At the end of August, the thirteenth architecture biennale opened in Venice, which will run until November 25. The theme of the show this year sounds like Common Ground, which means "Public Space" or "Common Interest". The Russian pavilion presents the i-city project dedicated to the Skolkovo innovation project.
The project presented by Russia is divided into two components - on the first floor of the pavilion you can learn the history of the scientific cities of the Soviet Union - the predecessors of the innovation city. The upper floor is reserved for a project dedicated directly to Skolkovo. It covers all the stages of creating an innovation center: urban planning concept, architecture of buildings, planning of districts.
The aim of the project was to show the differences between the closedness of science cities during the Soviet Union and the openness of modern Skolkovo. To make this information available, it is enough to point the tablet at one of the squares of the pavilion wall, and then press the button. Having read a two-dimensional code with encrypted information (QR), the tablet will display comprehensive information about the exhibit.
The part of the exhibition dedicated to the Skolkovo innovation center is based on reading information from graphic squares (bar codes), from which the dome and walls of the pavilion are erected. This method of transferring information was chosen for a reason - everything tells that Skolkovo is a high-tech project and that science is in step with modern technologies into people's lives. At the Biennale, Russia presented a space that is both virtual and physical.
The idea of creating a pavilion in the form of a virtual tour of the innovative Skolkovo facility belongs to Grigory Revzin, Commissioner of the Biennale and the SPEECH Tchoban and Kuznetsov architectural company.
The general plan of Skolkovo is presented to the attention of visitors and other participants of the Biennale, broken down by the steps of its implementation; projects combined with residential buildings, inscribed in the landscape with the premises of the technopark; logistic and recreational spaces. Also here you can find interviews of all the authors of the main projects of the innovation city, answering any questions about the innovative brainchild of Russia.
