Project
Space Research Center in the Charskiye Sands Desert
Category
Best Project of Public Building or Facility
About the project (provided by the applicant)
Existing concepts of “four-dimensional” architecture are mostly poetic metaphors, elegant allegories about adaptability and dynamism. Today, the horizon shifts. It is no longer about a symbol, but about the true fourth dimension — the real metric of causative space. Architecture ceases to be a static object and becomes a multidimensional event.
The Space Research Center is a transmetric object, a material manifestation of multidimensional geometry. Here, metaphor gives way to strict mathematics, and symbolism to the geometry of being. The center’s form itself becomes an object of close study.
Such study requires absolute silence and focus, akin to the stillness of the Charskiye Sands — a unique natural monument. Here, where natural forces have created an almost otherworldly landscape, challenging common sense — a true desert in the heart of the Siberian taiga, where space acquires absolute silence and architecture a distinct “cosmic” aesthetic.
Location
Charskiye Sands Desert, Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia
Project design year
2025
Extra visual materials
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1QeFbo4lVLJ3mbc6uBlcNPAK9v-XtkrLV?usp=sharing
Applicant
Creative Team “Severny Styl”
Repeated winner and participant of international and all-Russian competitions, authors of scientific articles on adaptive architecture. The team’s main idea is architecture as performance, intelligently integrated into the human environment.
Authors of the project
Igor Khramov, Marina Khramova, Alexander Ponomarev, Polina Ipatova, Ekaterina Manzhinskaya, Veronika Ulyanova, Artem Sajin, Polina Dzuceva, Yulia Golda
Visualization
Igor Khramov, Marina Khramova, Alexander Ponomarev, Polina Ipatova, Ekaterina Manzhinskaya, Veronika Ulyanova, Artem Sajin, Polina Dzuceva, Yulia Golda
Status of the project
Conceptual design
