VQ (vertical quarter)

PrizeHonorable Mention in Architectural Design /
Firm LocationMoscow, Russian Federation
CompanyTOTEMENT/PAPER
Lead ArchitectLevonAyrapetov
Design TeamLevon Ayrapetov, Valeriya Preobrazhenskaya, Egor Legkov, Olga Fomina
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A zero balance sheet, green technologies, aerial trusses, and engineering elements of stable architecture are a natural constituent of this project, but the issues of the Form causation are heading the list. Increasing a building scale by an order changes its perception so that it is impossible to apply conventional formal approaches. This fact together with the change of world order (rhizomic, inconclusive, moving, variative instead of tree-form hierarchic one) and the application of 3d design technologies caused the appearance of countless biomorphic structures having no signs of human tectonic forms, the scale of body contact with a human being. The VQ (vertical quarter) project is an attempt to solve the problem of architectural shaping – to make the form tectonic again by combining it with a new philosophy, vertical with horizontal, flexibility with rigidity, individual with common, partial with whole, and internal with external.