The ArchiWOOD Prize is awarded 11 times in a row, having passed its 10th anniversary last year, its permanent curator and inspirer is in the United States, from where he cannot come to Moscow due to closed borders, and in Moscow, most companies are ordered to transfer employees to remote work. So it was decided to announce the laureates of the award in the online format. “We hesitated for a long time which type of conference to choose and nevertheless decided to take the risk. All the same, our ceremonies have never been official and formal, so now we can stand on ceremony,”Nikolai Malinin commented on this decision on his facebook. What's more, as they say. However, as the curator noted in his story about the short-list of the award, she has collected more applications this year than ever - 207.
The ceremony, meanwhile, was very lively despite the zoom, and perhaps, as Totan Kuzembaev suggested, and thanks to him: "… we need to project at a distance, discuss at a distance and communicate at a distance." In which, one must think, there is a grain of joke.
The awards were handed out for 4 hours, then they said goodbye for another half hour.
The participants spoke significantly more than usual, at times referring to sources, such as Evgeny Repin and Sergei Malakhov, whose performances were, on the one hand, the most emotional and, on the other hand, rich in analytics and comparisons. Nikolai Malinin paid much attention, as always, to the description of the objects of the short-list, constantly emphasizing that the short-list is the most objective sample of all possible. Several new nominations have been promised: for modular houses and for renovations. In addition, there are two winners in two main nominations, a total of four plus the fifth, the grand prix. Many winners.
As always, we note that among the awarded objects there are those that the expert council of the award almost rejected. For example, the Burned Bridge from the KATARSIS bureau, which received the Grand Prix - barely found itself in the list of nominees, which, it seems, Totan Kuzembaev recalled at the ceremony: “Do you remember, we wanted to reject hay?”. And the project received the highest, albeit rare, award in the history of the award.
"Metaphor of 2020" /The Grand Prix
Over the past 10 years, the Grand Prix at ArchiWOOD has been awarded only three times. Last year, Nikolai Belousov received the Astashevsky tower for lifetime achievement, 2017 grand prix, along with the prize for restoration, and Alexey Rosenberg for the house in Dukhanino in 2015. This is the fourth Grand Prix.
Burned bridge in the village of Nikola-Lenivets
Peter Sovetnikov, Vera Stepanskaya. KATARSIS ab
"The unanimous decision of the jury" was announced by Evgeny Repina, accompanying her message with a selection from an interview with Peter Sovetnikov and Vera Stepanskaya, illustrating the creative credo of young St. Petersburg architects - in fact, she presented the audience with their main ideas (we will add, recently
participated in the competition for the Tuchkov Buyan park as finalists).
According to Evgenia Repina, their work marks a breakthrough, and perhaps the emergence of a new language: “the apparatus that these young architects own is impressive. The name KATARSIS itself is more related to art, and its important component is a shock leading to renewal. Their super task is to improve the figurative language. They are busy with the idea of style, which, like Petersburgers, equates with the adequacy of the environment and the anonymity of language, in contrast, they see as an artistic gesture. A technique is implemented in the language. "At the same time, thoughtfulness, truthfulness and poetry are important for KATARSIS architects, “they often repeat the word“dignity”and the word“honesty”in interviews. In addition, they are very sensitive to the category of sincerity. They also call the principle of non-action, they think not about how to do something, but about how not to do too much. They say they take pleasure in giving up uninteresting tasks. They precisely define the problems of typology and the problems of historic cities. They have a wonderful project for the reconstruction of the historical center of Tyumen. The theme of respect for a person is constantly heard, their modesty is horrified by the commercialization of architecture, humane people, disrespect for the environment. Perhaps one can decide that this is an idealistic picture, but somehow they succeed in everything: they participate in a large number of competitions, they build a lot. " Evgenia Repina also recalled the victory of KATARSIS at the ArchiGraphics, and in the burned bridge, comparable in power of the idea not so much to architecture, but to cinematography, she saw the metaphor of parting with the past, and maybe even the providence of all the collisions of 2020: “almost a sacrifice, a real action and the mystical experience, the projected bonfire is a powerful gesture that can be interpreted in many ways."
In response, KATARSIS architects called the ArchiWOOD award a cult one: “We have been following the award from the very beginning. We would like to support Nikolai [Malinin] - we consider it very important that our outstanding legendary architects continue to participate in this award. Don't feel sorry for us, young architects, we can handle it. " Peter Sovetnikov also mentioned that, in his opinion, the architecture of St. Petersburg is now becoming more and more noticeable in the all-Russian context.
"Insolent trick"Country house / jury
House in the village of Lida
Totan Kuzembaev (project manager), Alexander Perventsev (GAP), Sergey Shoshin. Architectural workshop of Totan Kuzembaev
Totan Kuzembaev is faithful to the idea of experiment and the theme of flight. A villa in Klaugu Muizha takes off with a console, and a house in the village of Lida hangs on a metal frame over a slope, and even tilted - neither give nor take a chicken on a roost, or a shed that has fallen back in some awkward position. Or a plywood airplane, laid up with no chance of flying, but still proud.
There is no doubt that all these effects are calculated. Yes, and it also has a hole inside it, a large terrace, and two large window-eyes on the sides, like a stove from a cartoon based on a Russian fairy tale. The discussion was predictably heated.
Sergei Malakhov, presenting the award, compared the house with a sinking ship, and said: “in my opinion, the house does not fit into the landscape at all, this is a brazen trick in relation to the environment, but we voted for this house because it is a real architectural adventure What Totan does is experimental architecture, breakthrough architecture, something without which cultural space does not exist. Half in jest, we called it Villa Savoy II. Is that an ark anyway? Raft of Medusa? What's going on there? This is a joke against the backdrop of an ordinary village. Here is the main thing that we fought for - so that the architect could arrange for us, ordinary people, a real architectural adventure. An adventure, like that of Corbusier, does not guarantee us a comfortable stay, it guarantees an unforgettable experience so that life does not seem dull to us - this is the main advantage of the object."
On facebook Totan Kuzembaev
He reacted to the jury's comment as follows: "The jury called our project inappropriate, awkward, with uncomfortable bedrooms, and for which the prize was given is unclear, probably due to pull."
During the conversation, it turned out that this was Totan Kuzembaev's own house, and then the author formulated his position, akin to the architecture of the house, provocatively: “… as a member of the expert council, I have the right to speak out. We are far from the people, we have separated from the people for a long time. What the people want - we do not notice it and in general we mock the people. No shortlist needed, why do we choose? The people must choose themselves, then we will understand what the people want. Guys, we need to get down to the ground and be closer to the people. And I built this for myself, not for the people. As a doctor, he first inoculates himself with smallpox, and then offers it to the people. Maybe people will like it, someone wants such an experiment. And if he does not want to - well, he does not want to. That I have broken away from the people is 100%, people come to me to look at me as if they were a fool. I sit there, explaining, someone understands, someone does not. So what? I did it for myself. Well, there is a fool in the village."
This was followed by a discussion about the people, as well as about whether the masters should participate in the award. Nikolai Malinin inadvertently mentioned that Alexander Brodsky was refusing to give projects for the award, after which Totan Kuzembaev long and coquettishly promised himself not to participate anymore - the result of this conversation was the remark of the architects of the KATARSIS bureau, cited above. Let us add on our own - definitely, without the masters, the prize will not be the same, and it is better to persuade Brodsky than to lose Kuzembaev. And we must think that everyone understands this.
And here's another important remark from Totan Kuzembaev - it turns out that if we want to visit the house, we won't recognize the house, since the author has already repainted it.
House in Romashkov
Architect Denis Dementyev, designer Alexey Knyazev (Norvex NLK)
Denis Dementyev's house works with the same slope theme as Totan Kuzembaev, but its slope is steeper, 40 degrees, the house is taller and larger. There is a slalom mountain next to the site, and the entrance to the house is via a bridge built specially for this. The view of the stunning distance. House area 420 m2 on a plot of 2.7 acres - amazing efficiency in the distribution of beautiful panoramas.
Presenting the award, Marina Prozorovskaya compared the house with a good suit, ideally suited to a person: “you can see who the boss is, how he lives, what is his lifestyle and way of thinking. This is the uniqueness of the task, which is why a second laureate has appeared”. She described the house as discreet and “Swiss”.
Semyon Goglev from Norvex NLK commented on the project on behalf of the authors: “It was an absolutely adventurous project, completely insane. I don’t know how, Marin, you appreciated the severity and restraint, the Swiss … Absolutely our customer was the same as we were. When he arrived, we felt a mutual understanding. We are now close friends. Denis painted the house in 2 weeks, the lower floor appeared during construction. There was a desire to apply our new design, we applied it and are very satisfied. For two weeks we tried to figure out a way for us to base ourselves on this site. " [Totan Kuzembaev, sitting with Semyon Goglev in the same real space, comments along the way: "… foundation, reinforcement … who cares?"].
Country house / people
Reconstruction of a summer residence in Kratovo
Nikolay Lyzlov, Evgeniya Mikulina. Lyzlov Architectural Workshop
No less heated was the discussion of Evgenia Mikulina's dacha in Kratov, reconstructed by Nikolai Lyzlov with the preservation of the old house; Evgeniya Mikulina acted as a designer, choosing the environment for her own home. The prize was presented by a member of the expert council Lara Kopylova - at a meeting of the council she actively advocated this project, and proposed a new nomination "old dacha". In general, much has been said about the spirit of the old dacha.
Evgenia Mikulina spoke in detail about the value of the country-house, the desire of the authors to preserve the spirit of the old dacha during its renovation: “the house of the 1940s, we tried to keep it as old, we even tried to make the fence shabby”. The dacha is located in Kratovo, but far from the house of Mikhail Filippov, near the railway. Evgenia Mikulina stressed several times that, in her opinion, Nikolai Lyzlov is the best master of reconstruction of old architecture and even monuments among Russian architects.
I must say that at the current ArchiWOOD we talked about new nominations several times. Here, too, Nikolai Malinin, making a reservation that the prize would not like to be “turned into Architecture, where all the sisters have earrings,” suggested that the “reconstruction” nomination would appear in the future.
Public building / jury and people
Generally speaking, on ArchiWOODe, the decision of the jury and the award of the popular vote often coincide. This time it coincided once; however, the jury awarded two prizes, so there are still two objects in the nomination.
Sports entertainment center near the shopping center "MEGA" in Khimki
MAP (architecture), Alpbau (constructive)
Pyotr Kostelov, who, like Nikolai Malinin, was from New York, admitted that during the spring quarantine he was locked up next to this object, and the latter brightened up his isolation period: “This object brought in heat, despite where it is located, among all this box-shaped industrial architecture, the place is cold, bare functional, and this object is a kind of oasis in the midst of the nightmare that is happening there. Kostelov also called the lattice of triangles a characteristic technique of the authors.
MAParchitects, in addition to the project of the entertainment center, worked on the master plan for the entire territory.
Public building / jury only
House-workshop near St. Petersburg
Artyom Nikiforov, Mikhail Voinov, Anastasia Lysenko
Evgenia Repina, inviting everyone to read
Lara Kopylova's text about Nikiforov's house-workshop, offered at the same time her own analysis of the project: Palladio, the Russian estate, the dacha, and the avant-garde - in black facades and white interiors: "an incredibly poetic thing."
Nikolay Malinin also gave the floor to Lara Kopylova, “because this is a holiday for Lara, who single-handedly fights for good traditional architecture. There have not been any classic houses among the ArchiWOOD winners yet, this is an unexpected breakthrough”.
Lara Kopylova: “I have a lot of impressions, from the Palladian facade and the witty rusty unedged board, and at the same time from the extraordinary interior, which could be called modernist … Everything is great in terms of taste and proportions”.
Urban design / jury
Natural playground "Orlandia" in the village of Bolshoye Kuzemkino
Daria Bychkova, Maria Pomelova, Zlata Gordeeva, Suren Akopyan, Nina Gogina, Valeria Tolkacheva. Architectural bureau "Chekhard"
According to Alexei Tarashevsky, the Leapfrog site has something in common with the Ebb lamp (about it here a little below, in the Subject Design nomination) with references to Suprematism.
The representative of the bureau, Maria Pomelova, admitted that the architects are pleased to “finally get the choice of the jury,” she said that the site is located far away, in a village in the Leningrad Region, on the border of the Kurgalsky Nature Reserve - by train to Kingisepp, and then literally on the rebar. And Nikolai Malinin recalled that during the work of the jury, Mikhail Khazanov doubted the safety of the site, and his colleagues dissuaded him, saying that moderately dangerous sites are a trend of our time. It was the residents who decided that a playground would be built and helped in the work. “This is our favorite site now,” concluded Maria Pomelova. It can be added that among many, because bureau "Chekhard" specializes in children's play areas.
Urban design / people
Landscape park on Sokolskaya Gora in Bugulma
Nadezhda Snigireva, Dmitry Smirnov, Ksenia Guznova, Natalia Tarsukova, Roman Kovensky, Valeria Kovenskaya, Mikhail Sinyukhin, Anastasia Berdnikova. Project group 8 + PARK
Marina Ignatushko began her speech with the words: “among all the objects of urban environment design that have fallen upon us recently, it is very difficult to choose something good …”. Mentioning that objects of a comfortable environment sometimes interfere with our life, Marina Ignatushko emphasized that the object of Group 8 is not like that: “these little blocks are, in fact, nothing else. The place is warm, lively, there are no amphitheaters, sun loungers - everything that a comfortable environment usually suffers from. Everything is very organic. Nadezhda Snigireva from snow-covered Chelyabinsk said that this was one of the first projects within the framework of the national project of a comfortable urban environment, with which the architects worked. She said that the authors dissuaded the chief architect of the city from building a cable car, and made the basis of the project a staircase that connects the city.
Small object / jury
In connection with the Small Object nomination, there was a renewed promise to establish a new nomination - a compact mobile home. Now such houses have partly filled the nomination for small objects, but none of them won - although Nikolai Malinin spoke in detail about each.
Rotunda with a bridge in Vyksa
Anton Kochurkin, Lydia Gufranova. Bureau "8 lines"
Yulia Shishalova defined the object as neoclassical, called the work delicate and inventive, and emphasized that the rotunda is located on an island and in order to get into it, one has to jump over a distance of about a meter wide, that is, apply some kind of effort. Nikolai Malinin, in turn, defined the object as baroque.
Anton Kochurkin explained that the rotunda was built on a state grant, and realizing the difficulties associated with this, the architects made all the working drawings for free, which they do not regret, since they are satisfied with the result. And that the project quite deliberately combines the old and the new.
Small object / people
Summer kitchen pavilion in Kamchatka
Sergey Gikalo, Alexander Kuptsov, Veronika Davitashvili; designer Alexey Knyazev. Gikalo Kuptsov Architects
The pavilion was built as part of the estate, the main house of which was included in the short-list in the Wood in decoration nomination. As Alexander Kuptsov explained, this is not one estate, but several, construction has been going on for 7 years and, apparently, will continue for the same amount. And in the basement of the pavilion - light, clean form, and transparent through and through - not hunting trophies, and wine are now stored.
Art object / jury
Wall Museum (Boxes of Memory) on Olkhon Island
Vladimir Kuzmin
This year's jury member Yulia Shishalova admitted that the jury spent more time on the Art Object nomination than on all other subjects, choosing from as many as five applicants. The wall-museum is built from the boxes of a fish factory, which recently burned down: "for local residents, this is a loss that they still experience." Vladimir Kuzmin clarified: “I did not make this wall, I invented it and then left. It was created by an initiative team of local residents and visitors from Irkutsk - those people for whom Olkhon is not just a name of a place, but a part of their life. The task of our object was somehow, material, physical, to stop the dying of the great tradition that existed in this place. And you know, in an amazing way, it began to live regardless of our creative process. Through the efforts of many people - the owner of this place, Viktor Kondrashov, participants in the art-residence, which takes place on Olkhon - life goes on."
Art object / people
Yula in the Tavrida art park
Roman Ermakov, Timur Baiguzin, Valeria Andreeva, Alexey Smirnov, Irina Mikheishina, Valeria Podakova, Maria Kharchenko, Daria Setevinets in collaboration with Mechanical Wooden Gears and Cheslav Shvaikov
Vladislav Savinkin compared the winning object with sculptures
Klas Oldenburg, and also emphasized that the winner was an object that does not look like a wooden one: "the time is such that the most non-wooden-looking sculpture won." Up to the point that you want to touch it with your hands to make sure. And, of course: "we still have monuments in the form of bronze sculptures with weapons, and we have hardly seen such energetic abstract sculptures."
Wood finishing / jury
Hill House
Nikita Kapiturov. Snegiri Architects
The house we're already talking about
wrote, almost literally grows a sloping roof from the ground. Nikolay Malinin recalled that the expert council had considered the house last year, then doubts arose about the "photoshopping" of the pictures, meanwhile the house was really decorated with wood and was quite rightly noted by the jury.
Wood finishing / people
Community Center MEGA FRIENDS in the village of Fedyakovo
Alexey Pushkarev, Maxim Timofeev. LLC "PTMA Timofeeva S. A."
Lara Kopylova, presenting the prize, said that it is especially pleasant when public buildings appear in the tree - and that "a wooden canopy that rushes to the sky, perhaps, hints that it is time for wooden architecture to become taller."
Architect Alexei Pushkarev, admitting that they were stimulated to be nominated for ArchiWOOD by a "magic kick" from Marina Ignatushko, said that the typology is unusual, the community center is small, a little less than 500 m2: "Our customers were so inspired by the object, so actively participated in its creation that the object looks like a living organism, like a snail that raised its eyebrows."
Interior / jury
Interior designer
Alexey Rosenberg. Alexey Rosenberg workshop
Alexey Rosenberg won ArchiWOOD for the tenth time.
Nikolai Malinin clarified that the jury could not choose between the two parts of the interior designer, presented separately, and awarded both parts. Alexey Rosenberg admitted that he was inspired to this project by his professional envy of Sergei Nasedkin, who has been successfully making modular houses for a long time, and stressed that all the elements of his designer are assembled "dry".
Interior / people
CARGO-MODUL
Evgeny Makarenko, Andris Shneps-Shneppe. Workshop of wooden architecture Evgeny Makarenko
The house is made from a waste shipping container and is fully lined with wood from the inside. Nikolai Malinin called it open and cozy. The author of the project, Evgeny Makarenko, said that he was especially pleased to receive an award “from the people”, since the object was exhibited on airbnb, and it is very interesting now to observe how people react to this house there.
Restoration / jury
Preservation of a 17th century monument under a geodesic dome in the Murmansk region
Ivan Vdovin. Agricultural production cooperative "Tundra"
A 17th-century chapel was recently discovered on the Kola Peninsula, and since experts did not come to a consensus on its restoration, it was mothballed with a wooden structure built on the principle of the Fulerian dome.
Olga Sevan commented on the nomination, suggesting that next year the restoration of the Church of the Transfiguration in Kizhi will be presented at the award. Olga Sevan also recalled that the Fuler domes were already used for conservation many years ago in Italy.
Restoration / people
Bridge over the river Tikhmanga in the village of Semyonovskaya
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Titov (Zodchego Workshop LLC), Sergey Anatolyevich Romanov, Vladimir Nikolaevich Lukin (BusinessConsult LLC)
The 1953 bridge in the Kargopol district of the Arkhangelsk region has been completely restored in its former forms. One of the authors of the project, Vladimir Lukin, emphasized that the bridge is an object of cultural heritage, in relation to it, only reconstruction was permissible, and only the lower rims were preserved under water. The bridge was restored in 5 months, people worked in cold water; built according to the old technology, stones loaded into water were used for strength. The idea of rebuilding other wooden bridges is under consideration.
Subject design / jury
Luminaire AD_LIB
Anton Mukovnikov, Voronezh
Sergei Malakhov, presenting the prize, reminded those present what a kinetic sculpture is, mentioning Theo Jansen, Francisco Infante, Vyacheslav Koleichuk (Anton Mukovnikov in the author's description defined his lamp as a kinetic sculpture) - and summed up that despite the author's delicate hints at kinetic sculpture, here we see rather Suprematist painting: “for example, the composition Suprematism 8. These are lines flying in space. There should be several such lamps, in the dark they will create a kind of tracing lines, a theatrical composition on Suprematist themes."
Sergei Malakhov also casually and frivolously, rather poetically, proposed three main nominations for the award: “house, table and lamp”.
Product design / people
Glowworm
Anna Feoktistova
Appendix
During the announcement process, as a rule, various other interesting things are reported.
Liza Fonskaya and Semyon Goglev announced a new portal dedicated to modern technologies of wooden architecture
woodfocus.ru. Nikolay Malinin recalled interviews with architects working in wood, which have been published for quite some time by woodfocus, a community active, among other things, on facebook.
It should also be said that Semyon Goglev announced an award from the Association of Wooden Housing Construction, which now bears the name of Oleg Panitkov, a member of the award's expert council, who died in September 2019. Semyon Goglev and Totan Kuzembaev jointly presented the award to Sergei Nasedkin's house D. O. M. + 125M2, in which, according to Goglev, "beauty, manufacturability and simplicity are clearly expressed."
The SWIDOM house from Sergey Poroshkin's MAParchitects received a special prize from HONKA.
Alexander Totskiy, director of UPM, which produces innovative plywood, among others, encouraged participants to send in objects with a clear indication of what materials they are made of, in order to then award a special prize for objects built with plywood.
