Repino Park Cottage Village
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AWARDS
2 place АЛАРОС 2018
A walking and leisure park closed off from the outside world, with its own lake that turns into an ice rink in winter, a beach, areas for spending time with children and for sports, dedicated dog-walking areas, a cafe, a pavilion for residents' gatherings and a stage
IMPLEMENTATION
2018-2021
LOCATION
Russia
The Leningrad Region
PROJECT TYPE
Public Spaces
КОМАНДА
Chief Architect
Николай Безрук
Architect
Юлия Хайрулина
Team leaders
Андрей Кочетков
Владимир Соколов
КОНЦЕПЦИЯ
The main reference point in the design is bionics. Looking at the park’s master plan, you can see that it is drawn entirely in natural lines. This is partly because the park’s original nature was preserved – the forest grew unevenly, so to keep its shape the paths had to go around it. Walking along the winding trails, a person sees a constantly changing landscape; the children’s playgrounds and sports grounds were inscribed into the same curving forms, so everything in the project obeys a single law.
Meadow grasses fit the ideology of bionics perfectly. They are natural to this environment. In some places they have to be planted, in others simply left to grow, and elsewhere allowed to keep their natural look with a little feeding. The grasses draw the same bionic lines, so nature itself helps bring this project to life. Small fruit-tree groves are planned in the forest, allowing anyone to plant a tree of their own if the size of their private plot does not permit it.
