The call of the A101 Block City competition to address the issue of standardization in is a rather difficult but very inspiring endeavour.
“The A101 Block City competition, organized for the Masshtab corporation in Moscow, envisioned the creation of a new city of 200.000 inhabitants near Moscow. The masterplan brief demanded that 80% of blocks have standard sizes. An open competition for the design of the blocks was organized. 210 architects from 20 countries took part – 147 projects are shown in this exhibition. They are presented here in the form of a catalogue from which and endless number of different cities can be built by simple replacing blocks with others”. Bart Goldhoorn
Our entry was not very successful; according to the jury report our proposal didn’t even make it among the best 100… But it is now on display in the exhibition LIVING Frontiers of Architecture in the Louisiana Art Museum near Copenhagen. Guus brought home some pictures…
In spite of the apparent failure we were still very excited with potential of our project. We realized that the design could be improved so we decided to invest some more time to redevelop the diagram. You can see the result on our wwwebsite.
NL Architects Blog 
September 7, 2011 at 12:42 am |
Wow,is it the model made by me?
September 7, 2011 at 5:31 am |
Shu, your model is beautiful!
Did you already check out the new version of the project?
September 8, 2011 at 6:05 pm |
i like the working style NL take: always improving the projects which could be improved further. maybe got no prizes from this competition, but would success on the similar competitions in future.
September 10, 2011 at 4:18 am |
Thanks a lot!
What’ new???Plz show me!
October 10, 2016 at 4:32 pm |
[…] Block City exhibition “The A101 Block City competition, organized for the Masshtab corporation in Moscow, envisioned the creation of a new city of 200.000 inhabitants near Moscow. The masterplan brief demanded that 80% of blocks have standard sizes. An open competition for the design of the blocks was organized. 210 architects from 20 countries took part – 147 projects are shown in this exhibition. They are presented here in the form of a catalogue from which and endless number of different cities can be built by simple replacing blocks with others”. Bart Goldhoorn Our entry Urban Block is now on display inside the exhibition LIVING Frontiers of Architecture in the Louisiana Art Museum, close to Copenhagen. Image and informations from the NL Architects Blog. […]