Boris Bernaskoni

Boris Bernaskoni (born 26 February 1977, Moscow) is a Russian architect, engineer, publisher, the recipient of architectural awards and a participant in various architectural exhibitions. He is the founder of bureau BERNASKONI. Boris Bernaskoni is a constructor of the Urban Council Board of the Skolkovo Innovation Center in Moscow. Boris Bernaskoni got his first international recognition when he won an international competition in 2008 for the Perm Museum of Modern Art that was juried by Peter Zumthor and had participants like Coop Himmelbau, Zaha Hadid and Assymptote.

Bernaskoni graduated in Architecture from the Moscow Academy of Architecture, at the department of “Housing and Social Design Construction” under the supervision of Professors Belov, Khazanov and Pakhomov. In 2000 Boris completed a 2-years long course of Marketing at Plekhanov Russian Academy of Economics. He engaged postgraduate course of Composition in Architecture at Moscow Academy of Architecture in 2000-2003.

In 2001 he led «sense analyses» seminar for students of Moscow Academy of Architecture. Since 2003 he is lecturer at Moscow Academy of Architecture, dept. Urban Planning. In 2004 he has led a project seminar in New York for students of the Moscow Academy of Architecture invited by the Harvard Design School.

Bernaskoni set up his practice as soon as he graduated in 2000. He founded interdisciplinary bureau that works on intersection of architecture, communication and industrial design. Bureau specializes in design and realization of various architectural objects: urban projects, office and residential buildings, exhibitions and museums, country houses and industrial objects. Bureau portfolio presents a big number of significant projects: Matrex, the main public building of Skolkovo; Hypercube in Skolkovo; masterplans Preobrajensky in Yaroslavl and Red October in Moscow; New Holland Summer in Saint-Petersburg; country houses Volgadacha and Mirror Mongayt; competitive projects Russia Pavilion in Shanghai, PERMMUSEUMXXI, residential building Tetris, Central House of Artist (CHA) reconstruction; exhibitions OLEGKULIK and Kandinskyprize; identity and the interior of the Government Of Russia Press Centre and office space BBDO Moscow; industrial design of the national class sailing boat EM-KA.

• Place Memorial on Lubyanskaya Square (Moscow, 2000)
• Tetris living towers at Izmailovo (Moscow, 2002)
• Immaterialbox pavilion (Moscow, 2002)
• BBDO Moscow office building (2003)
• Mediacity conversion of factory workshops into new cinema studios (Moscow, 2004)
• Grand Cru, net vine store (Moscow, 2004)
• Krasny Oktyabr territory developing concept (Moscow, 2005)
• Press Centre of the Government of Russia (2006)
• OLEGKULIK exhibition (Moscow, 2007)
• Kandinsky Prize exhibition (Moscow in 2007, London in 2010)
• Magazinzing fashion store (2008)
• EM-KA sailing boat (2008)
• PERMMUSEUMXXI, international competition, first prize (2008)
• Russian pavilion Shanghai EXPO-2010, national competition, first prize (2008)
• Museum For Architecture Art And Design in Oslo, competition (2009)
• Ragout, cafe bar interior (Moscow, 2010)
• Paparazzi, restoraunt interior (Ekaterinburg, 2010)
• Volgadacha, designer villa (2010)
• Hypercube, innovative building (Skolkovo, 2011)
• New Holland Summer, masterplan (St.Petersburg, 2011)
• Preobrazgensky masterplan (Yaroslavl region, 2011)
• Mirror Mongayt, designer villa (2012)
• Arc (Kaluga region, Nikola-Lenivets, 2012)
• Matrex (Skolkovo, 2014)

Matrex

MATREX is the main public building of Skolkovo.

Matrex was built in Skolkovo Innovation Center in 2015 near the Skoltech Complex. This project provides a basis for development of informational and energy efficient technologies, with a special accent on transparency of space and work.The mixed-use building combines Class A and startup offices, apartments, the transforming hall, the spiral museum (exhibit spiral), the restaurant. Inside the truncated pyramid there is a space in a form of a giant matryoshka.

Hypercube

HYPERCUBE ©BERNASKONI / Iliya Ivanov

Hypercube is the first building of the Skolkovo Innovation Center. The decision on the construction of Hypercube building was made by Dmitry Medvedev in 2010. Building is platform for communication: as a public space and a generator for new start-up enterprises, as one part of the university campus area. The building has autonomous systems for energy and water supply. The Hypercube was built in accordance with the green standard "Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design" (LEED v3).

Arc

The Arc pavilion was created specially for Archstoyanie, an architecture festival held in Nikola-Lenivets, Russia. Arc stands on the border of the forest and field. The wooden elements are stacked on top of each other with gaps forming rooms and stairs and leading to the viewpoint. Every year the space of the room is transformed into an art installation. The materials of which made Arc must be reused for useful construction or a hearth furnace.

Mirror Mongayt

MIRROR MONGAYT - energy-efficient designer villa.

Bernaskoni solves the problem how to build an eco-friendly designer villa with a small budget. The front facade is designed as temporary structure of the mirror panels. It is assumed that every eight years the facade will change. Inside the space is vast, with high ceilings, open plan spaces and an abundance of bare wood.

Hypercube, May 2015

HYPERCUBE book. Making the first building in Skolkovo

This book is about the ideology, programme, technologies and aesthetics of the Hypercube. The study will focus on the materials, solutions and technologies that enable the building to respond to global energy, ecological, social and economic challenges.

Interface Antifoster, August 2008

INTERFACE book

This is a book about a social dispute the solution of which is proposed by architects. The book contains extracts from publications on Norman Foster’s projects for “Inteco” development company, opinions of experts, the open letter to the Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, the open letter to architect Norman Foster and an alternative project of an International Culture Center for the territory in dispute.

MUSEЙ, May 2008

Книга MUSEЙ

The book includes exhibits, exhibition spaces and museums designed by Bernaskoni bureau in 2000-2008. The projects are arranged in the following succession: from exhibition pieces to a building. The succession demonstrates an idea of gradual transformation of museum space from an introverted object (Message to Kazimir) into a spatial environment (PERMMUSEUMXXI). The book contains 12 projects each of which reflects an idea of museum space but in each one this idea works differently.

• 2001 - Underconstruction pavilion at Arch Moscow Exhibition.
• 2001 - New Russian Flag Project at private gallery in Moscow.
• 2002 - Presentation of Matrex project at Arch Moscow Exhibition.
• 2002 - Message To Kazimir at Art Moscow.
• 2002 - A Member of Expert Board at the 7th International Exhibition of Architecture and Design Arch Moscow.
• In 2003 Bernaskoni was a Supervisor of the 8th International Exhibition of Architecture and Design Arch Moscow «PresentPerfect».
• 2003 - President’s Cabinet, Design Innovation Award finalist Moscow Review of the Best work of Architecture in 2002–2003.
• 2003 – winner of the year at Golden Section 2003.
• 2004 - Supervisor of the 9th International Exhibition of Architecture and Design Arch Moscow «Dead End».
• 2006 - «Moscow 4» at the Mendrisio Academy (Swiss).
• 2008 - XI Venice Biennale of Architecture. At the Biennale he used his space in the Russian pavilion to campaign against a controversial redevelopment plans by Norman Foster for Moscow’s Central House of the Artist building.
• 2011 - Hypercube Skolkovo at Arch Moscow Exhibition.
• 2012 – “Identity” project at the 3rd Moscow Biennale of Architecture.
• 2012 - XIII Venice Biennale of Architecture.
• 2013 - «Black» Exhibition of Nikolay Nasedkin, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, со- curator.
• 2014 - Matrex preview at Skolkovo Innovation Center, Moscow, curator.

• Volgadacha project was awarded Best Russian design of 2010.
• In 2011 Volgadacha project won in the Archiwood Award for the Country House category.
• In 2012 Hypercube won the Gold award at the International Festival of Architecture and Design, Zodchestvo - 2012.
• In 2013 Arc project has received a Special Mention in the Architizer A+ Awards for the Landscape Parks category.
• In 2014 Hypercube has been selected as a Finalist in the Architizer A+ Awards in the Architecture +Technology category.
• Hypercube book won the Gold award at the Zhar-Kniga Russian National Book Design Competition.