Two projects won the competition to develop the concept for the Dynamo Physical Culture and Sports Park: "Movement and Air" by Alexander Konstantinov and Ilya Zalivukhin and "Dynamo Machine" by the Praktika bureau. The results of the competition were announced today by Andrey Peregudov, CEO of Dynamo Management Company and Chairman of the Board of Directors of VTB Arena CJSC.

The main ideas of the "Movement and Air" project are to open the park to the city and not build anything else in it. "Two tsunamis are rolling onto the park: dense urban development and two highways. The park is also squeezed between two huge construction sites [a stadium and a multifunctional complex]," says Alexander Konstantinov. "There is already enough built in it, sports services can be located in the existing buildings at the perimeter of the park." The authors propose to arrange several types of paths inside and along the perimeter of the park with different paving, to make a replica of the pond that was in the park in the 1930s. And leave the park for movement and air.

The second winner, the team of authors from the Praktika bureau, proposes to expand the park territory by including adjacent areas: the stadium, the future Academy of Sports, etc. "Currently, the Dynamo stadium is next to the park, our idea is to make a stadium in the park," said Grigory Guryanov from the Praktika bureau. A 2 km long bicycle ring will glue and unite the entire territory into a single whole.

"We took over the site when it was a flea market, there were 38 illegal trading points in the park, and the sewage was being drained into the drainage system," Peregudov recalls. "It was time to develop the park."

The winner was selected from five projects. The final list of competition participants included: the Wowhaus architectural and environmental design bureau - the "Physical Culture" project; the Buromoscow architectural and urban planning company - the "Second Breath" project; the creative duo of Ilya Zalivukhin and Alexander Konstantinov - the "Movement and Air" project; the Pole-Design architectural and design bureau - the "Movement Horizons" project; and the Praktika architectural bureau - the "Dynamo Machine" project. The competition was held from April 22 to July 5, 2013.

The area of the park proposed for the competition is 8 hectares. The total area of the VTB Arena Park project is 32 hectares. "We are leasing this area from the city," Peregudov noted. The park's improvement will be carried out at the expense of the Dynamo Management Company; "there is no city money there," the developer continues.

The overall project "VTB Arena Park" includes the construction of a stadium, the Academy of Sports and a multifunctional complex. The total investment is about 60 billion rubles. The implementation period for the entire project is 2017, by the birthday of the famous football player Lev Yashin on October 22. The park is planned to be improved by the same date. Currently, the design of networks and utilities for the entire complex is underway, so the concept for the park had to be adopted in advance, says Peregudov, "then it will be too late to design anything." The improvement work itself will begin after the completion of construction work on the stadium and the multifunctional complex, that is, in three years.

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