Moscow does not stand still and every dayis growing faster and faster. The Moscow metro is growing along with the metropolis. If you are eager to find out what the new stations will look like and who chose their design, we will reveal all the cards 78 new stations and more than 160 kilometers of metro lines are planned to be built in Moscow by 2020. This will ensure walking distance to the metro for every nine out of ten residents of the capital and will significantly reduce the load on the existing network. Of the planned number, 13 stations have already been opened, which in their appearance have preserved the best traditions of the Moscow metro, formed over almost 80 years of its operation. Recently, on November 14, an open competition for the design of the Solntsevo and Novoperedelkino stations ended. The winners were evaluated by both a professional jury and participants of the Active Citizen platform. Our opinion: - The stations planned for opening will be unique and will differ from the gray foreign templates. After all, the Moscow underground is not soulless tunnels for transporting city dwellers, it is like the circulatory system of Moscow, which permeates the entire city, gives it a full life and fills the capital with a broad Russian soul. Now let's talk in more detail about what the future stations will look like:
1. Troparevo station
The station will be located on Leningradskyavenue with a depth of only 12 meters. The length of the station complex will be 349 meters, and access to the surface at the level with the ticket offices will be provided by a system of elevators. The architects of the project were specialists from Inzhproekt, and the opening of the station will take place next week. The platform hall is designed as a park alley of wide trees that have shed their leaves, with artificial lighting on their crowns. Mirrors along the walls of the room create the illusion of a fairy-tale forest around due to reflection. The final touch of the composition is the granite floor of the platform, made in the polychrome color of the autumn forest.
2. Rumyantsevo station
Situated on the Kiev highway, not far fromvillage of Salaryevo, this station is located in an environment devoid of the usual urban environment. That is why the idea came up to make it in the style of that very "urban structure" that is lacking here. By the way, "Rumyantsevo" will be the first two-level station in the capital, and the total length of the complex will be 240 meters with three escalators on both sides. The theme of the "city street" makes the platform a pedestrian part, as if surrounded by the facades of the buildings, which act as the walls of the section. The ceiling is presented in the form of a light wooden roof, slightly inclined, through which sunlight breaks through, represented by lamps imitating it. In this way, the architects from the "Inzhproekt" bureau wanted to achieve the effect of a non-underground space.
3. Volkhonka station
The station is located near the squarePrechistensky Gate. Due to the immediate proximity to the Pushkin Museum, the design idea arose by itself. The interior of the hall will become a futuristic version of the exhibition hall with reproductions of paintings and sculptures from the museum's collections.
4. Solntsevo station
For the first time since the sixties of the last centuryThe design of the stations was again chosen on a competitive basis by voting. The winner of the competition for the design of the Solntsevo station was one of the most successful Moscow studios, Nefa Architects, which has 20 years of fruitful work and more than 60 projects in various fields behind it. This work was preferred not only by 47% of Muscovites who voted, but also by the majority of the professional jury. In general, the project turned out to be very bright and carefree. As Dmitry Ovcharov, chief architect of Nefa Architects, says, it is more of an image of a country house, a building with a gable roof. On the one hand, it refers us to history, in the 30s there was a country village here, from which the name Solntsevo comes, and on the other hand, this is the most minimalistic structure, a prototype of the first human buildings. Dmitry Ovcharov, chief architect of Nefa arhitects: — We made perforations in the external pavilion and thus transformed the smooth daylight of the street into rays in the interior. On the platform, the same effect is achieved with the help of reflected light from artificial sources. I think that we managed to create an imitation of the presence of sunlight, sun rays in the interior and pavilions of the station, and at the same time remain within the framework of modern laconic architecture. nefa-architects.com
5. Novoperedelkino station
When choosing another competition project, opinionsThe experts were divided, and its fate, as in the case of Solntsevo, was also determined by the people's choice. Muscovites entrusted the design of the Novoperedelkino station to the Latvian bureau United Riga Architects, although some members of the jury considered the project tasteless and frivolous. In turn, Yevgeny Leonov, the chief architect of the Latvian bureau, said that he was very pleased with the victory and happy that Muscovites recognized their work as the best. Basing their design on original Moscow motifs, the Latvians combined them with modern technologies and materials.
Our opinion:— Some experts believe that the final decision should have been made by professionals, not ordinary people via electronic voting. But it is these thousands of local Muscovites who will go down to the platform every day and wait for their train there, so, in our opinion, the people's choice in such a matter is certainly important, and it is they who should determine what the new stations will look like. Here are a few more concepts of Moscow metro stations that we may be lucky enough to see with our own eyes in the coming years:
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