit off of their land.
campgrounds
landscape museum
Response: The vast property will split off into four new uses: campgrounds, zip lining and adventure, a restaurant, and a landscape museum. The individual project focus is on the landscape museum site. Any ongoing mining operations move south; the northern section of the site is developed for visitor education and recreation. Overburden is piled into landscaped hills for picnicking and viewing the site from up high. Nearby mining becomes an interactive outdoor display as part of the museum. A gravel beach is developed on the nearby lake. The museum itself is strategically built as a large, tall structure right over old machinery that is dumped in an already-mined location. The old machinery thus becomes an historical educational display. The museum, like layers of stratified rock, features a second floor for smaller displays and a third floor viewing deck.
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TRANSFORMING SITE
existing conditions Presently, mining and processing of sand and gravel occurs on site. The property is privately owned.
landscape characterization In 20 years, a new public site develops. Mined overburden is recycled as recreational hills and hazardous mining diminishes.
program organization In 40 years, the landscape transforms into a public museum and tourist site where mining, education, and recreation are ongoing.
FORM STUDIES
The form of the building is influenced by wind patterns traveling west, the need for the entry to be close to and visible from the road, and the location of existing mining operations.
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MONSTERS ON DISPLAY The museum takes visitors though a cityscape of machinery - users circulate through historical mining equipment that come into view one after the other. The levels are like stratified rock; as visitors move through the second and third levels of the museum, more and more of the site is revealed, culminating in views of the developed landscape.
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interaction
reaction
SUSTAINABLE MARINE RESEARCH LABORATORY
water
wind
ideal building zone
studio: year 4 semester 1 location: St. Croix, the U.S. Virgin Islands undergraduate independent project Problem: The U.S. Virgin Islands are best known as a tourist location, but Salt River Bay on the island of Saint Croix is the ideal spot for a new marine research center. The Caribbean is home to a variety of flora and fauna that inspire modern research endeavors. The nearby Buck Island Reef once served as a habitat for marine life before its destruction by Hurricane Hugo. The new St. Croix Marine Research Laboratory now holds the responsibility to continue the long history of scientific discovery.
SITE DESIGN ISSUES
As a modern laboratory in the still developing region of St. Croix, the building must take into consideration sustainable endeavors for green construction and to save money. The site is prone to winds that can be harnessed for energy, and the Caribbean of course receives heavy sun that can be advantageous. The new laboratory must contain enough work space for 60 students and scientists, as well as young visitors from local schools. Housing for staff and students is to be located in close proximity to the lab. Wet and dry lab rooms must be effectively configured to allow for easy communication between researchers. Response: The laboratory and nearby housing is placed in an ideal building zone that is relatively safe from hurricane damage and high waters. The building is organized in a scoop shape with protruding appendages that catch wind, allowing ventilation to move through outdoor spaces and lab rooms. Labs are configured repetitively, with a centrally located teaching lab and computer room. The building is constructed of locally set precast concrete (dyed in the traditional bright colors of Caribbean architecture). Windows are fitted with PV-coated louvers to take advantage of sunlight and allow users to control light and ventilation. Apartments for staff and students are located a short walk away and oriented in a staggered pattern to catch maximum ventilation. The laboratory encourages run-ins between the users of the spaces using a gridded configuration of offices (vertical in plan) and laboratories (horizontal in plan). Much like a chemical reaction, students, scientists, and visitors alike will be invigorated and transformed by the laboratory’s spaces.
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LAB LAYOUT SCHEMES Laboratories, offices, service hallways, and public hallways had to be configured in an ideal manner to facilitate communication between researchers. Radial and orthogonal configuration options were explored.
LABORATORY PLANS
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• 2 wet and 2 dry laboratories for 12 researchers and 48 students • computer center
• 3 outdoor education spaces • teaching laboratory • 4 K-12 seminar rooms
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atrium lounge
• 40 apartments (off-site) for staff, faculty, and students
student housing
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SUSTAINABILITY
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The building skin, constructed of structural insulated panels and PV-panel louvers, allows for both natural ventilation and preservation of cool temperatures. Sunlight is diffused by the louvers and harnessed for energy.
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GLOBAL ARTS ACADEMY studio: year 5 semester 1 location: Yellow Springs, Ohio graduate school 3-person group project (partners Laila Ammar and Michael Tomaso)
Problem: The tiny, artsy town of Yellow Springs, Ohio has been selected as the location for a new art academy. The wooded nature reserve of Glen Helen is to house the academy in its remote depths. The school is to provide architecture and art studio spaces, as well as residences and support spaces for students. The building must be sympathetic to hikers and bikers that navigate the trails of Glen Helen, and must fit well into its remote surroundings. Yet, it must also stand out as an icon of art and culture, easily spotted by visitors from afar. Response: Located along a stream and straddling a trail, the academy is surrounded by trees, water, and even people. Its skin system is designed to imitate and reflect (literally) the natural surroundings by way of its sliced concrete, striated channel glass, and mirror-like curtain wall skins. Although it fits into its context, the building is simultaneously an “object� in the landscape - a cube within a frame - that stands out from nature. The entry to the building pulls in visitors coming down the trail through a narrow space beneath the cube and into an expansive courtyard. The cube that contains the studios becomes a jewel enveloped by the frame - it stands separate and transparent, allowing the artists to be the focus of the building. The surrounding frame houses the rest of the program, from residences to galleries - support spaces for the artists.
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SKIN SYSTEMS The building skin is composed of three systems that complement the surrounding environment as an organic outer shell, an inner striated frame, and a reflective cube.
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FORM DEVELOPMENT
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PROGRAM
art galleries
residences
student spaces
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DISPLAYS The building’s program, from the public (galleries) to the secret spaces only students can enjoy (the “studio pit”) is discovered as one moves through the frame. Only the studio cube immediately reveals its inner workings, putting the artists front-and-center in the natural landscape. gallery
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GERMAN CONSULATE studio: year 6 semester 1 location: Cincinnati, Ohio graduate school project archived project in Knowlton School Digital Library view to mount adams Problem: Cincinnati, Ohio is a little-known microcosm of a German town. A destination for German immigrants in the 1850’s, the city is home to a plethora of German newspapers, breweries, clubs, etc. It is only natural that a German consulate would be welcome here. Cincinnati is plagued by poverty, rotting infrastructure, poor planning, and a declining education system. The area surrounding the new consulate represents such problems: buildings are mostly run-down, empty parking lots proliferate, and green space is barely existant. Germany, on the other hand, excels at forming a sustainable society. The new consulate thus holds a larger role: to encourage a more prosperous community in Cincinnati. Response: The project aims to create a “Little Germany” within Cincinnati. Not only is the site transformed into a small village of German pieces and parts, but surrounding features of Cincinnati are also used to the architecture’s advantage. For instance, views of one of the town’s many hills, Mount Adams, are opened to the consulate office and the consul’s apartment. On the opposite end of the site, consulate visitors can look over downtown Cincinnati and understand a city with a potential for urban growth that is achieved by healthy German towns. The German consulate features within itself a unique solution to the issue of Cincinnati’s decrepit parking lots. The “parking lot” is instead a row of the consulate officials’ high-class German cars, facing into the consulate museum as if on display. Moreover, a beer garden is sunken into the site and visible from the street, welcoming passersby to a uniquely German dining experience.
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EVENT SPACES
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view into beer garden
The consul’s office overlooks the German “town” including a main plaza and language learning cubicles acting as village huts.
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High-class European cars are released from the ordinary concept of “parking lot” and transform into displayed pieces within the underground museum. consulate cars on display inside german museum
ratskellar + beer garden
The German beer garden invites passing Cincinnati residents into the German world below.
The wide, Kurfürstendamminspired shopping street features a bookstore, travel agency, and German grocery store.
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POSSIBLE MEDIUMS CONFERENCE PROJECT 10-PERSON TEAM
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The 2013 Possible Mediums conference took place at the Knowlton School of Architecture over one weekend and allowed architecture students to explore media beyond typical architectural convention. Under the guidance of workshop leader Angela Co, ten students participated in the Endgame workshop. The project began with sketches of animal silhouettes that then evolved into three-dimensional forms by way of carving foam cubes. These foam extrusions were then interbred with the same animals to produce a highly regular form. Next, each animal was crossbred with another to produce an irregular new species. The zoo of animals was stacked in a totem based on longitudinal and transverse relationships. Through the use of simple forms that resulted in a complex structure, the Endgame team explored the process of vaulting and discovering surprises in modeling sections.
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Milan Cathedral, Milan
Jewish Museum, Berlin
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snapshots
PHOTOS FROM TRAVELS
Saint Benedict Chapel, Sumvitg
Elsassertor II, Basel
Kunsthaus, Bregenz
Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart
Karl Marxhof, Vienna Notre Dame du Haut, Ronchamp
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EUROPEAN ARCHITECTURE STUDIES COURSE
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sketches
Bahnhof Stadelhofen, Zurich
Sant’Andrea Church, Mantua
Michaelerplatz, Vienna
Santa Maria Delle Grazie, Milan
Piazza San Marco, Venice
Notre Dame du Haut, Ronchamp
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INDEPENDENT WORK
PAINTINGS
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This is a small sample of my independent work as a painter. The collection is centered on the idea of the architecture of “home” that I developed growing up in my birthplace, Tashkent, Uzbekistan. All works were created in Fall 2013. Room
Circus
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Plans
Detail, Home
Home
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thank you yana grinblat 2014 http://www.yanagrinblat.com