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PORTFOLIO
SHILNIKOV SEROFIM

CV
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«We drown our sorrows in bottomless bottles
And leave them to float in the ocean..,»
Tim Bergling
EDUCATION LANGUAGE SKILLS WORKING EXPERIENCE COMPETITIONS
/Moscow Architectural Institute—
2019-2024 (3,5 years of relevant school
experience)
Pavel Kadlubinsky and Yulia Malysheva
project studio
/The AHO Open lectures series—
2020
/Architectural imagination — Harvard’s
online course— spring/summer
2021
/Mastering Quantum Mechanics—
MIT online course —fall 2022
/Russian—mother tongue
/English— fluent
/Norwegian— beginner
/ARCHICAD
/Rhino
/Photoshop+ Illustrator+InDesign
/Blender
/Autocad
/SketchUp
/QGIS
/Grasshoper (basic)
/AB Ostozhenka
internship (fall 2021- spring 2022)
/TLP — Tsimailo Lyashenko Partners
summer internship 2022
/ TLP — Tsimailo Lyashenko Partners
architect assistant (fall 2022- to date)
2021
/ STREET-A-FLOAT— short-listed
project
/ THE LAST NUCLEAR BOMB
MEMORIAL — participation
/Rammed Earth House 2021 — participation
/THE LABYRINTH — honourable
mention
2022
/Vancouver affordable housing —
short-listed project
2023
/Drawing of the year — waiting for
the results

suburban dream
04
student project / team / competition / spring 2022
Shelter
Vancouver affordable housing proposal for suburban area
The futuristic type of transport
for that time eventually destroyed
almost all squares as a typology
in the suburbs, which made critically
worse the living environment
of hundreds or thousands
of people. As a solution, we propose
a new style of future urban
planning: multi-level, slightly surreal
grid-pattern, incorporating
all public and service functions
and acting as a diffuse “layer”
between mid-rise tower buildings
and the private sector which
is typical for suburban Vancouver.
Vancouver. Suburban district. As far as ones can see there are only fields of roofs
of small detached houses with rare injections of towers. How to prevent infill development
that brings nothing but profit to investors?
Area along the SKYTRAIN in Vancouver’s suburb was chosen as a site. According
to researches this type of public transport destroyed squares as a public space that
affects on community being and makes residents more addictive to vehicles.
No more marginal corridors, scary garage streets, lack of public infrastructure and parking places, stores and shopping centres that are located a few kilometres
away and most importantly noise

marginal corridor
sparse injection of social infrastructural
facilities
Proposal consist of a bit surreal gridbased
pattern, which can absorb
all types of public and technical typologies
and create brand new environment
and bring back public spaces
to Vancouver suburbans.
Despite illusory chaos, there are few
rules for pattern formation. First layer
on the street level is composed with
parking, technical spaces, whose are
framed with retail and markets with
public pedestrian route. Second layer
mainly looks like typical courtyard with
playgrounds and sport facilities,
but the third one is called up to bring
back nature in the form of meadows
to dull city landscape.
Left: site problems scheme
1. proposal axo
2. pattern and layers rules scheme
Vancouver’s grid
1.
2.
isolation of residential masses with traffic
parking
stores and workshops
recreation
local market

suburban dream (shelter)
08
Bellow: section of an individual part
individual part (shelter)
The concept of the building is based on mixing two major typologies of urban
mass of Vancouver: glass towers and detached-houses. Slopping roofs create large
private terraces for outdoor activities at different levels.
Courtyard, which is located on the second layer of pattern offers a shared gardens,
play and sport ground outside and public living rooms and libraries inside. At street
level the building offers various of spaces for private leisure and commercial use
to support the redevelopment of points of attraction at the suburban districts.

suburban dream (shelter)
09
1. moving partitions scenarios
1.1 all partitions open
1.2 kitchen + party
1.3 bedroom + living room
2. level 4 - 6 plan
3. level 7 - 9 plan
Opposite: individual part axonometry
Behind large terraces flats for rent are located. The first three levels suggest many
different type of public and private spaces as library, community living room, playground
and sports facilities, so the size of flats are small but still comfortable. There
is an experimental type of flat on the 4-6 levels: an open space studio with moving
partitions. The rails on the ceiling helps residents to create numerous of different
scenarios of space composition: the flat can be transformed from totally open to 3
enfilade-like but separated spaces. It can be more expanded with private terraces
through panoramic windows.
1.1
1.2 1.3
2.
3.

school/district
26
student project / individual / fall 2022
School/district
study school as a field of learning and recreation spaces for everyone
School became so usual part
of our everyday life that we don’t
pay enough attention to its work.
The brief for this project was to
study a huge potential of school
as a public center that have an
effect on a district in general not
only on a small piece of land
surrounded with a fence.
The task was to solve residents’
and district’s in general problems
with just one typology: school
building
The school should operate as a public harbour. Like the village, it aims to give
children a safe and involving place to feel like home, whether they are just study.
In its materiality it is simply a concrete facade panels on a crossing with unique
architecture of the street and the materials changes to soft and colourful mix
of corten steel and wood in the school’s inner courtyard spaces.
The school was designed and created as a public space for learning, information exchange and open discussions, as well as creation of a new safe type of educational
space for people of all ages.

school/district
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1. lost elements (compare to 1937)
2. historical fotos
3. site plan
During the research was detected two main issues of the district: fences and lack
of public infrastructure. The first problem has grown from an unusual concentration
of embassies and government building mixed on a one street with residential
buildings. New Arbat street, which is a major tourist attraction, sucked out all the
public paces from ordinary Moscow streets around it. This process affects on connection
between neighbours and makes an enormous disproportion in a community
life. Construction of New Arbat street creates an urban hole on the street
and it was poorly fixed with an typical school building. As a site for the new type
of school was chosen a fence-rounded area of an old school building and a nearest
yard.
1.
3.
2.

On the street scale the school creates
a network of public and educational
spaces which has no clear borders.
Accurate injection of modern volumes
fill the gap in the line of street development.
The form of the plan collect
the lines of the surrounding building
like school itself concentrate the public
life. Close and gloomy district saturates
with connection and paths between
various typologies for learning and
teaching. Vibrancy of human interaction
give a opportunity for retail and
shops to open here. This network bring
back social life to a wonderful historical
district in the heart of Moscow. School
become an inalienable part of district
everyday life, diffuses in it and transforms
into a new point of attraction.
2.
3.
1. educational network and public spaces
2. view from the street
3. inner lane
astronomy study group
courtyard for residents
on a school roof
usage of empty retail
spaces as a part
of educational process
1.
pavilion for residents
airplane model study
section on the roof
recreation of historical
lane as a part of school
usage of empty retail
spaces as a part
of educational process

school/district
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Every class of a primary school has its own entrance to the classroom, more precisely
to study block which consisted of cloakroom, small kitchen with a huge table
for all students, special area for play and of course a usual class on the second level.
Bellow: -1 level plan
Opposite: plan on the street level
School also is designed with attention to community’s necessities. There are
swimming pool, gym, workshops, cafés and concert hall all of which has an own
entrance and a possibility to be separated from the educational space to contain
a public concerts, events and festivities at the same time with the education process
without crossing between students and guests of the events.
openess and transparency
children have different options t
o enter the building
unique school yards and inner
street
spaces which can be used both
by students and community
teachers’ rooms between classrooms
open library with moving
wardrobes for creation an unique
learning experience
underground connection
cooking classroom and cafe
for students
education block for primary school
students
slit yard for insulation of classes
and creation more green private
spaces
roof of a high school is a part
of a public backyard
workshop yard for open-air classes
and school fairs
classroom with own place
for relax
spescial parking space for parents
private school courtyard without
fences on a -1 level
private school courtyard without
fences on a -1 level

school/district
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1. section
2. open class sketch
Inside the school is packed with different types of spaces. Moving the main part
of students’ activities to a -1 level helps to create a safe area without usage of high
unfriendly fences. School yards, created using this trick provide space for play
to the youngest students in the right block and for study and relaxation for the high
school students. Two different block on the both sides of a street have underground
connection which is a place for fun too. The space for education doesn’t consist
of standard classes: the process can be continue in library with a moving wardrobes
and curtains where every group of students can create its own privet space
to get knowledge, open roof garden, lecture rooms, greenhouse and so on.
2.
private school courtyard without
fences on a -1 level
roof terrace can be used as a playground
or childrens’ garden
students’ greenhouse for educatinal
experements
concert hall can be use both
by students and residents
«forest» instead usual staircases
for the youngest students
multi-level play and recreation
space
underground connection
roof of a high school is a part
of a public backyard

faraway place
22
competition / individual /spring 2021
Faraway place
concept of a memorial located in decommissioned nuclear weapon testing site
A deserted island in the Bering
Sea in the 70s is stunning
3 nuclear explosions.
A deserted island on which a nature
reserve was created, subjected
to radioactive contamination.
A vivid example of negligent and
thoughtless attitude to nature and
technologies
War is the best way out of the economic crisis. It has been the case throughout human
history before the invention of nuclear weapons. Its arrival on the battlefield
change the balance of power and the consequences of battles. A nuclear war will
not bring humanity or one country to prosperity and stability. It can only ensure
the total destruction of everything that is called society and home.
The main line of a concept is a long way which visitor must overcome to have a look at a memorial pavilion. On a contrast with the difficult road to the final
step there is no point of doing that at all. The space is absolutely empty and this feeling of disappointing must be an analogy of meaningless of weapon development
and war in general.

viewpoints
11
student project / individual / fall 2022
Viewpoints
museum space proposal for High School of Economy (faculty of World Economy and International Affairs)
The main brief of our project
studio was to create a new type
of public space connected
to the university life which can be
an expansion of the tones
of scientific knowledge and city
life one to each other.
The museum should become not
only a dusty or fashion (it doesn’t
matter) )exhibition space but
a platform for infinity line
of dialogues and debates to make
a connection between university
and the city.
When it comes to some interethnic things, they immediately come to mind either
about huge exhibition spaces like an EXPO or a memorial to the victims
of another conflict. Examples of neutral spaces for cultural absorption and dialogue
are quite difficult to remember. I wanted to create a space that would
be a metaphor for the complexity of interpersonal relationships, because politicians
are just people, and often their decisions depend solely on their personal point
of view.
The contrast is the main theme of this project. Its strong and aggressive form outside is an illustration of a conflict in nowadays political situation. But in the
world of total misunderstanding there is a hope of a wonderful future and a possibility of a dialogue which is symbolised by a sky-view through the tubes.

viewpoints
14
Bellow: exposition space from the street
1. site plan
2. expansion of knowledge scheme
An abandoned wasteland between next to the Faculty of World Politics and Economics
of the Tower was chosen as a site for design. This piece of land has not yet
been mastered by Moscow developers and stands idle behind the fence, as well
as the territory of the institute. Filling the stable urban void, I didn’t want to build
it up completely, leaving the inner zone green. Actually, the museum is taken
to close a series of public spaces, in which a public city square arises between the
more open courtyard of the institute and the plane of the museum, where some
kind of movement can occur: the buildings framing it belong to the museum, but
can be rented to restaurants, shops, etc.
1.
2.

Interaction with the museum can
follow two different scenarios: outside
look and inside view.
The first one presents as a minimum
cooperation between architecture and
human being and looks more like a
extraordinary labyrinth. Slabs of dark
mate glass are connection points&. the
main point of AR is moved from museum
volumes to people interaction. Mist
of electricity and information offset
visitors’ attention from the architecture
and suggest to feel feeling of other people
and their ways of communication
with virtual space. This must show the
impossibility of total connection in politics
and people dialogues in general.
1. Point of AR-connection
2. AR view
2.
1.

viewpoints
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visitors interaction to the museum space starts
right on the street with blocks for the AR-experience
located on the main points
outdoor roof space invase to the city with field
and paths in it
relief floor helps curator of the exhibition
to create different paths for visitors
absolutely flat field-like roof create an space
to interact with a curious volumes
interlayer of essential public spaces as cafe,
information corner, cloakroom etc. for museum
visitors
chasm-like small courtyard in front of the museum
entrance can be connected with the inner
space to create a space for extra exhibitions and
open air lectures

From the inside, in order to get directly
into the museum space, the visitor
needs to slip through the minimum
layer of the necessary public spaces.
The main planes for placing exhibits
are the internal surfaces of pipes, the
number of which coincides with the
number of UN geo-regions. The space
for creativity for the curator opens up
a strongly embossed floor, which not
so much limits the points of interaction
with the exhibit, but sets many scenarios
for the way it is perceived: from
peeping, for which it is necessary
to lie on the floor to full immersion
in the upper layers with the help
of a stepladder.
Right: element of exposition, fragment
1. exposition level plan
2. connection between floor topography and
exposition
1.
2.

PERSONAL INFO
Shilnikov Serofim
2002.03.11
Tammisaari, Finland
now live in Moscow, Russia
+7 985 395 03 46
serafim.1ekenes@icloud.com