Ekaterina Pestriakova. Portfolio

EKATERINA PESTRIAKOVA

PORTFOLIO

EDUCATION

Technical University of Munich Master studies. Architecture

Saint Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering Bachelor Diploma. Architecture

WORK EXPERIENCE

Technical University of Munich Research assistant. Chair of Urban Design

Bär, Stadelmann, Stöcker Architekten und Stadtplaner Working student

- Design stage project development for public buildings;

KB Strelka. Consulting company Architect

Saint Petersburg, Russia 2012-2017

Munich, Germany since 2021 Munich, Germany from 10/2022

- Researching noise pollution in a vicinity of airports and designing landscapes as a form of noise mitigation;

Munich, Germany from 10/2022

Moscow, Russia from 09/2020 to 08/2022

- Master plan for a city Krasnoyarsk. I was responsible for analytical study on current challenges and potentials of the city, elaboration of the general vision of spatial development as well as detailed design concepts of key public spaces. Focus of her work was on study of public spaces hierarchy and methodology of polycentric development of the Greater Krasnoyarsk;

- Guidelines for designing a master plan for different cities. My responsibilities were to study existing typology of cities and offer practical solutions for creating a master plan for different cities based on common problems and characteristics. It included interviewing external consultants.

Bonava. Residential development company Architect, Intern

Saint Petersburg, Russia from 05/2018 to 09/2020

- I had an opportunity to participate in all the stages of a project development. From creating a concept to designing a key junction point needed for proper construction. Bonava uses BIM technol ogies (Revit) — enabling to provide an understanding of all the other sides of a building construction. They also pay attention to sustainable design. During my internship, I was involved in a Zero-energy building project.

iUniversity projects

i.i Waste to taste

i.ii Wood - prototype of a local value chain

i.iii Set design

i.iv Multifunctional center

In this chapter I have collected some of the projects made by me during my studying in Ger many, at Technical University of Munich and in St. Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering

i.i Collectra[sh]. Waste to taste

// Semester Project

// Technical University of Munich. Chair of Architectural Design and Participation. Prof. Francis Kéré

// In collaboration with Rena Bartholomeus

Dealing with trash is a problem that is now more important than ever. Rural communities, like Ganvié, struggle to reuse the trash which is being produced. This is why we propose to focus on the circularity of waste, more specifically of organic waste. The whole process starts at the communal kitchen, where the organic waste is collected. Communal kitchens are an already existing infrastructure, where people come together to eat and cook. From there it is directly transferred to our vegetable tower, where the organic waste is composted.

Composting is done with the help of black soldier flies. As a result of the composting process, waste is converted into a fertilizer, that is used to grow vegetables. Grown vegetables are harvested and returned or sold to the community, which closes the full cycle. Our main goal is to help solve the waste problem in Ganvié. Additionally, we see our vegetable tower as a landmark representing the significance of waste collection. It shows the inhabitants that waste can be seen as an opportunity, that benefits the whole community.

University projects

/Composting

// Organic waste is com posted with the help of a Black solder files;

/Collecting waste / /Around 80 community kitchens in Ganvié; / /Each kitchen produces 1,5 m3 organic waste pro week.

/Growing

// The fertilizer is used to grow potatoes, tomatoes, cassava, salads...

/Producing fertilizer

// The processed waste can be used as fertilizer for the plants or larva as a byproduct of compost ing can be used to feed chickens and fish;

/Giving back to commu nity

// Grown vegetables can be given to the commu nity kitchen or sold on the market nearby. //Fertilizer can also be sold.

Corrugated iron Bamboo Ø 100 mm

Steel column Ø 120 mm

University projects

I-Beam

Concrete foundation

10.1 Place for larves and flies 10.2 Liquid storage

i.ii Wood - prototype of a local value chain

// Seminar Project

// Technical University of Munich. Professorship of Architecture and Design. Prof. M. Sc Niklas Fanelsa

// Landscapes of Commoning

// In collaboration with Pia Schneider, Katrin Schneyer, Ivo Kavelage, Vincent Kempf

In this seminar, we investigat ed the potential of rural areas through a workshop format, emphasizing the practical role of making. Together with local experts we engaged with the surrounding environment and its aesthetic, material, and ecologi cal qualities.

In addition to learning craft tech niques, the workshops

investigated the relationship between the cultural landscape and the built environment, and thus the conditions of contem porary rural society. Local coop eration partners help to ground the project in these specific spatial and social contexts.

> The felling cut > Connection detail of bench type Gerswalde

Wood - prototype of a local value chain

Tree Felling Wedge

Felling cut

Fracture bar Falling notch Falling notch 45-60° 1/10 D 1/10 D

VECTORWORKS EDUCATIONAL VERSION

i.iii Set design for filmmakers

// Seminar Project

// Technical University of Munich. Chair of Architectural Design and Conception. Prof. Dipl. Ing. Architektin Uta Graff

// Unusual places of casual encounters

// In collaboration with Hirotatsu Ohara and Huimin Jiang

The task was to design a space that would be interesting for filming and allow different pos sibilities to set a scene and move through the set. At the begin ning of the semester, students were asked to choose a poem and pictures as an inspiration for the project. Our team have cho sen Joseph Brodsky’s poem from 1966 “Having succeeded in shut ting people out” and stills from

the movie “Stalker” by Andrei Tarkovsky. This led to designing a space that looks like it went through different stages of us age, had different functions, was inhabited by different people, and they all left their mark there, adjusting the space for them selves, creating different layers of history.

University projects

Having succeeded in shutting peo ple out,

I want to fence myself off. Not a fence of hewn poles, but a mirror is more useful here. I contemplate frowning features, the stubble, the bumps on my chin...

The divorcing couple’s trellis, is probably the best kind of partition. The twilight in the window fits into it, the edge of the plough with the great starlings and the lake, like a breach in the wall, crowned with spruce prongs.

I can see that from the holes in the lake.

Or any puddle at all The outside world will crawl in. Or this one will crawl out.

Joseph Brodsky. 1966

Having succeeded in shutting people out.. Free translation

University projects

i.iv Multifunctional center

// Saint Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering

// Vyborg’s side as part of the polycentric model of St. Petersburg

The main idea behind the proj ect is to create a point of attrac tion outside the existing city center. The site is located on a former industrial territory. The project also includes an existing building from 1975. It is proposed to be renovated and assigned a new business function.

An existing office building on the site classifies as a type D office. With a proposed redevelopment idea, it is feasible to include this building into the designed cen ter and upgrade it to a B type office.

New building designed in a way that allows to enclose existing

visual axes and did not interrupt formed pedestrian paths on the site. Spatially, it leads to a curved part of a building being lifted three stores above the ground level, leaving the walkways free for a use.

Volume facing the main street notifies about a new walkway and breaks the generic line of ex isting street view and is accessi ble for a public non-commercial use. Then, the volume is bent with an intention of creating a secluded area in front of the subway entrance, protecting the square from noise pollution.

> Existing building, included in the project > Site plan Multifunctional center

// Fit all the required functions

University projects

// Form a public space in front of the entrance to the subway

// Close urban axis

// Link volumes without interrupting important links

// Create a recognizable image high lighting important places

University projects

// Existing building, refurbished;

// Main volume, includes subway entrance, shops, cafés, entrance to an educational center;

// Congress center;

// Business center, A level

University projects

Office class “B”

Public lecture hall

Existing building, renovated

Catering space

Shops

Café

Congress center entrance

Educational center entrance

Subway entrance

ii Professional work

ii.i KB Strelka ii.ii Bonava

In this chapter I put some de scription of the professional work I was doing for the last 4 years, working as an architect and as an urban planner. Due to a signed NDA I cannot share actu al plans or master plan proposals, instead I provided a brief over view of my responsibilities.

ii.i KB Strelka

// Сonsulting company

// Masterplan for city Krasnoyarsk

// Guidelines on how to design a master plan

I was working on a master plan for a Krasnoyarsk. It is a city in Siberia, Russia. Krasnoyarsk has more than a million citizens.

I am responsible for analyzing the urban structure and propos ing solutions for the develop ment of an outskirts districts and former industrial sites.

Also I worked on a project cre ating guidelines on how to

design a master plan for a city. This guideline was based on the existing typology of different cities and offered practical solu tions for creating a master plan. It acknowledged the goals set by UN-Habitat, national goals for economic development and best practices used worldwide.

ii.ii Bonava

// Residential development company

// Residential complexes Magnifika Lifestyle, Gröna Lund and Gotland Lifestyle

I participated in all the stages of a project development. From creating a concept to design ing a key junction point needed for proper construction. Bonava uses BIM technologies (Revit) — enabling to provide an under standing of all the other sides of a building construction. They also pay attention to sustainable design. During my internship, I was involved in a Zero-energy

building project.

I worked on creating working documentation and project doc umentation for a building and for a landscape design. I worked on a total of three projects in this company and supervised the construction process for two of them.

iii Competitions

iii.i Nikolsky forum iii.ii Urban Redevelopment iii.iii Evolution of the mall iii.iv Nizhny Kaban lakefront in Kazan iii.v Heritage Site in Staraya Ladoga

This chapter contains projects made for competitions or during extra curricula workshops. This is selected works among numer ous competitions I was a part of. These were selected as the ones, that personally significant to me. I can provide more information about each of them, but wanted to share the range.

iii.i Nikolsky forum

// Сompetition for public space

// Project mentors: Association “Arhataka” Andrey Voronov and Innokenty Padalko

// In cooperation with Anastasia Kholopova, Arina Zueva, Dmitry Mukhin, Elena Blinova

The story of the restoration of Ni kolsky Ryady reminded us of the plot of the ancient Greek para dox about Theseus’ ship. Nikolsky Ryady is a modern visualization in the St. Petersburg context of the first part of the paradox: if we replace all the planks in the ship one by one with new ones, will it be the same ship?

In the project, it was decided to partially visualize the second part of the paradox in the court yard of Nikolsky Ryady - to cre ate a new form by filling it with the “old” content - the rubble of ruined buildings, the so-called “historical heritage”. Thus, in the courtyard of Nikolsky Ryady it is

proposed to place columns of metal frame, divided into 5 cubic sections into which gabionscubes or parallelepipeds of mesh - can be inserted. Gabions are filled with assembled parts of de molished buildings and visualize those complex issues that inevi tably arise when the theory and practice of urban development collide. By default the columns are arranged in rows and resem ble a hypostyle hall, but they can be moved to the walls of Nikolsky Ryady: this will form a peripeter and free up space for an exhibi tion or discussion platform; the columns can also take the form of a cube and so on.

iii.ii Urban Redevelopment

// Summer School

// MAPP- St.Petersburg Urban Redevelopment Studio with University of Maryland

// In collaboration with Sofie Rhoads, Olya Repina, Awais Qazi, Arseniy Lameko

The task was to propose a solution for a city’s “Gray belt” — former industrial territories surrounding a historical center. After changes in the city’s econ omy structure and regulations on accepted level of noise/emis sions within a city, many of the production companies moved from the city or were forced to move to the outskirts. This freed a considerable amount of land without a clear understanding

of it’s further use. The goal of this summer school was to look closely on the part of this gray belt near one of the city’s railway stations and propose a vision for its development for 20 years ahead, planning the measures with a 5-year steps.

Picture depicts the possible interventions , that can be made to the main square of the site — near the train station.

iii.iii Evolution of the mall

// Competition. Winning proposal

// Evolution of the mall: from the temple of consumerism to the palace of culture

// Project mentor: Fedor Konkov, managing partner of the Urbanika Institute of Spatial Planning

The competition’s goal was to transform the existing «big box» model of a shopping center into a form which can be interested in an age of online shopping, and, then, find a site in the city which can «host» this model. In order to analyze the market a study of the main tenants of shopping centers in St. Peters burg was conducted. It was possible to distinguish 3 main blocks of functions - goods, en tertainment and services. Two thirds are occupied by goods. Entertainment and services account for only 33.7% in total. Which, in the emerging global trends in the sphere of shopping

and entertainment centers is in sufficient and leads to a decrease in demand from consumers. In this regard, a new percentage ratio of functions was proposed. The main difference from the existing model is that the dom inant functions are services and entertainment, and the shop ping function itself is three times smaller. The task of generating traffic is shifted from DIY stores and large retail chains to restau rants, lecture halls, and food halls, as they are more relevant to the changing type of consump tion - from the consumption of goods to the consumption of impressions.

iii.iv Nizhny Kaban lakefront in Kazan

// Summer school curated by AB RDNK

// In collaboration with KSUACE and Moscow Institute of Ar chitecture students

The project was aimed at creat ing a comprehensive interdisci plinary assessment of the terri tory in order to study its identify problems and form a proposal for comprehensive development while preserving its uniqueness. Our main task was to analyze the territory, conduct co-design with residents and urban com munities, identify territorial prob lems, find points of growth and propose architectural and urban solutions.

The territory is one of the histor ical parts and attractions in the center of Kazan, is the south ern part of the territory of the

Staro-Tatarskaya Sloboda. The largest industrial enterprises of its time were located in the southern part of the sloboda, within the territory proposed for the study. This unique area was a powerful industrial hub and cultural center of Kazan. All this should have been taking into ac count while working on a project.

iii.v Heritage Site in Staraya Ladoga

// One Day competition project

// Winning proposal. Set to be built

// In collaboration with Kamilla Sachapova and Valeria Smirnova

The project is set on a Heritage Site in Staraya Ladoga. The site contains a group of monumental tumuluses, one of them is said to be an Oleg of Novgorod’s kurgan.

The problem was that tourist were climbing on the kurgan and slowly destroying it. First authorities wanted to put a fence around the site to protect it, but we proposed an elevated wood en pavement and a tall grass

around it to make a psychologi cal obstacle rather than a physi cal. And also to preserve a land scape. The project is also based on a universal design principal. It is planned to be built in 20222025.

pestryakova.katerina@gmail.com