Murmansk CMYK

BUROMOSCOW
Moscow

Murmansk is a port-based city in the North-West Russia. Surrounded by military and industrial middle-size settlements, Murmansk is an oasis of economic activity. Though it has lost about one third of the population in the last 18 years, it is still the largest city above the Arctic Circle with its 320.000 inhabitants.
50.000 new inhabitants are expected to arrive in Murmansk with the Shtokman gas field project. Murmansk will change from a post soviet city into a modern, multinational metropolis. Originally laid out for 450.000 (1980) Murmansk has shrunk to 317.000 (2008) inhabitants. Living quality does not conform to contemporary standards.

Four strategies are proposed:
1.Two major voids in the city become part of an ‘Arctic park‘ embracing the city center. Patio villas are inserted, introducing a new notion of semi public space and private ownership since until present 90% of housing in Murmansk are prefabricated slabs. Assuming the northern and southern parts of the city will disappear when prefabricated building’s life span will reach it’s end, Murmansk will become more compact.
2. Partly removing the port to the opposite site of the bay up north offers the chance to open Murmansk to the Kola Bay and redevelop the existing piers. The old city center extends to the water with mixed functions in a dense urban pattern.
3. Intelligible small interventions and re-programming of the ground floor housing will make the city more sensual and reverses its technocratic image.
4. Cleaning heavily polluted inner city rivers will be a starting point for a mandatory ecological approach.

Team: Olga Aleksakova, Julia Bourdova, Andreas Huhn, Igor Aparyn, Bastian Henning, Lidiya Koloyarskaya, Natalia Remizova, Natalia Suhova, Olga Vlasenko, Dimitrij Zadorin.

Murmansk CMYK

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