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Competition:A New Line and The Metro for Moscow

Turkey Architecture News - Jul 01, 2014 - 15:46   5698 views

Competition:A New Line and The Metro for Moscow

Moscow Metro Station Image:The Charnel House

A NEW LINE AND THE METRO

The new Kalininsko-Solntsevskaya Line links the business centre of ‘Moscow City’ with the western neighbourhoods of Solntsevo and Novo-Peredelkino.

 

THE PRESENT DAY SITUATION

The 116 thousand inhabitants of the Solntsevo region, and a further 115 thousand in Novo-Peredelkino, have long awaited the construction of a Metro station. The capacity of the Borovskoye and Kievskoye Highways does not permit for a ride to the current nearest station at Yugo-Zapadnaya within a reasonable time period, and the closest regular railway stations are out of range of most pedestrians in the two neighbourhoods. And yet the erection of residential properties is going ahead here at a lively pace: c.f. the developments of ‘Nearer Peredelkino’ (1.3 million m² of living space), ‘Solntsevo Park’ (500 thousand m²), and ‘Tatyanin Park’ (270 thousand m²). Access to the new line will provide these with a vital link with the city centre and with other lines of the Metropolitan system.

 

CONSTRUCTION PLANS

It was proposed to extend the Kalininsko-Solntsevskaya Line from the Delovoi Tsentr [‘Business Centre’] station, in Moscow’s dormitory suburbs, to Solntsevo and Novo-Peredelkino, and from thence to the village of Rasskazovka, where the organisation of a transport interchange hub has been planned. A passageway will be set up from the Delovoi Tsentr station to the line of the Third Interchange Circuit. The opening to passengers of the section from Park Pobedy to Ramenki is planned for the end of 2015. The Metro should arrive in Solntsevo, Novo-Peredelkino and Rasskazovka some time in 2017.

 

Vision

In its scale, the Moscow Metropolitan’s development programme is one of the largest in the world. It is by far the most ambitious of the city’s infrastructure projects. The role of the Moscow Metro in shaping the image of the capital cannot be overstated. The construction of its most beautiful stations well served to demonstrate the scientific and technological advances made by the USSR.

In the late 1950s, architectural masterpieces in the Metro gave way to a new period in station design, that of the less appealing Khrushchyov era. As time moved on, the search for a new individual station image began: the monotony of standard solutions grew obsolete. This movement from the standard to the unique continues to the present day. Although stations continue to be built to a standard design, a marked effort is seen in individualising their artistic look – with each having its own unique design. The fundamental aim of the present competition is to find an optimal architectural, artistic and design solution for the interior of Solntsevo and Novoperedelkino’s passenger areas and pavilions over the stairway approaches. With minimalist solutions, the stations have to be contemporary, with bright and memorable design schemes. Emphasis must be placed on the light and colour aspects, and the combination of materials. Construction solutions and the materials used ought to correspond with the aims and conditions of the competition; to be rational and technically feasible. To develop a concept, it is recommended to recruit professional artists and designers who specialise in working with light.

 

Conditions

This is an open, national, two-stage competition. Participation is open to designers and architects with experience in the drawing up of design documentation for the interiors of multifunctional public spaces.

This is two-stage competition. Participation is open to designers and architects with experience in design documentation for the interiors of multifunctional public spaces.

The competition is national but foreign architects and designers are also accepted.

Depending upon the quality of the sketches submitted, the Jury reserves the right to vary the number of participants for either stage, to range from three to seven. In the second stage, the Jury will select a single winner for each station.

The prize fund for the Competition stands at 3,890,000 rubles (including VAT) and is to be divided between the 10 Participants who pass through to the second stage of the Competition.

Each of the two winners will be invited to settle a contract for the implementation of their architectural and design concept to a sum no larger than 3 500 000 rubles.

 

Jury

Jury Chairman

Marat Khusnullin
Deputy Mayor of Moscow on issues of Urban Planning Policy and Construction.
Government representatives
Sergei Kuznetsov
Moscow Chief Architect.
Architects
Andrei Gnezdilov:Chief Architect of the State Unitary Enterprise ‘Research and Project Institute of Moscow City Master Plan’.
Nikolai Shumakov:President of the Union of Moscow Architects, the Chief Architect of ‘Metrogiprotrans’.
Architecture and Design Experts
Erken Kagarov:Vice President of The Academy of the Graphic Design, the head teacher, author and host of the creative workshop at High Academic School of Graphic Design, art director of ‘Art. Lebedev
Studio’.
Olga Kosyreva:Journalist, design critic, cofounder of ‘Design Lectorium Project’.
Alexei Muratov:Partner of KB ‘Strelka’, head of ‘Territorial development strategy’ direction.
Historian
Elena Solovieva:Head of the workshop of the State Unitary Enterprise ‘Research and Project Institute of Moscow City Master Plan’.
Curator
Vasily Tsereteli:Executive Director of Moscow Museum of Modern Art.

The jury list will be completed closer to the meeting day.

 

Application Content

Preliminary concept (a depiction of the architectural and artistic solution) includes both graphic and textual substantiation:

a) the general concept for the station;

b) the pavilions covering the stair approaches and lifts for the disabled;

c) below-street underpass;

d) halls for the ticket booths and escalator/stairway zones;

e) the platform area.

A visualisation and description should be presented of the general concept for the station, along with the four zones of the design. The visualisations of the four zones (drawn on computer or by hand) should consist of a depiction as well as diagrams or basic plans accompanied with an explanatory text. The materials submitted must reflect the beautification of the site adjoining the pavilions, the materials used for finishing, lighting provision, and the design of furniture.

All materials submitted for the competition must be marked in the lower right-hand corner with the six-digit number assigned to each participant. The size of the margins should be 10 x 60 mm.

Materials presented for consideration must not, with the exception of the dossier, include any company names, logos, authors’ signatures, or any other information that might facilitate in the identification of the authorship of the preliminary concept.

To be uploaded into participants’ “Personal account”. Deadline for submissions – 31st July 2014.

 

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