Портфолио Екатерины Нуждиной

EKATERINA NUZHDINA
ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO

CONTENTS
Curriculum vitae
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Theatre-parasite
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Microdistrict 2.0
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Bachelor: from district to flat
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School of self-determination
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New Lapidarium
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OMA Internship
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Art
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OMA reference letter
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Contacts
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WORKING EXPERIENCE
Internship
OMA, Hong Kong
Took part in multiple projects, such as: Singapore Rail Corridor (production), Quanhai Urban Unit
(production), Taipei Performing Art Center (material plans), Shenzhen Museum and Library (all stages),
Cairo Eastown Development (concept design), Guangzhou bridge competition (concept design).
08.15-02.16
Internship
Meganom, Moscow
Took part in the following projects:
02.15-05.15
> Hayatt hotel and resort facilities: made a detailed model with actual materials, design of façades and 07.14-09.14
all details)
> RDI office and public centre competition (I prize): took part in making the concept, made final design
of the buildings, production
> Summer Market near Strelka Institute: took part in producing of the concept, made conceptual design
and collages
Internship
Kamen Art-Group,
Moscow
Worked on the project of Block of houses.
Project was made together with 2 co-interns: everyone made his/her own conceptual
design, including schemes, renders, draft plans and models
10.14–12.14
EDUCATION
Specialist (M.Arch
equivalent)
Diploma with
distinction is expected
in June, 2016
Moscow Institute of
Architecture, 2012-
2016 in
Y. Grigoryan’s project
studio
Education was mostly based on conceptial approach to architecture. I got expanded knowledge of
architectural history and theory; artistic, research and analytical skills. Got first prizes in institute
competitions in architecture, painting and hand drawing. After the second year won the qualifying
competition to study at prof. Grigoryan’s studio. Usually got 10/10 for architectural projects and
participated in exhibitions at the Moscow Union of Architects
09.14-06.16
B.Arch
09.10-06.14
SHORT COURSES
AA Summer School
AA Visiting School,
hosted by Strelka
Institute, Moscow
Expanded knowledge of basic architectural
theory, learned new methods of architectural research and urban analysis. Then made a provocative
project “New Moscow: let people occupy the Kremlin!”
08.13
AA Summer Digital
Lab
Architectural
Association School
of Architecture,
London-Dorset,
GB
Intensively studied Rhino, Grasshopper, Processing and Arduino. Then in a small group made project
of the parametric installation. We made models using CNC-machine, 3Dprinter and Lasercutter; we
also made renders and draftings. Finally, we fabricared wooden moving, lighting and sensory 1:1 scale
installation
07.13-08.13
Software courses
Software Center in
MArchI
Mastered software skills (Rhino, Autocad, 3DMax, Revit)
2010-2012
SKILLS
Rhino+VRay, Autocad, Adobe Creative Suite, Sketchup (experienced user); 3DMax, Revit, Grasshopper, Processing, Arduino (basic)
Lasercutting, 3d-printing, CNC-milling, clay, wood, concrete, gypsum, paraffin models, handdrawing and painting
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CV

THEATRE-PARASITE
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INTRODUCTION
It becomes more and more obvious that art can’t exist just for itself anymore. To get the physical incarnation it needs to embed itself into the commercial framework. One of the possible options for art
institutions to get into reality is to become parasites on the marketable buildings, that can be benefitial for both of them. On one hand, this kind of mutualism can create an image for a commercial building and
make it less generic and therefore more competitive. On the other hand, it can bring an absolute architecture back into reality again.
The project site is situated at the metro station, at the busy Tverskaya street. Such location implies a highly profitable block of offices (the area is short of them), and in usual situation no one can ever imagine
that any theatre would appear here. However, this doesn’t mean that theatre is impossible here.
The aim of the developer is to build here as much commercial areas as possible, and the obvious decision is to make a perimetral building, that is no thicker than 12 m because of insolation. Thus, a big inner
yard is left unused, which means that it is a perfect place for a financially unrewarding cultural object, for example, theatre. Moreover, theatre-parasite can share the structure, elevators and even bathrooms
with the office building. So, this is an example of the suppressed position that culture occupies in the modernity. In the world of business and commerce it can obtain only such drop-out places.
The concept of the theatre is based on the manifesto of Antonin Artaud for a ‘Theatre of Cruelty’, a primitive ritualized performance intended to liberate the human subconscious. Building is the incarnation of
the idea of the theatre as a form of ritual. Theatre-parasite becomes an inverted city: it appears to be a covered city square with a number of streets that are leading to it. This structure is 100% open for people
and any scenarios to happen. It means that it doesn’t have facades, but the interior becomes its facade.
Theatre
Offices
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Theatre-parasite

Russia, Moscow, Mayakovskaya metro st. /
Tverskaya street
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Theatre-parasite

Rusty metal model
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Theatre-parasite

Longitudinal section
Plan
Street facade
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Theatre-parasite

Section 1-1 Section 2-2
Section 3-3
Section 4-4
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Theatre-parasite

Conceptual models; acrylic, paraffin, gypsum
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Theatre-parasite

MICRODISTRICT 2.0. TEAM PROJECT*
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* - images that I made myself

INTRODUCTION
Moscow is a megalopolis that is rapidly growing and constantly sucking more people and territories. Reason for that is its overriding position for the entire country. Despite the fact that our country is one of the
biggest in the world, its soul and treasures have always been concentrated in Moscow. Moreover, Moscow itself is paradoxically mirroring the radial structure of the country. Tiny historical area in the heart of
the city attracts people from huge monotonous areas around it. As a result, the city constantly needs to expand its borders further from the desired center to fit all the people heading towards it – and this is
another paradox. These two conditions – constant growth and extreme centricity –cause numerous problems for the capital of Russia.
To stop this constant radial growth of the city we propose to condense it as much a possible using gigantic and super dense revolutionary city module. The intention was to pack the whole city district into one
building, which from this moment stops being a building and becomes a hybrid. This hybrid is an effort to create Biggness as Rem Koolhaas described it in 1993. This hybrid is not architecture any more, that’s
why one architect can’t create it. It can be spontaneously born in collaboration of a number of architects, like any city. In our case it is split into 16 pieces of architecture, which are stacked together. As a result,
this huge and functionally independent structure loses all connections with the city and becomes totally autonomous.
The most obvious place for this structure to appear is the border of the megalopolis. In this case the hybrid will immediately attract people entering the city and suck them inside. Later on such modules can
appear closer and closer to the city center, and in the end Moscow will obtain its maximum density. In our case it is located on the intersection of two main roads - radial and annular, exactly on the border
between the city and the suburbs. For this reason it had to become a lighthouse for the people entering Moscow, a new symbol of the city, a city gate.
Regulations: 16 blocks(400x80x150)
Inner street Public floors
Location on the intersection of MKAD and Leninsky lane
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Microdistrict 2.0. Team project

13 Model, cardboard
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Facade, ground floor plan
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Public
Retail
Offices
Hotel
Residential
Social
Technical
Inner street
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Functional axon
Inner street axon
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#12. THE THINNEST SLAB. INDIVIDUAL PART
My ambition was to leave my spot empty in order to create emptiness in the super dense structure, which could become a city square. Moreover, the intention was to make a visual and physical connection
between the lane and the forest, that is located behind the hybrid.
However, playing within the rules of the game, I had to make a building. That’s why I made the thinnest residential/hotel slab, that faced the inner street and left as much empty space as possible. The slab is
standing on two legs - one is the theatre and inside the other are elevators and staircases. In the middle of the slab there is a hole that opens the elevated park behind the slab towards the city square and the
inner street. One of the bonuces of this gesture was the fact that all the rooms inside the slab happened to have the view into the beautiful and convoluted space of the inner street of the hybrid.
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Microdistrict 2.0. Individual part

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18 Facade Section 1-1 Section 2-2 Section 3-3
Microdistrict 2.0. Individual part

19 Facade

20 Section 4-4
Microdistrict 2.0. Individual part

21 Ground floor plan / fragment
Microdistrict 2.0. Individual part

BACHELOR: FROM DISTRICT TO FLAT
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2. Block. The selected block is fenced by 40 meters-high wall made of huge stones. The wall becomes alive, it starts regulating the life of the local community
inside INTRODUCTION
the block. The adjoining buildings become only parts of the wall and its' continuation. There are four arches inside the wall. Through these arches the
block-fortress is connected to the outer world. This block-fortress organizes the close-knit local community. Due to the self-sufciency of the community, new
types of social relations appear and, as a result, the block becomes identical to the russian village, where people know each other, visit their neighbours and live
in ancestral villas, which are as manifold as their owners.
1. District on the former factory ‘Serp i molot’. Historically crossings of roads became new centres of attraction and, subsequently, the starting points for new cities. Analogously, the crossing of the Enthuziastov
3.
highway
Building.
and the
The
Third
building
Ring Road
is
(two
instrumental
greatest Moscow
in forming
highways)
this
has a
local
potential
community.
to become a
It
new
is a
city
collection
loadstone and,
of unique
as a result,
rooms,
the city
each
inside
one
the city.
with
This
its'
scenario
idiosyncratic
depicts future
silhouee,
Moscow consisting
aached
of
to
the
number of unique ‘cities’ - new local communities - intrinsically, Kremlins, evenly distributed on the Moscow territory. My district is also a new Kremlin, closed local community with a number of city-scale
the attractions. vertical plane. As a result, every villa can be discerned from the fassade, and granny walking in the yard can say to her friend: 'Look! In this villa my good
friends Ivanovs live! Their siing room is circular with four windows, and through the fourth Mrs Ivanov used to wafe with Ms Petrov, her neighbour, who is also
my
2. Block.
close
The
friend.'
selected block is fenced by 40 meters-high wall made of huge stones. The wall becomes alive, it starts regulating the life of the local community inside the block. The adjoining buildings become
only parts of the wall and its’ continuation. There are four arches inside the wall. Through these arches the block-fortress is connected to the outer world. This block-fortress organizes the close-knit local
community. Due to the self-sufficiency of the community, new types of social relations appear and, as a result, the block becomes identical to the russian village, where people know each other, visit their
neighbours and live in ancestral villas, which are as manifold as their owners.
4. Flat. Every at in the building consists of two zones: technical zone with bathrooms, corridors and store-rooms and unique zone. This last one consists of the
variously shaped rooms sticking out of the house. These rooms become characteristic for the people that posess them with an individualized space inside
3. Building. The building is instrumental in forming this local community. It is a collection of unique rooms, each one with its’ idiosyncratic silhouette, attached to the vertical plane. As a result, every villa can
be discerned from the fassade, and granny walking in the yard can say to her friend: ‘Look! In this villa my good friends Ivanovs live! Their sitting room is circular with four windows, and through the fourth Mrs
Ivanov used to waffle with Ms Petrov, her neighbour, who is also my close friend.’
4. Flat. Every flat in the building consists of two zones: technical zone with bathrooms, corridors and store-rooms and unique zone. This last one consists of the variously shaped rooms sticking out of the
house. These rooms become characteristic for the people that posess them with an individualized space inside
Location on the intersection of Enthuziastov lane and 3rd transport ring, territory of he former factory ‘Serp i molot’
Location on the intersection of Enthuziastov lane and 3rd transport ring, territory of he former factory 'Serp i molot'
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Bachelor: from district to flat

Urban blocks
Pedestrian street
network
Overlay
Buildings with
heights indication
17 fl., 16660 sq.m.
11 fl.. 1 058 233 sq.m.
8 fl. 14 742 sq.m.
[Total area of
housing 834 981
sq.m.]
Functions
Kindergardens
Schools
Offices
Public
Retail
Hotels
Housing
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Pedestrian street network
Exhibition
Park
Tower
Caffee
Playground
Exhibition
Playground
Exhibition
Arena
Urban beach
Exhibition
Volleyball field
Volleyball field
Cinema
Playground
Urban beach
Zoo
Sculpture garden
Tower
Sculpture garden
Gallery
Exhibition
Greenhouse
Arena
Lakes
Cinema
Volleyball field
Caffee
Airbaloon parking
Swimming pool
Bicycle track
Football
field
Cinema
Playground
Playground
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Bachelor: from district to flat

Selected urban block
Selected urban block, physical model (acrylic)
Street view
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Inner yard view
Bachelor: from district to flat

Facade, 5th floor plan fragment
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Bachelor: from district to flat

Bedroom
Type 2
Livinfg-room
Type 2
Bedroom
Type 1
Living-room
Type 1
Living-room
Type 4
Bedroom
Type 3
Living-room
Type 3
This is a gallery apartment house with public ground floor.
Every flat has a living room of the unique shape; all the
bedrooms are unique as well.
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Bachelor: from district to flat

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Structural section
Structural plan
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SCHOOL OF SELF-DETERMINATION
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INTRODUCTION
The school is intended to be a center of the bedroom community. It contains the collection of various workshops, that can work not only for children, but also for the inhabitants of the district. Therefore the
school is open all day long.
Branches of the form collect lines of the surrounding buildings, like the school itself concentrates the public life. The building is completely dissolved in nature surrounding it, so that you can never say whether
you are in the building or outside. First floor is a space of free choice. As all the walls are tranlucent, children can see what is happening inside without entering the building and therefore can choose which
workshop they want to join.
Community apartment houses are situated at the upper level, one for every class. Children can enter them using staircases, one staircase for one house. All the houses are connected to the roof yard, where
children can play and relax.
Unique school yards
Openness and transparency.
Children can enter the
building wherever they want
School is organized as a
system of workshops
Community apartnments
are situated at the upper
level
Roof yards / all the houses
have their yards, where
children can play and relax
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School of self-determination

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Moscow, Belomorskaya
street
Ground floor plan
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2nd floor plan
Roof apartment house
2 types
School of self-determination

Longitudinal section 1-1
Longitudinal section 2-2
Facade
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School of self-determination

NEW LAPIDARIUM
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artefacts from all the epochs, which will be as eclectic and contradictive as the country itself.
INTRODUCTION
The project plot is located right next to the Kremlin, but it is abandoned and neglected. However, the plot has a vivid history, having hosted monastery, churches
and villages over different periods. The layout of the proposed park is the overlaying of the demolished buildings' plans. On top of that, it is a big Lapidarium of
artefacts, found in Moscow streets and yards. All the artefacts are the reminiscences of different epoches and periods and, therefore, signicant, despite the fact
that now many of them are ejected. The aim of the park is to make it's visitor feel uncomfortable and perplexed, to entangle him and make him thinking. This
park is a monument to the tragic and contradictory russian history.
Russian history is paradoxically cyclic. Two times we renounced The -1 oor our is the culture museum and ideology of the old for basements the sake of that new are revolutionary now buried underground.
idea. Every time a huge historical epoch got literally crossed out, and its art was
depreciated. However, I assume that the best image of Russia might be the collection of the monuments and artefacts from all the epochs, which will be as eclectic and contradictive as the country itself.
The project plot is located right next to the Kremlin, but it is abandoned and neglected. However, the plot has a vivid history, having hosted monastery, churches and villages over different periods. The layout of
the proposed park is the overlaying of the demolished buildings’ plans. On top of that, it is a big Lapidarium of artefacts, found in Moscow streets and yards. All the artefacts are the reminiscences of different
epoches and periods and, therefore, significant, despite the fact that now many of them are ejected. The aim of the park is to make it’s visitor feel uncomfortable and perplexed, to entangle him and make him
thinking. This park is a monument to the tragic and contradictory russian history.
The -1 floor is the museum of the old basements that are now buried underground.
on Location on the on the on the on on the the the Vozdvizhenka street, next street, next to the to to next the to the to the to the the of Museum of of of of of Architecture
Location on the Vozdvizhenka street, next to the Museum of Architecture
Rubbish dump -
Present time
Desolation of the
place - 1930-1940
Construction of the
metro station - 1933-
1944
Demolition of the
ancient monastery
cells - Late XIX c.
Abolition of the
monastery. Opening of
the monastery walls -
XIX century
Foundation of the
Cross-Exaltation
monastery - 1540
Villages with the
wooden church -
Before XVI century
dump Rubbish dump -
- dump -
- -
-
Desolation of the of of the of the
of the of the the
Construction of of of
of of of
Demolition of the of of the of the
of the of the the
Abolition of the of of the of the
of the of the the
Foundation of the of of the of the
of the of the the
with Villages with the
the
the
with the the the
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time Present time
time place place - - place - - - - 1930-1940 the the metro the the metro
the the metro
ancient monastery
monastery.
Cross-Exaltation
wooden New -
church Lapidarium - -
- - -
-
station - -
- - - cells cells - Late - cells - Late - XIX - XIX - c. XIX Late c. XIX c.
XIX XIX c.
c. c.
of Opening the of of the of the
of the of the the
monastery - 1540 - - 1540
- - - 1540 Before XVI Before XVI XVI XVI XVI XVI century

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OMA INTERNSHIP. SINGAPORE RAIL CORRIDOR
SRC is a 24 meters long linear park that is running through the whole Singapore, from north to south, passing through all zones of the city - from very urbanized to rural. It follows the abandoned railway and therefore is
based on its structure - it consists of the vegetal corridor and the ‘stations’. The main aim of the park is to create a hedge against radical urbanization of Singapore. I joined the project on the production stage and was
responsible for making axonometric views of the stations and illustrated plans.
Axons of the stations
Illustrated plans
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OMA Internship

QUANHAI URBAN UNIT
Urban unit is a new commercial center for Shenzhen that serves as a new entrance to the city and therefore needs to be iconic and to complete the skline of the city. The concept is to overlap 3 gradually growing vertical
towers with three horizontal towers. The towers incarnate 3 office space typologies, while horizontal towers create breakout spaces, that are used as skygadens. I joined the project on the production stage and was
responsible for axons and conceptual collages.
Office types collages
Office types axons
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SHENZHEN MUSEUM AND LIBRARY
This project is about how to create a single structure out of two buildings that don’t want to merge. Museum is conceptually revisoned as a treasure box - very simple and enclosed volume, while library seems to be
a cloud next to it - it is a very light and semi-translucent box. Ground floors of both buildings are open and connected together with the landscape, that appears to be an open-air museum and binds two buildings
together. I joined this project o nthe late concept stage and worked on the landscape concept, final collages and axons.
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EASTOWN NEW CAIRO
This is a commercial project in the gated community of New Cairo, which consists of two separate parts - offices and retail. The main requirements from the client were to keep the whole area hedged, to separate offices
and retail from each other and to organize both parts around 3 courtyards - for offices, f&b and fashion. Besids that, the development is intended to become a gate to the closed community and therefore it has to
be cut through with a big road.
As the plot is located along the vibrant Road 90, we decided to make massing as an inteface (obviously, having much interface is commercially profitable as well). A big park next to the plot was extended on the site and
was left totally wild. The concept of yards is very important here as well, and all the yards are connected wih collonades, which creates a special type of circulation in the development.
Maximum Interface Site Plan Program
I worked on the project since the very beginning till the end of the 80% concept stage, so I took part in working on conceptual schemes, massing, plans, physical model, inner structure of the office buildings, collonades
and landscape concept.
Road 90
Massing Overview Spine
Anchors
Massing Overview Enclosures
R
O
Central Court
Massing Overview Retail
First schemes
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The Inter
maximiz
space on
this arran
a sequen
retail pro
and into
provides
human-s
arcades.
Road 90
Road 90
Massing
Massing
Retail
Retail
Open Space Open Space
The Interface utilizes The Interface a unified, utilizes linear a unified, arrangement linear to arrangement to
maximize its visibility maximize along its visibility road 90 and along to road the open 90 and to the open
space on site. The space park on to site. southwest The park is to extended southwest into is extended into
this arrangement, this defining arrangement, the Massing retail defining and office, the Massing retail while and office, while
a sequence of connected a sequence courtyards of connected form courtyards a protected form a protected
retail promenade retail providing promenade access providing to through access the to park through the park
and into the office and cluster. into the The office density cluster. of The this density scheme of this scheme
provides a strong provides presence a strong to road presence 90 while to facilitating road 90 while facilitating
human-scale 1. Maximum interaction human-scale Exposure 1. Maximum through interaction Exposure the introduction through the of introduction of
arcades. arcades.
Park
2. Extended Park 2. Extended Park
Park
Road 90
Road 90
Massing
Massing
Retail
Retail
Fashion
F&B
Fashion
F&B Office
Office
Main Arcade
Main Arcade
Open Space
Open Space
Park
Park
Retail Arcade
Retail Arcade
Office Arcade
Office Arcade
Massing
Massing
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1. Maximum Exposure 1. Maximum Exposure 2. Extended Park 2. Extended Park
3. Sequence of connected 3. Sequence courtyards of connected courtyards
4. Arcades
4. Arcades
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ART
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Art

Kirillov, 2012 Moscow, 2008
Kirillov, 2012 Moscow, 2013
Pereslavl-Zalessky, 2008 Kirillov, 2012
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49 Art

Saint-Petersburg, 2009
Toropets, 2011 Pereslavl-Zalessky, 2008
Kirillov, 2012 Pereslavl-Zalessky, 2008 Pereslavl-Zalessky, 2008 Valamo, 2013
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Nature sketches, 2008-2012
Nature sketches, 2010-2012
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Interior sketches, 2013

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EKATERINA NUZHDINA
a Russia, Moscow 105275, 8 Sokolinoy gory st. 8 b. 1
fl. 155
t +7 916 643 49 86
e katia.nuzhdina@gmail.com
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