Aquapark in Yasenevo

Ulitsa Goiubinskaya, YuZAO, Moscow

architects: Sergey Kisselev, Nikolay Belousov, Viktor Barmin, Anastasiya Khomyakova
assisted by: Galina Kharitonova
engineer: Igor' Shvartsman

client ZAO ETC-Evropeyskie Tekhnologii i Servis

design work 1999-2000
construction 2001-2002

This centre has a total floor area of 19,600m2, and includes a sports swimming-pool, medicinal and health saunas, bowling alleys, a fitness club, a roller-skating ring, and a large number of catering outlets. It is situated on the outskirts of Moscow, at the very edge of forest, on the southern edge of Yasenevo. The design illustrates the search for answers to questions such as: Is this building part of the city or of nature? Should it be a continuation of the esplanade? Or should it disappear among the trees? The answers found are, as ever, full of compromises.