This year the Eco_tectonics award ceremony was held as part of the Arch Moscow exhibition. The award, organized by the National Agency for Sustainable Development, has been awarded since 2015 and aims to demonstrate the benefits of using the foundations of green building in their practice by architects.
For this season, 105 applications from more than 30 regions of Russia were submitted for the prize, which demonstrates the persistent interest of the professional community in this topic. The jury members also noted the growing quality and technological complexity of the implemented and conceptual projects. If earlier their descriptions featured the simplest eco-technologies, such as solar panels, wind turbines and thermal insulation, today architects are beginning to take care of the visual quality of the environment, striving for the correct embedding of artificial objects into the natural landscape; Attempts to record and restore biodiversity in the projected territories were also noted. In terms of formats and designs, the jury noted that at the peak of popularity today, compact modular housing construction and the so-called growing architecture, capable of modifying and adapting to the needs of its owners.
Among the innovations this year is the special nomination "Certified Objects", as well as thematic nominations "On the way to a passive house in Russia" (from the Passive House Institute) and "Taking care of forests, in accordance with FSC" (from the Russian branch of the Forest Stewardship Council) …
In each of the eight nominations of the award, the jury selected three winners. The laureates were:
Lodging
First place
Multifunctional apartment complex
ABD Architects and the City XXI Century development group (Moscow)
Second place
Ecohouse "Module" (Moscow region)
Architect Ilya Shevchenko
Third place
Residential building "Suprematism"
Architect Oleg Gavrilishchin (Armavir)
Commercial and public buildings
First place
MC "Green City" (Chelyabinsk)
Project manager: Valentina Gadalshina (architect bureau Arxigrad)
Second place
Eco-hotel for the southern regions of Russia
Architect Ekaterina Dorozhkina
Third place
Eco products store "Ambar" (Moscow region, residential complex "Skolkovo Park)
Architect Anton Saveliev (Norvex NLK)
Interior
First place
Crop Center (St. Petersburg)
Architect-designer Albina Davletshina
Second place
Design project of the apartment "Flying Ship" (Moscow)
Designer Yaroslava Galaiko (Ecologica Interiors company)
Third place
Institute for Interdisciplinary Medicine. Smart and healthy office (Moscow)
Architect Evgeny Zayachkovsky
Open spaces and common areas
First place
The project of ecological renovation of the courtyard area "Gems of the East" in Izhevsk
Yaroslav Usov (Moscow)
Second place
Landscape park "Savinovo" (Kazan)
Nadezhda Asanova
Third place
Yard design project. Friendship tree
Chief project architect: Ekaterina Iosipenko (Nika company, Rostov-on-Don)
Student projects
First place
The concept of development of the territory "Kronstadt coast"
Alexandra Finova (St. Petersburg)
Second place
Green parking complex with development of park and public areas
Maria Chernaya (3rd year student of ASA DSTU, Rostov-on-Don)
Third place
Multifunctional center "Green Cube"
Matvey Zhurkin (1st year master's student at the Tyumen State Institute of Culture)
Certified buildings
First place
Multifunctional apartment complex
ABD Architects and the City XXI Century development group (Moscow)
Second place
Family campus of the Skolkovo IC
Nikolay Lyutomsky (JS "Alice", Moscow)
Third place
Apart-hotel Docklands. Life (St. Petersburg)
Customer: GC Docklands development
Towards a passive house in Russia
First place
An example of a "Dalneye Dacha" in the Kalyazinsky District of the Tver Region
Architect Sergey Nazarov (Projectlife company, Moscow)
Second place
Compact energy efficient house in the village of Khlyabovo
Denis Volkov (D-Invest company)
Third place
Apart-hotel Docklands. Life (St. Petersburg)
Customer: GC Docklands development
Taking care of forests, in line with FSC
First place
Architect Oleg Gavrilishin (Armavir) for all projects using FSC timber
Second place
Renovation project and adaptation of the entrance to the Botanical Garden of Lomonosov Moscow State University
Architect Ekaterina Dikaryova
Third place
Institute for Interdisciplinary Medicine. Smart and healthy office (Moscow)
Architect Evgeny Zayachkovsky
Design project of the apartment "Flying Ship" (Moscow)
Designer Yaroslava Galaiko (Ecologica Interiors company)
The special diploma "For the promotion of the innovative direction of permaculture in Russia" was received by the head of the Russian Permaculture Center Holzer Valeria Bukina, and the special diploma "For special achievements in the field of energy-efficient construction" was awarded to Leader Invest with the project of a premium-class apartment complex "Residence on Pokrovsky Boulevard" in Moscow.
In addition to the winners in the nominations, the winners of the Grand Prix were selected. The first, second and third places in terms of the total number of points were taken by: the project of a multifunctional center near the Alekseevskaya metro station - by the ABD Architects architectural bureau with the support of the City XXI Century development group; the project of ecological renovation of the courtyard area "Gems of the East" in Izhevsk by the architect Yaroslav Usov and the "Plant Growing Center" by the architect-designer Albina Davletshina from St. Petersburg.
You can find out more on the award website.
