This is the first of the competitions organized by the Skolkovo innovation city with the expectation of the participation of Russian architects. The program of the competitions was announced at Arch Moscow, and the beginning of its execution was announced recently at Zodchestvo. Detailed conditions and program (part 1 and part 2) of the first competition from the announced cycle have been published on the Skolkovo website today.
The subject of the competition is residential quarters of the Technopark (or cluster D2), the urban planning concept of which was developed by the Chairman of the Skolkovo City Council Jean Pistrom in collaboration with Mohsen Mustafavi. Out of the three options proposed by the curator, the Foundation chose a concept called "Free Canopy", in which the actual technical part is grouped along a straight street under a common roof, and the residential part consists of fifteen round blocks, strung on a whimsically curved street, and adjoining the laboratory -office area on the west and south sides.
For the first stage of the competition, Skolkovo will take out the three largest quarters in terms of area: numbers 1, 6 and 11. In the first circle, with a diameter of 220 meters, apartment buildings, a kindergarten and shops should be located, in the sixth (166 m in diameter) - townhouses and a kindergarten, and in the eleventh (D 236 m) - cottages. At the first stage, participants are invited to develop draft concepts for housing only (excluding infrastructure) and at least for one of the three proposed blocks. You can work with all three typologies and even present two project options for each quarter. In addition to the projects of the buildings themselves, architects will have to think about landscape design and landscaping within the neighborhoods. Thirty first stage winners will advance to the second round.
The second round is planned as a closed competition, each of the 30 participants will receive $ 20,000. In the second round, the participants will design not only residential buildings, but also infrastructure facilities - kindergartens and shops. As a result of the second round, the jury will select 10-15 winners out of 30 participants, with whom contracts for further design will be concluded.
The chairman of the competition jury is the curator of the Technopark cluster and the head of the Skolkovo City Council Jean Pistre; the jury also includes: President of the Union of Architects of Russia Andrei Bokov, Director of Technopark Gary Wentworth, City Manager Skolkovo Viktor Maslakov, co-curator of the Technopark district, Dean of the Harvard Design School Mohsen Mustafavi, member of the Skolkovo City Council and initiator of the competition Grigory Revzin and chief architect of the city Anna Turgeneva.
Now, until November 16, the Skolkovo Foundation is collecting applications from architects intending to take part in the competition - you need to fill out the form proposed by the organizers and send it to [email protected].
Yu. T.
