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2 times a year, in winter and summer, young architects gather in the most incredible places in Russia - the Baikal, Altai, the Crimea and ancient northern cities - to build

their ‘own Town’.

The basic idea:

Building of architectural projects andobjects of land-art by our hands

10 festivals, 2 actions

Suhanovo, august 2005 Suhanovo, march 2006

Yaroslavl, march 2008Baikal, july 2007

Suhanovo, august 2006

Kirillov, february 2007

Crimea, september 2008 Altai, july - august 2009Kargopol, march 2009

Velikiy Ustyug, febr. 2010 Moscow, may 2010Ryazan, may 2010

>390 objects

geography:

- Last festivals

- Participants

- Realization of eco-architectural ideas

- Professional communication

- Experience of working in teams

- A healthy lifestyle and active travelling

Our tasks:

In several parts of Russia appeared the same festivals: -"Bukh-art" in Irkutsk (www.kma-clabs.livejournal.com),

- "Another meaning" in Yaroslavl (www.krombittraxorm.narod.ru),

- “O'Gorod” in Nizhny Novgorod (www.ogorod09.narod.ru),

- ArhKuznitsa »(www.ak2010.ru) -ProGorod in Ekaterinburg (www.arch66.ru)

at the same time across Russia!

with a ruined pier in a hot summer 2005…

this all began ...

the task was to restore part of the pier and create an installation on it!

Water town, august 2005

Young architects started working!

The result: after 2 days of work, a reconstructed pier 15 architectural-objects and about 150 participants

"TSAPA" (A.Asadov architectural studio, Moscow)

"Nebanya" (AK Reflection, Moscow)

"Wodochnaya station" (Ostozhenka + Kuzembaev, Moscow)

Snow town, march 2006

2 days of work ~ 200 participants

" Ice Manufacture" (the team of "SPbGASU") and " Ledoskryob" (A.Asadov architectural studio, Moscow)

"The next project" (workshop of A. Bavykin, Moscow)

Town of childhood, august 2006

2 days of work ~ 300 participants

A synthesis of the elements - water, earth and air, the best mirage, a forgotten dream ... and at the same time, the real town

for kids with all sorts of adventures!

"Playing Classic" ("GIPRONII”, Moscow)

Town-fortress, February 2007

... In search of snow!3 days of work ~ 200 participants

Cyril-Belozersky Monastery - the biggest in Europe

First, the idea to cross more than 700 km from Moscow in 30-degree frost was seen as madness

“Gone crazy”(workshop of Yu Vissarionova, Moscow)

"Hands" (AK Reflection, Moscow)

"IGLU" (the team of P. Ryabchenko and S. Nebotova, Moscow)

Shaman-town, july 2007

This trip was harder then Kirillov. A long way, rain and wind, life in the field ...

5 days of work, 2 days of excursions ~ 500 participants

Lake Baikal

The biggest fresh water lake in the world

Heaven of ancient gods and meditation in the wild!

"Shaman-Tambourine" (A.Asadov architectural studio, Moscow)

«Communication cube» ( «Kaabinet», Riga)

"Te’rebit’" ("Kommuna.arh", Moscow)

Excursions after festival

Yar-town, march 2008

A place for pagan mysteries and the transformation of matter into spirit

3 days of work, 1 day of excursions ~ 500 participants

Yaroslavl

Building a scarecrow and burning it down

"Sunflowers" (Workshop of "ADM", Moscow)

"Inner Light 2.0» ( «Designo», Moscow)

“Blintsy” (architectural team, Moscow)

Excursion programm after festival - Rostov

Zurbagan, september 2008

The construction of legendary Zurbagan – the town of happiness, the dream-town - dreams of the sea, wind and sails ...

7 days of work, 2 days of resting ~ 800 participants

The place is an abandoned military factory near Koktebel

Gallery with conceptual projects on the development of the territory

"The sea in cube" ( "OAM", Moscow)

"Grabuzan" ( "Kurorthinki", Moscow)

"White street" (“AB610”, Moscow-Ekaterinburg)

"Our flame" ( "Iofan’s Children", Moscow)

"Budki 2.0" (“H. Z. ART ", Rostov-on-Don - Moscow)

«Up & down» (A.Asadov architectural studio, Moscow)

"DNA" (the team "Glue", Moscow-Kazan-Samara)

presentation

Towns are "turning green" - the theme of eco-homes is being developed

Eca-town, march 2009

Kargopol. An old Russian city, founded in 11464 days of work and excursions ~ 500 participants

building material – ice & snow

first attempt to build eco-homes

“Hot‘n‘cool” (“Hot End sexy", Moscow)

“Winter palace of Diogen” ("Pomorie", Arkhangelsk)

“Censored-house” (“Censored-group”, Moscow)

Green town, august 2009

the most complex, unusual and "green" festival 7 days of work, 2 days of excursions ~ 700 participants

the main condition is the use of local materials!

for large structures the burned wood was used, from the other shore of the lake

The toughest participants spend 1,5 month in Altai mountains

"Arhi100g" ("Altayna", Moscow-Barnaul)

“Theater” (“Mpaat”,Kiev)

Building materials – burned forest

The twisted “Egg-office” (“KrombiTTraxorm", Yaroslavl)

"House of Photography" ( "Mack Monolith", Moscow)

“Nest” (“Brigade M", Moscow)

Road to festival

"DushAltaya” (arh.office of T. Bashkaev, Moscow)

“Pirs” (“Pirsona Grata”, Novosibirsk)

“Eco! - Earth!” (“Zemlyanie”, Moscow)

“Cabins” (“wolfes”, Moscow)

“Epikantus” (“uelki”, Moscow)

“Girls, jump to me!" ( "Utkatrihera", Moscow)

object in action

- Separation of garbage and collecting

- Careful use of water

- Plastic dishes and packaging were not allowed

- Solar boxes to warm up water

In ‘our green town’ we did the following:

> TETRIS <village ( «Zoom», Moscow)

energy saving

70 teams and more than 700 architects took part in the festival

“Green town”!

WhiteTown, february 2010

Arch. Desant to the land of Ded Moroz

Theme – contemporary interpritation of «IZBA»

Materials – snow and ice

“izBABABA” (Fartart, Moscow)

“Stakanodi” (“GAGAYAGAGA”, Moscow)

“izBAR” (Xaoc, Brigada “J” and other)

Night lights of team “Snowhow” (Finland)

More than 300 architects and 33 objects.

TOWN AZ, May 2010

Old Ryazan town

“AZ” (Masterskaya, S.Petersburg)

“BUKI” (Buki team, Moscow)

“ZEMLYA” (Gagayagaya, Moscow)

“TVERDO” (Levsha, Odessa)

“POKOY” (SKIPeople, Moscow)

“POKOY” (SKIPeople, Moscow)

“VEDI” (M-33, Moscow)

“YER” (Vetrograd, Moscow)

“AZ” (Masterskaya, S.Petersburg)

TOWNS ON STRELKA, May 2010

The architectural action during the Moscow architectural biennale

“STRELKA” (A.Shorin, V.Makletsov, K.Pilugin)

“MOOD IMPROVER” (Don’t touch)

“Sitting Arrow” (Metatecture)

“MASTER >” (Truba)

“COMMUNICATION STOOL” (ram2ram)

Chairs parade

Chairs parade

HelioPolis, September 2010

Architectural island on Ionic sea!

Island’s plan

TOWNS conquer the world)

“Philosophical library” (Asadov studio, Moscow)

“See above” (Megabudka, Moscow)

“Nilumbo nymph” (On the sea, Kiev)

“Uroboros” (ReHouse, Moscow)

“Reflection box” (Momaarh, Zagreb, Croatia)

“Bridge” (Ivan Ovchinnikov, Moscow)

“Ideas tree” (“MacMonolit”, Moscow)

Night view

400 young architects and 50 installations!

The first festival’s experimental house

Capacity – 30 personsAssembly time – 24 hours

Construction place – Tyagachev mountain ski resort

Assembly process

Assembly process

Assembly process

“life in the Cube” - seminars

Sleeping rooms

1. choice of a place

The organization of “Goroda”

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2. investigation

3. announcement of the place and theme

4. sketches of future objects

5. preparation of the territory by team of “towners"

6. construction!!! The most incredible part of the festival

In winter and summer

Under the water and on the water

On land and in the air

7. Night educational programs

8. presentation of built “Town”

9. excursion program

10. Exhibitions and results

WHO MAKES IT?

Organizational support:

Union of Russia architects Union of Moscow architects A.Asadov architectural studio

Partners:

Constant sponsors of festival:

PIONER - the leader in the Russian market in manufacture of non-standard furniture

FORBO - the world leader in manufacture of floor coverings

Organizer – Ivan Ovchinnikov

Studio of light «AXIOMA» Creative studio of Kirill Bair «LumDecor» magazine

see you on “Towns” festival!!!

the Curator - Ivan Ovchinnikov

www.goroda-fest.ru

goroda.fest@gmail.com

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