"Arch-meeting" is conceived as a series of blitz presentations with comments, and participants can present to the audience absolutely any project - both architectural and event-related. For example, the St. Petersburg architect Ilya Filimonov spoke about the upcoming youth festival "Artery", which this year will be dedicated to the theme "Revival" and will be held in the picturesque Karelian village of Kurkiyoki. In addition to the untouched harsh nature, this place is notable for its preserved buildings from the times of the Vyborg province, the revival options of which will be pondered by the participants of the show. The results of the first visiting part, as well as last year, will be summed up in the House of Art "Architect" in Zelenogorsk.
Daniyar Yusupov spoke about the activities of his own architectural group u: lab.spb, professing a generative or synergetic approach to design, and his namesake Ilya Yusupov presented a number of projects, including sketches of the entrance hall of the Gorkovskaya metro station, reconstruction of Sennaya Square and the concept of a recreational area adjacent to the "Lakhta Center". Fedor Speransky, in turn, focused on a single project, introducing the audience to the decision of the exhibition building of the Kaliningrad Museum of the World Ocean. The building in the form of a glass ball is going to beautify the embankment of the Pregolya River.
Immediately two teams of architects presented projects for the facades of a residential complex on Prospekt Medikov. Yana Cebruk's proposal was called Zero Gravity Games, and the Khvoya architectural group came up with the idea of decorating the facades with portraits of famous doctors made in the style of 8-bit graphics.
The hosts of the Arch-meeting asked all the participants the same question: what, in their opinion, should the modern architecture created in the center of St. Petersburg look like? And after the presentations were over, the architects were able to speak on this topic not only orally, but also with the help of sketches. For this, a clause was carried out: an imaginary new house had to be placed between two classical buildings. At the same time, the organizers deliberately did not specify either the location of the buildings or their functional purpose, which ultimately provided an incredible variety of answers to the task. They can be summarized as follows: the architecture implemented in the center of the historic city can be created in a variety of styles, the main thing is that it is well drawn. Best of all, this opinion was expressed by the architect Yana Cebruk: "Everything is possible if talented."
As the organizers explain, "Arch-meeting" is not only a meeting, but also a conscious professional position. In particular, the rally was conceived as a protest against the harsh and subjective judging of architectural competitions, as a result of which the project that won first place becomes the hero of public discussion at best. At the "Arch-meeting" everyone is equal, and architects can bring up for discussion even those projects that, for some reason, did not pass the qualifying round. Proceeding from the same considerations, the event did not summarize the results of the conducted clause - all the works will be published on the Internet, and in the future they will form the basis of new "Arch-meetings".
