"ISLANDS" - CONCEPT OF ARTIFICIAL ISLANDS ON THE SOCHI COAST (2009) (joint with "GrandProektSity")

address: Sochi water area

architects: A.Asadov, K.Saprichjan, A.A.Asadov, Е.Zolotuhin, B.Nasyrov, I.Korenev

annotation: this series of projects are economic alternatives to leveed Islands. All of them have a specific connection with Sochi seashore, but could be made in any other water area.

By the further development of all concepts maximal use of ecological technologies - alternative energy sources (the sun, a wind, sea currents), sea water demineralization, intensive roofs gardening, the maximal recycling of waste products, etc. was supposed.
Despite of binding to Sochi, each project could appear in any water area, forming ecological oases both in the center of sea resorts, and in the places removed from the civilization.

PIER-HOTEL - this is the most realistic vision for the development of marine piers on the site of a future Olympic Games. To re-built docking facilities have commercial value, are invited to supplement their plate hotels that are suspended in the rare individual pillars. The roof of the hotel becomes an additional public space, a smooth flow at the level of the coastal park.

CATAMARAN – this concept is proposed to accommodate the opposite settled parts of the coast, where there are no places for development. In a continuation of the existing breakwaters built two accommodation blocks, between which perekidyvaetsya «artificial ground» with the necessary hotel public space. The vertical blocks are a kind of focus for the cabling structure of the platform and create an elastic and seismically stable structure.

STARFISH – it is already full and autonomous island connected to mainland pedestrian-motor «stem». Five hotel towers, increasing the sea, forming the silhouette of the island and its interior space. Between them are green «leaves», covering social level flat forming hills and green «oasis».

SOUTH FORPOST — the most ambitious version of the expansion of the sea. It is for the erection in front of the city center, as the sign-symbol beacon for the city and the country as a whole (hence the name). Symbolically represents the connection of terrestrial and aquatic elements - the horizontal part of the construction is a continuation of a coastal park, which is then transferred to a vertical plane, making it a «green wall», and addressed to the sea plane to glazing simulates the water ripple. In functional terms of the horizontal part is a pedestrian promenade and the road entrance to the parking lot, and in the vertical part is located apartment hotel with a panoramic restaurant and a review area at an altitude of 300m above sea level.

OLYMPIC ISLAND – is the most symbolic building in anticipation of the Olympic Games-2014. Not far from the coast are five rings of platforms (such as oil platforms), associated with each other and the shore road and pedestrian bridges. Each platform consists of a ring-shaped hotel with an internal atriumnym space in the center of which stands a tower with apartments. Following the symbolism of the Olympic rings, platforms represent the five continents - Europe, Asia, America, Africa and Australia. In the interior atrium created theme parks (tropical, mountain, etc.) and each tower gets his face painted «Olympic» color. The entire set with no less success could be in demand after the Olympic Games as a unique recreational facility.