Some of samples of my work from the first four years of my architectural adventure when i started study. Enjoy!

1. Works Portfolio
Anna Chamonina
Anna Chamonina
SomeSpaces for Human
Some
Human Spaces

2. Working Space Office Building in San Luis Obispo, USA
Living Space
Public Spaces
Apartment in Moscow City, Russia
Vertical Garden in San Luis Obispo, California and City Hall in Saint Cyr, France

3. Adapted Spaces for the Human
Human inspires my work and thinking.
My passion for traveling, living and studying during different parts of my life in Latvia, France, Marocco,
Russia, Peru and USA, inspired me through their cultures, languages, people and environments.
I believe in Impact that the space and environment have on Human’s brain, emotions, body and beha-
vior. I assume the great responsability of an architect having the influence on user through the created
space.
My design is inspired by the user and made for him. The space can contribute to the well being, emo-
tional, physical and psychological state of Human.
While I apply this religion to my ideas and projected spaces,
Inspiration is the Human
I aspire to pursue my researches and apply them to my future creative process.
Space’s influence on it’s user

4. Vertical Garden

5. Public Spaces
Brake the rigidity of the Existing Building and offer students an inspiring gathering space
In this project, supposedly to a former competition wining pro-
ject, the existing Architecture Building is extended of two extra
levels for Student Housing.
Creation of an Urban Symbol in Campus scale - this Vertical
Garden represents a link between the Existing Building and
the new extended portion of Housing on the rooftop.
Urban Symbol
San Luis Obispo, USA

6. I am inspired by Steven Holl’s Knut Hamsun Center in Hamarøy,
Norway.
My partie is to enrich the architectural building and to whole the
campus - with a real urban symbol.
My idea includes the creation of a new structural extention which
allows to bring inside the building the nature and brake the rigidity
of existing architectural shape. Creation of a new space of working,
hanging out, relaxing, brainstorming and inspiration‘s seeking for stu-
dents.
My sketches show the architectural intention and designing process

7. Peacful Space
The project presents the opportunity to extend site’s structural,
architectural and functional possibilities. The program expects to
create a canopy installation on the existing balcony of the 4th
floor of the Architecture and Enviromental Design Building in Cal
Poly.
The composition of the polycharbonate panels by its shape and
continuity with the form of the concrete balcony symbolize the
existing heavy, rigide building.
The vertical garden is transpiercing the panels and braking them.
Symbolizing the strenght of creativity, Freedom and Power of ideas,
creativity and brainstorming of architecture students enclosed in Existing Building’s is massiveness and rigidity
this rigid and solid building and finally braking the physical cage
of rigid, heavy institutions, walls and volumes.
The architectural intention was to represent the freedom and
brainstorming of ideas braking the formal and sructural physical
chaines of monumental rigidness to escape and float in the airs.
Vertical Garden

8. Student Housing
6th Floor/Extention
Student Housing
5th Floor/Extention
Design Studios
4th Floor/Existing

9. To avoid enhancing aesthetically this very rigid and heavy
concrete building, the new structure makes a use of radically
different materials.
Vertical steel pipe tubes 5 inches of diameter are supporting
horizontal i-beems and composed concrete floors. Pipe tubes
are supporting polycharbonate panels, as well.
These panels are assembled in a sandwitch type panels with
electric lamp tubes inside.
Vertical Garden

10. Aesthetically , the vertical structure is completely integrated in the
shape of the vertical garden inside and above the canopy.
Polycharbonate Panels assambly

11. Sandwitch panels structure includes, between two translucent
polycharbonate boards, a lighting system. Sandwitch panels
are held by steel pipe columns structure itself hidden from
ouside views by the screen of vertical vegetation.
Pipe’s and I beem’s assambly
Steel Channel Bolt
Pipe Column
Welded Ledger
Vertical Garden
Plate

13. The total design concept symbolizes the
freedom and power of ideas, creativity
and brainstorming braking the chaines
and physical cage of rigid, heavy walls
and volumes.
Illuminated square panels symbolize the
rigidness of existing builiding with
steel structure that is totally invisible from
outside between the band of bamboo
plantation along the illuminated poly-
charbonate panel boards, which gives to
the structure the same Urban Symbol’s
importance either the night or the day.
The aesthetic of Moving Green Inside
Yard symbolizes the inlimited and ama-
zing students brainstorming and creativity
inside this building.
Vertical Garden

14. City Hall

15. Public Space
To symbolize the accessibility of Institution and People’s uthopic superiority over it
Make the Citizen feel important
The program expected a design of a City Hall and creation of a
Public Space for a French town Saint Cyr of 17 000 inhabitants.
Symbol of the Equality between People and their Administration is
represented by the materiality, the contrast between the solid and
the transparent. The Wedding Hall symbolizes the symbolic and
physical link between the two partitions.
Equality Symbol
Saint-Cyr, France

16. First Concept Models show my intention to divide some parts of the
City Hall program and to create a better visibility inside the building
representing the institution.
These schematic sketches explain the conceptual development inbet-
ween levels of the building.
Building’s left side contains all the administration officies and the right
side - reception and celebration halls and spaces. Formal design fallows
the conceptual design main principles. The apparent cellular division of
administration officies symbolizes the different organs of the machine
that makes the City work or a general organism that makes the City
live.
Program’s conceptual development

17. On this sliped site in Saint Cyr Ecole Militaire, small French
commune of 17 000 inhabitants, my design concept for the City
Hall, is to symbolize and render to this institution it’s real role
and meaning - the service for inhabitants.
I wanted to create a City Hall serving people and being The
Town’s Working Machine. Functional and symbolically formal
mechanism represented in this machine which makes this Com-
mune function.
City Hall

18. 4th Floor, Offices
3rd Floor, Offices
1st Floor, Council Room and Offices Master Plan of the Library and the City Hall
2nd Floor, Offices
Main entrance
Wedding Hall

19. City Hall

21. City Hall

22. Office Building

23. Working Space
Unify People through the fusion between the working and gathering spaces
This Multidisciplinary Group’s Work is a project of an Office Buil-
ding proposing a radical design solution for this angle situated site.
Vertical Patio is an interactive and multifunctional space which is a
link between all working spaces in this office building.
Integrated Space
San Luis Obispo, California

24. The main intention is to create a quality of space which could con-
tribute to reunify people in their work and firm’s activity.
The Concept is to brake up with traditional “level by level” working
space organisation where floors and people are divided.
To interact with horizontaly organized office spaces the dicision is
to integrate an interactive functional and socializing vertically deve-
loped space.
BW / Other Group Member’s Sketch
Design development sketches show the symbolic fusion between the two volumes

25. Other Group Member’s Rendering
Two functional entities are materialized and their different aspect is
visible from the street.
Horizontally organized working spaces are behind the polycarbona-
te translucent skin, and vertical interactive space has a transparent
glazing envelope.
A dynamic connexion inbetween these two materials reinforce the
intended intention to represent a fusion between the two volumes
and functions
Office Building

26. The vertical multifunctional patio offers to the building:
-the natural light’s distribution into working areas
-interactive meeting space space
-visual link between levels
To multiply qualities of this pation space, an idea was to bring
into this space different functions. On the glazing panels wall
is installed a projection’s screen that allows the conference,
meeting projection for inside appreciation, and firm’s adverti-
sement projections integrated in it’s envelope and having an
interesting impact on street’s animation.
Design process sunlight, views and program’s scheme

27. All created spaces, inside and outside the building, can be divided in three
hierarchized types of space.
Outside: Inside:
Public space/open, street’s space Public/walking and meeting areas
Semi-public/covered, intermediate Intermediate circulation areas
Private/inside the building Private working areas
Office Building

28. Integrated building envelope is elaborated by my group
composed of architecture, engineering and construction
management major students.
Facade was designed to reinforce the concept of Fusion
and Collision between the two functional volumes.
Materials and composition represent the collision’s Energy,
Force and Movement.

29. Office Building

30. Apartment

31. Living Spaces
Design intention was to offer the various ambience living spaces and Flexibility
The Client expected a proposal for a total Design project for his
225 m2 apartment situated in a luxury 15 floor apartment buil-
ding in Moscow City . This living space program included a design
of 3 bedrooms, Living room, Kitchen, Office, Bathroom and Sauna,
and Winter Garden.
This Project was elaborated during the 2 months of my work
in Natalya Solopova’s Architecture Design Studio in Moscow City,
Russia. This Project building started in February 2008.
Flexible Space
Moscow City, Russia

32. Apartment’s surface and shape allowed and inspired a flexible
space design.
Design Project offers the most of natural Lighting, varisou Views
and Ambiances to bring into all the apartment a harmonious spa-
tial composition.
Lounge and Reading Area‘s Design offers an intermediate day’s
space for dining, reading, childs playing and other functions.

33. An important research of lightening was seeked for the cinema
space’s illumination .
I wanted to enhance the main and the longer axis of apartment
with some strong lighting effects. This visual and physical axis
linked a view on Cathedral and a view on the forest.
Apartment

34. Plan of Existing
1st Version accepted by the Client
2nd Version accepted by the Client

35. 1st Version non accepted by the Client’s wife
2nd Version non accepted by the Client’s wife
Apartment
3rd Version non accepted by the Client’s wife

36. Several design proposals for the master bedroom were made,
researching lightening environment and furniture’s design as well

37. As the Client’s wife did not desire to have any plants in her
Winter Garden, i imagined another aspect and use of this tiny
winter garden.
This Space was designed as a Floating Glass Bubbles Garden
to bring a warm and joyful Light and Color ambiance into other
Spaces. Some dreaming space linking the Master Bedroom
dreammy mood to the Living Room formal atmosphere.
Apartment

38. annachamonina@yahoo.fr +33 6 59 21 94 02
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