Julia Vasilyev Selected Works Fall 2023

JULIA VASILYEV

Selected

Concrete is recycled by using industrial crushing equipment with jaws and large impactors. After the concrete is broken up, it is usually run through a secondary impactor and is then screened to remove dirt and particles and to separate the large and small aggregate

INTERVENE m e d i u mt e r m ( y e a r )

Museum of Remediation: Individual Project

IDENTIFY

short- term (month)

MUSEUM REMEDIATION

Flushing Meadows Queens,

Identify and exhibi tinformation about post industrial landscapes and brownfields. Information about natural salt marsh and ecological signifigance. Identify zones of contamination and connection of flushing creek to larger water shed .

Museum activates and exhibits local ecological succession processes, while educating general public about anthropocentric influences on the environment

RE-MEDIATE

contaminants are collected and sent through phytoremediation process (introduced to nitrogen and phosphorous sequestering plants)

This museum exhibits and encourages ecological succession through its form, material qualities, and its interaction with the surrounding site. This project aims to question the lifespan of architectural interventions and re-orient our focus towards ecology, rather than human occupation .

The museum anticipates its eventual reclamation back into the landscape and works with the natural processes of ecological succession by encouraging primary succession organisms, such as moss and lichen, to begin growing in the seams and surfaces of the stepped structure. Natural water filtration wells construct the main exhibition space of the museum, which also serve to provide clean water for plant propogation and consumption from site occupants.

Possible Fictions

Methods of land remediation through Material Re-Configuration

Partner: Shanaiya Maloo

The extension to the Cooper Hewit museum strives to give the first people of the land back their voice and aims at making their story as important as their belongings. It aims at a future of coexistence and remediation and looks at outcomes if that were to be the case.

Our institution aims to give a voice and retell the stories of the people who originally lived on the land. We aim to do this by designing a space for a philanthropic institution that is partnered with Cooper Hewitt, which would give a stage to Native Americans and underrepresented artists. In this way, their stories would be told on a stage funded by the Smithsonian, the national design museum of the country. This would consist of areas of story re-creation with attached gallery spaces. Here historic objects from the Smithsonian Museum of the Native American would be loaned to the artists so they could create new stories with their historic objects.

Row 2 track upper limit

20’-0”

Row 1 track upper limit

Row 2 track lower limit

Row 1 track lower limit

Tokushima Theater

Fabricating Swissness

Submission for 2021 Seoul Architecture

Biennale

Firm: Architecture Office ; Collaboration with Andrew Atwood

Adaptive Avenues

Collaboration with Kelsey Benitez, Jonathan Nurko for Corgan “Hugo Design Sprint Competition”

Garden configuration Seating configuration 1

Event space configuration

Seating configuration 2

Seating configuration 3 “Pop-up” shop configuraation

: Collaboration with Kelsey Benitez, Jonathan Nurko

GIS data gathered from motion sensors on the modules dictate which configurations are needed throughout the day.

Infrastructures of Care

Proposal for a community sanitarium in Buffalo, NY

Collaboration with Kseniya Yerakhavets

Influenced by Robert Smithson’s “Spiral Jetty” - artificial jetty’s are placed on site for viewers to witness natural changes in color, flow, and texture of water

AI Urbanism Explorations

Investigating AI bias and Figure Ground Relationships

Collaboration with Shannon Sumner, Rebecca Romero

This project was influenced by Nolli maps and the interest to construct new 2D and 3D images from these maps. We trained images of nolli maps from different metropolitan areas and used them to generate new site compositions. By collecting these images of different city plans and inputting them into Art Breeder, a style transfer generative adversarial network (GAN), a new interpertation of a figure ground diagram was produced.

From these trained images, we were able to fully construct 3D representations of 2D images. Our inputs into the style GAN software used were a series of Nolli maps of differing scales, all of which were reduced to black and white images in order to analyze the solid and void relationships proposed by the imputed data set.

The resultanting images that were extracted from this data set were hybridized versions of Nolli maps. Using these newly generated nolli maps, we ran a style transfer over them in accordance with the different regions we took the nolli maps from to produce texture maps. These texture maps became the color inputs into our Houdini algorithm that ultimately helped in generating the building extrusions. By creating correlating inputs, both with and without color values , we were able to create a way of three dimensionalizing AI generated interpertations of city maps.

Autopoietic Morphology

This project is an exploration of post-singularity and its post-anthropocentric ecology. The post-singular reality we express exists once the machine exceeds beyond the author’s intent. By assuming that the essence of being is to create, consciousness is found when the machine begins to produce something on its own, non-human, agenda. In this case, the result is a new synthetic biological life formed through molecular reconstruction. Both organic and inorganic materials are taken from the environment and remodeled in a process of continued self production.

By introducing these new materials as resources, the machine now calls for and begins to implement a new ecology that is built without cognitive human bias or agency. Ethics come into question as the security of regulating our own ecology is taken from our hands and put into the hands of a machine. This enables the transitions into the Post-Anthropocene era in the sense that the machine creates a hyper-efficient ecology that is inclusive of humans and is not limited to agency of the small (i.e. man), but rather is focused on the agency of the whole.

Ancientness and Other Contemporary Architecture

Collaboration with Erik Baylon, Philips Fafiyebi, Ana Rico, Austin White

Ghost Collaboration with Kseniya Yerakhavets

This project intervenes on a typical box fan. One large piece of fabric was folded, pleated, and hemmed to create a mini inflatable enclosure. After material tests with cotton and waterproof fabric, aluminum was chosen for the final product for its reflective and transparant properties.

Anthropogenic Metabolism(s)