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Борис Бернаскони
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.
Contents
- Biennale architettura 2016 boris bernaskoni
- Education
- Teaching
- Architectural works
- Projects
- Books
- Exhibitions
- Awards and recognition
- References

Biennale architettura 2016 boris bernaskoni
Education

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.
Teaching

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.
Architectural works

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.
Projects


Matrex

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 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
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.
Books
Hypercube, May 2015
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
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
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.