In a press release from the Moscow City Architecture Committee, the Vostok + Martela project was named the most thoughtful from the point of view of economics and logistics. School under the project "Vostok" / Martela - a four-storey building with an exploited roof, on which it is planned to place a sports ground. On the lower floors there are classrooms for pupils of the younger age group, a library, classrooms for creativity, foreign languages and informatics, a universal hall with a stage and a sports block. On the third floor there are teaching and administrative rooms and classrooms for middle and senior age groups. There is a recreation area for students on the school grounds.
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zooming 1/5 Architectural concept of the New Look school © Vostok Architectural Bureau + Martela
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zooming 2/5 Project of the school "New Look" in Khamovniki Architectural bureau "Vostok" + Martela
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zooming 3/5 Project of the New Look school in Khamovniki © Vostok Architectural Bureau + Martela
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zooming 4/5 Project of the school "New Look" in Khamovniki Architectural bureau "Vostok" + Martela
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zooming 5/5 Project of the school "New Look" in Khamovniki Architectural bureau "Vostok" + Martela
The competition was also attended by:
- Semrén & Mansson (Gothenburg, Stockholm, St. Petersburg),
- consortium UNK Project (Moscow) + Storaket (Yerevan) + Smart School (Moscow),
- Bureau of Architecture Sergey Skuratov (Moscow)
- Bureau of Architecture KAMEN (Moscow).
The school is planned to be located within the Garden Quarters complex, designed and largely implemented according to the project of Sergei Skuratov. It is planned as an innovative complex at MGIMO. The implementation will be carried out by the non-profit partnership "Inteko", MGIMO and the Foundation for Support of Educational Initiatives "New Look". It is planned to finance the construction with donations from legal entities and individuals. GC Region has already allocated 350 million rubles for the school, according to the MGIMO website.
JSB "Vostok" has already built a club house "Magnum" near the "Garden Quarters", to the north along Usacheva Street.
The press release of the Moscow Committee for Architecture and Construction also states that the portfolio of the "young architects" of the consortium "Vostok" / Martela - "Khoroshkola" in Khoroshevo-Mnevniki, designed, as you know, by architects A-Project (authors of the project, general designers and general contractors - Project”,“KROST”), the“Letovo”school, designed by Atelier PRO and implemented by AB ATRIUM, as well as the Cambridge international school in Skolkovo, built by the architect Tolgi Keser from Izmir. [To be more precise, only one of the consortium members participated in the development of all these schools, the company Martela, which specializes in “designing and equipping educational spaces” - approx. ed.].
“We already have meaningful ideas for the formation of educational and educational programs that will be based on the principle of“human-centeredness”in order to identify and develop the individual abilities of each child,” said Anatoly Torkunov, MGIMO Rector.
The "New Look" school on the territory of "Garden Quarters" is planned to be built by 2023.
The jury of the competition included:
- A. V. Torkunov, rector of MGIMO - chairman of the jury;
- A. L. Nikolaev, President of JSC Inteko;
- S. O. Kuznetsov, chief architect of Moscow;
- A. A. Emelyanov, Head of the Department of Cultural Heritage of the City of Moscow;
- N. B. Kuzmina, Vice-Rector of MGIMO;
- A. A. Kuzmina, chief architect of the Moscow region;
- A. Yu. Belov, Director of the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art,
- other.