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Steven Holl wins Moscow housing competition with "Parachute Hybrids"

By Alexander Walter|

Thursday, Jan 25, 2018

Parachutes! Circles! Porosity! Courtesy of Steven Holl Architects/Art-group Kamen

"Parachute Hybrids" is the new building typology that shapes Steven Holl's latest competition-winning proposal for a large mixed-use development on a former USSR paratrooper airfield in the Tushino district of Moscow. Designed in collaboration with Art-group Kamen, the entry won over competing schemes by Fuksas, Hadid, and other global architectural players.

Elaborating on the newly coined building typology, Steven Holl Architects writes that it combined "residential bar and slab structures with supplemental programming suspended in sections above, like parachutes frozen in the sky. Large circular openings in the towers’ facades give a defining geometric character and express health and social spaces."

Courtesy of Steven Holl

"The master plan is organized to shape public space with maximum sunlight exposure. The buildings wrap around to create large, public garden and playground spaces as a reference to the site’s former use as a paratrooper air field."

Courtesy of Steven Holl Architects/Art-group Kamen

"Tushino is located in north-western Moscow along the bank of the Moscow River. For the greater part of the 20th century, the historic site was home to a flying and parachuting school, including the Central Aero Club of the USSR, and acted as an aviation parade ground. In the early 2000s, city officials proposed turning the uninhabited district into an 200,000-square-meter urban center for housing, commerce, offices, entertainment and sports."

Courtesy of Steven Holl Architects/Art-group Kamen

"Developer Vi Holding has stressed the importance of a comfortable living environment for the project, incorporating rich infrastructure and education spaces into the programming. The new kindergarten and elementary school are designed to stand alone in architecturally distinct buildings that take advantage of natural light and green space. The housing complex will also contain amenities such as health spas, pools, cafés and lounges."

Courtesy of Steven Holl Architects/Art-group Kamen

"The design of the Tushino housing project utilizes green roofs, solar pergolas, daylighting, rainwater recycling, and geothermal heating and cooling.Apartments will be enclosed in a thin section facade of operable glass that will help insulate the buildings in winter and create open balconies for every apartment in warmer months. Eco corridors, undisturbed by automotive traffic, run through the site and connect to the Moscow River."

The first round of drawings is scheduled to be completed by March 2018.

RELATED NEWS Steven Holl Architects' "Colors of Humanity" wins competition for new Doctors Without Borders center in Geneva
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    Chemex ·  Jan 25, 18 8:21 PM

    nice to see the Russians appreciate good architecture (more so than Americans these days)

  • Thayer-D
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    Thayer-D ·  Jan 26, 18 11:10 PM

    what's good about this?

  • randomised
    randomised

    randomised ·  Jan 28, 18 10:28 AM

    If there ever was a question why Holl did not yet receive a Pritzker...

  • Orhan Ayyüce ·  Jan 30, 18 4:03 PM

    Thayer-D, how could you say that? Didn't you notice "frozen parachutes in the sky" ?

  • ajo16
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    ajo16 ·  Jan 30, 18 7:36 PM

    I would like to see the entries that did NOT win
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Steven Holl wins Moscow housing competition with "Parachute Hybrids"

By Alexander Walter|

Thursday, Jan 25, 2018

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Parachutes! Circles! Porosity! Courtesy of Steven Holl Architects/Art-group Kamen

Related

steven holl ● moscow ● russia ● europe ● residential ● competition ● art-group kamen
Steven Holl Architects
Steven Holl Architects

"Parachute Hybrids" is the new building typology that shapes Steven Holl's latest competition-winning proposal for a large mixed-use development on a former USSR paratrooper airfield in the Tushino district of Moscow. Designed in collaboration with Art-group Kamen, the entry won over competing schemes by Fuksas, Hadid, and other global architectural players.

Elaborating on the newly coined building typology, Steven Holl Architects writes that it combined "residential bar and slab structures with supplemental programming suspended in sections above, like parachutes frozen in the sky. Large circular openings in the towers’ facades give a defining geometric character and express health and social spaces."

Courtesy of Steven Holl

"The master plan is organized to shape public space with maximum sunlight exposure. The buildings wrap around to create large, public garden and playground spaces as a reference to the site’s former use as a paratrooper air field."

Courtesy of Steven Holl Architects/Art-group Kamen

"Tushino is located in north-western Moscow along the bank of the Moscow River. For the greater part of the 20th century, the historic site was home to a flying and parachuting school, including the Central Aero Club of the USSR, and acted as an aviation parade ground. In the early 2000s, city officials proposed turning the uninhabited district into an 200,000-square-meter urban center for housing, commerce, offices, entertainment and sports."

Courtesy of Steven Holl Architects/Art-group Kamen

"Developer Vi Holding has stressed the importance of a comfortable living environment for the project, incorporating rich infrastructure and education spaces into the programming. The new kindergarten and elementary school are designed to stand alone in architecturally distinct buildings that take advantage of natural light and green space. The housing complex will also contain amenities such as health spas, pools, cafés and lounges."

Courtesy of Steven Holl Architects/Art-group Kamen

"The design of the Tushino housing project utilizes green roofs, solar pergolas, daylighting, rainwater recycling, and geothermal heating and cooling.Apartments will be enclosed in a thin section facade of operable glass that will help insulate the buildings in winter and create open balconies for every apartment in warmer months. Eco corridors, undisturbed by automotive traffic, run through the site and connect to the Moscow River."

The first round of drawings is scheduled to be completed by March 2018.

RELATED NEWS Steven Holl Architects' "Colors of Humanity" wins competition for new Doctors Without Borders center in Geneva
RELATED NEWS Steven Holl receives Praemium Imperiale International Arts medal for architecture
RELATED NEWS MVRDV's winning “Silhouette” concept, a new 52,000m2 mixed-use building in Moscow

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  • Chemex

    Chemex ·  Jan 25, 18 8:21 PM

    nice to see the Russians appreciate good architecture (more so than Americans these days)

  • Thayer-D

    Thayer-D ·  Jan 26, 18 11:10 PM

    what's good about this?

  • randomised

    randomised ·  Jan 28, 18 10:28 AM

    If there ever was a question why Holl did not yet receive a Pritzker...

  • Orhan Ayyüce ·  Jan 30, 18 4:03 PM

    Thayer-D, how could you say that? Didn't you notice "frozen parachutes in the sky" ?

  • ajo16

    ajo16 ·  Jan 30, 18 7:36 PM

    I would like to see the entries that did NOT win
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