parkzaryadye.com:Turenscape is Shortlisted for a Prestigious International Competition in Moscow, Russia

In their applications every consortium provided the jury with the motivation letter where all of the achievements of its members and their vision of the concept of the "Zaryadye" park were described. Here are some selected works from their portfolios and fragments of these letters.

 

 

 

DILLER SCOFIDIO + RENFRO

 

Motivation letter fragment:

 

"We believe that Zaryadye Park should provide Moscow with a year-round, ecologically-conscious public space. As a city resource, the Park should be a 24/7 destination, infused with programs and spaces that encourage people to linger, lounge, eat, play, and reflect. The Park must provide moments of respite and encounter, combining a 21st century social sensibility with respect for its historic surroundings, including the Kremlin and Kitai-Gorod".

 

Consortium structure and its members' specialization:

 

Diller Scofidio + Renfro (USA) – Consortium leader

 

Hargreaves Associates (USA) – Landscape architect

 

Citymakers LLC (Russia) – Local architect

 

E.Ozhegova, Moscow Architectural Institute (Russia) – Moscow architectural history consultant

 

Marina Khrustaleva (Russia) - Moscow architectural history consultant

 

Douglas Blonsky, Central Park Conservancy (USA) – Park management consultant

 

Buro Happold (Russia) – Structural Engineering & MEP specialist

 

Dmitry Onischenko (Russia) – Botanitst

 

Sergey Fokin (Russia) – Legal specialist

 

Mobility in Chain (Italy) – Transportation specialist

 

Vladimir Dukelskiy, Russian State University for Humanitites (Russia) – Archaeologist

 

GUSTAFSON PORTER

 

Motivation letter fragment:

 

"A Park to provides insight into the city's past, creates a destination in the present and has flexibility to accommodate furure needs, requires layers of perception and understanding. Our aim is to create a strategy for the Zaryadye that responds to the brief and provide design solutions that responds to its uniquelocation. Zaryadye Park needs to last the test of time and become a much-loved destination within Moscow's city centre. It must be of the place, seamlessy linked to its physical, social and cultural context"

 

Consortium structure and its members' specialization:

 

Sauerbruch Hutton (Gernmany) – Architect

 

ARUP (Russia) – Engineer

 

Lawrence Barth (The UK) – Urban Design and spatial planning specialist

 

Space Syntax (The UK) – Spatial Planning specialist

 

FUTURECITY (The UK) – Public site management and cultural programming specialist

 

MVRDV

 

Motivation letter fragment:

 

"This letter is describing the teams key approaches to the concept for the ZaryadyePark Culture, Public Space and Participation in between the Red Square, the river and Kitay-gorod it is hard to imagine a more diverse environment. In order to reach social cohesion and a liveable cityscape and park the introduction of cultural program has an essential function. It can if wanted attract visitors from outside the area, create more public awareness and safety and strengthen, educate and unify the city. Also smart use of playgrounds and sport fields are generators of success. An intelligent combination and strategic use of the public program can lead to spectacular results. Also the public space design is a key to a good and healthy city. The park must become a place with its own set of values. It should transmit an openness and flexibility, allow for spontaneous and planned activity and conserve the district’s transitory character, while saturating it with new meanings: the function of a city park situated in the heart of this huge metropolis. Visionary plans need public support."

 

Consortium structure and its members' specialization:

 

Atrium (Russia) – Architect, local architect

 

Anouk Vogel (Switzerland) - Landscape architect

 

Arcadis – Engineer

 

WEST 8

 

Motivation letter fragment:

 

"The park will be the best performance of Russian botany and illusions of nature: natural textures, character trees, flowers, virgin lawns, and lily fountains. The smell of spring, butterflies and songbirds will be our goal. In summer the park will offer shade and a cooling microclimate. It transforms into a fairy tale winter wonderland with snow, evergreens, ice sculptures, and 1000 color illumination"

 

Consortium structure and its members' specialization:

 

West 8 (Netherlands) – Consortium leader

 

Bernaskoni (Russia) – Architect

 

Buro Happold (UK) – Engineering

 

Studio Olafur Eliasson (Germany) – Artist

 

HR&A (USA) – Economist

 

ENTERTAINMENT CONSULTANTS (USA) – Cultural programming specialist

 

Mobility In Chain (Italy) – Public site management specialist

 

Alexey Levinson (Russia) – Sociologist (Higher School of Economics)

 

Svetlana Adonieva (Russia) – Anthropologist (Saint Petersburg State University)

 

Bart Goldhorn (Netherlands) – Team Mediator

 

Viktor Miziano (Russia) – Modern art curator

 

TPO RESERVE

 

Motivation letter fragment:

 

"Most great central parks in great cities are historic – the Tuileries in Paris, Alexander Garden in St Petersburg, and a handful of other wonderful examples. But there are a few recent examples to be studied such as Millennium park in Chicago, Gardens by the Bay in Singapore and West Kowloon in Hong kong. These provide lessons in how to bring innovative programming, aesthetics, and contemporary notions of open space while mixing in existing elements. Russia and Moscow are moving forward, but the place and its history remain. The design must merge historical, cultural, societal, technical, and aesthetical influences in to an inextricable and beautiful whole embodying Modern Moscow"

 

Consortium structure and its members' specialization:

 

Latz+Partner (Germany) – Landscape architect

 

Maxwan architects + urbanists (the Netherlands) – Urban planning specialist

 

Buro Happold (International) – Engineer

 

Pfarre Lighting Design (Germany) – Lighting designer

 

Prof. Dr. Stephan Pauleit / TU Munich (Germany) – Ecologist, dendrologist

 

Nataliya Ikonnikova (Russia) – Sociologist, antropologist (Higher School of Economics)

 

Ruperti – Cost management specialist

 

Grun Berlin GmbH (Germany) – Park management consultant