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—10.04.2023
Blank Architects project in Tuapse district is nominated for Urban Awards 2023

Blank Architects project in Tuapse district is nominated for Urban Awards 2023

—10.02.2023
Rizhskaya metro station opened

Metro station Rizhskaya (Bolshaya Koltsevaya Line) was opened

—11.12.2022
Committee for Architecture and Urban Planning of Moscow approved the concept of a new club house Sminex-Inteko "Obydensky 1"

Committee for Architecture and Urban Planning of Moscow approved the concept of a new club house Sminex-Inteko "Obydensky 1"

—10.10.2022
Discovery Shopping Center becames the best mall on Arendator Awards 2022!

The project won a prestigious commercial real estate award.

—26.09.2022
Department stores

A department store in a shopping center is a whole world with the architecture based on its own canons.

—15.09.2022
Building of GEOLOG

Construction of the GEOLOG business center by Hutton Development is in progress on Obrucheva St. in Moscow.

—09.09.2022
The decoration of the "Rizhskaya" is 80% completed

Works on the architectural decoration of the Rizhskaya metro station in Moscow have been completed by 80%.

—20.07.2022
The St. Petersburg office of Blank Architects is working on HOLLYWOOD Shopping Center

This year St. Petersburg is waiting for one new shopping center - HOLLYWOOD, the architecture and interiors of which were created by Blank Architects team.

—19.07.2022
Shopping center "Vesna" renovation has been completed

The renovation of the shopping center "Vesna!" located on the Altufyevsky Highway has been completed according to our project: it includes the renovation of public spaces and food court.

—15.07.2022
New 4* hotel in Magadan in details

We found the architectural solution for the new 4* hotel project in Magadan in the harsh northern landscape – with its powerful rock breaks and stunning large-scale views.

—11.07.2022
Hotel in Agoy – new video about the project

The hotel complex in the Agoy Village of Tuapse district is one of our new, but already favorite projects.


Blank Architects strengthens the team

We invites chief, leading and landscape architects, and visualizer.

—27.06.2022
Discovery: grand opening

Discovery shopping center by developer MR Group has been opened in Moscow. The project became the first opened shopping center in the city since the beginning of 2022.

—14.06.2022
Blank Architects won at ArchMoscow

The Blank Architects team took part in the exhibition ArchMoscow 2022 — the main event of the architectural world, annually bringing together hundreds of professionals and experts.

—30.05.2022
Blank Architects at ArchMoscow

Blank Architects will present an exposition dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the bureau's at the exhibition "ArchMoscow 2022".

—23.05.2022
Blank Architects metro project was shortlisted

The project of the consortium BACE (Blank Architects and Clancy Engineering) for the Ostrov Mechty metro station became the finalist of the first stage of the International competition for the development of the architectural appearance of the Moscow Metro stations.

—12.05.2022
How the residential projects may look in future

How the residential projects may look in future and what are the architects ready to offer? The chief architect of Blank Architects projects, Dane Klyakovich, shared the opinion in the author's column for the Portal of Archsovet of Moscow on how the approach to the design of residential real estate will change.

—25.04.2022
Как новая турбулентность изменит торговые центры?

орговые центры в новых условиях закрытия международных брендов столкнулись с оттоком трафика, а эксперты предрекают рост вакансии.

—24.03.2022
New project in Sochi

Another hotel project by Blank Architects - this is a complex in the village of Maisky.

—17.02.2022
Rizhskaya station in progress

Look underground: at the station of BCL "Rizhskaya", which was designed be Blank Architects everything is already prepared for the installation of arched structures.

—15.02.2022
"Tomorrow will come today" is now available on our website

"Tomorrow will come today" is a research and manifesto dedicated to changes in the architecture of the housing in future and our ideas about how we see really comfortable modern homes.

—08.02.2022
Blank Architects made a masterplan concept for the Prokshino cluster in Moscow

Blank Architects has developed the concept of a masterplan for the Prokshino sports and event cluster in Prokshino, Moscow, - a unique project for Russia. The project includes cultural and sports facilities, an event venue, a water park and a 100 m high slide.

—03.02.2022
Branding for NOVAMALL

For an umbrella brand of shopping centers NOVAMALL, we have created a logo, corporate identity and brandbook.

—27.01.2022
Branding

We create real estate projects at all points of contact with the audience: from architecture and landscaping to interior design, way finding and unique branding.

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Name
Location
Program
The Piscina Mirabilis — Museum of Live Arts
Италия
Program: Culture, Interiors

The Piscina Mirabilis — Museum of Live Arts

Vision

The Piscina Mirabilis is a unique architectural object. The impressive architectural order of its plan and space is remarkably affecting its visitors and viewers. The Reuse competition design question made us in first place discuss on dilemma: do we prioritize creating a museum with sufficient free exhibition space no more what or – do we keep the original structure intact? The specific features of the form and typology of the building pushed us to debate and investigate the mission of the modern museum as a whole. Seeing the modern museums tendencies as of today we have looked into far predictions of evaluation of understanding of the role and form of modern art. The near future of modern art shall have a new set of attractive to visitors’ elements, different from available today.
We propose a 21st century participatory museum project. In this project we are shifting the main focus - from objects and media onto society, visitor and interaction. We see Piscina Mirabilis as The Museum of Live Arts. Where standardized museum of modern art role is supplement to Main platform for constructing new forms of physical and emotional experience. The Live Arts unites many diverse practices: performance, contemporary dance, social theater, Immersive art, pedagogical experiments, site-specific art, retreat therapy and art residences and more to come.
The vision of Water as the source of life that has been filling the reservoir over century is powerful. Water is represented in idea of the Live Arts, as the perception of fluid and volatile subjects. And just like water with its permanent memory was filling reservoir in past we seek to create an Reservoir Archive that will serve to accumulate, preserve and transmit materials on the history and theory of Live Arts. An ancient water reservoir becomes a museum and an archive of art of the future.

Design

The design of the project seeks to provide the function by minimal implementation into the object and leaving the solid impression of the historical architectural elements of the ruins. The project plans only 4 new elements:

  1. Gallery-path along the perimeter of the reservoir at a middle elevation. The galleries contains video archives and a library. The gallery allows you to view the space at different levels and make your own individual path quest. The visitor’s path, including bypassing the lower level, is cyclic. In the past, an endless circulation of water took place in the reservoir, and now it is filled with flows of peoplp>
  2. A new two-level underground part contains a multifunctional space of a conference hall and a restaurant/bar, kitchen, storage, office, toilets and access to the patio.
  3. The tower is a classic element of the Italian public museum square, as well as the main social element of our participatory museum. A correctly selected place for vertical communication allowed to place the old and new entrance next to each other, as well as all the main functions of the museum and starting and ending point of any visitor and exhibition path.
  4. Mobile city square - a transformer on the roof. In our case, the usual public square in front of the museum is transferred to the roof in the form of light platforms that allow to hold any event or exposition. The main historical openings are preserved under glass and visitors have access to the central ones. In the dark, these holes emit light outside as a symbol of water that was once pumped out of them.
    The project does not change the transport scheme. It is proposed to improve the materials of the roads, since they will simultaneously be walking areas, and the north-western side along vault-covered little rooms will become the main recreation area and will be complemented by an avenue of trees.

Reconstruction Approach

We seek to save the current state of the monument. The reconstruction project involves the highest possible preservation of the internal structure of the object, including all pillars, stairs, the covering terrace and doors opening in the vault, two step entrances, twelve vault-covered little rooms and to underline the water inlet pipe (we make eternal circulating waterfall at the main entrance) and water output pipe (we fill the basin with water) .
New function implementation into historical ruins requires us to open out a fragment of the face northwest wall to create a new additional functional underground space, a small courtyard, an entrance group setup and vertical communication. This decision will make possible to see into the deep structure of the monument, that has informational and educational point. A gap is formed, through which new life, people and the light flows into the the Ancient Roman ruins and reveals their essence and design features.

Material Approach

In any historical volumes we offer to clean, strengthen and preserve the maximum of possible historical surfaces - columns, walls, arches, and floor.
All blocks of tufa that remained from the demolished part of the historical wall will be used for restoration purposes and as a material for the reception desk and recreation areas.
The new constructions of stairs, galleries, and roof platforms do not touch historical surfaces, and look more like temporary light materials that are used to construct archeological sites
In newly constructed space the new floor and wall decoration is partially applied along the perimeter of the reservoir to create an archive space and the possibility of a gallery type of exposure.
We aim to obtain contrast effect of bright vs dark between newly constructed elements and old kept volumes.