Archiprix is an internationally recognized competition for thesis for students - architects, urbanists and designers. One thesis from a specialized educational institution is accepted for the competition, therefore the number of participants also tells us about the number of participating universities. Archiprix is held once every 2 years, this year it is organized for the seventh time. The awards given to the winners of the competition are named after the main sponsor of the Hunter Douglas Awards. The competition wanders: its laureates are awarded each time in a new city. The first was Rotterdam, then Istanbul, Glasgow, Shanghai … In 2013 the prizes were awarded in Moscow, showing the participants' work at Arch Moscow and organizing a workshop with the participation of the finalists at the Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design. This year, 286 projects from 76 countries took part in the competition.
We publish projects of 6 Archiprix winners with author's comments. All projects can be seen on the competition website.
Center for Innovation in Piedmont
Like the Sleeping Beauty Castle, this place has been in oblivion for over 40 years. Nature gradually took over the site, covered buildings and paths with vegetation, and, in the end, made it look like a jungle. Recently, it was decided to build a congress center with a campus here, which could become a local landmark and an object of international importance.
Like the ancient Acropolis, the site rises above Lake Maggiore and sits at the foot of the mountains, forming a special contemplative zone between an attractive landscape and an object with a special function. The new building is becoming a powerful landmark in the region. Combining existing buildings into a single ensemble, it is restoring old serpentine entrances and entrances to the campus. In this glass castle of science, the new order brilliantly demonstrates the process of reorientation towards social and environmental issues: elite creativity behind transparent walls. Complicity and responsibility must be the main driving factors on the road to our common future.
Let's Talk About Garbage Project
Dharavi is the only slum in the world that is profitable. Thousands of mini factories and workshops thrive here, supplying Mumbai with basic necessities. It produces goods worth $ 500 million a year. The people living here are happy - this is a united community. Perhaps they want changes, changes for the better, and expect help from the city authorities in the construction of water supply and sewerage systems, but they do not want to change their huts for apartments in multi-storey buildings. The housing that the local authorities offer them in exchange for shacks does not meet the demands of this unusual community.
To solve the problems of the residents of Dharavi, it was important for me that the cost of building the building was low and that the residents had the right to transform and modify it. In addition, it was important to preserve the centers of social life - places for washing, wells, toilets, markets, temples and just streets. Another problem was the unique and extremely attractive location of Dharavi. On the one hand, a thriving metropolis cannot afford the maintenance of municipal housing in the city center. On the other hand, if people leave the center, the city will be deprived of cheap labor. So I decided to post my
a building next to a landfill in Deonar, from where thousands of slum dwellers bring home about 6 tons of garbage every day. Secondary raw materials for processing can be glass, aluminum, paper, plastic, paints, cans, wires, radio components and even soap from nearby hotels.
The layout of the district is based on a modular grid of 70x70 m. The eastern part of Dharavi has the same grid, so I decided that the building should occupy three blocks in length and one in width, that is, occupy an area of 70x210 m, and taking into account the width of the streets - 84x220. m. Inside, the building is divided by a corridor into two parts: the residential part on the south side and the working part on the north. Corridors are also used to ventilate the premises, protecting the living area from the stench emanating from the part of the building where recyclable materials are being processed. The building is raised above the ground, resulting in an open ground floor, which is mainly used to lift raw materials from the landfill to the working area and remove finished goods produced by residents.
The building is divided into 7x3.5 m boxes as in a multi-level parking lot. There are 5820 boxes in each building and their residents can make independent decisions regarding finishing materials and works that will be carried out there. The basement floor serves a technical function: the biogas released from the decomposition of household waste and excrement can become another profitable source of community profit.
Long Common House Project
The long communal house in Xiamen is strikingly different from other residential buildings, as it has a height-to-length ratio of 1: 9 to 1:13. The Xiamen Long Communal House (DKD) is a large building on the even side of Heng Zhu Street, a long-established urban space. The project provides for the demonstration of the development history and spatial changes within the DKD, as well as the transformation of the space based on a comprehensive study of the living environment in the existing DKD. The objective of the project is to reorganize spatial memory by combining different aspects of urban life, establishing harmonious relationships between old-timers and newcomers, improving the space of courtyards at different levels, improving the physical living environment, and by proposing an effective strategy for renewing the old urban area.
Project "Marrakesh"
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a project to introduce spaces for knowledge exchange, interaction and communication into the public network of the narrow streets of the Medina of Marrakech. In one of the last undeveloped sites of the Medina, functions are linked horizontally and vertically, while maintaining the diversity and openness of existing typologies. We deliberately chose this particular site, rather than a location in the new city district, Gelize, to revitalize the museum character of the old city.
In our project, the traditional form of knowledge transfer, storytelling, is naturally associated with modern forms of education and is integrated into the urban environment, which as a result expands, receiving a library, stage, workshops, auditorium / cinema and tea room. Each of these objects is marked by a "failure" with a vertical grid of "streets" piercing the entire complex; in addition to the implementation of traffic flows, these "dips" are also used for ventilation and additional lighting. All floors are connected by stairs. Thus, the architectural ensemble becomes the vertical silhouette of the city.
The main idea of the project is to make technical rooms as small as possible and public spaces as large as possible. The ensemble is completely closed and fenced off from the outside world to create a microclimate with shade and coolness. The outer shell of the complex is a clay wall with openings, to which the shops of a traditional oriental bazaar adjoin along the perimeter at the level of the first floor. As if by chance, through an inconspicuous passage, the visitor enters one of five buildings with an inner courtyard. The architecture of the complex is based on the typology traditional for the Medina of Marrakech. Since this is a public space, all the furniture in the complex is integrated into the architecture. Exterior elements such as gutters and sloping surfaces are also becoming an integral part of architecture. The entire ensemble can be seen from the rooftop terrace of the auditorium, which itself harmoniously fits into the silhouette of the rooftops of the old city.
Project "Mausoleum for Vatnajökull"
12 votes cast for the project
Iceland's lava-cast and ice-carved landscapes are spaces of constant evolution and erosion. Temporal processes leave behind permanent marks and reminders: black volcanic sands, jagged mountains and scarred jagged glaciers. The dying of Vatna, the largest glacier in Iceland, plunging into the Atlantic Ocean, the melting of ice and the transformation of mountains into valleys, like light into darkness, these are the results of erosion: death and decay, change of state, duality of motionless and mobile. "Everything is a crumbling ruin, and the ruin is a sad symbol of the movement of time in both directions." (The Timeless Art of Light and Form, Luis Kahn)
What is needed for architecture to become a tool for observing this "movement of time" in a short-lived environment? How does a space, or a series of spaces, illustrate a temporal narrative, becoming an archive of memory? By what means can architecture supervise and manage the death of the landscape, the process of erosion and decay? The architectural task of the author of this project was to create
building in a short-lived landscape - a building that observes and documents the change of natural phenomena in the context of its location, namely in the Jokulsarlon lagoon in Iceland. The building was supposed to become, both for tourists and for local residents, an observation post, a sensorium of time, but even more so - an observatory for observing the past, for a relic, in the thickness of which there is ice formed more than a thousand years ago, to become an architectural a narrative that tells about the evolution and erosion of the natural landscape, a building with monumentality and memory. The main purpose of this building has two aspects: firstly, to become a physical object connecting the glacial lagoon with the Black Beach, and secondly, by isolating some types of sensations from others, illustrate them with different elements, such as wind, ice, water and earth.
Pabellon Reciclaciudad Project
The Pabellón Reciclaciudad (City - Recyclable Pavilion) is the materialization of a study entitled “The Economics of Waste Management in the City of Talca”. Along with other studies on solid waste recycling, our study also highlighted the importance of independent contributors to the recycling process. On the one hand, they manage to earn money, which then go to support their activities, on the other hand, they save municipal funds that are spent on waste disposal.
In order to demonstrate the activities of the participants in the recycling process, a study was carried out on one of the materials of primary interest: cardboard. In a creative process in which social aspects, ambition and idealism are closely intertwined, architecture is thrown from one extreme to another, and architects are torn between humility (acceptance of today's realities) and ambition (the desire to build an ideal city), attention should be drawn precisely to the fact that what others are trying to hide. With our architecture, we expose a specific social problem by exposing a volume created from recycled cardboard. This volume, temporarily installed in a public space for everyday use, arouses surprise and a desire to understand. This object, which appeared in a degrading area, forces the residents of this area to link the shortage of public amenities with the recognition of the merits of informal participants in the recycling process.
The facility is in two parts and both are constructed of cardboard. The supporting structure is made of laminated cardboard tubes purchased from our existing waste collection points in Talca, with minimal use of steel fasteners. The roof is composed of 2,000 sheets of corrugated cardboard, which, when held together, make it folded. The construction took 159.84 cubic meters of cardboard, collected by the Talca Cardboard Community in one week.
Urban Development Strategies for Rebuilding Public Space in India
19 votes cast for the project
This work is devoted to the study
potential methods of urban planning intervention in the historically formed fabric of central urban areas. Today, these traditional urban structures are subject to various influences from the outside, experiencing the consequences of accelerated development and experiencing high socio-economic pressures. Unlike renovation programs that ignore the existing architectural and cultural heritage, this project proposes a number of innovative strategies for the regeneration of traditional public space: a catalog of urban planning tools that can eliminate infrastructure deficiencies (water supply, sewerage, etc.) while preserving the traditional way of life by improving quality public space.
Historians, architects and urban planners consider Ahmedabad's Pula (residential clusters) to be one of the best surviving examples of urban planning and residential architecture in the Indian tradition. These are compact urban settlements, perfectly adapted to the local climate, where the past and the future still coexist peacefully. Analysis of urban tissue has shown that very little intervention is required to regenerate existing space.
Five building plots were taken as indicative, where networks of interconnected elements were introduced that could improve and reorganize the scenarios of their functioning. These artifacts have been designed with local resources, materials and technologies in mind, with a focus on preserving and maintaining social and environmental sustainability. Public life in Póly is closely related to the morphology of the city, and therefore the project attempts to restore the identity of the urban space as a place for daily activities and social interaction.
A flexible and easily adaptable system has been developed for use in other urban environments of a similar level of complexity. Any urban renewal must rely on local natural, social and cultural resources, sustainable local technologies, and individual and collective values. The main objective of the study was to try to find an opportunity for society to develop the necessary skills to build its own future.
Within the framework of Archiprix, a "popular" vote is also provided: participants in the competition can vote for their favorite works. All voting leaders' projects can be seen
on the website of the competition, we publish the nine most popular ones, who received from 15 to 20 votes of fellow participants (recall, there were 286 participants in total).
SED Water Factory
18 votes cast for the project
There are changes to which you need to constantly adapt. However, there have never been as many opportunities for rethinking reality as now, and never before have they had such global consequences. The circle is closing before our eyes: a scenario of an ecological, economic and social crisis is unfolding in front of us. What architecture will be in demand in the new environment? In such a situation, the only way out is to act; just monitoring the situation is no longer enough. If the crisis presents an opportunity for change, it follows that the next step should be evolution or innovation in favor of a more resilient, flexible, diverse and integrable architecture.
SED is a typological study on an interdisciplinary theme that combines issues of ecology, landscape, urbanism and architecture. This means the renewal of the energy infrastructure, as well as the formation of material, technical and energy management systems and their interbreeding with other systems, implying a redefinition of the public sphere. Desalination of seawater is one of the potential solutions to the problem of drinking water scarcity. Desalination plants, water factories, can be considered a new alternative. These enterprises should be designed taking into account the possible environmental and political implications, as well as the humanitarian problems associated with the supply of fresh water to the regions. The use of chemical methods to obtain fresh water is associated with huge energy costs, increasing the already considerable production costs, and the problem of salt waste that affects the coastal ecosystem. The SED System seeks natural methods of water desalination. Being energetically autonomous, this is a system for creating offshore platforms-cities that do not hide what is obvious, demonstrating reality, and thus, recognizing the mistakes of the past, when the real state of affairs was often hidden from people. The SED system is a symbol, an extension of the horizon; it is a new architecture that not only works as a water factory, but also raises people's awareness and enlightens them through the accessibility of its functions, from manufacturing to housing.
Casablanca
18 votes cast for the project
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our project is to thoroughly investigate the complexities of urban development in Casablanca today. We decided to begin the description of the features of the city with an analysis of the factors influencing urban construction on three scales: at the level of the Metropolis, at the level of the City and at the level of the Habitat.
The architectural solution is based on a practical approach to the design of modern housing in high-density areas with the redistribution of public relations and the creation of new living conditions. Like most North African cities, the expansion of the metropolis of Casablanca owes much to the industrial production launched by European countries in their protectorates and colonies. The ensuing influx of population into new industrial centers had a huge impact on these countries. Housing for the working class had to be built in the shortest possible time. Planners had to tackle difficult tasks in order to build new cities from scratch.
With the onset of the era of classical modernity, the task was to create a new type of urban dweller, and it seemed to planners that opportunities for this existed in North Africa. Morocco, and above all Casablanca, has become the “laboratory of modernity”. Urban agglomerations as a result of accelerated urbanization are the subject of our research. The principle of "Transitional state as a condition and strategy" seems to us fundamental in the formation of these regions, and, obviously, is also an instrument of urbanization. The aim of the study is to clarify the formal and informal factors associated with both historical and modern processes. By doing this, we will try to take advantage of the very processes that shape the gestalt of the city. Density is used by us as a tool and method for studying the various conditions of life and activity in the city, the states of its atmosphere, and describing their significance for the urban landscape. "Geographic" observation, a kind of psychoanalysis of the urban environment, will help us to identify the spatial structures and processes occurring within the urban tissue, that is, to determine the geography of density.
Chapel in the village of Nonsbach
15 votes cast for the project
The chapel was designed and built in the village of Nonsbach in 2008-2010. The architectural project was preceded by an intensive period of research and discussion. Customers took part in every stage of the design process. Thus, the finished building should not be seen as an individual achievement, but as the sum of all the wishes, demands, protests and prejudices that arose in the course of the research. The constant involvement of future users in the design guarantees their future care for the chapel, as well as knowledge of what is necessary for its maintenance and operation. This space is not for mass use, it is a place for a temporary escape from everyday life and solitary reflection. In parallel with the joint work on the project of the chapel with the participation of all interested parties, another, hypothetical project was developed, which we called "autistic", based on the theoretical assumption that there was no other influence on the result, except for the meager imagination of the designer himself.
Slowness discovery
15 votes cast for the project
How do you determine what counts as a building? What is created for human habitation? A structure with walls and floors? But why should this structure always stand still? Ships are perhaps the largest objects ever made by man. Take an aircraft carrier, for example. This is not just a ship, but a multifunctional hybrid, a connection between air and water. Hans Hollein in his work "Aircraft Carrier in a Landscape" showed the spatial potential of this vessel.
In addition to this type of sea-going vessels, I would like to mention one more special vessel - the transatlantic liner Normandy, the designers of which decided to create a huge open space in the center of the ship for holding mass events, concerts and performances. To this end, they improved the layout and design of the vessel, creating a better spatial solution. One of the main ideas of my project, inspired by Stan Nadolna's book "The Discovery of Slowness", was to create an entity that keeps its own timing, in an era when everything must be done quickly and efficiently. Another important idea was the creation of new sustainable ways of travel. The ship runs on hydrogen, which is generated by solar panels on its surface. While at rest, interacting with the urban environment, the vessel is charged and produces hydrogen. To cover harbor taxes, the event hall can be rented out. All these factors influenced the design process and led to the creation of a new ship typology. This facility should be adapted for holding various kinds of events in various parts of the world, including political ones, such as the G8 summit. Taken together, this is not just a cruise ship project, but a multifunctional complex, independent of geographic location. It can work completely autonomously or interact with the city to expand the urban space.
Urban recirculation
The project received 20 votes
The selected building, a grain elevator owned by the State Granary Company (CESA), is located in the harbor area of Porto Alegre, the capital of the state of Rio Grande do Sul in southern Brazil. The building was built by CESA in 1954 for grain storage. It was chosen by the authors not only because of its abandonment, but also for its three inherent properties: firstly, it is its commercial purpose, spaciousness and structural strength; secondly, the location in the center, close to the access points to the city; and third, a view of the city and Lake Guaiba.
Analysis of the site showed that it is a gap in the overall fabric of the city and is located where the Porto Alegre access road cuts into the road network, separating this site from the city itself. The site also loses out because it is located between two active parts of the port area: on the one hand, the existing port of Marsiliu Dias, and on the other, the port of Maua, which, although not currently operating for its intended purpose, is an object of future reconstruction. Considering the fact that this state-owned building is not in use, as well as the lack of space and the lack of necessary infrastructure in the State Library of Rio Grande do Sul, we considered it possible to develop a project that could preserve the historical significance and the internal energy potential of the structure.
The result was a project
libraries with a park, in which the library is the entire closed territory of the park. Active visitors, those who come here in search of knowledge, have a unique opportunity to explore the vertical shelves of books and at the same time maintain visual contact with what is happening on different floors. Passive visitors to the park have the opportunity to enjoy the landscape view and continue to interact with the open space as they pass through the building. The concept of the project is based on the idea of replacing grain with books, when storage tanks for grain are converted into storage of crops. In short, the building becomes part of the new facade of Porto Alegre and continues the tradition of the cultural center organized in the former gas holder (Centro Cultural Usina do Gasômetro). The reading room of the library will become a place where everyone can acquire new knowledge, and the new texture inside the cylindrical volumes will become a reflection of the new purpose of the entire building.
Creative evolution
19 votes cast for the project
“Our actions depend on who we are; but it must be added that to a certain extent we are what we do, and that we are continuously creating ourselves."
Henri Bergson, Creative Evolution, 1907
Since the Royal Docks were closed, the Silvertown area in east London has gone from being an integral part of the world's largest dock to a ghost town living on memories. Project
Silvertown Shipbreaking Plant aims not only to provide local residents with interesting skilled work, but also to create a new individual and collective identity for the population of the area by providing opportunities for creative play with ship details - testing, experimentation and reconstruction.
The project can be divided into three stages: the dismantling of ships is a complex process that takes place inside a “ship breaking chamber” - a specially designed dismantling line. After deconstruction, parts of the ships are scrapped - scrapped, sold at flea markets, or left for experimental reconstruction. Locals are encouraged to experiment with converting ship details into potential architectural forms. This process takes place in a "game chamber" where the dismantled parts are lifted with a crane and suspended on blocks. With the help of a system of winches and blocks, local residents can change the position of parts, test and experiment with new architectural forms of their own. The design rules are determined by the catalog of possible hybrid parts; but these "rules of the game" do not completely determine the outcome of the creative process. The resulting architectural forms are distributed on the site using a crane. As unskilled locals gain construction experience, architectural forms will be improved and updated, and thus Silvertown will take on its own face. The standard of living of the local community will increase in the process of realizing the creative potential of the residents. Video presentation of the project >>.
Aerotopos
15 votes cast for the project
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the building is located in the area reserved for the headquarters of the 2018 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck. It not only satisfies the functional requirements for this type of building, but also benefits from its excellent location to bring the beauty of the local landscape and the specificity of the local climate to the guests and participants of the Olympics. Especially in winter and spring, the weather in the Inn Valley is determined by strong winds blowing in all directions.
The narrative underlying the concept of the project is the poetry of the local poet Josef Leitgeb. He vividly described the changes in the weather in these parts, causing the mountains and the sky to change their color during the day and night. The project conveys this atmosphere and enhances its perception. Under the onslaught of the wind, the building comes to life, giving a special drama to changes in the environment: facades are closed and opened, rooms and floors move, and bridges open new paths. The restaurants' round towers swivel in the wind, giving visitors the opportunity to watch the "celestial spectacle" of rapidly moving clouds and changing colors. The realization that all these mechanisms are not controlled by people creates tension and delight. In this way, the building interacts with the environment. People remain just spectators who are unable to interfere with the performance.
Eco-village in Wroclaw
15 votes cast for the project
Ecotopy, a concept introduced into popular culture by Ernst Kallenbach in the 70s, defined the modern mass vision of a not too distant future in which man, high technology and nature coexist perfectly. However, at the beginning of the 21st century, instead of green arcologies, we have such a neglected habitat that it is time for humanity to think about a global climate catastrophe. Today, when the very survival of humanity is under threat, rethinking the concept of ecotopy should be the main task of architects.
This project seeks to answer the question of how a small eco-community on the periphery of a medium-sized city might look and function. The main task was to create an optimal habitat for this community, where architecture and a certain way of life could work together to provide an ascetic, but satisfying, and environmentally friendly existence. In search of an answer to the question "how to live further?" and the question arising from it "what architectural and urban planning solutions should be used?" I refer not only to the experience of modern eco-architects, but also to the works of philosophers, founders of eco-lo-tech: Jacques Ellul, Ivan Illich, Murray Bookchin and, above all, Henry David Thoreau. Ultimately, it seems to me that the only type of architecture that can support a truly sustainable and regenerative way of life is “friendly” low-tech architecture (lo-tech architecture), created by those who use it, using local materials., by local forces and local methods, and having the highest possible energy efficiency and autonomy. Perhaps this is an ecotopia of the future, when people will stop chasing money, and instead impose restrictions on economic growth and, through truly energy efficient architecture that does not harm nature and respects the work of the builder, pause the pace of their lives to make it more meaningful. free and full?
Powder Hill: The Aging Continuum Landscape
17 votes cast for the project
This research dissertation is based on a process of unification, a personal attempt to understand the fragile relationship between architecture and time. In the center
The project's theme is the potential for architecture to adapt to its environment through aging and its response to atmospheric conditions. The author turns to modern memorial architecture, criticizing the inertia of understanding the idea of preserving heritage with the help of museum typology. The existing types of memorial buildings are often transformed into static monuments, the relevance of which for modern society is questionable. The present architectural answer to the problem thus considers the possibility of performing the act of remembrance in the course of everyday use.
The site is an isolated historical military site in Pretoria called Powder Hill (or Shophavel). In the period from 1890 to 1960. the hill was used for the production and storage of ammunition. It was the first place in South Africa where the production of projectiles was placed on industrial rails, providing 45% of ammunition to the Allied Forces during the Second World War (see: DENEL, 2011). This mythical, deserted area includes two ammunition depots, five bomb shelters and factories, all of which are associated with the "era of instability" in South Africa. In 1945, an unexpected explosion in the Central Warehouse disfigured the face of Powder Hill and led to the premature closure of the facility, after which time seemed to stop here and the architecture remained abandoned. Meanwhile, the site has an inner tension hidden in mysterious and untold stories. According to the author, the isolation of the site partly forms a negative mental structure associated with its history - the desire to forget about the tragic events of the past, as if this place itself does not want to be discovered, remaining in captivity in its misfortune.
The proposed program involves the unification of opposites inherent in both Powder Hill and South Africa as a whole. The proposed construction of a copper processing plant to recycle the casings used by the South African National Defense Forces (SANDF), and the attraction of copper artists to Powder Hill to create a public interface. Where weapons were once produced, they will now be destroyed. This program aims to become a liaison between civil and military communities in society, identifying different layers of the past by rebuilding the relationship between architecture and time.
This year, four Russian projects took part in Archiprix: one each from the Moscow Architectural Institute, Kazan, Vologda and Yaroslavl. They did not take prizes and did not become the leaders of the internal rating, but we publish them too, after all, these diploma projects won in the internal competitions of their universities.
Biotechnogenic habitat module of the XXI century
The project is aimed at solving problems: the crisis of sustainable development, deep conflict between man and nature, the limit of anthropogenic impact on the biosphere. The project is based on the ideas of ecological humanism and co-evolution, the placement of metabolic architectural and urban planning structures in space, the dissolution of the artificial habitat in nature without a trace.
Biotechnogenic habitat module is an autonomous, multifunctional and aesthetically diverse, intellectually growing and developing biorobot. Its basis is the system of organization of living matter - biomass - the synthesis of nature and technogenicity, expressing the unity of form and content. The biotechnogenic habitat module represents other principles of space organization, architectural tectonics and a new paradigm based on the harmonious transfer of the principles of living nature into architectural form-building (bioconstructor). Architectural forms of the module from programmable biomass based on the fractal approach and NBIC technologies. Modular formations form stable systems of associations - cluster, micropolis and macropolis. This principle allows you to change and arrange the architectural environment anywhere in the world. The connecting link is the energy-informational network - an intelligent NBIC-substance that ensures the viability and global control of modules and connections between them in all spatial environments (air, water, earth) and all types of communications.
The new habitat system allows you to build a new system of relationships with nature, restore the ecosystem without disturbing wildlife habitats. The nucleation, life cycle and self-disposal of the module at the expiration date are environmentally friendly. The habitat module is based on the concept of resource conservation: full autonomy due to solar energy, water and wind energy, waste recycling, integration into any environment through mimicry and imitation.
Architecture management: interactive, kinesthetic, audiovisual, mental. Co-adaptation of biological and technocratic approaches guarantees an integrated approach to solving the assigned tasks and allows organizing and reconstructing living natural systems as an architectural space at a high-tech level.
Homeland²
Production landscape:
The concept of a residential environment for sustainable development of Moscow.
As part of the expansion of Moscow and the further growth of the urban agglomeration, there is a clear need to create a different structure of settlement in the space of the Moscow region. The proposed living environment is nothing more than a hybrid system of social interaction that includes the ingredients of urban and rural life, infrastructure and proximity to nature. As a basis for a polycentric settlement structure within the boundaries of an urban agglomeration, we propose to introduce a “production landscape” platform.
Over the past decades, the development of Moscow and the Moscow region has been accelerated due to the spontaneous development of the commercial real estate market. Due to the specifics of the market and the laws governing development, any territory within the city and outside it is mainly used for the construction of monofunctional residential areas.
As a result, most of the territories of Moscow and the Moscow Region are formed as a homogeneous living environment. Today, on the territory of the emerging Moscow agglomeration, the natural landscape, as well as areas with a rich industrial past, are actively transforming into a monotonous living environment with a minimum functional program. The existing ideological-spatial model of settlement is not capable of preserving the valuable natural landscape of the Moscow region. Further destruction of the natural landscape and the growth of urban agglomerations negatively affect the quality of living standards.
The basis for the diploma project is a comprehensive study of the development of the Moscow agglomeration with its subsequent graphic identification, as well as an analysis of the urban planning situation, the historical significance of the territory, geographical, climatic, planning and functional features of the area and neighboring areas.
The diploma project is structured into two parts: analysis and project proposal. A comprehensive study was carried out by all students of the group, together with this result of joint activities was a master plan and the creation of a diverse functional program.
The general master plan is subdivided into three main ideological parts, united by a closed production chain: energy efficiency, bioremediation, and biodiversity.
The territories newly annexed to Moscow in the southwest direction are best suited as an experimental testing ground. The building plot is located 58 km from Moscow along the Kaluga highway (A101) between the Moscow Small Ring (MMK) and the Big Ring of the Moscow Railway (BC MZD).
The building plot, formerly a potato field, is next to a small river that flows into a large pond. The plot is surrounded by an asphalt road on the west and south sides.
The nearest villages of Bezobrazovo and Voronovo estates (on the south side), the village of Ryzhovo (on the northern shore of the pond) constitute the immediate surroundings of the site, along with summer cottages or newly built cottage settlements, chaotically located near the Kaluga highway.
This project appears to be part of a general multi-scale system of design solutions for the developing metropolitan area of Moscow. It is assumed that urban planning solutions will be divided into three main scales: small, medium and large, thus forming a polycentric settlement system in the Moscow region.
As a catalyst for qualitative changes in the living environment, a rich functional program is proposed that can attract not only new residents, but also local residents. Various factors and components form the basis of a linear settlement system: society, economy, management, environment, energy efficiency, conservation, production, agriculture.
The size of the proposed archipelago is average, its area does not exceed 100 hectares with a density of 90 people per hectare. It is calculated that the placed social infrastructure limits the accessibility radius to 700 m, and also keeps the population at the maximum indicator - 5100 people. The main volumetric-spatial solution implies the creation of four active zones: Courtyard, Frame, Context, Surroundings.
The production chain is formed according to the principle of self-sufficiency and waste-free production. At the same time, a closed production chain surrounds the courtyard and prevents possible growth of the archipelago inside the frame, while preserving space for social infrastructure. The production chain is designed to provide a continuous chain of intangible goods production and processing of by-products. It consists of three main areas:
1. Energy efficiency (A complex of research laboratories and stations for the development of technologies for the production (consumption) of renewable energy.)
2. Bioremediation (Complex of research laboratories and stations in the field of water purification, soil and waste processing.)
3. Biodiversity (Scientific and experimental laboratories for the development of innovative technologies applicable in agriculture and the restoration of biodiversity.)
The proposed "industrial landscape" is the basis for the formation of a heterogeneous living environment for people living outside the actual city boundaries, but within the influence of the urban agglomeration.
Located in the Moscow region among small villages, summer cottages and previously built infrastructure, the project accelerates the development of local areas and promotes the development of a hybrid scheme of social interaction. Prototypical territories throughout the Moscow region are becoming potential sites for the archipelago.
Missing structure
The authors propose a strategy for self-sufficient
development of territories in an extreme urban environment: now polluted, decaying, antisocial - for example, railways and adjacent industrial zones. The strategy implies the inclusion of previously alienated territories into the fabric of the city, the creation of links with neighboring districts, and the provision of environmental and physical security. A mix of different types of housing, from larger, outdated complexes to single-family homes. Organization of public, semi-public, private and semi-private spaces.
Regeneration of the area "Cows" in Yaroslavl
In the area of "Cows" in Yaroslavl, on the banks of the Volga, there is a historical prison complex, a flour mill, the Church of St. John Chrysostom. We propose to turn this area into an attractive recreational area with a rich history, as there is a lack of such spaces in the city. The existing buildings of the prison and factory can be adapted for offices, housing, cultural institutions.
