Tamayouz International Award is an annual international architecture award open to final year students worldwide. Tamayouz International aims to recognise and reward excellence in architectural design and education and celebrating the achievements of young architects at an early stage and giving them the opportunity to collaborate and support each other, empowering a generation of young architects to pursue their careers knowing that they can contribute towards the advancement of architecture in their communities
The Winner of Tamayouz Excellence Award 2016 and the First Prize is shared between Anna Andronova from the Kazan State University of Architecture and Engineering in Russia and Noor Marji from the German Jordanian University in Amman.
The Prize Winner (Joint-Winner):
Anna Andronova
Perpetual Motion: Kazan Hybrid Hub
Kazan State University of Architecture and Engineering - Russia
Project supervisor: Ilnar Akhtiamov and Rezeda Akhtiamova
The Judging Panel described the projects as an extremely daring project that aims to redraw the concept of urban transportation and warps us into the future of an all-connected and accessible urban form. The proposal to redesign the central transportation hub of Kazan and radically break with historical interventions and permanent scars in the urban tissue is very courageous. The proposal shows a strong capacity to frame the narrative in a convincing and thought-provoking set-up, resulting in a dreamlike vision of some future urban generator. Because it stays firm in the realm of the conceptual and has a strong visual narrative, the project bypasses standard judgement.
The Prize Winner (Joint-Winner):
Anna Andronova
Perpetual Motion: Kazan Hybrid Hub
Kazan State University of Architecture and Engineering - Russia
Project supervisor: Ilnar Akhtiamov and Rezeda Akhtiamova
The Judging Panel described the projects as an extremely daring project that aims to redraw the concept of urban transportation and warps us into the future of an all-connected and accessible urban form. The proposal to redesign the central transportation hub of Kazan and radically break with historical interventions and permanent scars in the urban tissue is very courageous. The proposal shows a strong capacity to frame the narrative in a convincing and thought-provoking set-up, resulting in a dreamlike vision of some future urban generator. Because it stays firm in the realm of the conceptual and has a strong visual narrative, the project bypasses standard judgement.
Project Description:
Life is motion. Transportation defines a city, its scale and structure, guides its inner rhythm as well as global economic prosperity. Today, world faces dramatic transportational changes. New types of vehicles appear, introducing new approaches to delivering, travelling and commuting: quadrocopters, drones, hoverbikes, magnet levitation rails or hyperloops. Moreover, general shift to digital technology, augmented reality, distributed and ecological production, e-commerce, freelancing labour and absolute internet control also affects the role of transport and logistics, reducing unnecessary movements while reinforcing alternative types of cargo. Thus, we move towards lighter and more personal vehicles which provide city with faster, far more energy-saving and safe communications.
Life is motion. Transportation defines a city, its scale and structure, guides its inner rhythm as well as global economic prosperity. Today, world faces dramatic transportational changes. New types of vehicles appear, introducing new approaches to delivering, travelling and commuting: quadrocopters, drones, hoverbikes, magnet levitation rails or hyperloops. Moreover, general shift to digital technology, augmented reality, distributed and ecological production, e-commerce, freelancing labour and absolute internet control also affects the role of transport and logistics, reducing unnecessary movements while reinforcing alternative types of cargo. Thus, we move towards lighter and more personal vehicles which provide city with faster, far more energy-saving and safe communications.
In order to organize such efficient system in the perpetual motion age, a totally different, inside-out infrastructure must be built. Ubiquitous transportation system acts as city’s “blood vessels”, and port here is a “heart”, an entrance to the city, travellers’ navigation sign. Port of the future is an augmented, hybrid, condensed hub. It is the most flexible and powerful element in an urban structure.
Kazan railway station occupies a unique position in the city. It is adjacent to the Volga river embankment as well as to the forest park line; however, the citizens’ access to both of them is totally blocked with the supplementary railways, while natural zones themselves lack any care. On the other hand, there are visual and pedestrian connections with the key centre objects (Kremlin, Central Stadium, Bulak channel). They are also discontinued with unfriendly and abandoned quarters of New Tatar Sloboda. Without introduction of fundamentally different concept, it is not possible to unlock the full potential of this territory.
Design proposes to create a hybrid park which would connect the historical site of the New Tatar Sloboda and green “wedge”. There are instant hotels, repair and parking stations, cargo base, waste recycling plant, trade and recreational spaces dissolved in this park and supplementing each other in a digitally optimized way. Key points in the park are marked with three infrastructural towers: Waste recycling tower, Parking & repairing tower and Cargo tower. Towers’ structural principle is based on tulip, daffodil and lilac flowers respectively, which are the most common plants in local area. Functional and symbolic saturation becomes adequate to its status of the central crossroad.
Existing railway is substituted with significantly faster and more durable hyper loop line. Hybrid forest landscape also provides a joint with the river port and pocket airport, platforms and parking areas of which are docked on the top. Subway, ground public transport and drone highways connect the hub to the whole Kazan.
“Hybridity” in the project is appearing in the communication between bio-social fabric, artificial framework and informational field; between static and moving; between virtual and real. Design celebrates hygiene of diversity instead of sterility. The main aim of the project is to reunion nature and city; recreate the diverse and sustainable ecosystem in a complex urban landscape.
Invitation to students worldwide:
Tamayouz is delighted to invite students of Architecture, Urban Design, Urban Planning, Architecture Technology and Landscape Design worldwide to register and submit their Graduation Projects. An independent international jury will review all entries and will select the winners of Tamayouz International Award 2017. Prizes include: An MSc Scholarship for 2 Years at the Polytechnic University of Milan, 2 scholarships for the Stadslab (European Urban Design Laboratory) master classes, Medals for 7 Honourable Mentions, supervisor the Year Medal, University of the Year Medallion. All the selected winners making the Top 10 list, the supervisor of the year and the university of the Year will be invited to attend our annual Tamayouz Excellence Award ceremony (Travel Expenses covered by the organisers of the Award).
Read the Brief here
Tamayouz is delighted to invite students of Architecture, Urban Design, Urban Planning, Architecture Technology and Landscape Design worldwide to register and submit their Graduation Projects. An independent international jury will review all entries and will select the winners of Tamayouz International Award 2017. Prizes include: An MSc Scholarship for 2 Years at the Polytechnic University of Milan, 2 scholarships for the Stadslab (European Urban Design Laboratory) master classes, Medals for 7 Honourable Mentions, supervisor the Year Medal, University of the Year Medallion. All the selected winners making the Top 10 list, the supervisor of the year and the university of the Year will be invited to attend our annual Tamayouz Excellence Award ceremony (Travel Expenses covered by the organisers of the Award).
Read the Brief here