Kate Mishchenko Portfolio

Portfolio

Ekaterina Mishchenko

Ekaterina Mishchenko

kate.mishchenko@gmail.com

+34 652 722 608

SKILLS

Rhinoceros

Autodesk AutoCAD

Sketchup

Revit

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Lightroom

Adobe InDesign

Modeling

Research

Project management

EDUCATION

ETSAB Architecture School

UPC (Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya), Barcelona

Master’s Degree in Advanced Studies in Architecture (MBArch)

London Metropolitan University/ MARCH Architecture School

Architecture and Urbanism

Bachelor of Arts with First Class Honours

Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Economics & Finance Department

Bachelor of Economics

WORKSHOPS

Moving Boundaries Mexico: Human Sciences and The Future of Architecture

Guadalajara, Mexico

Moving Boundaries Iberia: Human Sciences and The Future of Architecture

Santiago de Compostela, Spain and Porto, Portugal

Building workshop: London

Metropolitan University/ Orizzontale collective

collaboration

LANGUAGES

WORK EXPERIENCE

Moving Boundaries

Collaborative

Supporting Faculty: Participants support Lead / Publications / Book editing

Praktika architecture bureau, Moscow Intern

London Metropolitan University summer show Assistant and coordinator

VTB Bank Retail Business Development department

Progressive growth within four positions from Specialist to Project manager

Deloitte Russia Consulting Business Analyst Analytics, research and assistance in ERP Systems and Financial Consulting teams

EXHIBITIONS

XXVI International Exhibition of Architecture and Design ARCH Moscow 2021

PUBLICATIONS

Docu magazine

Documentary and street photography

Ebook, Vol. 32

Moving Boundaries 2023 - 2024

Publications design

Moving Boundaries Nordic 2024 Brochure

Moving Boundaries 2022

Photography during the course

Summer 2022 Photo Book

Selection of architecture portfolios by SoftCulture education

Portfolio. Ekaterina Mishchenko

Open City 2022 Architecture Festival

Portfolio review Finalist

Portfolio review on November 3, 2022

ArchMoscow 2021 Exhibition:

The city of events group project

Nice busy architects Podcast on May 7, 2021

The Magic of Compostela Summer School

La rivoluzione delle seppie: Workshop in Belmonte Calabro Mudchute Satellite 2020

Proposals for a walking library in Santiago de Compostela

Fundacion Compostela Arquitectura

Belmonte, Calabria, Italy

Compostela Architecture

Summer Program by The Compostela Architecture Institute

Santiago de Compostela, Spain

The project City of Events Exhibition of student projects MARCH SHOW 2019

IELTS: Score 8.0,

GMAT Exam: Score 720/94 percentile

The Walking Library COMPOSTELAs 2019

I The islands, the sea and the coastlines

Saint Petersburg

Russia and the Baltic sea

Saint Petersburg has been deeply connected to the Gulf of Finland and the Neva river throughout its history, and has identified itself as a waterfront metropolis.

Despite its proximity, the sea remains inaccessible to the city’s residents. It’s present, but almost invisible.

The city consists of 42 islands. Two of them mark its western border and bring together the sea and the city.

The lines along the coasts and traditional building structures of Karelia

The two islands are the boundary and the connection. New lines are drawn along their coasts. New structures go back to the traditional wooden architecture of Karelia, the region closely related to Saint Petersburg. It is a part of the region’s cultural heritage and natural context.

The position at the boundary between land and sea gives new space for something that contradicts the immediate context and image of the existing city.

The islands, the sea and the coastlines

The city stays as it is, with its imperfections and its beauty. What changes is the seafront. The new lines follow the coastline and bring people to the sea. They are part of the city and part of the sea. The two islands redefine the border between the sea and the city. Their coastlines provide new spaces for people, whether they are local

residents or one-day visitors. Some of them stay in the hotel, some work in libraries, others do watersports in summer, and all enjoy a long walk by the water. The two islands have different context and surrounding area, but both lack public spaces and facilities for locals and tourists. The coastline structures aim to fill this gap.

The coastlines: Kanonersky island

Buildings, passages, parks and viewpoints are located along the islands and connect their different parts to the seafront. The new experience is accessible to people with the water beneath their feet and the horizon in front of their eyes. Human-scale spaces connect them to the great emptiness of the sea.

The islands, the sea and the coastlines | Saint Petersburg

Each point of view includes the sea. This is the way to rediscover it and bring it into the daily lives of people. The coastlines offer new areas for walks, public spaces for daily work and meetings, facilities for sports and tourism. The two islands at the western border of the city now connect its life to a completely different landscape.

Lyceum in Pavlovsk Saint Petersburg Russia

A learning institution for a small group of students is located in the middle of Pavlovsk park near Saint Petersburg. The group of students and their tutors spend the whole study year surrounded by the artificial nature of the park. The nature plays a special role here. The park was thoughtfully created centuries ago, and each part of it produces a welldesigned effect. The lyceum follows these rules and brings new life and functions into the museum-like context.

The exact location of the lyceum in the park is defined by how its buildings are seen at a distance while walking by or approaching them. Brought together, they form a link between two parts of the surrounding area. The frames that they shape divide the infinite landscape into a certain number of paysage paintings.

Two main buildings with the identical dimensions split the functions of the lyceum as an institution for studies and life throughout the year. The smaller building has a public cafe for the park’s visitors. All three buildings share a space in the middle - a courtyard half-open to the park. It is used by students and is a part of the nature.

Lyceum

Rooms in the park

Each of the inside spaces –spacious common areas and small private bedrooms – are a part of the park’s nature. Windows are essential to all rooms, especially bedrooms: each of them is a three-part structure open to the park. It includes a balcony door, a table and a large window sill that is a personal space in front of the nature.

Reinforcement net,

concrete plaster

Insulation

Concrete wall

Insulation

Waterproofing

Parapet capping

Concrete roof panels

Gravel

Waterproofing

Vapour control

Concrete screed

Insulation

Concrete slab

Poured-in-place floor

Concrete screed

Separating layer

Acoustic insulation

Concrete slab

Ceiling finishing, plaster

Reinforcement net, concrete plaster

Insulation

Concrete wall

Interior finishing, plaster

Poured-in-place floor

Concrete screed

Separating layer

Insulation

Waterproofing

Concrete slab

Sand bedding

Protection of insulation

Insulation

Waterproofing

Concrete foundation

Gravel

Concrete strip

Insulation

Sand bedding

Catch-water drain

Santiago de Compostela

Spain

The walking library is designed for pilgrims of Camino de Santiago. They walk for days and weeks and make stops to have a rest.

The library meets pilgrims’ need for cultural experience in their free time after long hours of walking. It is a series of structures along the way where they can find a book and leave it at the next location. Reading pavilions are also meeting places and spots to enjoy a moment of rest. The prototype appears near Santiago de Compostela.

Camino de Santiago goes a long way through valleys, hills, mountains and towns. Before reaching their destination – Catedral de Santiago de Compostela – pilgrims make their last stop at Monte do Gozo, a few kilometres from the Cathedral.

It is surrounded by hills and fields, and the library site represents a space by San

Marcos chapel bounded by a fence, with trees growing around.

The trees form natural rooms that invite pilgrims inside and allow them to look around covered by the ceiling of tree crowns. The floor of these rooms is designed by traces of sunlight passing through the trees, and this is something that has to stay here.

The walking library is a part of this room surrounded and covered by trees. It follows the topography of the site, and its exact position between the trees allows pilgrims to see the surrounding area while reading a book or having a rest on the way.

It is formed by book boxes and platforms, and this modular timber construction can be adapted to different locations along Camino de Santiago.

London

United Kingdom

City rooms – big and small, fast and slow – appear in the middle of Poplar district in East London. Regeneration in urban locations is a provocative debate, and one which can divide communities. Time frames, economics, social and spatial organisation are all factors that offer a frame of reference to consider new buildings and infrastructures. In this context, a city room is a part of a bigger urban structure, and at the same time has its own functions, rules and meanings.

The walls of Chrisp street market turn into a city room

City rooms appear at the Chrisp street market in Poplar. Its shops spread all over the square, form their own structures and fill ground floors. Together, they form an “inhabitable wall” around the square. Its thickness is defined by the shops’ depth, and it represents a boundary between the public and the private spaces.

The concept of a city room comes from different place and time: an unusual view of Santiago de Compostela. Late at night the town is perceived as a room. And its buildings can visibly change their quality. Shops and cafes are full of people in the day – and at night, the town turns into a room: closed, calm and private space.

Santiago de Compostela: narrow streets, small squares

Clocktower gateway

The gateway appears at the entrance to the market. It is formed by a wall, and the clocktower is built into it. This “inhabitable wall” contains a few rooms for local community, and inside the boundary people discover a meeting place – a small and calm city room semi-closed by the wall. Its timber construction

contrasts the clocktower without contradicting it. Its materiality and structure suggest its temporary nature. With the upcoming reconstruction of the market area, it may partially and temporarily replace some of the market’s functions.

The gateway is a part of the neighbourhood, but has its own private character.

Market city rooms

The second, much larger, city room reorganizes the whole market square. The new space includes the existing function of a market and adds new qualities to it. It still is a central meeting point on the way through the neighbourhood and still works as the main market in Poplar. Now it has a half-enclosed space inside, and the chaotic

square turns into a private courtyard. Although the bustling market life is still here, quite and calm spaces can be discovered in the market buildings.

The inside space opens up at a few sides, as it still works as the important passage way through the neighbourhood.

People enter this room, walk through or stay in one of its corners for a while.

City of Events is a phenomenon that exists only in theoretic space. It originates from an area on the banks of Yauza river in Moscow. Grounded in reality, it develops through the depth of history and across the space, considering a larger context than is perceived directly. It consists of forty individual structures that, brought together, reinterpret the events that are related to the real territory. This city has no roads – and still all its structures are connected, in physical and metaphysical ways.

The reality and the unreal

The real historic events, analysed and reinterpreted through coincidences, connect a part of Moscow to the global context.

The collection of facts allows fragments of history to gain tangible semantic boundaries that form the autonomy – City of Events.

It can be thought of as a lattice of spatial and temporal axes, subordinate to the third — the time axis, which forms the collective memory of the place. Some of these fragments can

be discovered in the History hotel.

A research of memoirs of a few different, quite famous, people who came to visit Moscow in the soviet period is a starting point for shaping the structure. Their real documented impressions allow to find a perfect place for each of them in the metaphysical City of Events. Their exact place in this space depends on the part of reality they perceived decades ago.

City of Events is derived from historic reality and lives by its own rules. So does the History hotel.

The spaces for its six inhabitants appear in the thickness of walls, just like events appear in the depth of history. The protagonists are well-known, so the spaces have real prototypes: rooms and houses where they lived or that they designed. Brought together, they form a tower where each floor belongs to a certain protagonist.

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