The curator and inspirer of the award, Nikolai Malinin, first defined wooden architecture as #good. Having said, well, just like Bilbo Baggins on his centenary birthday, something like the following: wooden architecture in Russia is made by exceptionally good people, and the rest is done by different people. The audience had to be greeted with a video message, because despite the efforts made, Nikolai Malinin did not manage to come to the awarding ceremony from the USA, and the ceremony was led, and admittedly, brilliantly, by Vladimir Kuzmin.
Let not a hundred, but ten years, but the award not only accumulated traditions and gathered a circle of like-minded people, but, presumably, served as one of the drivers for the development of the industry, which is now in a completely different, more developed state than 10 years ago, awaiting revision of the standards towards the resolution of multi-tiered wooden construction and, in general, less fears in the fire hazard of the material, which would allow building more and more interesting. Alas, Oleg Panitkov, who worked, in particular, on the revision of these standards and was a member of the expert council of the award, did not live to see the ceremony for less than a month.
But back to the award. If we talk about trends - a significant part of the short list was taken by the projects of the festival "Drevolyutsiya", professional and significant events; but none of them received a prize, but the jury awarded Nikolai Belousov and, somehow it happened, to all his enterprises in general, a grand prix for achievements "in aggregate".
The Grand Prix
It used to be that the grand prix went to buildings, for example the Ostashevsky tower, and now - to a person (I just want to add “and a steamer”), with a fresh, for the first time in the history of ARCHIWOOD, the wording “for a career” - something like Venetian lifetime achievement or Moscow "architect of the year". Vladimir Kuzmin invited the participants of the festival "Drevolution", young architects, students of Nikolai Belousov to the stage, and congratulated the master, calling him the creator, benefactor and righteous man of wooden architecture. It all ended with the laureate's modest statement that the participants of the festival should be awarded, since they do everything, and he only watches.
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zooming 1/12 ARCHIWOOD 2019 Award Ceremony. Speech via Skype, curated by Nikolai Malinin. © Photo: Anna Peshkova
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zooming 2/12 ARCHIWOOD 2019 award ceremony. Alexander Lvovsky © Photo: Anna Peshkova
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zooming 3/12 ARCHIWOOD 2019 award ceremony. Vladimir Kuzmin and Nikolay Belousov © Photo: Anna Peshkova
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zooming 4/12 ARCHIWOOD 2019 award ceremony. Alexander Lvovsky and Totan Kuzembaev © Photo: Anna Peshkova
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zooming 5/12 ARCHIWOOD 2019 award ceremony. Yulia Zinkevich. © Photo: Anna Peshkova
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zooming 6/12 ARCHIWOOD 2019 award ceremony. © Photo: Anna Peshkova
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zooming 7/12 ARCHIWOOD 2019 award ceremony. © Photo: Anna Peshkova
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zooming 8/12 ARCHIWOOD 2019 award ceremony. Alexey Rosenberg. © Photo: Anna Peshkova
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zooming 9/12 ARCHIWOOD 2019 award ceremony. Igor Shvartsman and a portrait of Sergei Mishin. © Photo: Anna Peshkova
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zooming 10/12 ARCHIWOOD 2019 award ceremony. © Photo: Anna Peshkova
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zooming 11/12 ARCHIWOOD 2019 award ceremony. Stas Gorshunov © Photo: Anna Peshkova
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zooming 12/12 ARCHIWOOD 2019 award ceremony. © Photo: Anna Peshkova
And yet - Belousov is really a master of wooden architecture, the founder of a trend that combined modern architecture with the traditions of a log house, a teacher of many, a creator, without exaggeration, of a school. There is no doubt about the fairness of the award; rather, it is even self-evident.
Jury Special Prize
The strong point of a good bonus is the ability to adapt to the material in time. Some disagreement happened in the jury, and it brought us a new nomination, which noted "Brateevskie teleporters" from the Praktik bureau of Grigory Guryanov. They are not teleporters, in fact - the name is a figurative move - but the sheds protecting the pedestrian path to the Brateevskaya Poima park from power lines, meeting modern safety standards there under the power lines). A wooden lattice protects the path from an accident, for example, if high-voltage wires suddenly break - an undoubtedly useful structure and a public benefit: after all, who needs a park if it is difficult to get to it? And here and in a straight line to walk about a kilometer, - the authors specify.
Vacation home
The Country House nomination is, in fact, the main one. Multi-storey wooden construction is not allowed in the country, therefore, private residential buildings are the largest and, as a rule, thoughtful, complete and impressive statement in the field of wooden construction. Although recently they have been successfully crowded out by public spaces, in which more and more various resources are being invested, the “individual house” is not losing ground, and now there are quite a lot of applicants on the short list - as many as eight, applicants. Although in
it was ten last year. But it is obvious that there are a lot of wooden houses of modern architecture, they have entered the trend, as they say.
For ten years of the existence of the award, the vector of development of its main category is seen as follows. Houses of four types won in it: orthogonal modernism like the house of Grigory Dainov in the Yaroslavl Region or the House of FAS (t); archetypal modernism with a gable roof, like Alexei Rosenberg in Dukhanino or Boris Bernaskoni in Volga-Dacha; the log house "Trap for the sun" by Nikolai Belousov; and, finally, a wooden parametric, which can be attributed to the House of Cinema from the Le Atelier bureau, which won last year, as well as this year's winner, the own house of the architect Sergei Mishin in Vyritsa.
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zooming 1/3 Architect's House in Vyritsa. STUDIO MISHIN. Arch. Sergey Mishin. © Photo: Yuri Palmin
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zooming 2/3 Architect's house in Vyritsa. STUDIO MISHIN. Arch. Sergey Mishin. © Photo: Yuri Palmin
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zooming 3/3 Architect's house in Vyritsa. STUDIO MISHIN. Arch. Sergey Mishin. © Photo: Yuri Palmin
“I, having tied my iPhone to a fishing rod, photographed the fragments of the landscapes I needed in order to enclose them in the frames of the windows, and only then build the body of the house around them,” the author explains his plan. So the shape of the house, the roof and walls of which are covered with a single "skin" of burnt larch, was born from the viewfinder. Experts instantly called the house "plasticine", since its form, which was born from research, was represented, in addition to the house itself, by a stucco model of an excellent degree of generalization and sculptural "wrinkle". In other words, it turns out that the plasticine house won the wooden prize. So that's great.
Online voting gave the victory to First House of Yegor Egorychev. During the presentation, there was a discussion: Totan Kuzembaev, stepping on the stage, voiced his favorite thesis (well, or one of them) about the unreliability of the results of the popular vote, which, hopefully, did not spoil the author's victory. However, the author himself is to blame - he himself began the conversation, literally challenging Totan at the time of receiving the award.
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zooming Online Voting Award FirstHouse. DIAGONAL. Arch. Egor Egorychev © Photo: Natalia Melikova
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zooming Online Voting Award FirstHouse. DIAGONAL. Arch. Egor Egorychev © Photo: Natalia Melikova
The house is small, 5x6 m, but it can accommodate a family with two children and two guests. Despite its diminutiveness, it contains all the basic components of a modern country house, even a stained-glass window on the facade and a room in the attic under the bevel of the roof.
Small object
The authors of the FLEXSE house, the best according to the jury, Stepan Kukharsky and Aline Chereyskaya, also sloped the roof, but they have an oval plan, and the house combines flexibility, flex, with the smallest size - xs. According to the authors, it can take on many different functions, but the example shows a bathhouse.
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zooming Flexse. St. Petersburg. SA Lab. Arch. Stepan Kukharsky, Alina Chereyskaya © Photo: Ekaterina Titenko
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zooming Flexse. St. Petersburg. SA Lab. Arch. Stepan Kukharsky, Alina Chereyskaya © Photo: Ekaterina Titenko
The prize of the people was given to the house of the guard of the farm "Zaazyakovo" in the village of Sredny Azyakovo near Yoshkar-Ola, whose exceptionally delicate, even lace image, presumably, is intended to soften the harsh function. Or maybe lure you closer: you see, such a lovely gazebo, you come closer, and there is a guard and it's good if you don't have a dog.
Public building
In this weighty nomination, the opinion of the people and the jury coincided. The winner was the recreation center in the Novosibirsk Zaeltsovsky pine forest. It must be said that the base looks rather intimate, because it is divided into two objects on the sides of a deep ravine: a house with a diagonal grid of stained-glass windows and a high narrow portal of the entrance. In the semi-underground building there is a sports equipment rental shop, and events can be held on the roof.
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zooming Recreation center in the Zaeltsin forest. Architects: Rizhome. Evgeny Reshetov, Tatiana Sinelnikova, Anastasia Voropaeva, Ilya Belyakov © Photograph: Dmitry Tsyrenshchikov
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zooming Recreation center in the Zaeltsin forest. Architects: Rizhome. Evgeny Reshetov, Tatiana Sinelnikova, Anastasia Voropaeva, Ilya Belyakov © Photograph: Dmitry Tsyrenshchikov
Wood in decoration
The nomination "Wood in decoration" had to go through a shake-up this year: the expert council did not leave anything in it, but then the jury, looking more closely at the objects, transferred three applicants from other sections here.
Winner of the nomination "Wood in finishing" according to the jury - pavilion-living room "Point on the map"
from Priozersk.
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The Pavilion of the Future, built in Vyksa following the results of the Art-Ovrag festival competition, won in the popular vote. The helicoid staircase divides the space into two parts: an open public and a closed all-season one. The rotunda, amazing in its beauty and dynamics, can simultaneously function as a concert and theater hall, coworking, sports ground and exhibition. The prize was presented by the guru of wooden architecture and multiple winner of ARCHIWOOD Totan Kuzembaev.
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zooming 1/3 Pavilion of the future in Vyksa. Authors: Sergey Nebotov, Anastasia Gritskova, Sergey Aksenov © photo Ilya Ivanov
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zooming 2/3 Pavilion of the future in Vyksa. Authors: Sergey Nebotov, Anastasia Gritskova, Sergey Aksenov © photo Ilya Ivanov
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zooming 3/3 Pavilion of the future in Vyksa. Authors: Sergei Nebotov, Anastasia Gritskova, Sergei Aksenov © photo Ilya Ivanov
Which - let's digress for a moment - this year did not exhibit his order-bearing Klaugis estate on ARCHIWOOD. At the ceremony, Totan said: it’s time to give way to the young, and even - it would be necessary for everyone over forty-five to prohibit participation … To which Vladimir Kuzmin retorted: well, you’ll invite us all to get up and go out now? The question remained open. But note that Nikolai Malinin, in his review of the shortlist, gave a different explanation for the absence of the famous villa in the prize list, namely: its supporting structure is concrete.
Art object
According to the jury, the best art object was the architectural and conceptual project Plywood Theater - a fully functioning stage-installation from the BDT named after G. A. Tovstonogov. This is a real theater with a stage and a dressing room, dedicated to the centenary of the Bolshoi Drama Theater. The red icebreaker is wedged / built into the space of the old hall. Naturally, I recall 1919, the avant-garde, "beat the whites with a red wedge." The image is built on a complex relationship between old and new. The project was done by an architect, artist and director.
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zooming Plywood theater at the BDT. St. Petersburg. Unification of the Archattack. Architects: Andrey Moguchy, Alexander Shishkin-Hokusai, Andrey Voronov © Photo Sergey Misenko, Stas Levshin, Svetlana Shchagina, Victor Bergart
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zooming Plywood theater at the BDT. Unification of the Archattack. Architects: Andrei Moguchy, Alexander Shishkin-Hokusai, Andrei Voronov ArkhAtaka Association. © Photo Sergey Misenko, Stas Levshin, Svetlana Shchagina, Victor Bergart
The People's Prize was awarded to Alexey Luchko's Stayka 2607 in Satka. Flocks are called local sheds, collected from anything, and the theme perfectly fell on the theme of objets trouvés, beloved by sovrisk in general for a long time. It would seem that a hundred years have passed, but everything does not get bored, on the contrary, it acquires new perspectives.
Restoration
What can I say, the nomination did not appear as part of the award right away and, having started sonorously, has now somewhat slowed down development: two objects of the long-list, which were bravoly short-listed, shared the jury prize and the love of the people.
The first went to the chapel of Abraham Gorodetsky, a modest building of the early 20th century. They sorted it out, retaining 30% of the original logs, and transported it to the Ostashevsky terem; the project was led by a student of Alexander Popov, Anton Maltsev. Surprisingly, a hundred years ago there were many such chapels, but now we are restoring by a miracle (perhaps through the prayers of the Monk Abraham, glorious for the healing of the possessed?) The surviving crumbs.
Izvoshchikov's Vologda house, already praised by Arkhnadzor, won the popular vote. The city estate consists of two parts, a wooden and a stone one, and the wooden one had to be pretty much sorted out, according to experts. And meanwhile, the house claims to be perceived as a kind of good sign: in Vologda, it took so long to replace wooden houses with concrete dummies that restoration in material is already a considerable victory, it would be good if it would indicate a trend. Presenting the prize, Nadezhda Snigireva, an architect and activist from the Vologda Project Group 8, defined the project with the words: “to do the impossible in impossible conditions”.
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zooming Izvoshchikov House in Vologda. German Yakimov, Vladimir Novoselov, Alexey Smirnov, Sergey Popov © Photo V. Novoselov
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zooming Izvoshchikov House in Vologda. German Yakimov, Vladimir Novoselov, Alexey Smirnov, Sergey Popov © Photo V. Novoselov
Well, we will agree, although we would like to see more projects in the restoration nomination, and the main thing is that the prize does not abandon this seemingly "outdated" nomination - someone should be looking for examples of truly modern restoration, namely focused on preserving authenticity, and showing them to people.
Urban environment design
The jury prize went to the embankment of the small town of Kulebaki in the Nizhny Novgorod region - the happy laureates complained that the city was unlucky, they could not get a ministerial grant for landscaping. And yet the embankment was realized even without a grant. Let's wish the city good luck, perhaps the prize will bring it.
The online voting was won by Gorka-Lisa from Kazan, a kind of origami made of wood with a beautiful, I must say, metal slope. Having received the prize, the authors promised to "please the fox" by informing her of the award.
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zooming Gorka-Fox. Architectural Bureau "Leapfrog", architects Daria Bychkova, Maria Pomelova, Peter © Photo Daniil Shvedov
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zooming Gorka-Lisa, Architectural Bureau "Leapfrog", architects Daria Bychkova, Maria Pomelova, Petr © Photo Daniil Shvedov
Interior
And here only two objects were discovered - only not immediately, as in the restoration, but after a selection carried out by an expert council. What the repeated award winner Alexey Rosenberg, presenting the prize, called an alarming symptom. There was not much to choose from.
The jury awarded the Kazarma residential building designed by Dmitry Kondrashov.
The leader of the popular vote was the Drum Hostel at the Flacon plant, marked with a bright yellow color similar to the ARCHIWOOD corporate color. Around that similarity, replicas swirled at the time of the prize presentation.
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zooming Hostel Baraban. Arch. Natalia and Alexey Istomin © Photo Yuri Grishko
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zooming Hostel Baraban. Arch. Natalia and Alexey Istomin © Photo Yuri Grishko
Object design
The jury recognized the best chair-table "Karl" by Eduard Zabuga, an artist who has been designing wooden objects for more than twenty years.
The prize of the popular vote was awarded to the WOOD LINE lamp - an oak floor lamp designed by Vadim Golubev and engineer Evgeny Golosov from Novosibirsk.
Special prizes
From the Swedish company Kährs:
- Ivan Ovchinnikov and Olga Sandakova. House-bridge. Double-house of the 3rd series;
- Olga Vetosheva and Eduard Zakharov. House LODZH;
- Architect Ivan Shalmin. House "Rough Long".
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zooming 1/4 House-bridge. Double-house 3 series. Ivan Ovchinnikov and Olga Sandakova. © Photo Artem Lasovsky Ivan Ovchinnikov
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zooming 2/4 House-bridge. Double-house 3 series. Ivan Ovchinnikov and Olga Sandakova. © Photo Artem Lasovsky Ivan Ovchinnikov
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zooming 3/4 Olga Vetosheva and Eduard Zakharov. House Lodge © photo by Dima Tsyrenschikov
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zooming 4/4 Ivan Shalmin. House "Rough Long" © Photo by Yevgeny Luchin
From the Russian Design House company:
- Olga Vetosheva and Eduard Zakharov. house LODZH;
- Archpoint Bureau. Wine Boutique;
- Elina Tuktamisheva. Collection of lamps "Lemekh";
- Andrey Doinitsyn, Alexey Garbuzov for the project of the ARK residence;
- Anton Maltsev for the restoration project of the Chapel of Avraamy Gorodetsky.
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zooming 1/3 Olga Vetosheva and Eduard Zakharov. House Lodge © photo by Dima Tsyrenschikov
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zooming 2/3 Wine boutique. Archpoint Bureau. Valery Lizunov, Vitaly Chipak and Olga Nosova © photo Olga Melekestseva
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zooming 3/3 Designer Elina Tuktamisheva. Collection of lamps "Lemekh" Photo: Sofia Decor
Olga Zakharova, ex-director of Gorky Park, awarded a special prize for "Wooden in the City" the project of the Embankment in Tula by the Wowhous bureau, whose contribution in this area is large-scale and modern. And then long and convincingly encouraged the audience to design public spaces, thinking not only of the so-called hipsters, but also of the old.
