Totan Kuzembaev's Exhibition

In Shchusev Museum there was an exhibition dedicated to Russian architect Totan Kuzembaev's works.The exhibition was not only about his architectural projects but it also reveals his other talents as a graphic, as a sculptor, as a painter, as an artist.

I never got acquainted with that side of his talent. His collages are very elegant and beautiful.

By the very simple means he greatly communicates the atmosphere of the building on the picture.

Holland design. New luxury.

Young Dutch designers presented their works in Moscow Exhibition Centre "Manege" to demonstrate a modest view on a new luxury: austerity, simplicity and attention to everyday life.

Designers suggested that in the future value of an object is not directly affected by the extravagance of materials - the main luxury will be a unique individual distinction quality of an object, set of experiments resulted in unpredictable outcome, inspiration, something unexpected, that breaks the routine and makes it so appealing.

They did not use expensive natural materials, preferring recycled items and lending them a luxurious appearance.

Submission of MARCH’s first graduates at ARCH Moscow 2014

On May, 22, 2014 within ARCH Moscow exhibition it was a public submission of the first graduates (2-year MA program) of the MARCH school. 

The whole course (36 students) of MARCH was divided in three groups (by 12 students) and each group was lead by different architects and was working on separate projects: group, lead by Sergey Tchoban, managing partner of architectural bureau ‘SPEECH’, was called studio ‘Coordination of movements’ and was working on design of the new district in Skolkovo; studio ‘Unfinished city’ was managed by Rubens Cortes, Spanish architect, and Anton Egerev Ribeiro da Silva, Portuguese architect, were developing a typical district in Novokosino; the third studio ‘Perezaryadye’, lead by Evgeniy Ass, founder of MARCH, were working on the concept of Zaradye district. 

ARC / BERNASKONI

One of the most impressed me objects visited recently is ARC of BERNASKONI – 13.2 meter high structure built within ArchStoyanie Festival in 2012 in Nikola-Lenivets, Kaluzhskaya area, by Boris Bernaskoni. 

This square black pavilion with the triangular arc inside stands on the border between forest and a field, and from one side through the arc we can see the forest, from another one – the field. It can automatically be associated with an entrance. Probably, it was a mythological entrance to the festival.

The pavilion itself includes several absolutely different (and even contrary, like observation deck and a well) functions: it is a portal, it is a triumphal arch, it is a bar, it is a room/space for installations/discussions/thinking, it is an observation deck, it is a well. It is like a hybrid, mix, interlacing of spatial interpretations, however, balanced and beautifully composed.

Studio practice Sem B

Despite the fact that urban services have started taking steps to improve this urban area, there are things that confused me while walking and looking around:

-Navigation. To those who first appeared on Chistiye Prudy and Myasnitskaya Street can be lost due to numerous stalls and disorderly scattered navigation.

-Disabled and senior citizens. Ability of steps, no elevators, tiles which becomes a skating rink during winter, to my mind, ignore the presence of both disabled and elderly.

My design proposal includes

- demolishing of two buildings on either sides of the metro

-deliverance from steps, the alignment of the landscape (environment adaptation for persons with disabilities),

-Adding an elevator for disabled (environment adaptation for persons with disabilities),

-Adding teavilion(British Council brief) and park

Design Proposal

I came up with an idea to consider the area as a go-between the boulevards of the Garden Ring. In order to fit the metro area into the context of two boulevards and so

My project consists of layers which follow each other from Myastnitskie Vorota to the beginning of Chistoprudniy Boulevard: Transport, Art&Entertainment, British gardens, Russian Gardens, British National sports.

Why does it improve the site?

- My design proposal makes the site a logical continuation of the boulevard due to the gardens and new infrastructure

- Cafes, exhibition center, playground and cinema offer a wide variety of activities for all age-groups

Why does it meet the brief needs of British Council?

The project is titled English Walled Gardens. As far as I took inspiration from walled gardens, the area is surrounded by wall (3m) consists of different rooms with different types of landscapes/activities: summer café, field for cricket, room with a pound, pavilion, rose gardens, cherry gardens, lawns with been bags. Thus, The new and improved area is essentially a continuation of the boulevard, which offers visitors to see British art, sports, and traditional British gardens.

Polina Syatkina Sem B L5 IAD BHSAD 2013-14



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The 11th of June, Strelka. Kengo Kuma: architecture after the catastrophe

 The famous Japanese architect gave a lecture on a conscious architecture, catastrophes and harmony with the environment. Professional approach of Kengo Kuma formed due to the Japanese catastrophes.
 Kuma actively teaches and is the author of numerous books and critical articles, condemning contemporary practice. An important stage in the development of architectural and social views Kengo Kuma was the reaction of the Japanese the catastrophe on the last three years, when the forms and materials of modern urban architecture were powerless to natural disasters.

Polina Syatkina
Level 5 IAD Sem B