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Adding a city heart in an urban void

“O7” New City Heart

Location: Odintsovo, Russia
Client: Tekta Group, Moscow

Programme:
180 ha, Masterplan for a new city center, 1.1 mio m2 mixed use program, 175.000 m2 office, 400.000 m2 residential, 175.000 m2 retail, 65.000 m2 education and community uses & leisure, 230.000 m2 R&D

Odintosovo – located at the outskirts of Moscow and currently housing some 250.000 people was founded in the 1960 and to date is lacking a city center. The big void in the middle of the city reserved for a center in the future is currently greatly underutilized.

The design proposes 7 new quarters, each one with its own identity, each one responding to the context found and each one proposing a distinctly different urban setting. A connective tissue of slow movement routes and urban spaces connects all these identities and leads to a center that compares to existing and established centers.

The masterplan allows for a gradual transformation with a minimum of new infrastructure necessary to unlock development potential. An entirely new city quarter will develop around the existing university and will become a new “Ecopolis” – a R&D cluster for sustainable technologies.

Stages:
2012 Concept

Awards:
Competition 1st Prize

Team:
MLA+: Markus Appenzeller, Pinar Bozoglan, Yana Golubeva, Mikhail Stepura, Magdalena Szczypka, Milena Zalkanovic
Maxmakers

 Odintsovo Time Lapse

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