A101 Urban Block Competition proposal / Onat Öktem and Ziya Imren

Architects Onat Öktem and Ziya Imren shared with us their proposal for the A101 Urban Block City International Architectural Competition in Moscow, Russia. More images and architect’s description after the break.

Courtesy of Onat Öktem and Ziya Imren

Frozen Street – Dissolving Borders

The main idea of the design is to compose an urban block with variants of modules, which characterize the urban block with their solid/void pattern and spatial typology. The combination of the modules offers a vast possibility of spatial configuration, thus can be used in different sites, in different heights and in different planer/sectional combinations for a variety of programs. While the diversity of the modules allows flexibility of use, the combination of these, still reflects a sense of unity, without compromising the structural system.

Courtesy of Onat Öktem and Ziya Imren

The flexibility of the project for different sites gets stronger by the planer design of the modules since almost all of them have two façades for the sunlight.

The ground floor is reserved not only to the residents but for everybody. This is why the streets are cleaned from parked cars and the ground floor is specialized for the commercial purposes with transparent façades.