Metrogramma: Urals_Landscapes in Progress

METROGRAMMA

URALS LANDSCAPES IN PROGRESS

Metrogramma. Urals Landscapes in progress What does it mean for a foreign architect to come to an unknown land and offer, in just a few months, a sensible and necessary vision of its future development?

How does one deal with nature in a virtually absolute form that has rendered the few human settlements a risible trace compared to the force of the landscape surrounding them?

In recent years, most of the socalled ‘starchitects’ have dealt with the problem by giving shape to a self-referential and autonomous symbol that countered the apparent ‘emptiness’, building a landmark that was apparently able to resolve the situation through an act of force.

An alternative to this logic is to construct a careful dialogue that is sensitive to the geography of the place and to nature itself.

The landscape with its traces, its symbols laid down over millennia, its colours, hierarchies and volumes that vary over the seasons, becomes a reference point, the symbol the architect uses to construct a complex but necessary dialogue in order to give life to settlements and forms that will survive over time and have a fundamental logic.

The work of the Metrogramma studio in the Olbast area in the East of the Russian Confederation is based on this architectural and cultural approach. It is previewed in Spazio FMG per l’architettura and describes the premises and visions of an extremely interesting architectural and human adventure in which this studio from Milan has been invol-

ved for the last five years.

The concept plan for the city of Chelyabinsk and the MIASS Sunny Valley, the project for a pilot service station along the Transiberian motorway and initial projects for Sunny Valley itself, are at the centre of the exhibition. But what is most striking is Metrogramma’s general approach, which is perfectly coherent with studies carried out in the late ‘90s for the suburbs of Bolzano and with the territorial zoning plan project for the Municipality of Milan of recent years. It is a choice that considers the geography of a place and leaves architecture in the background for a moment, while waiting to draw up a sustainable overall framework that is sensitive to the landscape we will inhabit.

Luca Molinari

Curators Luca Molinari with Simona Galateo and Alessandro Benetti / viapiranesi Set up Metrogramma Press Agency Otto (+39 02 89410298) Media Partner Corriere della Sera

2 CHELYABINSK CONCEPT CITY PLAN 6 GOLDEN BEACH, MIASS TURGOYAK RESORT 10 SUNNY VALLEY, MIASS VILLAGE SUNNY VALLEY, MIASS - CENTRAL SQUARE SUNNY VALLEY, MIASS - WELLNESS HOTEL

22 TRANS-SIBERIAN HIGHWAY SERVICE STATION STOP & GO

Index

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Chelyabinsk, Concept City Plan

Chelyabinsk, Concept City Plan

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Existing greening

Green belt

Green belt and city connnections

Chelyabinsk, Concept City Plan

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Significant buildings and structures

Public

Sites identity

Chelyabinsk, Concept City Plan

Pedestrian, cycle

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spaces

District borders

and tourist route

Lighting towers

Chelyabinsk, Concept City Plan

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Golden Beach, Miass Turgoyak Resort

Golden Beach, Miass - Turgoyak Resort

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green stripe

shore stripe

stripe of existing buildings

mobility stripe

Golden Beach, Miass - Turgoyak Resort

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Golden Beach, Miass - Turgoyak Resort

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Golden Beach, Miass - Turgoyak Resort

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Sunny Valley, Miass Village

residential area and facilities

Skate p

residential area and facilities

heliport

super CENTRAL SQUARE

residential area and facilities

Sunny Valley, Miass - Village

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entertain

district facilities

residential area and facilities heliport

slopes

park and Playground

residential area and facilities

student village WELLNESS

village hotel sky centre

rmarket winter garden building heliport

lake hotel ment building hockey stadium

soccer stadium

Sunny Valley, Miass - Village

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Sunny Valley, Miass - Village

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Sunny Valley, Miass - Village

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Sunny Valley Central Square

Christmas

Sunny Valley, Miass - Village

Sporting

Campin

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Skating park

Sunny Valley, Miass - Village

Concerts

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Sunny Valley, Miass - Village

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wellness and SPA

winter garden

ski center

Sunny Valley, Miass - Village

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Sunny Valley Wellness Hotel

existing building hippodrome

Sunny Valley, Miass - Village

apartment hotel 1 skating

parking

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apartme

footpath

ent hotel 2

pool or water

soccer field

children’s playgrounds

tennis courts

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Sunny Valley, Miass - Village

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Sunny Valley, Miass - Village

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Sunny Valley, Miass - Village

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Trans-Siberian Highway Service Station Stop & Go

Trans-Siberian Highway

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Trans-Siberian Highway

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Trans-Siberian Highway

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Trans-Siberian Highway

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Metrogramma

Since 1999, Metrogramma has been a leading strategic urban-planning and architectural conceptual design office, founded by the architects Andrea Boschetti and Alberto Francini in Milan Italy.

Metrogramma has been founded more than fifteen years ago and since then, engaged in a wide range of planning and development projects. Metrogramma’s masterplans and buildings, spread all over the world, have an innovative philosophy. This company explores various design themes with a comprehensive look that goes beyond the different scales of the projects.

In fact, as well as its contemporary urban design, master-planning and relating research interests, the studio is also working on many important architectural developments and interior design projects. The projects range from hotel and residential complexes, commercial complexes, temporary pavilions to interiors and design objects. Metrogramma’s approach has not changed over time: Metrogramma has been always focusing on the relationship between neighboring sites, ideas and future visions. Each project shows the extensive research performed for which the studio is well renowned.

Biography

Metrogramma actively works in the Russian Federation, and more specifically within the Ural region, implementing and researching on various scale projects from master planning to architecture. Since 2011, Alberto Francini is professor at South Ural State University and organized workshops at the Architecture Facultiy of Togliatti State University.

In 2008, after the successful collaboration, Metrogramma expanded and changed its name into Metrogramma Andrea Boschetti & Alberto Francini srl.

Recently, Metrogramma set up a new company called Grammatiche Metropolitane, which aims at developing a research in the area of contemporary urban regeneration.

In 2011, together with Rossetti (a well renowned architectural company from Detroit), Metrogramma founded Stadia Sports Group, a joint venture which aims at developing large sports facilities. In 2013, Metrogramma, together with Rossetti, opened RossettiMetrogramma a new architectural studio in Doha, Qatar.

Metrogramma will open in the

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coming months a new office in Moscow.

Metrogramma has participated and won several international and national master planning and architecture competitions.

From 2007 to 2011, Metrogramma worked on a strategic design plan and as scientific coordinator on the Urban Development Plan of Milan (PGT), which the RIBA in London judged as one of the five most contemporary significant master plans worldwide.

design, strategic and feasibility studies, economic evaluation of technical and environmental impact analysis, facilities and environment engineering, coordination, management and control of the design process, environment and landscape protection, quality assurance.

Besides various projects and competitions, Metrogramma participated in some of the world’s key exhibitions: the Venice Biennale of Architecture in 2000, 2008 and 2010, the Brasilia exhibition, the London Biennale and the Moscow Biennale in 2008.

In June 2004 the Presidency of the Italian Republic rewarded Metrogramma, in the person of andrea Boschetti, with the bronze medal of the Italian Culture and Art. Metrogramma’s areas of expertise are in brief: urban planning, landscape design, architecture

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Credits

Chelyabinsk Concept City Plan

Sunny Valley, Miass Village, General Masterplan

Site: Chelyabinsk, Russia Year: 2011 Urban Project: Metrogramma Andrea Boschetti e Alberto Francini in collaboration with Andrey Shmidt, Vice-Rector of South Ural State University Project Step: Concept City Plan Inhabitants: 1.077.174 Program: Strategic Plan for the city 2030

Site: Sunny Valley - Miass, Russia Year: 2011 in progress Urban and architectural project: Metrogramma Andrea Boschetti e Alberto Francini Project for: Company Ski Resort «Solnechnaia Dolina», Mr. Oleg Sirotin – President of National park of sport and tourism “Turgoyak” Project step: Final design Areas: Total Area 2.750.000 mq Program: Functional mix: Ski slopes and lifts, residences, hotels, villas, sport area, hockey stadium, entertainment park, commercial facilities, train station, services.

Golden Beach, Miass Turgoyak Lake Resort Site: Golden Beach - Miass, Russia Year: 2011 in progress Urban and architectural project: Metrogramma Andrea Boschetti e Alberto Francini Project for: Company Ski Resort «Solnechnaia Dolina», Mr. Oleg Sirotin – President of National park of sport and tourism “Turgoyak” Project step: Under construction Areas: Total Area 7000 m2 Program: functional mix. Cottage residences, hotel, commercial facilities.

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Sunny Valley, Miass Central Square

Trans-Siberian Highway Service Station Stop & Go

Site: Sunny Valley - Miass, Russia Year: 2012 in progress Urban and architectural project: Metrogramma Andrea Boschetti e Alberto Francini Project for: Company Ski Resort «Solnechnaia Dolina», Mr. Oleg Sirotin – President of National park of sport and tourism “Turgoyak” Project step: Detailed design Areas: Total Area 15 000 m2 Program: functional mix. Pedestrian area, residence apartment, spa, pool, commercial facilities, residence and winter garden, ski centre.

Site: Miass, Russia Year: 2013 in progress Urban and architectural project: Metrogramma Andrea Boschetti e Alberto Francini Project for: Company Ski Resort «Solnechnaia Dolina», Mr. Oleg Sirotin – President of National park of sport and tourism “Turgoyak” Project step: Preliminary design Areas: Total Area 37.000 m2 Program: Gas station, power plant, coffee bar, motel, supermarket, discotheque, info area, ambulatory.

Sunny Valley, Miass Wellness Hotel Site: Sunny Valley - Miass, Russia Year: 2013 in progress Urban and architectural projects: Metrogramma Andrea Boschetti e Alberto Francini Project for: Company Ski Resort «Solnechnaia Dolina», Mr. Oleg Sirotin – President of National park of sport and tourism “Turgoyak” Project step: Final design Areas: Total Area 20.000 m2 Program: hotel, convention centre, spa, pool, soccer field, children’s playground, tennis courts, skating park, parking, pedestrian path.

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Renders and drawings (pp. from 2 to 25) Š 2013, Metrogramma

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