Oat Wreath Equestrian Pavilion by Polina Nozdracheva is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2019 Silver A' Design Award in Architecture, Building and Structure Design Competition Category.
SilverArchitecture· 2019
Oat Wreath Equestrian Pavilion
Client: ALPN Ltd./Architectural laboratory of Polina Nozdracheva Ltd.
Silver A' Design Award Winner in Architecture Category
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About Oat Wreath Equestrian Pavilion
Equestrian pavilion is a part of the newly creating equestrian center. Object is located on the cultural heritage and protected by cultural area of the historical ensemble of the exhibition. Main architectural concept is the exclusion of massive capital walls in favor of transparent wooden lace elements. The main motive of the facade ornament is a stylized rhythmic pattern in the form of wheat ears or oat. Thin metal columns almost imperceptibly support the light rays of the glued wooden roof, which lifted up, with the completion in the form of a stylized silhouette of the horse's head.
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About the Silver A' Design Award
Oat Wreath Equestrian Pavilion is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs. Silver winners are tremendously brilliant and exceedingly creative works that illustrate the outstanding expertise, talent, and acuity of their designers. Oat Wreath Equestrian Pavilion is expected to be a wonderful, showpiece work that is remarkably professional and profoundly innovative. This Silver A' Design Award-winning design is a highly notable, admired invention that benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Oat Wreath Equestrian Pavilion is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparks amazement and wonderment.
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What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
Architecture of the arena is due to a rather difficult task- to inscribe organically a large-sized large-span structure in the historical ensemble of one-story pavilions-stables of 1954. The transparent wooden structure of the outer walls designed to dematerialize the volume as much as possible, dissolve it against the background of high firs and old sprawling poplars. The main motif of the facades ornament simultaneously resembles the thickness of intertwined wooden branches and ears, stylized in the spirit of socialist realism, which in turn refers to the ingenious loci of the exhibition.
What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
Conditions of construction on the territory of the object of cultural heritage excludes the possibility of construction of capital buildings and structures. This determined the overall architectural-spatial and constructive solution of the equestrian pavilion. The choice made in favor of creating a spatial structure of environmental and renewable materials.
What are your future plans for this award winning design?
The future plan for this award winning design is building of it.
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- Unique Properties
- In the building frame eliminated the massive walls. Columns almost imperceptibly support light beams of glued wood and roof of minimum thickness. Riding hall volume hides a parade ground with a size of 20 x 60 meters. Wooden structure protects and allows to held training & competition throughout the year. Ground floor has spacious entrance with all necessary auxiliary, technical rooms and passages to tribunes. Entrance group is marked with an openwork visor serving as balcony of tribunes.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Total area of the Manage is 1585 sq.m. Total area of two levels tribunes is 1500 sq.m. Number of seats - 1000 people.
- Tags
- equestrian, alpn, pavilion, sport, oat wreath, facade structure, horses, wheat, wooden structure, polina_nozdracheva
- Production Technology
- The building of the pavilion is a large-span structure covered with glued wooden beams. The end of the beam is an individual architectural element - a stylized silhouette of the horse's head. Facades - horizontal wooden boards, located in two transverse directions complex rhythmic pattern, reminiscent of wheat ears or oat. The surfaces of all structural and facing elements remain natural color, exposing the texture of wood.
- Design Challenge
- Conditions of construction on the territory of the object of cultural heritage excludes the possibility of construction of capital buildings and structures. This determined the overall architectural-spatial and constructive solution of the equestrian pavilion. The choice made in favor of creating a spatial structure from the environmental and renewable materials.
- Research
- Historically: significant urban area of the city. The first buildings appeared on this site in 1937-39 as part of a large urban complex of the All-Union Agricultural Exhibition. They built of short-lived materials and by 1954 replaced by capital buildings - pavilions for various functional purposes. The existing stables, which are subject to reconstruction and restoration, for the full functioning require the creation of a new spectacular pavilion-arena.
- Inspiration
- Main goal - organically inscribe a large-sized large-span structure in historical ensemble of pavilions built in 1954. Transparent wooden lace of outer walls designed for the dematerialization of the volume to dissolve it against the background of existing landscape. Main facades ornament motif resembles the thick of intertwined wood branches and ears stylized in the spirit of socialist realism, referring to genius loci of VDNKH (exhibition of national economy achievements) - object of cultural heritage and protect cultural zone.
- Project Duration
- 2015-2017, Moscow city, VDNKH, Russia.
- Operation Flow
- Pavilion as part of the newly established equestrian center of VDNKH (exhibition of national economy achievements) primarily intended to serve the development and promotion of equestrian sports and horse breeding, designed for training and competitions, as well as for various thematic programs, demonstrations and shows.
- Patents
- Patented. Patent No.#085-902-497. Patent Holder - ALPN Ltd. March, 2019. N'RIS.
Copyright belong to Polina Nozdracheva and ALPN Ltd., 2017. - Team Members
- Main architect: Polina Nozdracheva
- Image Credits
- Image #1: Oat Wreath. Total view of the Equestrian pavilion.
Image #2: Oat Wreath. View from the open jumping field.
Image #3: Oat Wreath. Fragment. Interior with two zones - Tribunes and Riding hall.
Image #4: Oat Wreath. Details - architectural elements - stylized silhouette of the horse's head.
Image #5: Oat Wreath. View from the main pedestrian line with facades elements reminiscent of wheat ears.
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