Architects Onat Öktem and Ziya Imren shared with us their proposal for the A101 Urban Block City International Architectural Competition in Moscow, Russia. More images and architect’s description after the break.
Frozen Street – Dissolving Borders
The main idea of the design is to compose an urban block with variants of modules, which characterize the urban block with their solid/void pattern and spatial typology. The combination of the modules offers a vast possibility of spatial configuration, thus can be used in different sites, in different heights and in different planer/sectional combinations for a variety of programs. While the diversity of the modules allows flexibility of use, the combination of these, still reflects a sense of unity, without compromising the structural system.
The flexibility of the project for different sites gets stronger by the planer design of the modules since almost all of them have two façades for the sunlight.
The ground floor is reserved not only to the residents but for everybody. This is why the streets are cleaned from parked cars and the ground floor is specialized for the commercial purposes with transparent façades.
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- Courtesy of Onat Öktem and Ziya Imren
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- Courtesy of Onat Öktem and Ziya Imren
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- Courtesy of Onat Öktem and Ziya Imren
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- Courtesy of Onat Öktem and Ziya Imren
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- Courtesy of Onat Öktem and Ziya Imren
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- Courtesy of Onat Öktem and Ziya Imren
great rendering. kind of makes you ignore the architecture
People that are skating look as if they are 3 meters tall.
About the planning : Almost no counter-top space for the kitchen (putting the sink and the range next to each other, great idea btw, whose idea was that?!) and no storage area at all. If people think these are not important for a competition idea why bother drawing the plans? And also there is something wrong about accessing the second floor of the Type D residence. Finally, I don’t get the whole open corridor, courtyard design? Is this building in a Mediterranean city or in Moscow?
I’m agree with some ideas of Ethem; but his evaluation is not fair. I think this project at least deserves some good comments. The architects have tried a new mass housing typology in Turkey. That’s a good thing but some design steps must have been ignored; because there no detail as to inner courtyard,”avlu”, which is at most important cultural component in our culture. In conclusion this design should be detailed and as Ethem said the plans should be revised.
just good renders, no design or planning