Urban designer CV and portfolio

ANASTASIA TURAPINA PORTFOLIO

ANASTASIA TURAPINA

URBAN DESIGNER ARCHITECT

ABOUT ME

Detail-oriented urban designer and architect with three years of experience in concept design, drafting and site appraisals with a master’s degree in urban planning. Excelled in working with controls and regulations. Passionate about making cities and local areas better through careful planning and sophisticated design solutions.

EDUCATION

09.2019 - 06.2021

Master’s degree Urban Development and Spatial Planning

National research university «Higher School of Economics», Moscow

09.2014 - 06.2019

Bachelor’s degree Architecture

Irkutsk National Research Technical University, Irkutsk

LANGUAGES

English: fluent

German: intermediate

Russian: native

CONTACT

02102215699

a.a.turapina@gmail.com

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Hard skills:

- Urban design from concept through to construction documentation

- Site analysis studies: consideration of territory’s controls and regulations, land use and morphological patterns, visual, social, cultural and historical values

- GIS analysis including collecting, processing and interpreting environmental, zoning, and other urban planning data

- Proficiency in graphic presentation including drafts, schemes, collages and diagrams

- Technical skills in 2D and 3D drafting and modelling

- Competence in researching and learning laws and regulations in a relatively short time

- Well-honed graphic skills by hand sketches

Soft skills:

- Well-developed sense of aesthetics

- Ability to proactively propose and apply design-led innovative solutions

- Strong attention to detail

- Drive to learn and open to new ways of working while striving for quality and excellence in all aspects of work

- Flexibility and adaptability

- Strong organization skills

- Positive attitude and good teamwork skills

- Ability to manage workloads and meet deadlines

Software:

ArchiCAD AutoCAD SketchUp QGIS Adobe Photoshop Adobe InDesign Corel Draw Lumion Microsoft Office

WORK EXPERIENCE

03.2021 - 01.2023

Architectural and urban planning bureau «GRADLAB»

Urban designer and architect

- Accomplished 23 site appraisal projects with consideration of the territory’s controls and regulations, land use patterns, and local policies, including zoning. As a result, for each site was created a territory development draft, that fits all the conditions

- Prepared graphic and text materials justifying amendments to local zoning rules for 4 sites in 2 cities, amendments were approved by local authorities for all 4 sites

- Designed 8 concepts of development for various sites: from the concepts of detached public buildings to concepts of industrial parks

- Developed the system of project progress monitoring which was approved to be efficient during many projects, making the unification of tasks possible

- Created the bureau’s unique layout style which is used in all graphic and text materials of the bureau

- Prepared drawings for all project stages from concept to approval stage.

07.2020 - 02.2021

«Higher school of economics»

Urban planning GIS analyst

- Collected and processed data relating to land use and morphological patterns of 34 cities

Workshops and lectures in the offline format in cooperation with prominent architectural firms in Stuttgart, Utrecht, Strasbourg, and Konstanz, including visiting their outstanding realized projects

Architectural summer internship organised by Irkutsk National Research Technical University International students exchange program

National

Short-term study abroad experience and exchange with students from Sankt-Gallen, Switzerland

EVENTS AND COMPETITIONS

01.2022

Iceland Volcano Lookout Point architecture competition Hverfjall, Iceland

03.2021

Architectural and urban planning competition «Resource of the Periphery» Saint Petersburg

03.2017 03.2018 03.2019

ArchBuhta - competition for the creation of small architectural forms and art objects Lake Baikal

09.2017

- Defined the proper graphic language for maps, diagrams, and schemes displaying patterns of the spatial development of considered urban districts

- Prepared graphic and text materials which were used for educational purposes among government representatives of the cities in order to increase the efficiency of management tools in the field of urban development and spatial planning

- Assessed the compliance of local zoning regulations to the revealed patterns of the spatial development of the considered cities

Territorial development agency «Urban planning school»

Urban designer and junior architect

- Conducted the pre-project site analysis including field study and photo fixation for various projects

- Liaised with local businesses and community representatives in order to develop projects based on individual needs and goals

- Developed design solutions for the settlement’s main street that would increase the convenience and safety of its use, reveal the identity of the settlement

- Prepared graphic materials – schemes, collages and hand made sketches, representing steps of implementation of proposed design solutions

- Took part in the project of development of a residential district, in particular during the analytical stage identified points of required changes and found out what changes should it be.

Architectural bureau «Project 7»

Achitect-assistant

- Completed drafts for construction documentation of public interiors in CAD

- Carried out measurement works on site, photo fixation, and prepared measurement drawings

- Designed final presentational materials

- Made hand sketches of the design proposals with materials selection

04.2016

NATURAL VS MAN-MADE

Industrial and administrative complex in Moscow region

Team work as a member of GRADLAB

November 2022

THE GOAL OF THE PROJECT

The considering territory is a former settlement, abandoned nowadays. The goal is to accommodate the administrative and industrial complex according to all the advantages and restrictions of the site. The territory has high natural and recreational potential, therefore the project proposals are formed at the intersection of natural and utilitarian, its mixture.

The territory is considered as an interaction of two aspects: rigid utilitarian man-made structure, strictly limited to the industrial need, is opposed by flexible infinite natural component, enveloping all the territory under consideration.

ANALYSIS

During the analysis, I found out existing restrictions to construct any buildings in the southeast part of the site due to engineering communications located close to the southeast boundary of the territory. Moreover, there are two water protection areas: around the pond and around the creek, which have to be taken into account.

The man-made component has to fit in the existing natural environment and be subordinated to it.

Conversia

Marsel

Nicolskoe

Chirikovo

Tekstilschik Isakovo

Mikhaylovo-Yartsevskoe settlement

Krasnopakhorskoe settlement

Moscow

Tula

Armeyskiy

Shishkin Les

All the buildings were located in free from any vegetation space. No trees were damaged or removed.

MASTERPLAN

Administrative functions are concentrated in the north of the site and industrial - in the south. Representative administrative functions face the central axis, industrial

and storage functions face secondary roads. United front of the new development with attractive facades is formed on the west side of the central street.

S1-st block: industrial and administrative buildings of the Emergency and service department

2-nd block: administrative and storage buildings of the Transport department

Main administrative building

Recreational area around the pond with pergola

Staff dining hall and dormitory

3-rd block: industrial and administrative buildings, open air storage area of the Construction department

4-th block: industrial buildings, open air storage area of the Material and technical supply department

projected open air storage areas

projected road network

projected buildings vegetation

projected pavement and landscape improvement of the main square

NATURAL VS MAN-MADE

The building of Exploitation department has two floors with administrative functions mostly. The entrance hall on the first floor and the head’s department office on the second floor face the central street.

The Building of Emergency and service department has two floors with two interacting functions: administrative and industrial. The first one faces the central street, the second one faces the yard.

Offices Head’s department office

Waiting room Meeting room

The main administrative building has 2 floors with the central passage on the first one, connecting the main square in front of the building with the recreational zone around the pond.

The building of Transport department contains mainly transport storage function, but also includes an administrative part, which faces the central street.

Storage Building maintenance and operation

Restrooms Hall

INTEGRATION

Concept of incorporation of the residential complex into the urban environment

Team work as a member of Gradlab

August 2022

City center

THE GOAL OF THE PROJECT

This project is focused on integrating new residential development into the existing urban environment, and to achieve this, I have researched the points of interest for new residents and defined ways to improve the routes that connect them to these points of interest.

Considering territory is part of a huge brown-field area of former silicate factories, which is going to be redeveloped into mixed-use territory with the prevalence of residential functions.

The development of former silicate factories’ brown-field will result in the emergence of new populations in the area. Previously the territory was not designed for the use of the citizens, and moreover for living on it. Therefore, it has low connectivity to the urban environment and can offer a low level of comfort to new residents. This is what this project aims to improve.

ANALYSIS

By researching the needs of the new residents, I have gained insight into what will be most important to them in their new community. I have identified the points of interest that will be of most interest to these residents, such as parks, schools, shopping centers, and cultural venues.

By improving the routes that connect these points of interest to the residential development, I’ve made it easier and more convenient for residents to access the amenities they need and want.

Routes to POI

Pedestrian routes to transport fasilities (subway stations etc.)

Perspective pedestian recreational route

Points of attraction

Borders:

of areas of new construction

of areas of special development

Presnya (under construction)

Polezhaevskaya Narodnoe opolchenie

Khoroshevo

Zvenigorodskaya (under construction)

KHOROSHEVSKY

POINTS OF INTEREST

I’ve considered three types of points of interest: recreational, commercial and transport ones. Social facilities were not taken into consideration, because most

of it’s types will be located inside the boundaries of projected residential development.

KARAMYSHEVSKAYA EMBANKMENT

SHELEPIKHINSKAYA EMBANKMENT

INTEGRATION

3. Dysfunctional pedestrian zone, low accessibility of the station «Khoroshevo»

1. Dysfunctional pedestrian zone

4. Dysfunctional pedestrian zone

2.Narrow pedestrian zone, no bike path

5. Dysfunctional pedestrian zone

8. Marginal space

7. No pedestroian connection, recreational potential of the place is not realized

6. No pedestrian connection due to the railway infrastructure

IDENTIFICATION OF PROBLEM POINTS

I ranged all of the routes from considering territory to POIs from comfortable to uncomfortable according to data from the site survey.

Quality of the urban environment: comfortable urban environment uncomfortable urban environment

SHELEPIKHINSKAYA EMBANKMENT

Presnya (under construction)

Zvenigorodskaya (under construction)

PROJECT PROPOSALS

The concept proposes reorganization of the most demanded points on the pedestrian routes. I connected all of them by a pedestrian route from the subway station

with the construction of a comfortable overpass, improvement of the recreational space along the river and transformation of the underpass space on the south.

Organization of the access to the MCC station «Khoroshevo»

Construction of the pedestrian overpass linking the recreational space along the river

Reorganization of the underpass area

МЦК Khoroshovo

MATCHING THE PARAMETERS

Appraisal of the urban development capacity of the territory

Team work as a member of GRADLAB

September 2021

THE GOAL OF THE PROJECT

Considering territory was chosen for residential development and my goal was to appraise its potential, find out its controls and restrictions, and fit buildings with exact parameters. Given parameters:

ANALYSIS

First of all I explored the land-use balance of surrounding area:

Then I found out controls and restrictions that extends over considering territory:

Industrial zone «Paveletskaya»

Cultural heritage site

Zone of regulation of building

Water protection zone

None of the discovered restrictions prevent the construction of buildings with given parameters.

The residential development is concentrated along the eastern boundary of the site and consists of 5 towers of different heights and configurations, partially connected by a one-story stylobate. The stylobate area is the location of all necessary public facilities, it also serves as a buffer zone from the noise of the road along the embankment.

On the north and north-west of the site, it is proposed to locate public-business facilities, to create jobs near the planned MCC station.

The social facilities are represented by a kindergarten with a capacity of 200 seats and a 375-seat school located in the center of the territory in a unified plot.

JOBS DIAGRAM

Administrative and business development560 jobs

School - 44 jobs

Kindergarten - 20 jobs

Integrated premises - 249 jobs

I prepared similar appraisal projects for 23 more territories.

SOCIAL FACILITIES DIAGRAM

School - 375 seats

Kindergarten - 200 seats

United plot of social facilities

SPATIAL ASSESSMENT

Identification of problems and opportunities in spatial and transport planning of the city

Team work as a member of the Higher school of urbanistics

December 2020

THE GOAL OF THE PROJECT

Express-analysis of the main characteristics of urban systems allows to evaluate the design solutions of planning and regulation. The result of the analysis should help city officials to take decisions, concerning the spatial development of the city, the development of urban planning documents and legal acts, specify priorities in this area and understand the mechanisms for their solution.

In order to achieve it express-analysis of the city includes considering landuse patterns, the morphology of built-up territories, distribution of commercial functions, and the density of population; all of these - in comparison with current zoning rules.

I was responsible for gathering and processing data regarding the city’s spatial development patterns. I prepared maps and graphic materials using QGIS, Excel and R. It allowed me to draw the following conclusions to each map:

COMMERCIAL FUNCTIONS

To assess patterns of location of commercial functions I used open source data of OSM, processed it with QGIS to visualize it as a hexagonal grid.

As we see on the map, the highest density of commercial functions is observed in the area of the historic city center, along the Red Avenue. There is a large number of objects of trade and services located on the first floors of residential buildings, as well as several big shopping centers.

LAND-USE PATTERNS

In order to define the city center area I used the method of mental mapping: I asked local residents to draw a map of the city as it appears in their memory and to show there the city centre. To define the function of the rest of the city I used open source data of OSM and then specified it using Google Maps, cadastral data and other open sources.

As we see, the city center is located on the right bank of the river Ob along Red Avenue and continues to develop to the south along the coastline. There is an individual and mixed residential development to the south of the center, to the north - mostly apartment buildings.

The territory of the city is divided by railway-road tracks, which serve a major attraction for industrial facilities. There are several industrial zones: on the right bank - in the north-east (1) and east (2); on the left bank of the river - in the west (3) and south-west (4). They are represented by large objects of engineering, chemical and other industry.

Residential development:

multi-apartment

individual

gardens and dachas

city center

industry and logistics

military facilities

garages and parkings

natural and agricultural areas

city boundary

2010-2020

2000-2010

1991-2000

1970-1991

1954-1970

1940-1954

1917-1940

1909-1917

Age of the buildings: city boundary

MAIN FINDINGS

When comparing all the information above with the analysis of existing urban planning documents, I identified the main recommendations for the further spatial development of each of the city’s districts. I conducted a similar spatial express analysis for 33 more cities.

The development of the Northern Region is limited by industrial zones along the TransSiberian Railway, as well as by a vast forest mass to the west.

The western district has an urban planning potential for the development of the coastal zone on the left bank of the river and reorganization of the territory of industrial facilities.

According to the current Zoning rules, no height differentiation of residential buildings has been defined. Moreover, there is no special zone for the area of the historical center and there are no limits to the maximum size of the land plots or buildings’ heights. Such low regulation could lead to the unification of the built environment and cause environmental degradation.

Intensive development of built-up areas, as well as the development of remote peripheral areas, requires careful planning of the accompanying infrastructure. Pressure on existing infrastructure is increasing in the central and middle zones.

The feature of the city-planning situation of the South Left-bank district is the significant spatial gap inside the built-up territory. It is necessary to develop territories of «the gap» in order to integrate the isolated area into the planning structure of the city, make the area more cohesive.

Particular attention should be paid to the connectivity of the southern territories with the rest of the city.

FRAGILE ISLAND

Zoning development of the Olkhon island with the design of a quarter in the Khuzyr village

Bachelor’s degree thesis

June 2019

TERRITORY

Olkhon Island is an example of the close and contradictory interaction between man-made and natural, reflecting the processes that take place all over the world - how man learns to live in peace and harmony with nature.

Olkhon island at the same time is:

- part of Baikal National Park

- the place of residence of almost 2,000 people in 9 settlements

- popular tourists destination with an increasing tourist flow.

Therefore Olkhon is a place where the interests of local residents, government officials, tourists, and ecologists collide in a small territory, the need to protect nature is confronted by the need for the economic development of the region.

THE GOAL OF THE PROJECT

The functional zoning on Olkhon does not correspond to the objectives of the Baikal National Park and is unable to combat the increasing anthropogenic pressure on the natural complexes of the island, Spontaneous expansion of the boundaries of the village of Khuzyr and uncontrolled development of tourist infrastructure.

The project proposes analysis, zoning and design solutions according to the rule «from general to specific» by highlighting the following steps on different scales:

1. Implementation of the principle of «polarized tourism» - for the whole island

2. Compacting the boundaries of the settlement - for the Khuzyr village

3. Change of building morphotype - for the selected area in the Khuzyr village

quarters of semi-detached housing

densification zone urbanized zone protected zone

Olkhon Island is the heart of Baikal National Park

Baikal National Park is one of 6 specially protected natural areas of federal significance in Irkutsk region

Allowed types of transport:

Allowed types of transport:

Allowed types of transport:

Tourist facilities:

sports equipment rental

hiking trail

information center

sports equipment rental

hiking trail marina

bicycle rental horse rental public transport stop

Tourist facilities:

beach observation point

Tourist facilities:

information center

tourist accomodation

Allowed types of transport:

Allowed types of transport:

Tourist facilities:

sports equipment rental

hiking trail

Allowed types of transport:

KHUZHIR MASTERPLAN

Проектное зонирование острова Ольхон

Урбанизированная зона Заповедная зона

This project is aimed at preserving the natural diversity of Olkhon island, which is being controlled by the Baikal National Park. Khuzhir, as part of its territory, should be in line with the priorities of the park.

Зона уплотнения

Поляризация антропогенной

нагрузки Повышение плотности застройки

Зона восстановления Урбанизированная зона

Зона активной рекреации

Зона пассивной рекреации

Заповедная зона

Pedestrian

ЗОНА АКТИВНОЙ РЕКРЕАЦЦИИ

Therefore, any activities related to the transformation of the infrastructure of Khujir must, first of all, be safe for the nature of the island, its landscapes, flora and fauna. The main way to achieve this is to prevent the sprawl of the village.

Зона ограниченного использования

блокированной застройки

морфотипа застройки

Разрешенные виды транспорта:

ЗОНА УРБАНИЗАЦИИИ

Общественный

Личный автомобиль

In order to narrow the boundaries of the village and to prevent the sprawl from damaging valuable landscapes of Olkhon Island, densified housing blocks were located along the central, the most functionally saturated Baikalskaya street.

Архитектурно-планировочное

Магистральные улицы

Жилые улицы местного значения Местные проезды

Densified housing blocks were divided for tourists and for the local population. The blocks may be partially inhabited by settlers from the periphery of the village, those whose plots are located on landscapes that have not yet been disturbed and built up.

1 - Neighbour center

2 - Village Administration

Маршрут движения общественного транспорта

Остановки общественного транспорта

Порт

Прокат велосипедов

3 - Forestry Administration

4 - Kindergarten

5 - School

6 - Clinic and pharmacy

7 - Visit Center

8 - Shopping facilities

9 - Ethnographic Museum

10 - Museum of Flora and Fauna of lake Baikal

11 - The Church

12 - Port

схема

доступное озеленение

ленение туристических кварталов

ленение дворовых территорий

Residential buildings are blocked with each other in small groups of 10-16 houses, with access by car using one-way passages. Each group surrounds a shared courtyard area with all the amenities – playgrounds, gardens, picnic areas and more. Yard areas are pedestrian zones, which creates private spaces where neighborhood communities can be easily formed.

The blocks are grouped into a quarter of 4-8 blocks and connected to each other by a network of local roads and pedestrian connections. This approach allows to create a flexible residential quarter. Its area and configuration may vary depending on economic and legal factors.

3d model made for Avtomotornaya site as a part of concept proposals adjustment project as a part of GRADLAB team, December 2022

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