Daria Zolotareva
Senior Architect
M.Arch Architecture
YALE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
B.A FINE ARTS
UNIVERSITY OF Pennsylvania &
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Daria Zolotareva, Senior Architect, joined ZHA in 2013. She has worked on numerous competitions and projects spanning scales from urban redevelopment to product design, as well as major exhibitions including the Zada Hadid at the State Hermitage in St. Petersburg (2015), Zaha Hadid at the Palazzo Franchetti in Venice (2016) under ZHD Director Woody Yao. She has worked closely with the ZHVR group to bring VR into the exhibition environment, contributed to recent lectures and publications on VR, and is collaborating with the team on ongoing research into cross-disciplinary and blended-reality space-making.
Early Work
© daria zolotareva + Chenxi Gong
Our Spring ‘13 YSOA Zaha Hadid Advanced Studio project IN PARTNERSHIP WITH CHENXI GONG is a form finding study based on curved folding, investigated through a series of physical models. Paper, when folded according to curved folding patterns, creates object-like spatial volumes. Unfolded, the same paper with its creases obtains the quality of a field. By gradually unfolding the object, we blur the distinction, merging the object and field into a unified system.
On the Marmara waterfront site, we look at directionality, density, and landscape topography in response to the fluctuating water level datum. Throughout this process, the lines for the peak and valley folds become further refined in response to constraints provided by site and program. Finally, we develop an interior partition strategy for these large-scale shells based on tensile membranes, used as a flexible method for defining intimate spaces.
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