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In the second announcement from Rem Koolhaas’ office today, OMA have unveiled their designs to convert a 5400 square metre 1960s pavilion in Stalinist-era Gorky Park in Moscow into a new venue for the Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture. 

Above: Garage Gorky Park – overview

The renovation of the famous prefabricated-concrete Vremena Goda restaurant, which has been derelict for over 20 years, will preserve some of the original Soviet elements and will create exhibition galleries on two levels, a creative centre for children, a shop, café, auditorium and offices.

Above: hinged panels raised

Translucent polycarbonate will clad the exterior, while inside the galleries hinged panels will fold down from the ceilings to create white walls when necessary.

Above: hinged panels lowered creating an instant white cube 

One of the floors will also be removable, allowing the lobby to be converted into a double height space that can accomodate larger artworks and sculptures.

Above: education platform

Completion is scheduled for next year.

Above: south gallery view

OMA have also announced that they won the first round of a competition to oversee an expansion of the Russian capital. See all of our stories about OMA here.

Here is some more information from OMA:

Rem Koolhaas’ OMA to design new home for Garage in Moscow

Today, Garage Center for Contemporary Culture unveiled concepts for a new building in Gorky Park, designed by Rem Koolhaas’ OMA.

Garage Gorky Park – due to be completed in 2013 – will be a renovation of the famous 1960s Vremena Goda (Seasons of the Year) restaurant, a prefabricated concrete structure that has been derelict for more than two decades.

Above and top:  entrance to the pavilion    

OMA’s design for the 5,400 square meter building includes exhibition galleries on two levels, creative center for children, shop, café, auditorium and offices.

The design preserves original soviet-era elements – including a large mosaic, and decorative tiles and brick – while incorporating a range of innovative architectural and curatorial devices. OMA is collaborating on the project with the young Russian practice Form Bureau.

Above: outdoor events

Dasha Zhukova said, “Our move to Gorky Park marks an exciting new phase in Garage’s development. I am delighted that we have one of the world’s leading architects, Rem Koolhaas’ OMA, working on the project, and I am sure their plans will attract a new generation of visitors to Garage.”

Above: ‘conventional’ gallery

Rem Koolhaas commented, “We are very happy to work on turning the almost-ruin of Vermena Goda into the new house for Garage. We were able, with our client and her team, to explore the qualities of generosity, dimension, openness, and transparency of the Soviet wreckage and find new uses and interpretations for them.”

Above: exhibition concept

Garage, founded by Dasha Zhukova in 2008, is a major non-profit arts project based in Moscow, dedicated to exploring and developing contemporary culture. At the beginning of this year, Garage moved from its original home in the Bakhmetevsky Bus Garage to Gorky Park in Moscow.

Above: hinged panels

Garage aims to bring important international modern and contemporary art to Moscow, to raise the profile of Russian contemporary culture internationally and encourage a new generation of Russian artists. It also organizes and supports a wide range of cultural projects internationally.

Above: before – Vremena Goda Pavilion March 2012

The Stalin-era Gorky Park was planned in the 1920s by renowned soviet Constructivist architect Konstantin Melnikov, who also designed Garage’s previous home, the Bakhmetevsky Bus Garage. Opened in 1928, Gorky Park extends 300 acres along the Moskva River in the heart of Moscow.

Above: Garage Gorky Park location

The park is undergoing a major renovation and regeneration project, of which Garage Gorky Park is a major part.

Above: Garage moves

Co-founded by Rem Koolhaas in 1975, OMA is a leading international office practicing architecture, urbanism and cultural analysis.

Above: before – Vremena Goda Pavilion March 2012

Dedicated for over thirty years to the design and realization of buildings and masterplans, OMA is led by seven partners – Rem Koolhaas, Ellen van Loon, Reinier de Graaf, Shohei Shigematsu, Iyad Alsaka, David Gianotten and Managing Partner Victor van der Chijs – and sustains an international practice with offices in Rotterdam, New York, Beijing, Hong Kong and soon Doha.

 Above: before – Vremena Goda Pavilion and Hexagon in 1970

The work of Rem Koolhaas and OMA has won several international awards, including the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2000 and the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 2010 Venice Biennale.

Slideshow: Russian architect Peter Kostelov has removed the welded metal walls of an apartment he first completed seven years ago and replaced them with light timber partitions.

These panelled screens sit within the retained metal framework that lines each room and are complemented by beige-coloured soft furnishings.

The layout of the residence remains as it was, but the architect has renamed it Wood Warm Wight Apartment to reflect its new bright and less industrial appearance.

When we first published the interior Dezeen readers called it “stark” and “like a jail cell” – see the original design here and let us know how you think the two compare.

You can also see all our stories about the architect here.

Photography is by Zinon Razutdinov.

Here’s a longer description from Peter Kostelov:

WWW.AP (Wood Warm Wight Apartment)

The previous project of this apartment was called as” Moscow Metal Apartment”.

It was finished in the end of 2005. After it served for 7 years it was decided to bring in some changes.

The apartment plan stayed the same, as well as carcass of all metal frames, which form walls, partitions and items of furniture.

As for filling between frames which initially was metal plates now replaced by white toned wood.

While the look of the previous design is associated with words “Industrial”, “Extreme”, “Cold”, “Gloomy”, “Hard”, “Dark” the new one is a complete opposite.

Here come the words: ”Warm”, “Wood’, “White”, which explains the name of the new project: WWW.AP

In fact these probable changes of the artistic image of the apartment were assumed initially.

Steel carcass ran through the apartment performing such functions as planning, dividing the space, creating the elements of furniture and items of interior. While shape-generating are still metal frames filling is just an accessory.

Theoretically filling inside frames could be of any material: stone, wood, cork, even textile.

Yet working with metal was extremely interesting at that moment as it seemed almost impossible to apply this material for interior of a living space.

Nevertheless it appeared to be captivating and surprising.

Just mere change of frame filling resulted into stunning effect as the apartment looks totally different.

In fact it was primary task: keeping all basic characteristics: design, walls and partitions lay-out on the assumption of minimum efforts and expenses to make possible changes from brutal and industrial look to warm and cozy living space.

Surely warm grayish-beige colors of walls and other elements of décor-cushions, curtains, and bedspread also supported this change for WWW apartment.

As a result utterly new space with new characteristics came out.

Before filming this new project it seemed it would be correct to replicate pictures of old apartment made 7 years ago so that to compare two object as “before” and “after”.

But after a few pictures were filmed it became clear that even focusing on the old point of camera and keeping the same size of pictures still we get totally changed space.

“Dark” and Light” graphics created new design and concept, while metal and wood combination point to contrast of materials and texture. Definitely now we see absolutely new image which lives in its own laws.

Built Area: 86m2
Architect: Kostelov Peter

Russian architect Peter Kostelov has slotted a timber structure into a two-storey apartment in Moscow to create two extra floors.

The former top level of the apartment had ceiling heights of up to 8 metres, where the architect has inserted a mezzanine and new upper storey.

Openings in the walls of the wooden structure allow views between rooms on different levels, as does a cutaway in the ceiling of the middle floor.

Bespoke angled lamps hang from the ceilings of the billiard room and dining room on this level, while specially designed furniture fills rooms throughout the apartment.

Marbled tiles line the floor, walls and surfaces of the kitchen, which opens out to a second dining room on the lower floor.

On the top floor, a semi-circular window stretches across the walls of a master bedroom and study.

Peter Kostelov refurbished another Moscow apartment in 2009, for which he used industrial materials, but readers thought that one was a bit too much like a prison. Take a look at it here.

Photography is by Alexey Knyazev.

The following text is from Kostelov:

Multi-level apartment

Characteristic of this apartment is its inner space and cubic capacity.

It is located on the top 18th floor.

Initially it was a two level apartment of total houseroom of 258 sq. meters.

As for the first level it was quite common one: three meter standard height of ceiling and a houseroom of 69 sq. meters.

The second level houseroom was larger 189 sq. meters and the height of ceiling varied from 3 to 8 meters in different zones.

Surely these unique space peculiarities caused project direction: to not only exploit maximum of this nonstandard extreme height but to make multi-level space.

The owner of the apartment approved the idea, moreover it was requested that each member of the family should have extra space so that everyone including 3 children of different age and gender could have their private space for comfortable living.

Central part of the apartment on the second level was as large as 60 sq. meters and more than 8 meters high.

The space was vertically divided into two levels by the newly made third level.

After making necessary calculation on the thickness of overhead cover 0,5 m. was put as required space for structural beams, placing ventilation and final trimming.

The highest ceiling 4,5 m was chosen for the living room located at the lower part of the second level. The upper part on the second level got 3m., where a bedroom, a bathroom and a study room are located. Thus the third level added 54 sq. m to the apartment.

The covers between second and third floors have two clear spaces. One was left for the staircase, while the second one, the closest to the window, appeared to join two spare spaces of the second and third level, the flow of light of which makes partially two-tiered space.

On the third level a dome made by glass partitions separates a bedroom and a study room, which allows the light to spread evenly. The floor space of 9 sq. m. was added to 20 sq. meters of the lower level. Consequently the floor space of each nursery room got 30 sq. m located on two levels.

A home library ceiling in the right –hand side of the apartment is 4,4 m. The same as in children’s room the second level was made here which enlarged it to 8 sq. m. All in all 35 sq. m was added to houseroom.

Rearranging turned a duplex apartment into four-level apartment having added to it 90 sq. m. of extra house room (from 258 sq. m. up to 348 sq. m.)

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Nearly all pieces of furniture (except settees and beds) were specially designed.

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The owners gave preference to warm and light colors.

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In contrast to upholstering the furniture was made from natural processed metal: dinner and low tables, bookstands, stools, shelves.

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Location: Moscow, Russia
Built Area: 348 m2
Architecture, Interior Design: Peter Kostelov
Development effort: Kovaleva T.N., Egorova N.G. “OAO Mosproect”
Projecting: 2009
Building: 2010-2011

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Russian architects Arseniy Borisenko and Peter Zaytsev have completed an outdoor kitchen for a yacht captain that resembles the broken-up hull of a boat.

The spiralling larch pavilion near Moscow was created as part of a television show called Dachniy Otvet, which translates to The Village Talks, and invites different designers and architects to carry out surprise renovations for volunteer clients.

The faceted helical structure comprises 14 chunky planes, each formed of larch planks glued together.

A steel chimney bursts through the ceiling of the pavilion to provide an extract for a brick barbeque.

Other pavilions recently featured on Dezeen include a seaside temple of oriented strand board and a riverside structure where inhabitants can hear what’s going on beneath the water’s surface – see more stories about pavilions on Dezeen.

Photography is by Peter Zaytsev.

Here’s some more information from Za Bor Architects:

Gazebo for TV show

The project has been developed specially for popular TV show «Dachniy Otvet» (Eng: «The village talks»). The idea of the show is that for those owners of country houses and cottages, who agreed to participate in the experiment, the invited designers or architects do re-planning of a part of their village.

The important moment is that the house owners pay nothing for reconstruction, but at the same time they can’t influence the result, so it comes always unexpected for them. The architects in their turn try to offer the most original solutions.

The object here is fairly typical suburban area, with garden trees belonging to the captain of the yacht, who enjoys cooking on the grill with his family and a number of friends.

Architects have suggested to make a small-size self-supporting structure consisting of fourteen planes made of larch white-tinted wood.

The gazebo has the helical structure resembling a sea wave, with an area for feasts (dining zone) and, in the distant second part separated by a small air «gap», is a barbecue area with a chargrill made of brick and steel. Architect’s concept for the construction is transparency and openness which inspires a contact between man and nature, especially because of surroundings: a green lawn and wonderful fruit trees giving an abundant harvest each fall.

Neutral tints of the gazebo are drowning in intense colours of the garden – from the lush green in summer to yellow and red in autumn, and bringing together a rather complex and aggressive form with pastoral Moscow suburbs, allowing it to exist peacefully within the site context.

Arseniy Borisenko and Peter Zaytsev — the architects, are making comments on the project: «We wanted to develop a complex dynamic structure that would not only perform its functions – gazebo and chargrill area, but would preserve the existing context of the site.

Although our project is a complex structure consisting of 14 flat segments, we used neutral colours and natural larch wood.

This helps, on the one hand, to present an object effectively and emphasize its structural features, on the other – to leave it in the existing suburban context, to fuse in the greenery of the garden, to please the eye, not to offend it.

The gazebo planes are an excellent protection from the wind and rainfall, so we hope its new owners will be able to use it not only in summer but in winter as well.

Architects: za bor architects / Arseniy Borisenko, Peter Zaytsev
Location: Moscow Region, Russia
Principal Use: recreation
Engineering: za bor architects
Materials: larchwood, break, steel
Project year: 2011

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