ANNA KAMYSHAN

Portfolio selected works 2011-2013

A Green Funeral a Green City

In the Middle Ages cemeteries used to be situated near the church within the city. Green parts of the city used to be the places for rest for both the alive and the dead.

In the 19h century the sanitary situation brought cemeteries to the suburbs.

In the 20-21h with time cities absorbed the burial places and as a result cemeteries have become ‘white spots’ on the maps of the settle-ments.

In 1999 in Sweden a new method of burying was introduced - Promession which had a lot of sanitary, ecological and economic benefits. Usually a tree was planted near the burial place and the ashes of the cremated body would serve as a natural fertilizer.

Since 21h new ecologically safe and attractive burial places can be situated within the city among the green trees and be a part of a recre-ation territory.

Global problems of human beings, associated with the rapid urbanization and the intensive increase of the population demand new approaches to the develop-ment of burial places. A contemporary city is a center of different nationalities coexistence. Conse-quently it needs some multicultural memo-rial spaces that should be created accord-ing to the new principles, including grave sites in a city structure.The main purpose of the ritual complex project in Lviv city is the creation of a new memorial place, which will facilitate the reconsideration of the perception of death and the Ukrainian burial ceremony. Besides it will facilitate the ecological system of the city in the context of sociocultural realities.

Type: Bachelor Diploma Year: 2011-2012 Tutor: I. Ljaluk

traditional organization ofa tombstone

to the memorialplace

identity of individualtombstones

identification ofmemorial places

The topicality of the search of new approaches to thedevelopment of burial places can be explained by thenecessity of solution to global problems of human beings. associated with the rapid urbanization and the intensiveincrease of the population.A contemporary city is a center of different nationalitiescoexistence. Consequently it needs some multiculturalmemorial spaces that should be created according to thenew principles, including grave sites in a city structure. The main purpose of the ritual complex project in Lvivcity is the creation of a new memorial place, which willfacilitate the reconsideration of the perception of deathand the Ukrainian burial ceremony. Besides it will facilitatethe ecological system of the city in the context ofsociocultural realities.

traditional organization ofa tombstone

to the memorialplace

identity of individualtombstones

identification ofmemorial places

The topicality of the search of new approaches to thedevelopment of burial places can be explained by thenecessity of solution to global problems of human beings. associated with the rapid urbanization and the intensiveincrease of the population.A contemporary city is a center of different nationalitiescoexistence. Consequently it needs some multiculturalmemorial spaces that should be created according to thenew principles, including grave sites in a city structure. The main purpose of the ritual complex project in Lvivcity is the creation of a new memorial place, which willfacilitate the reconsideration of the perception of deathand the Ukrainian burial ceremony. Besides it will facilitatethe ecological system of the city in the context ofsociocultural realities.

The funeral of new type become alive place in a city. Promession tehnology of burial due to ecological advantages allows to trans-form traditional funeral to a Memory Park. Instead of exanimate tombstones mourners could plant any kind of tree which they would assoсiate with a deceased person. Subsequent-ly, this tree can became a Family Tree of Mem-ory. Memory Park is suggested as a public space to relax and spend peaceful time in one of the many pavillions at the territory. Ukrainian tradition of unique tomb-stones and grave’s design is transformed into Individual Memory Places. Vertical orienta-tion should became a symbol of this place and dominate under the park-area. In the evening the loopholes in the Individual Memory Places are lit by memory candles light, creating a symbolic flicker of a presence...

traditional organization of tombstones

transformation into memorial place

unitary of individual tombstones

identification of memorial places

Memory Park and Individual Memory Places

1. Entrance 2. House of mourning 3. Promatorium 4. Memorial halls 5. Administration and Funeral home 6. Private memory zone 7. Museum of the memory 8. Archive 9. Bus parking 10. Car parking 11. Burial area -public park

masterplan

In the 1920s, the process of the “bipolarization of the world” was launched: in opposition to the social and political model of capitalism that was characteris-tic of Western Europe and the USA, the formation process of the socialist model of society development began in the Soviet Union. The planned economic system and the rigid centralization of political power in the USSR led to a unique context for the development of architecture and urban planning. One example of the implementation of the Soviet ideological programme in urban planning of the 1960s is the construction of the so-called new industrial cities, which focused on maintaining the unified system of the military-industrial complex of the USSR. A huge number of these new cities and their inhabitants were involved in processes and interactions (production, socio-cultural, economic, etc.) that were artificially created by the Soviet state machine within the logic of a systemic approach. The basis of these new industrial cities’ structure was the original machine code that determined their existence and operation. The code predetermined the development of this type of urban formation as a system, hierarchically subor-dinated to systems of higher order. As a concentration of advanced technology, highly qualified specialists and scientific personnel, the new cities came into being outside of the existing historical, socio-economic, cultural context. They became heterotopias, with “counter-spaces” inside them – time/space “holes” within the objective structure of their surrounding historical and cultural environment. In the late 20th century, the conflict between the two ideologies ended with the

collapse of the Soviet Union and the formation of a number of independent states – the former Soviet republics. With the collapse of the Soviet Empire, its ideolog-ical model was destroyed, and along with it the planned structure of the Soviet cities as the most important element materializing the ideas of a Socialist organi-zation of living. As a result of the disappearance of the politically powerful socialist state and the total globalization of capitalism, a new system of social and cultural values was formed at the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century, in which architecture and urban development have taken their “specific” place, becoming an instrument of the ideological conception of materializing consumer society. Thus, at the beginning of the new millennium, the globalized capitalist world was on the verge of materializing a new information network utopia.In this context, it is extremely relevant to analyze the “new socialist cities” of the 1960s, considering them as spatio-temporal heterotopias in whose urban struc-ture processes of adaptation to the latest socio-cultural and economic realities of the post-industrial world take place today. Identifying the principles and regular-ities of the formation of urban heterotopias through the example of post-socialist cities will help to analyze the processes in contemporary capitalist cities, which are on the verge of becoming new over-urbanized “counter-spaces”.

Heterotopias of ideologies: socialism and capitalism

with Vladislav Tyminski, 2013

Development of small towns is one of the most challenging problems for most post-Soviet countries. A mono-profile city is a populated area, where the entire economic ac-tivity is closely connected with the only enter-prise or a group of integrated enterprises. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, city-forming enterprises in a lot of monocities experienced deep economic crisis which entailed unfavour-able social situation, causing the rise of unem-ployment in the first place. Similar transformations befell Svetlo-vodsk. This town appeared after the Kremen-chug Hydroelectric Power Plant had been built. The USSR policy of the 60s (the period of “the cold war”) called for new megaprojects intend-ed to demonstrate the scientific and technolog-ical might of the USSR. This analytical and design work was addressed to alarm problem of small mono-profile post-Soviet towns on the example of Svetlovodsk. The analytical study of the town structure, added by the interview with rep-resentatives of local initiative groups, made it possible to outline the major problems of Svetlovodsk. The analytical study of the main problems of the town and the existing solutions to the problem of small monocities survival and development brings forward the strategy of Svetlovodsk’s further development as a service centre – the node that would accumulate vari-ous processes in the region and provide neces-sary services to the areas lying within its social and economic influence.

Monocity Svetlovodsk: development strategy

Type: researchYear: 2012 with Vladislav Tyminski

Svetlovodsk is a city in central Ukraine located on the Dnieper River in the Kirovohrad Oblast.

With the collapse of the Soviet Union, with loss of con-nection with other actors in indastrial process city-form-ing enterprises in the city fall in a deep economic crisis.

The project solution was based on connecting the city to the region through including it in a worldwide networking.

The lack of historical ties led that Svetlovodsk is not able to perform certain functions of service center for the region.

Several strategic locations would create a possibility for networking between Svetlovodsk region and the other part in Ukraine and world.

The stop in a planned city construction has resulted in that city was half unfinished and big gaps in urban fabric divided the city into several parts.

This solution has to raise influence of Svetlovods and transform it to a servise center for the region.

It is a part of Kremenchug agglomeration (Komsomolsk-Kremenchug-Svitlovodsk)

Svetlovodsk was planed and developed in accordance with the comprehensive plan.

The main purpose of the competiton was to design main entrance to Gorky Park in Moscow for the celebration of city’s day. Square with propileus - is starting and meeting point. Organizators of the celebration prepared amazing program for this day, full of theatri-cal transformations for the different epochs of soviet time. Therefore we suggest to create The Lobby in front of the Park with a portiere on the propileus and rethought classical black and white tile flooring, what would allow to realize diverse scenarios on a park’s square. In the day of celebration, when it could be hard to navigate through all interesting events and places in the megapolice, we suggest to create at the entarance of the park a public interactive information point - Code Park. On the map of Moscow we marked the places that might be interesting to residents and visitors of Moscow. We propose to focus all the most interesting places, events and ideas of the city at one point. Entrance square became a city map, filled with information that affects the formation of the new city.

16«День»

Moscow and public places concentrated to a point

transforming classic tile flooring thematic info-areas

painted wooden pallets

supporting structure

flooring surface 3M Scotchal

curtain

Spatial scheme

Park Gorky: Entrance

Team: Oleksiy Petrov, Iryna Miroshnykova, Anna Dobrova, Dmytro Isaiev, Anna Kamyshan, Victoria Leonchenko, Dmytro Prutkin

Type: Invited CompetitionYear: 2012 www.formaarchitects.com

16«День» Type: Master Diploma

Year: 2012 - 2013 issuu.com/anna_kamyshan

Annenvirtel is an area in the city around Annen Street, with a heavy spirit of poor work-ing class, red-light district and a large number of immigrants. Beside this, there is the most expensive housing building and an icon of the city - Museum of Modern Artm in this dis-trict. Economic contrast, cultural diversity and controversial past of the area are a good topic for discussion and criticism in art practices for Annenviertel. The crucial items in this proj-ect are engagement and participation of local people. Analyzing issues of acting in a public place, French philosopher Henri Lefebvre came to the sight that it is not an issue of the physical or built environment only, but an issue of the social production of space, thus art is a possi-bility of having a socio-economic impact rather than bringing about a merely aesthetic transfor-mation of city surfaces. |Creating of a favorable urban environment starts from a creating a strong self-responsible community, which can act in their city and vote for their rights in the public space. Therefore, lack of open platform for the development of the Annenviertel com-munity brought an idea of creation a Communi-ty Center. The project was dedicated to create place for communication between local people and the people with a immigrant background for cultural exchange, for meetings and discussions of initiative citizens and places of children after school activities with a need in a special help with a homework.

Annenviertel Community Center

Developed urban environment:- diverse environment due to local initiatives- improvement of urban fabric, disappear-ance of slums- functional integration- crime reduction

Aggravation of social problems:-increase of social inequality-from socially disparate to inner-city ghettos-increase in crime

Prosperity of neighbourhoods:- enterprising inhabitants- rich social life- strong small business- growth of well-being, social equality

Increasing of the rents and property taxes:- disintegration of community- displacement of native resi-dents

2. Commercial architecture- sake of quick profits and high-priced large-scale development- seizure of new territories and expanding the boundaries of the cityand functioal segregation

1. Solid short-term investments

2. Long-range projects, participatory development:- support for local initiatives and small-scale busi-ness- small environmental projects - development within city borders- creation of favorable conditions for communities

1. Phased and balanced small-scale investment

Intimization

The small niche on the back of the building city-parking, used to be a Secret Gal-lery some time ago. My idea to continue an art-life at this small space and to start seria of installations there, was based on creation “intimate”, person-al atmosphere in the space of this niche. From the outside in the close position this place looks absolutely hidden, thus only particular audience could notice and open this niche. Looking at a mirror is moment of self reflection and out-of-body experience. I took this intimate process out to public space to put a spectator in a unusual and strange position of concentrated viewing her or him selves with a city-background behind. The self reflection of viewer turns into reflection between him or her and a city in the background. However city is not a background, but it is your personal liabil-ity and space for self-expression.

Intervention in Graz

April 2013, Graz

personal mirror parfum jewelry letter domestic wallpaper

New icon for GrazIntervention

Walking there, in the heart of the city, you can imagine seeing a deer or a bamby or hearing a wild bird… Schlossberg, a heteroto-pian island of nature surrounded by a highly developed society, still keeps its uniqueness from the beginning of settlement on the river Mur. This “Other Space” is a contradiction to time, urbanity and civilisation at once. Copying the iconic “Hollywood” sign became popular in many places around the world. In the project we created an alternative copy of this icon as a critical act of the exist-ing situation in the city. In most cases only a powerful minority of people is empowered to transform a city. Who decides which cliché sticks to a city? Why is the majority of citizens not an active actor in public space? Do it yourself in a guerrilla way at the most visible place in the city - Schlossberg mountain - we wanted to give Graz an icon according to our vision. This is an implemented utopia of paradise lost.

7am - 14pm, April 24, 2013 grazinprogress.tumblr.com

Team: Anna Kamyshan, Elisabeth Weber Kurt Pöschl

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