Portfolio 2024

Michael Lutchenkov Architecture Portfolio

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Contents

Resume

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Modular Housing

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Community Creativity

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Growing Understanding

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Environmental Design

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academic and professional experience

40 social housing units in Barcelona

community art center and artist residency

community education greenhouse and garden

Climatic Data Driven Design

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Contact

mdlutchenkov@gmail.com (713)-653-4005

Education

Washington University in Saint Louis Masters of Architecture, 2022-2025 University of Maryland Bachelors of Science in Environmental Health, 2020

Professional Experience

V-Three Studios, St. Louis, Summer 2023 Architectural Intern: Initial program fitting of adaptive reuse projects, Designed render proposals, conducted field condition confirmation, created life safety plans, modeled existing conditions and demo plans.

Selected projects: Rose Music Hall, MO: Prepared initial test-fits and life safety plans for outdoor venue at Missou Webster University Loretto-Hilton Center, MO: Modeled existing conditions and visualized updated design.

Clement Mitsubishi, MO: created preliminary design render with photo shop, developed initial test fit.

Harvard Medical School, Boston, 2021-22 Research Associate: handled experimental design and operation, Cris-pr design, and cell culturing.

Selected projects: “Methionine metabolism controls the B cell EBV epigenome and viral latency.”

University of Maryland, College Park, 2020-21 Research Associate: collected patient samples, used PCR and infection assay to develop methodology for detecting quantitative COVID viral load in exhaled breath.

Selected Projects: Change in Viral Load of COVID19 in Exhaled Breath Throughout Infection Cycle.

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Honors & Awards

Chair Scholarship Washington University Sam Fox School of Design, 2022.

Suma Cum Laude University of Maryland, 2020.

Skills

Software skills 3D modeling: Rhino, Revit, AutoCAD, Sketchup, Grasshopper for Rhino, V-Ray for Rhino, Enscape for Rhino 2D graphics: Adobe Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Lightroom), ArchGIS, Microsoft office (Word, Excel, Project).

Additional Skills: Proficient in Model Making, Photography, Ceramics, Digital Fabrication: Laser, CNC, 3D Print, Artistic Sensibility, Critical Visual Thinking, Spatial Cognition, Presentation Skills.

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Modular Housing in Barceloneta Barcelona, SP

Housing is becoming increasingly expensive in every city across the globe, with many new housing units being built in the “high-end/ luxury” apartment typology. This project seeks to create a flexible module to base social housing on to create a system which allows the user to define their housing needs and to allow for mixed income living.

This studio focused on developing a community using all the student projects to extend the Barceloneta neighborhood into a previously underutilized industrial space. Many of the units in this new community had a generous footprint to bring high income residents to the community to help fund urban services through taxes.

With the addition of many high-income units to the area it was important to provide low-cost social housing to provide space for the existing working-class community of the neighborhood. This was achieved through creating a ~700sft base unit which provides rooms for multiple residents, and with the structural flexibility to occupy rooms from adjoining residences as the needs of the tenants change.

Professor: Emiliano Lopez Washington University in St. Louis Fall 2023

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Existing Conditions The structure of the Barceloneta block gave the project its general shape and restraints: 10m wide, long, rectilinear

Existing Conditions The galleria serves as a critical component in Barcelona’s architecture especially as a climatic device. The outdoor rooms would be modeled on the galleria.

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New Orleans Spatial Study A 1:25 scale model was created to analyze the threshold from the domestic space to a shared communal exterior to understand the interaction between spaces of varying privacy.

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Barcelona Spatial Study A 1:25 scale model was created to analyze the spatial interactions with the Galleria space as a climatic device, and how to use the galleria as a buffer space allowing for indoor/ outdoor living.

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1:400 scale community site model The model was used to negotiate all of the student designs into a cohesive neighborhood design, to extend the barceloneta neighborhood.

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15 minute walking plan Carlos Moreno’s concept of the 15-minute city played a key role in determining the ground floor plans for each building in the new community to ensure most daily needs were provided withing walking distance.

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Ground floor plan As the building moved over the water to create a new public square, the ground floor was opened up to provide docs accessible to the community. This reclaims the otherwise inaccessible shoreline into a communal recreational space.

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Roof Plan The roof plan brings the module system from the units into an open air space, enclosing sport court modules, which can further be subdivided and occupied for various uses as resident needs change. Each unit is also equipped with water and cooking spaces to maximize flexibility of use.

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Residential Floor plan Floors 2-5 are occupied by residential units. The long and narrow footprint of the building maximizes cross-ventilation. The walls between units can be moved allowing for variation is size as needed.

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Cross Section Each unit is based around the east west sequence of spaces: galleria, internal room, water stack, external room, access walkway. This sequence allows each space to have a different relationship with the outside creating variation in the climatic qualities of each space.

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East Elevation The east elevation faces the street, so a repetition in openings along the facade was created to reflect the design of the neighboring 19th century neighborhood. External Stair shafts clearly mark the entry points to the building.

West Elevation The west elevation is dominated by the shading system for the galleria space. These shutters are adjustable by each resident creating a disorder within the rigid system of the shading units reflective of this “interior facade”

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6 room unit plan The 6 room unit Is the basic Unit typology. The rooms are a standard 4x4 meter which allows each to be used for any household activity. A sliding wall separated the outside rooms allowing for a double room in needed.

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6 room unit plan alternate Because of the standard room size a unit can be occupied by different groups of people, either to maximize bedroom space for lower income families, or to allow for more flexible programing space for student residents etc.

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9 room unit plan If needed Residents can purchase rooms from the adjacent units to expand their unit. This flexibility allows for multiple unit sizes while not changing the overall modular plan.

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9 room unit plan alternate Simple room furnishing allows for mixed use within the building, some units can be used as small office space creating a potential living and working space.

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Flex Plan This plan illustrates the flexibility of the modular plan, an asymmetrical central unit is used as a daycare center providing a service for the building, while the adjacent units get smaller creating a smaller units which can have lower rent than standard.

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Interior model Render This model illustrates the sequence of rooms through the central circulation of the kitchen.

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Tryptic: Center for Community Creativity Saint Louis, MO

The Soulard neighborhood in St. Louis represents an important historical district of the city. The north border of Soulard has significant night life and retail spaces, but the southern area is marked predominantly by residential buildings and schools.

To further develop this area, an unused lot occupied by a berm has been proposed to be developed into a community art making space. This would provide a new community meeting space for residents to both work on their own projects, and to hold public meetings.

The design is centered around reclaiming land from a rough earthen berm to provide new public space to the community. The building steps back from the street to provide a large public plaza for meetings, which serves as a threshold for both the building and the neighborhood. The program wraps around itself to enclose a secondary interior public plaza which will function as a communal working and meeting space. Flexibility in functionality was key to most of the spaces within the design so that the building could serve the more general needs of the community.

Professor: Anna Bach Washington University in St. Louis Spring 2023

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Interior model Render This model investigates the spatial quality of the underground lounge space. Through building this model the scale of the room started to be understood leading to this room being moved in the final plan.

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Facade detail The solid ground floor expresses the massive elements needed for the retaining wall, while the light glass upper level maximizes light for studio spaces.

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Site plan The community center is located at the bottom corner of the Soulard neighborhood at the entry from the main road.

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Ground Floor Plan The Building is sunken into the hill on the back side, providing insulation, and allowing the perceived height to match the surrounding residential buildings.

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Second Floor Plan The triangular shape follows the site boarder reflecting the orientation of the existing neighborhood buildings which run parallel to the street edges.

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North Section Double high shop spaces provide the room for added ventilation, and allow light from the upper windows into the otherwise subterranean rooms. The overhang provides cover for the loading dock and signals the main entry to the building.

West Section All the Programmed spaces share a large central concourse which provides additional space for activities, and minimizes the space which needs to be dedicated to circulation.

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Technical Section Several passive strategies are used to make the building more energy efficient. Most of these solutions are geared toward minimizing heating and cooling: Canadian wells, green roof insulation, central cross ventilation atrium.

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Growing Understanding: Community Greenhouse Saint Louis, MO

Forest Park Forever is a conservancy organization founded in 1986 and serves as the main community engagement facilitator between Forest Park and the neighborhoods of St. Louis which surround it. This project seeks to develop an underutilized corner lot within the park by integrating a community garden with a greenhouse space in order to promote food education in St. Louis.

The greenhouse mirrors some foundational forms found in the Jewel Box (a famous greenhouse located in Forest Park) with the inclusion of a rectilinear silhouette. Pitched glass walls provide both runoff, for precipitation, and ventilation through the use of operable windows along the entire length of the space. A classroom auditorium space is located at the back end of the greenhouse open to the interior climate, connecting people to the organic spaces all around them.

The outdoor garden space features meandering paths which incorporate the community gardening plots into the landscaping, blurring the line between wild and manicured.

Professor: Bruce Lindsey Washington University in St. Louis Fall 2022

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Site Plan The concentric site planning allows for the greenhouse to maximize its position on the corner and to maximize solar orientation.

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Floor Plan The Meandering Path inside the Greenhouse forces you to slow down and take in the plants as you pass through. The Classroom Space is embedded in the green house to allow for direct interaction with the plants during education.

Section The Green House is divided into three layers, the ground layer, the canopy layer, and the upper ventilation layer.

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Section Perspective The majority of the structural system is moved to the outside of the greenhouse to open up the interior space. This allows for larger plants to be planted.

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Frame Model The Glass mullions hang on the inside of the structural frame which maximizes vertical space to allow for trees to be grown indoors. Stairs function as seats to provide for a classroom space inside the greenhouse.

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Exploratory Models The design of the greenhouse started with exploring iterations of structural grids which would define the space. Each iteration brought new concepts to the design process.

Exploratory Models The models each studied a different structural system to analyze how the system would interact with the types of plants which would grow in the greenhouse.

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Environmental Design Saint Louis, MO

In today’s world it is becoming increasingly essential to design with the environment and to reintegrate vernacular climate control back into design. Passive heating and cooling are the foundation of designing with the environment. I have begun work on a project using environmental data to plan an efficient living space in the Arcadia Heights region of Salt Lake City using the Ladybug plugin for Rhino 7 as an environmental data compilation tool.

Salt Lake City has a relatively dry continental climate with large seasonal differences in temperature and precipitation. Winter lows drop well below freezing and snow is not uncommon. Summer highs can easily exceed 100 degrees Fahrenheit, so new buildings must be adapted to both conditions.

These seasonal differences will be accounted for by providing large thermal masses in the floor and a north facing wall to absorb the winter sun, while also having south facing overhangs over windowed walls to block peak summer daylight hours. The near constant winds from the southeast will be harnessed by a cross ventilation corridor in the middle of the building opening on both sides. By using these passive strategies I will minimize the hours of HVAC used to accommodate occupant comfort.

Professor: Catalina Fraixes Washington University in St. Louis Spring 2023

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Sun and Wind Charts The sun charts determined the roof overhang to optimise solar radiation absorbtion. The wind chart directed the siting of the pavilion to take best advantage of cross ventilation.

Comfort Hours By analyzing how each passive strategy impacted the comfort range we were able to implement only those most effective strategies, saving on time and money for the project.

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