NIKITA OLEGOVICH MININPORTFOLIO 2011 PASADENA CITY COLLEGE

CONTACT INFORMATIONnikita.o.minin@gmail.com626 759 7213

EDUCATIONGraduate of the Los Ange-les County High School for the ArtsStudying at Pasadena City College

Architect - Artist’s StatmentHaving come from an art’s high school focusing on visual arts my interests in the arts have been a strong prerequisite in my development as an archi-tecture student. Although my projects are based on a clear strategy that develop precise and organized ideas of space and function, my focus and love for my work comes from the integration of the strong process with the emotions that I fell in love with as a painter, printmaker and sculptor.

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Integrated Street ScapesArchitecture 10B Spring 2011Instructor: Coleman Griffith

Site bounding box. Key components are interlocking space created by underbelly of buidling on wilshire, rhythm of sawtooth facade, rhythm of storefronts on Lindbrook.

Metro entrance section: corner of Wilshire & Westwood

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HAMMER MUSEUM

Wilshire Blvd

Perspective diagram of the influence of the Hammer Museum facade pattern. Influenced by conept of ‘scarring’ where site patterns infuence project.

OBJECTIVETo investigate a charged social topic through an experiential sequence described in minimal surfaces while addressing real architectural problems such as site constraints and existing datums. Successful utility of a concept explored within this social topic through a generative process of research and diagraming and eventually surface and experience transformation.

PROCESSIn this studio we were asked to explore new media as a socially interdependent system that has changed significantly over the past decade and how it has evolved the way we think and do things. ‘Integrated Street Scapes’ is an exploration of the types of changes new media stresses on the world and the types of changes and reactions that are emerging out of the discussion. Through minimal surface manipulation this project acts to symbolize the idea, while using its investigated transformation as a precedent for the creation of the street scape experience. Site integration is highly stressed into the development of the proj-ect because of its proximity to the Los Angeles Federal Building s forseen connection to the studio’s dense topic.

CONCEPT STATEMENTUrban fabric is something that is woven over time developing based on constant needs such as transportation and business development, evolving thereafter into a system that reacts and reintegrates with itselft to create an immense interdependent system. Each unit as a result holds within its pieces a chapter of the whole. In my ‘Integrated Street Scape’ I began to look at Wilshire Blvd as a datum that stands as an example of the inte-gration process. I defined this process as scarring, a problem-atic series of events that eventually heal themselves to become stronger.

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0 MPH 10 MPH 30 MPH 50 MPHSite Traffice diagram adjacent to site on major city streets. Wilshire’s traffic density is looked at as a scarring of the site.credit diagrams to group ‘super studio’ diagrams

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CULVER CITY BUS LINE - began: 1928, routes: 7, fleet: 52, 25 Sq. miles covered, daily ridership: 16,438 (6,000,000 ANNUALLY)

CULVER CITY BUS LINE - began: 1928, routes: 7, fleet: 52, 25 Sq. miles covered, daily ridership: 16,438 (6,000,000 ANNUALLY)

CULVER CITY BUS LINE - began: 1928, routes: 7, fleet: 52, 25 Sq. miles covered, daily ridership: 16,438 (6,000,000 ANNUALLY)

traffic diagrams credit to ‘super studio’ group diagraming

CONCEPT DEVELOPMENTWhen developing a concept I began to explore binuclear ideas in relation to scarring. The studio focused on how these paired words began to interact and what they created upon interaction. With the idea of scarring there came an idea of what is left behind after systems begin to collide with one another. I.e. city zoning and analogously in the development of a wikipedia page. This idead was named residual composite, developed from substance aggregating and disipating.

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grid is extracted from geometry of sawtooth building facade on the corner of Westwood Blvd and Lindbrook Ave

bouding box is defined by the height of the building and the size of the sidewalk creating a strong connection to the datums of the site

parellel lines are seper-ated to opposite sides of the bounding box.

endpoints of perpen-dicular lines are con-nected together to cre-ate a bounding box for the surface loft

the first two previously contstructed lines on each side are lofted together to create the scar tissue loft estab-lishing a connection of all datums

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Wipidia Diagram - an exploration of my new media choice as an observation of orga-nization of a media system. My diagram relates Wikipedia to my concept of scarring showing how users can begin to interact with an article in positive and negative ways and through their ‘scarring’ actually act to strengthen and refine the system. This can be be seen as analagous to the structure and creation of Wilshire Blvd over time.

Scarring became a very key word for my project after observing that the site was highly influenced by freak development over time. The densitys are all products of the mass of people who have relied upon Wilshire as a means of transport. Sky rises erected only as efficient means of housing business operations close to a city center and large streets allowing movement usually only to pass through the site as a means to access downtown Los Angeles. All of these conditions were scars upon the site and how it functioned.

Westwood Elevation

Site Plan

view of the metro gesture and its interation with the form of the turnstills developed from the minimal surfaces.

grid is extracted from geometry of sawtooth building facade on the cor-ner of Westwood Blvd and Lindbrook Ave

grid is extracted from geometry of sawtooth building facade on the corner of West-wood Blvd and Lindbrook Ave

grid is extracted from geometry of saw-tooth building facade on the corner of Westwood Blvd and Lindbrook Ave

grid is extracted from geometry of sawtooth building facade on the corner of Westwood Blvd and Lindbrook Ave

Lindbrook Street secion. Street has the potential to become a place of protest

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Lindbrook Street elevation

Art PavilionArchitecture 12B Spring 2011Instructor: Neiel Norheim

OBJECTIVETo create architectural spaces using a clear form generating process. Then to present the process with clear and precise visual commu-nication skills.

PROJECT DESCRIPTIONThe student is to create a surface from a series of constraints and then to repeat and trans-form the surface in order to create architec-tural space. Then to present the project with clear visual comminacation skills to show pro-cess

PROCESSCreate a bounding box and set constraint points in order to create curves. Loft curves to create a surface and transform the surface in the project to a new set of constraints.

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Bodies/ SkinsArchitecture 12B Spring 2011Instructor: Neiel Norheim

OBJECTIVETo Create a simple volume from form derived using a ruleset strategy.

PROJECT DESCRIPTIONManipuiate a 7 point line and copy that line in order to create a loft for a surface. Use the surface created to create a volume. Volume is looked at as an object not a piece of archi-tecture.PROCESSBy manipulating the line to create a soft shape along the curve I was able to mirror and copy and rotate the curve to create an organic sur-face. The surface were then arrance so that they acted as disturbed cube surfaces, meet-ing nevertheless upon a cubes grid at points of intersection. The volume was then lofted closed. A second part to the process involved preparing the volume for possilbe use as a lamp.