The pavilion intended for the New Year's fair and designed by the Lavka bureau was installed in December on the square in front of the entrance to Zaryadye Park from Vasilyevsky Spusk. As the authors rightly note, “there is no living space. Everything is occupied by benches, trash cans and trees,”- according to the rules of modern urbanism, squares now usually look like this.
Therefore, the architects note, they “integrated the existing 'hindrances' into the pavilion. One of the park benches is hidden under the podium, on which the courtyard is located. Two more birches of the park "sprout" through the courtyard. Actually, we built a pavilion around these birches and benches."
As you might guess, the pavilion was a wooden structure in the form of a ring (oh, there are a lot of ring-shaped buildings around recently, as if, according to the principle described by Dmitry Bykov in the book "Railway", everything closes into a wheel of transformations). The ring was formed by the pavilions of the New Year's fair - and that's right, you can't always line them up like townhouses.
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zooming 1/6 Snowfall Pavilion in Zaryadye © Shop
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zooming 2/6 Snowfall Pavilion in Zaryadye © Shop
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zooming 3/6 Snowfall Pavilion in Zaryadye © Shop
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zooming 4/6 Plan. Snowfall pavilion in Zaryadye © Lavka
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zooming 5/6 Pavilion Snowfall in Zaryadye © Shop
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zooming 6/6 Section with a view of the art object "Sun". Snowfall pavilion in Zaryadye © Lavka
Since the relief difference on the designated site turned out to be significant, a wooden platform appeared inside, on which artificial snow was poured, whose appearance before the holidays in the city center was vigorously discussed in social networks, and several lush live Christmas trees were placed next to a couple of local birches. What explains the name of the pavilion #snowfall: a Christmas tree garden in the snow or a snow garden, because the snow here in the courtyard was the main element of the landscape - who has not seen Christmas trees in New Year's Moscow? But this year we saw little snow, so they made an installation out of it.
The idea was consonant with the Zaryadye park: so that people, fenced off from the familiar panorama of the city center by a wall of kiosks with souvenirs and goodies, turn around and find themselves in a “fabulous” winter forest. The role of which was played by a courtyard with Christmas trees and snow.
For fabulousness - and perhaps also to emphasize the degree of conventionality of the plan - a round projection screen was also installed in the courtyard, symbolizing the rising winter sun.
The outer facade of the ring, as well as the slope of the roof sloping inward according to the principle of the antique campluvium, was faced with black galvanized metal - however, the authors did not turn the pavilion into a "black box", cutting through the facade with a wide strip of translucent polycarbonate, scattering the light of multi-colored lanterns inside the kiosks until it feels radiant New Year's toys.
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zooming 1/7 Snowfall Pavilion in Zaryadye Photo © Ilya Ivanov
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zooming 2/7 Snowfall Pavilion in Zaryadye Photo © Ilya Ivanov
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zooming 3/7 Snowfall Pavilion in Zaryadye Photo © Ilya Ivanov
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zooming 4/7 Snowfall Pavilion in Zaryadye Photo © Ilya Ivanov
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zooming 5/7 Snowfall Pavilion in Zaryadye Photo © Ilya Ivanov
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zooming 6/7 Snowfall Pavilion in Zaryadye Photo © Ilya Ivanov
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zooming 7/7 Snowfall Pavilion in Zaryadye Photo © Ilya Ivanov
Thus, the pavilion was covered on the outside with cold modern materials, and inside it consisted of warm light wood, whose temporary character was emphasized in every possible way: we went to St. Basil's Cathedral as if from a grid of scaffolding.
Presumably, this effect of the temporality of the structure was calculated and incorporated into the project: the architects created a semblance of a sports arena, but small, toy and temporary.
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zooming 1/4 Sketches for finding a shape. Snowfall pavilion in Zaryadye © Lavka
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zooming 2/4 Pavilion Snowfall in Zaryadye © Shop
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zooming 3/4 Snowfall Pavilion in Zaryadye © Shop
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zooming 4/4 Pavilion Snowfall in Zaryadye © Shop
And why "was" - because the holidays are over, the snow has melted, the pavilion has been dismantled.
