At the end of January 2018, students of the first year of the MARCH master's program presented their projects, developed over one semester, to external critics and practicing architects. The work took place in the framework of two studios - Landscape Repair (under the direction of Grigory Guryanov and Denis Chistov) and From Moscow to Nikola-Lenivets, headed by Sergey Gikalo and Alexander Kuptsov. The project location for the first studio was the territory of the Stroginskaya floodplain, and for the second, as the name implies, the Nikola-Lenivets art park. Students went to the field to immerse themselves in the topic and research. The three-month work resulted in scenarios for the development of the territory on the undeveloped peninsula under the Stroginsky Bridge and the concept of the MARSH summer residence in Nikola-Lenivets. We present the best of them.
Landscape Repair Studio
Moderators: Grigory Guryanov, Denis Chistov
Assistant: Daria Zaitseva
The studio's work was built around the phenomenon of "lost landscapes" - territories that were irreversibly influenced by human activity and subsequently abandoned. These territories are alienated from nature, from culture, from man. How should an architect act to overcome alienation? How can a lost landscape be reclaimed? Students had to answer these questions during the study of the Stroginskaya floodplain, an undeveloped natural area in the bend of the Moscow River, and further design. The place is quite popular, but at the same time it is not at all suited for leisure. A road bridge passes over the floodplain, exacerbating the marginal character of the coastal zone.
"Pool"
Author: Julia Belozertseva
In this project, the void under the Stroginsky bridge is filled, oddly enough, with water. The author proposes to expand the water space by creating an artificial river bed. The pool is intended not only to visually gather the fragmented territory into a single whole, but also to offer a new type of recreation for local residents.
"Art under the bridge"
Author: Polina Romanova
The starting point for creating the concept was the numerous graffiti on the territory of the Stroginskaya floodplain. The author transforms the wasteland under the bridge into a museum and laboratory of street art. The project involves the gradual expansion of the territory occupied by the art center.
Landscape Typography
Author: Irina Garifullina
The extreme park created by the author at a given site is based on a set of "letters" formed by natural relief or small architectural forms. Each "letter" is a training ground. Together they make up a "text" about the new history of the floodplain.
Studio "From Moscow to Nikola-Lenivets"
Moderators: Sergey Gikalo and Alexander Kuptsov
Assistant: Maria Tyulkanova
The students were offered to "escape from the city" and design a summer residence of the MARSH school on the territory of Nikola-Lenivets. In the process of research, they had to answer the questions:
- What place should the school in Nikola-Lenivets take?
- Will it be completely autonomous, providing students and teachers with everything from learning spaces and workshops to housing?
- Will the school be exclusively for summer use, or can it be used year-round, providing its premises to other institutions and local communities?
- What opportunities for the educational process open up the natural environment?
"Veche"
Author: Olga Kuvshinskaya
The summer school is proposed to be located in the village of Zvizzhi. The buildings of the complex are grouped around one courtyard. The author takes the value of the landscape as the basis of the project - each school room is focused on a specific predetermined element of the surrounding landscape. Windows instead of pictures are the basis for creating the interior of educational buildings.
"Okolitsa"
Author: Veronika Davitashvili
The author takes his project beyond the territory of Nikola-Lenivets to the abandoned village of Shadeevo, thereby indicating the possibility of reviving an empty settlement just a kilometer from an art park full of events and filled with people. In the concept of the school-village, built on a combination of old and new architecture, there was a place for the buildings preserved in Shadeevo.
"Field School"
Author: Daria Karmazina
The school in this project is growing, and the students themselves build it. The spatial grid-frame is filled with rooms as needed, depending on the time of the year and planned events. In addition to mastering the educational program, the students of the school will be constantly busy with the process of redesigning and improving the school building, adjusting it to their own needs and acquiring additional skills.
