Selected Works 2014-2022

Selected Works 2014 - 2022

262 Fifth Rhizosphere The New Ground Moscow River Age aleph House of Dimensions 1km0 Globalized Bauhaus Ten interventions

Aleksandra Budaeva Architect M.Arch B.Arch.Sc.

Date of birth: 15/09/1991 Nationality: Russian/Mongolian Mobile: +7 9161892396 Mail: sashabudaeva@gmail.com Work experience Since Oct 2021 - Tutor at Moscow Architectural School. Co-organized a Studio «Minimum», BA 1st year.

Since Jan 2016 - Leading architect at MEGANOM. Moscow, Russia.

262 Fifth - Residential Tower - Ongoing construction - Building permit and detail design.

Rhizosphere - Pushkin Museum extension - Ongoing construction - Building permit and detail design.

Volkhonka Street - Landscape project - Built - Detail design and construction site supervision.

Sep 2015 to Dec 2015 - Intern Architect at ma0. Rome, Italy.

Mar 2015 to May 2015 - Intern Architect at 2A+P/A. Rome, Italy.

Oct 2013 to Feb 2015 - Architect at 9studio. Moscow, Russia.

Mar 2013 to Jul 2013 - Intern Architect at Kleinewelt Architekten. Moscow, Russia.

Feb 2013 to Mar 2013 - Intern Architect at PNKB group. Moscow, Russia.

Education Sep 2008 to Jul 2014 - Bachelor’s degree and Master of Architecture at Moscow Architectural Institute Tutorship by: Evgeny Asse, Nikita Tokarev, Kirill Asse; Pavel Romanov, Dmitry Bykov, Anna Gridyushko.

Languages Russian Native English Fluent Italian Pre-Intermediate Skills 100% Mac Os and Microsoft Windows system 100% Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign 100% Autocad, Google SketchUp + Vray / Enscape Basic knowledge of Rhinoceros + Maxwell, Revit, Archicad, Cinema 4D Studio

Additional information / competitions, architectural workshops, summer schools Sept 2021 - Personal photo project «MEXICO», book publication, 17 copies.

Oct 2020 - Competition for the Project of improvement of the territory of the landscape park in Kimry, Russia.

Second prize winner with Fedor Ignatev.

Sept 2020 - The 47th Nisshin Kogyo Architectural Design Competition 2020 «Living Upon the Play» with Fedor Ignatev.

Feb 2020 - Partecipation in the open call for the development of the Russian Pavilion at Venice Biennale 2020 with the team: Alexandra Koptelova, Taisya Osipova, Irina Shmeleva.

Nov 2019 - Partecipation in the development and construction of the exhibition «Moscow River Age» at the Museum of Moscow as part of Meganom team.

May 2019 - PORTO ACADEMY. Workshop «Visiting Barragan». Tutorship by Go Hasegawa. Mexico City, Mexico.

Feb 2019 - Partecipation in the development and construction of the Russian pavilion at Triennale di Milano as part of Meganom team. Third prize winner (Wax Bee Award).

May 2017 - Shinkenchiku Residential Design Competition 2017 «House of Dimensions».

Sep 2014 - SAN ROCCO Summer School. Tutorship by Ambra Fabi, Martino Tattara, Oliver Lütjens. Tirana, Albania.

Jul 2013 - AA + Strelka Institute. Workshop «Loose operations: AA Visiting School». Tutorship by Maria Fedorchenko, Eugene Han. Moscow, Russia.

Oct 2012 - Cleveland Design Competition «Transforming the Bridge».

Jul 2012 to Aug 2012 - Fontainebleau Summer School. Tutorship by Pablo Lorenzino, Antonio Frausto, Tom Sheehan, Phillipe Niez, Mireille Roddier, Jean-Guy Lecat, Anne Scheou. Paris, France.

Jul 2011 to Aug 2011 - Implementation project at Architectural Festival «GORODA». Moscow, Russia.

262 Fifth

2015 - present time / under construction

Residential Skyscraper in New York developed at Meganom

The idea that implicitly moves the project is aeronautics, putting people on viewing platforms – «shelves» in the air, from which the city is seen. As we move upwards, reaching 1,001 feet, we are moving vertically into space. The spatial scheme attaches floors to a backbone, which maintains and sustains the modules. The floors are structurally supported by the core and two walls, stretching parallel to Fifth Avenue, along the long axis of the Island.

The core is pushed out and isolated, while serving the residences and housing all the engineering and logistics. The spine is separate from the body in order to achieve the unobstructed volume of the apartments and providing the ability to keep the open spaces inside the residences with panoramic views. The optimal apartment plan with clear span and without vertical communications has been defined for the residence. The interiors become clean, flexible and open.

An apartment is always keeping the potential of the void. It is a shelter, experience of a room above the city. It is a void with high ceilings, constrained by two walls and two panoramic window walls. The view and its perspective reveal all of Manhattan: a 180-degree view in Northern and Southern directions.

Form / Research

D D

C C

1 4"

B B

B mirror B (mirror)

11165 "

C mirror C (mirror)

11165 "

D mirror D (mirror)

1"

15°0'0"

234"

A mirror A (mirror)

11165 "

1 4"

11165 "

15°0'0"

234"

A A

11165 "

11165 "

11165 "

Facade / Brick Typology

11165 "

3rd FLOOR / WALL TYPE 2 / FULL FLOOR RESIDENCE

2

22'-121"

3 FLOOR

4"

27'-721"

5'-6"

521"

10'-11"

5'-621" 521"

10'-9"

8'-9"

4'-6"

2'-0"

4'-3"

2'-0"

2'-0"

6"

8'-9"

8'-9"

STAIR B 6"

6"

4'-6"

PE1

3'-821"

8"

3'-821"

4'-3"

24'-621"

5'-9"

P.R.

3'-9"

2'-6"

2'-8"

3'-4"

2'-8"

3'-4"

6" 6"

10"

10"

6"

5"

721"

1'-1"

8"

1'-6" 3"

3'-0"

3'-7"

2'-0"

2'-8"

4'-7"

MEP

STAIR A

4'-6"

2'-1021"

6'-0"

24'-1"

PE2

5"

4'-2"

18'-0"

9'-6"

15'-0"

4" 7'-1"

MEP RISERS

16'-2"

4"

2'-2"

3'-0"

4'-8"

1'-241"

2"

2'-0"

8'-4"

2'-0"

CL 12'-5" 6'-5"

DINING

11'-834"

67'-1021" 8'-4"

21'-11"

5'-0"

2'-0"

6"

ADA P.R.

3'-0"

3'-6"

3'-641"

6"

6'-6"

4'-5"

4'-5"

W.I.C.

3'-6"

W/D

BATH

8'-4" 43'-4" 2"

27'-734"

1

1'-241"

2'-0"

2" 11'-834"

3'-6"

4'-3" 6'-221"

1'-1"

7'-9"

CL

8'-234"

6'-4"

CL

11'-3"

W.I.C. 5'-3"

2'-041"

29'-8"

6" 9'-3"

3'-6"

8'-4"

1'-2" 8" 3'-6"

3'-6"

6"

6"

2'-0"

2"

3'-11"

7'-4"

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LIVING

11'-834"

3'-6"

35'-6"

6"

17'-4"

3'-6"

3'-6"

SHO.

5'-1"

8'-4"

6'-834"

4'-821"

1'-241"

10"

2'-8"

6"

10"

3'-6"

2"

CL

15'-11" 10'-0"

33'-2"

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4"

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10

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1m

ALL DIMENSIONS ARE APPROXIMATE AND SUBJECT TO NORMAL CONSTRUCTION VARIANCES AND TOLERANCES, DIMENSIONS MEASURED ARE CLEAR INTERIOR WALL. DIMENSIONS MAY CONTAIN MINOR VARIATIONS BETWEEN FLOORS.

2021-11-16

*MEGANOM*

Typical Floor Plan / 3rd Floor / Full Floor Residence

262 FIFTH AVE

30th FLOOR / WALL TYPE 6 / FULL FLOOR RESIDENCE

2

22'-121"

30 FLOORS

28'-121" 6"

10'-9"

4'-6"

521"

10'-11"

5'-621"

521"

5'-621"

8'-9"

4'-6"

8'-11"

8'-9"

8'-9"

6"

3'-821"

6"

4'-6"

4'-3"

3'-11"

2'-0"

2'-0"

PE1

2'-0"

STAIR B 6"

3'-821"

8"

24'-621"

24'-1" 22'-7"

14'-1"

19'-7" 5'-0"

DISTANCE BETWEEN EXITS MIN. 15'

7'-1"

PE2

MEP RISERS

24'-621"

4"

16'-2"

4"

5'-621" 4'-3"

3'-4"

2'-0"

2'-0"

2'-541"

STAIR A

WETBAR 10'-121"

W/D

CL

CL

2'-0"

4'-1"

4'-6"

6" 1'-2"

9'-0"

67'-1021"

3'-2"

1'-2"

3'-8"

1'-241"

3'-4"

3'-6"

12'-2"

6'-1" 15'-9"

LIVING

1'-6"

7'-3"

P.R.

1'-6"

121"

4'-6"

BEDROOM / DEN / STUDY

6"

3'-0"

3'-6"

3'-4"

1'-241"

9'-11"

14'-221"

3'-6"

6"

3'-6"

13'-521"

6"

4'-8" 3'-6"

4'-8"

14'-221"

5"

33'-6"

121"

6'-0"

4'-7"

MEP

9'-11"

4'-2"

5'-621"

2'-541"

2'-8"

5"

4'-6"

15'-7"

43'-4"

14'-8"

4'-6"

1'-6"

1'-241"

3'-6"

121"

3'-0"

3'-6"

6'-921"

3'-4"

3'-0"

10'-1"

20'-4"

121"

2'-6"

3'-4"

8'-0"

1'-6"

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6'-4"

3'-6"

DINING

11'-6"

2'-021"

1 1'-241"

MASTER BEDROOM

3'-0"

38'-0"

11'-6"

14'-8"

8'-0"

38'-821"

3'-1134"

7'-10"

MASTER BATHROOM

14'-221"

3'-6"

ADA MASTER BATHROOM

9'-11"

10'-9"

13'-3"

W.I.C.

8'-0"

KITCHEN 12'-1"

3'-6"

14'-221"

9'-11"

3'-0"

7'-3"

3'-9"

2'-6"

2'-541"

2'-0" 6"

2'-541"

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2'-0"

7'-1" 2'-0"

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28'-121"

5'-621"

39'-221"

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15'-11"

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2021-11-16

*MEGANOM*

Typical Floor Plan / 30th Floor / Full Floor Residence

262 FIFTH AVE

Rhizosphere. The New Ground

2014 - present time / under construction

Pushkin museum extension developed at Meganom

The Rhizosphere unites all the areas of the Museum into a coherent urban space. It is a landscape platform, a film fortifying the roots of structures; a fertile layer of urban culture and art. The Museum sphere collects the scattered plots and buildings and, complying with all the requirements of the legislation on the protection of monuments, absorbs all other permitted spheres: landscaping, public art exhibition, temporary items—or those deemed to be such and escaping the law by not actually falling into the category of protected objects.

The Rhizosphere is not merely a design or an artifact. It is the main protocol that can change over time; a new law, which, once encoded in the Museum, should develop, taking into account the changing demands of the time and culture; of the climate and the city. Combining and merging together the multiple layers of landscape, old and new, actually existing and imaginary, the new sphere aims to create an urban environment of a new quality on the territory of the Museum Town.

The main objective of the project is the restoration and preservation of the Main Building. The rear facade opens up to the city; a new pedestrian square is created around it, and entrance for groups is organized through the big archway. Under the monument, an underground level is created: the “reservoir,” a single hypostyle hall, the main underground space of the entire complex.

One of the two newly covered courtyards holds a large circular staircase for groups to descend to the underground level. This versatile hall can be used as a covered city square or an exhibition space: the two light wells of the covered courtyards permit light through to the depth of eight meters under the ground.

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The Underground Level / Sections

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Volkhonka Street becomes part of the Rhizosphere landscape and the front facade of the Museum Town, facing the river.

Volkhonka Street / Realization

The Moscow River Age 2019

Russian pavilion at the Triennale di Milano developed at Meganom

The Moscow River Age explores the human-river relationship and presents a timeline of stories between 1919 and 2119.

The industrial age is gone, and today we might imagine that soon the Moscow River will be free from pressures of the human civilazation. In order to pay back our debt to nature and the river, we should not only stop exploiting it but make our relationship mutually beneficial. In search of restorative design, we collected ideas of how it can be treated with a respectful attitude in mind. Friendship and love are central to this approach. All our contributors are Friends of the Moscow River.

The projects describe possible future of the river and how we could live together with it. We hope that this polyphonic narrative will give us some clues about how humans can see the river as their equal and how close any river is bind with those who live nearby.

Personal artwork.

«By 2076, poachers had completely exterminated - fishing them out by hand one by one - a genrtically engineered species of sturgeon, launched into the Moscow River as a marker of its well-being.

This strategy was reflected in many works of art».

Exterminated sturgeon. 2073 Oil on canvas 9x12 sm

The Moscow River Age 2019

Museum of Moscow developed at Meganom

aleph

September 2020

The 47th Nissin Kogyo Architectural Design Competition / Living Upon a Play developed with Fedor Ignatev

In Aleph, to establish the relationships that sustain the city’s life, the inhabitants stretch strings from the corners of the houses, white or black or gray or black-and-white according to whether they mark a relationship of blood, of trade, authority, agency. When the strings become so numerous that you can no longer pass among them, the inhabitants leave: the houses are dismantled; only the strings and their supports remain.

From a mountainside, camping with their household goods, Aleph’s refugees look at the labyrinth of taut strings and poles that rise in the plain. That is the city of Aleph still, and they are nothing.

They rebuild Aleph elsewhere. They weave a similar pattern of strings which they would like to be more complex and at the same time more regular than the other. Then they abandon it and take themselves and their houses still farther away.

Thus, when traveling in the territory of Aleph, you come upon the ruins of the abandoned cities, without the walls which do not last, without the bones of the dead which the wind rolls away: spiderwebs of intricate relationships seeking a form.

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House of Dimensions May 2017

Shinkenchiku Residential Design Competition

1km0

September - December 2015 project for international competition «Rigenerare Corviale» developed at ma0 with Stalker

A holistic approach to the longest issue public housing in Rome, the 1km long public housing complex of Corviale.

Our proposal recognizes Corviale as concrete and advanced construction of the main challenges that the contemporary city is now facing. A «marchio», the brand Corviale, which, together with the common areas of the Site Plan, will be outsourced to start up from social realities and citizenship in the area, from agencies, institutions and companies with which to activate the «cantiere», construction of building regeneration, but also the cultural, economic and social development of this great cathedral of modernity.

Parallel to the vertical division of the building into condominiums, the space of the ground floor and garages will be released, and together with the monumental stairs, before finding definitive function, form the basis on which you will carry out the regeneration process fully achieved and maintained with sustainable strategies and technologies, produced and processed in (1) km0.

Globalized Bauhaus

April 2015 project for international competition «Bauhaus Museum Dessau» developed at 2A+P/A with Andrea Branzi

The theme of the competition requires a reflection on the influence and the potential that the Bauhaus can still exert on the contemporary project, not just as historical event but as an interpretative key of the present age of globalization. Such reflection can’t be reduced to an hagiography of a cultural theory that was proposing a laic Future driven by Reason, by the industrial Functionality and the certainty of a social equilibrium.

From this point of view the Bauhaus completely failed its mission.

The present world is characterized by an ungovernable complexity, by the irrationality of the market, by an unsolvable social and religious conflict that constitutes a new anthropology for the civilization of machines.

The New Museum of the Bauhaus is a large aviary: an interior space capable of including the natural and artificial landscape of the city.

The ground floor is organized as a portion of productive land, while the aviary is a complex three-dimensional device, where it is possible to imagine a synthesis between the human and animal universe: a planetary garden of biodiversity.

Above the ground, a glazed prism passes through the empty space of the aviary. This volume, suspended over piloties, houses the museum spaces as a linear gallery. The internal organization is articulated through a thin vertical blade, made up of three levels, which, like a giant rack space, contains all the activities of the museum: exhibition spaces, offices and services.

Model

Ten interventions

September 2014 project for San Rocco Summer School Co-author: Anna Plückbaum

Tutors: Oliver Lütjens, Martino Tattara, Ambra Fabi

School Kasem Shima is located in the North West of Tirana (Albania) between the main road leading to Epoka University and informally grown settlements on the hillside. Although the school is in a quite good condition, we thought that in the surrounding landscape lies a big potential of extending the school’s limits.

By placing ten very simply structured elements we want to redefine the entrances to the plot and create three different areas.

April 2022 digital version / low resolution email: sashabudaeva@gmail.com mobile: +7 9161892396