293_Sergey Nadtochiy: Seductive Ecologies
Sergey Nadtochiy from Moscow: “Being raised in architects family I've got used not only to love this profession but also to challenge it conventional boundaries and interests. It is important for me to make my projects personal and share with people my unique observations on places where I study, party, love, walk and work, reveal my emotions, values, strong and week sights. Architecture for me is not only a product if design, but the way of thinking; it is independent field of knowledge with its own methodology of analysis and formulation of solutions to a really wide range of problems. I use it not only when I design buildings, but also when I cook, write, draw or even make a DJ set.”
University: Architectural Association School of Architecture
Professor(s): Shaun Murray, Simon Withers
Name of Project: Seductive Ecologies
Project Description: Because of large number of public buildings including universities, hotels and hospitals, Bloomsbury has one of highest wasted heat rates in London. Therefore this area has been chosen to test new ways of heat resources use and mediation proposed in this project of an art school. The site of the project takes space of former district heating system on Coram street next to Brunswick centre and is marked by 40m high concrete chimney, underground Piccadilly line which crosses the site is also used as one of heat resources.
Using these resources the building creates a set of physical ecologies that would add their atmospheric conditions as another layer to visitors experience of this building and site, and in particular influence artist working process. The art school does not have specific functional zones, but rather is choreographed by atmospheric qualities that artist are encouraged to choose for working studios. Pressure reactive tower, shivering stair, radiating lighthouse and other parts of the school react on natural environmental conditions and the way the building is used to reveal not obvious thermoregulating processes in our environment, infrastructure and bodies. New relationships in heat exchange mediated in this project should educate artists and public to be more responsible to the impact people make on the environment.
Instagram Username: @serg.layout
