Project

Odintsovo – 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 centre.
The big void in the middle of the city reserved for a centre 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 centre that compares to existing and established centres.
The proposed 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.

Client

Tekta Group

Program

180 ha, Masterplan for a new city center, 1.1 mil 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

Stages

2012 Masterplan Design Competition

Team

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

Awards

1st Prize in the competition