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Afonin ArsenyArchitectural Portfolio

Languages /

Education /

Architectural experience /

Software and programming skills /

Russian

English

Moscow Architectural Institute (MArchI)Barchelor of Architecture

group of professor Michael Eichner

2007 — present

2009 — present

jan 2010

oct 2010 — dec 2010

feb 2011 — may 2011

may 2011

oct 2011 — dec 2011

mar 2012 — apr 2012

feb 2012 — mar 2012

feb 2011 — may 2011

mar 2012

advanced level

medium level

beginner level

Center for Energy-Efficient Planning in MArchIstudent projects of Eco Center, Garage, Building in Sochi,

School, Mediatek, Housing in Kolomna, Theater in KolomnaUrban plans of Sochi and Kolomna

www.ateliereichner.de

AutoCADVectorworks

Rhinoceros + GrasshopperAdobe Photoshop

Adobe InDesign

ProcessingAdobe IllustratorAdobe PremiereMicrosoft Office

Google SketchUpEcotect Analysis

FileMaker Pro

A101 Block City Competitionparticipant, 1st tour finalist

Young Professionals Sustainabilty Awardsparticipant, 1st place

Seliger Masterplan Projectarchitect

Knauf Sustainable Design Competitionparticipant

Skolkovo Housing Competitionparticipant

“Project Russia” Pavillion Competitionparticipant, short list of 15

Archpole Architectural Studiointern

www.archpole.ru/

Grasshopper Semester Course in MArchItutor

Processing Workshop in MArchIparticipant

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Table of Contents /

Media Center / 04

Theather in Kolomna / 07

Solar Parking / 12

“Project Russia” Pavillion / 14

Housing District in Kolomna / 16

School Renovation in Kuzminki / 20

Skolkovo Housing District / 24

Project on Architectural Theory / 26

Photography / 28

Contacts / 30

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Project Title /

Media Center

Overview /

Media center is situated in Moscow on the territory of VDNKh (Exhibition of Achievements of the National Economy), huge exhibition with the pavil-lions from the times of USSR flourishing. Since that time requirements to exhibition spaces changed a lot and this change can be seen by the con-trast of program and appearance of the media center to soviet pavillions. It contains open exhibition spaces, like temporary exhibition, audio-video presentation hall, leisure zone, cafes, that are put between closed spaces, such as library, lecture hall and storage. The shell of the media center with its gradual transition from openness to closeness demonstrates this rela-tionship between the inside spaces.

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Tutor /

Michael Eichner, Olga SytnikYear /

2010Author /

Arseny Afonin

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Project /

Media Center

Shell structure /

Shell pattern /

Illumination map /

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Floor plan /

The required illumination map of the in-side spaces is translated into pattern of elements with various openenness and light transmission, which provides illu-mination and forms gradually changing ornament.

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Project /

Media Center

Elevation /

Section /

Street facade /

Detail section /

Project Title /

Theatre in Kolomna

Overview /

Theatre and cultural center for small Russian town Kolomna is situated on the historical site between the XIX century man-sion building and the old Russian baths. New center connects all the existing buildings together and fills them with the new functions. At the same time its new landscape “roof” provide picturesque views to the historical center of the town. The au-ditorium of the theatre is made in the Russian baths building. It is transformable, so it can be used either in performance mode or in gallery mode.

Tutor /

Michael EichnerYear /

2011Author /

Arseny Afonin /7/7

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Project /

Theatre in Kolomna

Form /

1st Floor Plan /

Second Floor Plan /

One of the challenging parts of the project was to find some effective ways of working with its landscape geometry. New instrument, which was made for this purpose, interprets the form of “hill” as part of 3D sinusoid. With its help it be-came possible to work with the “hill” geometry, controlled by its center, radius and rise.

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Section /

Project /

Theatre in Kolomna

Elevation /

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Video demonstration /Another goal of this design was the reconstruction and expansion of the old Russian baths building. Its new roof design allows to get as much solar enegry as possible in a given size container taking into account the shading from surrounding buildings. To minimize the amount of computer’s calculations during the roof’s form generation there were used the evolutionary algorithms, and after the about 5000 calculations it stops on the fittest form with the result of 410 000 kW*h annually.

Project /

Theatre in Kolomna

Exterior /Perfomance mode /

Exhibition Mode /

Project /

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Evolution towards the most effective combination /

Model /

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Author /

Arseny Afonin

Project Title /

Solar Parking

Overview /

Solar parking is situated on Moscow Garden Ring-Road (Sadovoye Kolt-so) and serves as incentive parking for the transport stream to the city center. It is oriented with its longest side facing South to maximize the amount of enegry that is recieved by the shell of photovoltaic elements. The openness and closeness of the street elevation depends on require-ments of light transmission for the inside spaces and achieved by the various thickness of photovoltaic elements.

Tutor /


2009

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Section /

Floor Plans /

Details /

Facade /

Project /

Solar Parking

Project Title /

Summer School Pavillion

Overview /

Conditions of competition for “Project Russia” architectural magazine’s pavillion allocated the situation in Museon park near the Central Artist’s House in the center of Moscow. According to the task pavillion must have had an ability to be used for lectures, presentations, round tables, workshops and exhbitions. Its budget must have not exceeded 33 000 $. So the main aim of this design was to accomodate all the functions in the most modest way.

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Competition /

Project Russia Magazine, Short List 15Year /

2012Author /

A. Afonin, S. Pereslegin, A. Kalmykova

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Lecture Round table Workshop Exhibition

625 m2

max100 m2

Project /

Summer School Pavillion

Task /

The task of competion restricts the maximum area of pavillion to 100 m2 on site with area of 625 m2. So there was made the decision to divide the pavillion into two movable parts and one stable to use the site effectively.

Modes scheme /

The ability to move the parts of the pa-villion is used to form different spaces, which suit the different functions in the most appropriate way.

Lecture plan / Presentation plan /

Round table plan / Exhibition plan /

Workshop plan /

Project Title /

Social Housing in Kolomna

Overview /

Masterplan for the industrial district in Kolomna, town in Moscow re-gion, aims to accomodate new housing and working places. The exist-ing district is split into the parts by the old industrial railway, which is not used now. Instead off splitting we propose reconnecting all the parts of the distict by converting this railway into public space and using it as road for ecological public transport.For the one block of the new masterplan there was designed a collective housing complex. All parts of building are oriented in such way which provides the better views to the park and green zones and fulfils the requirements of insolation.

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Tutor /


2011Author /

A. Afonin, G. Aigunyan

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Project /


Functional scheme /

Master plan /

3D views /

Detached housing

Detached housing

Industry

Mixed Use

Transport scheme / Main concept /

Transforming old railway into public space

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Typical floor plan /

First floor plan /

Project /


Access /

Views /

Silhouette /

Average Insolation Calculation /

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Project /


Elevation /

Section /

Detail section /

Project Title /

School Renovationin Kuzminki

Overview /

This project is renovation and extension of Moscow typical school de-sign, which was build in Soviet era. This particular example is situated in Kuzminki district on the outskirts of Moscow. The project provides new classes (even for guide-by-side teaching model as opposite to sage-on-the-stage model), new sport areas, and separate access to the building for the evening studies.One of the project aims was to integrate energy-efficient considerations into its design, and reduce the energy consumption for heating and ven-tilation by providing efficient cooling of the building in summer period and holding the heat in winter period with its double facade structure.

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Tutor /


2010Author /

A. Afonin, A. Kalmykova, P. Novikov

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Sport

Evening classes

Guide-by-side classes

Project /

School Renovation

Visual differentiation by functions / Wind pressure schemes /

West wind opening /South-west wind opening /South wind opening /

Wind chart on the situation /

Connection all parts under the ETFE skin /

Former school building is covered by a second facade made of ETFE foil. The double skin fa-cade opens differently depending on wind di-rection and air temperature. This system was tested in ANSYS Fluent and showed desired results.The old building is extended to the West with evening classes part, and to the East with pri-mary school.

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Project /

School Renovation

Second floor plan /

Third floor plan /

Fourth floor plan /

Street evelation /

Fifth floor plan /

First floor plan /

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Project /

School Renovation

Elevation /Detail section /

Section /

Working of the skin with SW wind /

Project Title /

Skolkovo Housing District

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Competition /

Skolkovo Innovative CenterYear /

2011Author /

A. Afonin, S. Pereslegin, G. Trofimov

Overview /

This is the project for the competition for a Technopark district of Skolk-ovo, Moscow Innovative Center. Its aim was to choose the architects who will develop there different types of housing. This particular project is made for the collective housing type.The principle of the given district was based on the contrast relationship between the functional strictness of the Technopark and a certain flex-ibility of the urban organization of the housing. The housing must have been organized in the circles subscribed in the landscape treated in a natural way. The most challenging part was to deisgn the buildings that are not too close to each other, but at the same fulfil requirments of extra high density (FAR 3.0) and limitation of height (26 m).

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Project /

Skolkovo Housing District

Concept schemes /

Master plan / Floor plan /

Section /

Turning the building relative to each other deforms the space inbetween, shifts the axes of view from the windows

Additional tilt of apartments in building’s plan almost complete-ly exclude opposite apartments from the view

That turn of the buildings forms interest-ing space between them instead of narrow parallel streets

Spaces, formed between them, are oriented either to the park or to the public zone

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Project on Architectural Theory

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Overview /

This personal project is mostly affected by the current situation in Rus-sian architectural discourse, where there’s a lack of information about contemporary acrhitectural theory. It includes a very different range of activities: translating into Russian some important texts of past and pre-sent architectural theory, that are not easy to read or not easy to get; or-ganizing a discussion club in MArhI; creating a database of architectural texts and links to its translations into Russian from diffenerent sources; and blogging.

Year /

2010—2012Author /

Arseny Afonin

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Texts translated into Russian /

* Rem Koolhaas “Imagining Nothingness”

* Rem Koolhaas “Bigness or the problem of Large”

* Farshid Moussavi “The Function of Ornament”

* Frei Otto “Finding Form: Towards the Architecture of Minimal”

* Edwin Gardner “Architecture Left to Its Own Devices”

* Guy Horton “The Indicator: Why We Look at Architecture?”

* Mario Carpo “Preface to ‘The alphabet and the algoritm’”

Project /

Project on Architectural Theory

Blog on questions concerning architectural theory /

Database of texts on architectural theory /

Project Title /

Photography

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Overview /

For several years I worked on a team, which created several series of photography. “Static/Dymamic Series” (right column) explores different way on how to look at everyday reality. It was exhibited for a month in one of Moscow’s galleries. The other successful series called “Series III” (left column) focuses on a world without gravity force. All the photo-graphs from these series were made without photomontage.

Year /

2008—2010Author /

Arseny Afonin, Kirill Lebedev

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SALT Photography: Series III / SALT Photography: Static Series /

www.flickr.com/photos/saltphotography/

Shot 3 /

Shot 2 /

Shot 1 /

Shot 4 /

Shot 3 /

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Contacts /

Arseny Afonin

Address /

Irini Levchenko St, 4, 87, 123298, Moscow, Russian Federation

E-mail /

[email protected]

Phone /

+7-903-011-6114

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