E14 Winning Teams Portraits/Interviews

MEDIA SLOBODA

Amsterdam Transformatorweg (NL) - Winner

Team Representative: Aleksandr Zinovev (RU) – architect 
Associates: Irina Shmeleva (RU)  – architect;  Konstantin Budarin (ES) – analyst & writer
Contributors: Elmira Kakabaeva (KZ) – Public Relations and Education; Dmitriy Andreev (RU) – movie director

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A. Zinovev, I. Shmeleva & K. Budarin

The main issue for the project is the lack of connectivity between different programs on the site and also between the site and the surrounding. It significantly affects the way the space is used and reduces its chances to become a productive entity and to be integrated into the future neighbourhood. Our answer to this issue is the creation of a Media Hub. The Media Hub is not a building. It is a 'temporal system' where education, working places and dwelling are connected by the web-interface and curator's programme. In the space of Media Hub, minimal city unit shrinks from the scale of separate building to the scale of specific spaces and the opportunities those spaces could offer.