Five teams apply for the design of each of the stations. The names of the winners of the competition are scheduled to be announced in November 2014.
Metro "Solntsevo": the melody of the spheres
The bright toponym charmed literally everyone, at least all the finalists. In each project, light plays the main violin, everyone littered their versions of the station with solar disks, glare and stars. And then: the weather is usually not very good, every hint of the sun is deservedly appreciated. *** NEFA ARCHITECTS [NEFARESEARCH]
(Moscow, Russia)
The perforated walls of the entrance pavilions, reminiscent in their proportions of classic Moscow garages (only larger), are designed to collect sunlight inside in a multitude of rays. The rays from above, however, figuratively, penetrate the ground, where the splashes of light (many suns) imitate round lamps. It is proposed to navigate in the form of a luminous strip in a translucent artificial stone.
![Проект станции метро «Солнцево» © NEFA ARCHITECTS [NEFARESEARCH]](https://i.architectureprof.com/images/002/image-5647-2-j.webp "Проект станции метро «Солнцево» © NEFA ARCHITECTS [NEFARESEARCH]")
*** Rhizome Group
(Saint-Petersburg, Russia)
The sunny name of the metro stop provoked the authors first of all to use bright colors, and only then - “sunny” discs. The vertical surfaces are tiled with yellow and white ceramic tiles, and the design of the tiled masonry is planned to be varied to revive and even create the illusion of dynamics. Lighting - two rows of large "sun discs" suspended from the ceiling. The central part of the platform is highlighted by a wide curved strip, where you can place various furniture, on which you can not only sit down, but also lean against it. The authors also proposed to cover the space between the pavilions with bright tiles.
*** Wall
(Moscow, Russia)
And here is astronomy: the station is like a planetarium, which demonstrates starfall and the movement of celestial bodies. In front of the metro entrance there is an art object depicting the trajectories of the planets of the solar system. The walls of the passages between the aboveground and underground parts are made of frosted glass, one of which "bends" to form a long bench. The platform is equipped with a wall with sliding doors at the entrances to the carriages (a solution known to many from some St. Petersburg metro stations). Luminous stripes on the walls and ceiling, similar to a snapshot of the starry sky in motion, enhance the effect, allowing passengers to feel like celestial bodies in outer space.
*** Anton Barklyansky
(Moscow, Russia)
In this project, the station looks like a cave from a computer game. The pillars resemble stylized stalactites or - video footage of gigantic jets of white paint poured onto a blue surface, paused and turned upside down. The result is a hall in which each of the pylons is completed with a curvilinear canopy, which, due to their not quite correct shape, seem to be placed chaotically. Umbrellas-awnings are placed not only at the station, they also, softening the boundaries between underground and above ground, appear on the territory of the park.
*** Rosproject M
(Saint-Petersburg, Russia)
Cylindrical supports: thin at the top, placed at different angles, echo the Moscow ash trees; below - almost brutal, in the middle of the platform, go into the discs of light, visually penetrating the plane of the ceiling. Light - again the sun, there is no getting away from the toponym! - scattered across the ceiling of the station in small disks, similar to stars or sunbeams. In the passages, the lamps are collected in thin lines, and the entrance pavilions, transparent and thin-legged, will glow comfortably in the evenings. One way or another, the sun here turns out to be some kind of underground, coming from the inside out, and not vice versa.
Metro station "Novoperedelkino"
Since neither the name nor the environment, apparently, provided the authors with an explicit starting point, the Novoperedelkino station received a fan of various solutions, which, unlike the luminiferous Solntsev, were not connected by one theme. The architects were more likely to think about the Russian identity as a whole, presenting it as a concrete bunker in the forest, a heraldic eagle rippling in the eyes, a fair of lurid ornamentation, as well as less plot items - a set of acid colors or a frozen white “scarf”.
*** FAS (t)
(Moscow, Russia)
The idea of the project: "forest under the ground". The station is underground, but with the help of luminous stripes with images of trees, the architects imitate an open metro stop (such as, for example, the station of the Filevskaya line, but there is a train in the open air, and here a living forest is imitated along the edges of the station). Everything is real, that is, everything except the painted trees - [UPD: The authors specified that the forest will not be painted, but the real one. It is planned to smoothly lower the 'green' strips separating the main highway from the roads of the backup roads to the level of the railway track, and plant them with shrubs and small trees, thereby creating a feeling of mixed forest and natural relief. All this is separated from the railway tracks with stained glass. "] The space of the station is very brutal in contrast to the trees, dark concrete, communications are open, the severity of the man-made emphasizes the ephemeral nature of the pastoral forest., played skillfully: the roughness of the walls is enhanced by side light, the stripes of which, moreover, in the right places tear off the ceiling from the walls or drag us into the passages tunnels.
*** Gerber Architekten
(Dortmund, Germany)
The project is based on one beautiful plastic theme: a white corrugated fan, the large folds of which resemble silk rather than paper (although they even more closely resemble Corian), at the station serves as a sculptural nonlinear ceiling, stretching over the platform; before leaving, it gathers in a large column (approximately like on the Kurskaya), and bursts out to the surface almost like a handkerchief of an aesthetic pilot of the thirties: a white scarf from under the black earth. The fan-scarf is planned to be illuminated with a pleasant spectrum of daylight.
*** Studio of Boris Voskoboinikov [NEFARESEARCH]
(Moscow, Russia)
A simple parallelepiped of the entrance pavilion, made of a material similar to a perforated breadboard or honeycomb. The whole project is filled with color and optimism; Bright fluorescent light, which makes passengers feel depressed, the authors propose to replace it with light in cheerful colors of green, orange and purple shades. The walls of the passage will turn into an active navigation and information panel. The warning lines on the platform and the line diagrams are designed to be in the form of printed circuit board tracks.
*** Palast Architekts
(Riga, Latvia)
The authors decided to glorify the Novoperedelkino metro station as the quietest station in the world. To do this, they propose to cover the walls and ceiling of the station with innovative panels made of sound-insulating and noise-absorbing materials that prevent sound waves from reflecting off the walls and creating an echo. For the same purpose, the plane of the surface of the walls at the station has been significantly increased - it is made in the form of a corrugation, and in places of diamond rust (the Faceted Chamber), which unobtrusively folds into something either Babylonian, or Byzantine, or simply imperial-heraldic. The large stone lattice of the entrance pavilion, made up of relief "windows", complements the plot.
*** Evgeny Leonov
(Riga, Latvia)
Here the emphasis is on the old Russia: the motives of the decoration of the Moscow chambers and chambers, herbal (however, similar to Kholui, as well as to the branded Olympic drawings of Sochi), pillars expanding upward as if they needed to hold stone vaults. In fact, "vaults" are light boxes equipped with RGB-LED-LED emitters that can change the colors of the lighting during city holidays.
*** More than 600 projects were submitted to the competition, 96 were admitted to the jury that met all the requirements of the competition (Novoperedelkino - 46, Solntsevo - 50). Of these, 22 projects are from foreign participants: Slovenia, the Netherlands, Germany, India, France, Bulgaria, Spain, Cyprus, Great Britain, Canada, Italy.
Jury of the competition:
- Marat Khusnullin, Deputy Mayor of Moscow for Urban Development Policy and Construction (Chairman of the Jury);
- Andrey Bochkarev, Head of the Moscow City Construction Department;
- Andrey Gnezdilov, chief architect of the Research and Development Institute of the General Plan of Moscow;
- Elena Gonzalez, architecture critic, curator of exhibitions;
- Erken Kagarov, Art Director of the Art. Lebedev Studio
- Olga Kosyreva, co-founder of Design Lecture Center;
- Sergey Kuznetsov, chief architect of the city of Moscow;
- Konstantin Matveev, General Director of Mosinzhproekt OJSC;
- Alexey Muratov, partner of KB Strelka;
- Vladimir Plotkin, Founding Partner and Chief Architect of TPO Reserve;
- Elena Solovieva, head of NPO-38 "Historical Zones" of the Research and Development Institute of the General Plan of Moscow;
- Vasily Tsereteli, executive director of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art;
- Nikolai Shumakov, President of the Union of Moscow Architects, Chief Architect of Metrogiprotrans.