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Skolkovo Innovation Center : Moscow Architecture
New Architectural Development in Russia design by AREP
10 Mar 2011
Skolkovo Innovation Center Moscow
AREP – Jean-Marie Duthilleul and Etienne Tricaud – in conjunction with Michel Desvigne & Setec win urban development competition to design the Skolkovo Innovation Center.
Skolkovo Innovation Center Building
This competition for the conception of an innovation cluster was launched in 2010 by the Non-Profit Organization “Fund for the Development of the Center for Elaboration and Commercialization of New Technologies”. The Board of Trustees of the Skolkovo Foundation is headed personally by the President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev.
AREP was chosen at the conclusion of a selection process of 4 successive stages by an international jury of architects and experts architects gathered within the Skolkovo Urban Council. 28 teams answered the competition among which: Bofill Arquitectura, Albert Speer & Partner, Ove Arup, Foster+Partners, Kohn Pedersen Fox, RMJM, Haskoning / Meccano, Perkins Eastman, as well as OMA Rem Koolhaas, co-finalists with AREP.
Skolkovo Innovation Center design:
Skolkovo Innovation Center image © AREP – Jean-Marie Duthilleul and Étienne Tricaud – in conjunction with Michel Desvigne & Setec / North Bird’s Eye View n° 0014693 – V. & N. Donnot
Located in a natural area 15km Southwest of central Moscow, the Skolkovo Innovation Center is an original concept at both Russian and International levels – a scientific and ecological cluster and a centre of excellence driving synergies between the teaching and research communities, their applications and their economic deployment. Skolkovo will feature a university campus, a start-up enterprise zone, and a cluster of research laboratories and businesses. It will also have accommodation and a wealth of social and cultural amenities, providing all the facilities needed for faculty, researchers, scientists, and entrepreneurs to work and live on-site.
The concept of the Skolkovo urban centre designed by AREP stands out for its overall organization into a cluster of “urban villages” with strong links to each other, and built on a series of natural balconies overlooking the valley of the Setun River. The town will enshrine the qualities of downtown neighborhoods that are dense, lively, and conducive to meeting and exchange. At the same time as it features all the attractions of a countryside setting. All public spaces and built areas will be on a human scale in regards to both work and residential areas; as well as retail, cultural and leisure amenities. It will also benefit from good transportation links with Moscow.
A sophisticated transport network, including a tramway and bus-only lanes will be built for getting around Skolkovo itself, while the emergence of more innovative transport modes will be encouraged.
As a sustainable urban centre, Skolkovo will also focus on the use of renewable energy sources, co-generation and the conversion of waste into heat in systems designed for extreme climatic conditions.
Through its design and organization, Skolkovo is destined to be the Russian prototype for technology clusters and innovative cities.
AREP Profile
A multi-disciplinary design office, AREP is a laboratory for ongoing research on the urban mobility environment, founded in 1997 as part of the SNCF Group by Jean-Marie Duthilleul and Etienne Tricaud, architects and civil engineers. It brings together a full portfolio of professions for a holistic approach to major construction programmes, namely civil engineering, town and regional planning, architecture, and design, in order to fulfil programmes at every scale, from metropolitan area to whole urban neighbourhoods, to individual buildings and items of urban furniture. The role that AREP has assigned itself in France and many other countries around the world is to assist citizens in their daily live and ensure that their time spent in the modern city of the 21st century is life-enhancing, useful and pleasant.
Skolkovo Innovation Center Moscow images / information from AREP
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