• Optimizing the "Gifts":Use the great qualities existing in the project area as much as possible: The prominent location at the end of Rublyoskoye shosse. The great visibility from the M9 highway. The beautiful nature that will make this IFC the first true ‘Green IFC’. The strong heritage of the Arkhangelskoye Estate which is revived in the Estates of the masterplan. The big recreation potential of the lake and river. The excellent accessibility and the spending power of surrounding communities.

• Variety Of Lifestyles: Besides the core of the Moscow IFC, which is situated in the Central Quarter, this masterplan contains a variety of residential neighbourhoods. The diversity of living atmospheres will appeal to the many different users that will live work and visit in this city. Russian or international. True variation is a rare quality in Moscow. It makes this city more lively and socially durable; a real community. Every neighborhood in itself is complete with daily shops and services, schools, daycare and recreation.

• Top Public Spaces:Successful IFC’s have one thing in common: they have compact public space, consisting of streets and squares, and a strong relation between inside and outside. This makes streets more attractive and human-scaled, livelier and socially safer. The masterplan takes the grid as a base. The special public spaces form the exception. This makes orientation easy. Urban green like trees, parks and roof-scapes add attractiveness to public space.

• Great Architecture: The buildings of the IFC are tailored to the business culture of the future: flexible, people-friendly, environmentally-conscious, open and transparent. In the Central Quarter the principle of the ‘setback’ is applied. This principle allows building in a high building density in the Central Quarter while keeping light and human scaled streets. The visual character of buildings is timeless, high quality, with strong appearance. The building-shape defines public space, facades relate to the street, adding to the feeling of openness. The masterplan help developers to easily achieve excellent BREEAM/LEED scores.

• Smooth Network: The masterplan offers a sustainable mix between modes of transport. This helps to reduce congestion, reduces domination of the car in the streetscape, and lowers environmental impact. Within the IFC, walking and cycling will be a natural thing to do. Distances are short, logical comfortable and attractive, also during winter. For longer distances, public transport will be the more logical choice (over car use). The periphery location of the IFC also requires a relatively high car component, to compensate for the axial public transport system that is mainly focussed at Moscow Centre.

• IFC In The Nature: The complete masterplan for the IFC is based on an optimal relation with the surrounding landscape. It maximizes green surface and minimizes hard surface, it finds many different ways of enjoying the water. This is the first nature oriented IFC in the world: ‘Banking in the green’.

• Be Feasible: simple street grid, in combination with a strong structure of key public spaces, forms a clear backbone for this masterplan. It is the most flexible recipe for a long and unknown future. It allows easy phasing, natural growth and quality from the beginning. This plan is made by smart integration of design and financial feasibility. A method that increases profits lowers financial risk and lowers risk of plan failure.

Today Bowery is the already formed street with it’s own history and life. The only thing which could be missed are corners of some blocks. Height of the building of street generally does not exceed 4-5 stories. The question how to build something new without huge impact to the formed street has become increasingly common. From the other side any building should have it’s unique oblique. In this way it’s possible to create the a construction forming a new layer above the existing blocks. This system can preserve the existing city shape from human viewpoint making new structure and it’s own plan on top of the city, also related to the tradition of stem-housing. Project institute with multiple departments could be divided to several buildings on it, the same way it remains as a single organism, connected with bridges and passages. Beside Architecture studio, Engineering office, Technology company campus, Advertising/ Marketing headquarters and Building/City Showrooms the program could be expanded with hotels exhibition areas and architecture, engineering, technology school at the institute. Access to the level is provided by system of stair-elevator blocks along the street, placed as single standing, inside existing buildings, subdividing them, or through the main buildings, created on ground level. These buildings are consist of entrance groups, showrooms, offices for rent and parking below them.

Road inception is placed above the railroad junction occupying a large part of the site and making a loop, when turning back. It has become the essential part of the project. Almost all the route and its links are one way, preventing formation of new traffic jams. In conjunction with surrounding roads, it creates a brand-new transport system around the site. In addition, it includes commuters’ parking of 150 thousands cars, which addresses the issue of insufficient parking. The project offers a type of one-way bridge to break up the functional vacuum formed by the natural border of the river. Social inactivity of the region stuck between the loop and the river made this territory unprofitable for retail business. In spite of closeness of the busy railway station the site contains that kinds of enterprises that are sound for suburbs. Also Kievskaya has become one of the most important nodes of public transportation, therefore it provides a connection between cities and regional bus terminal. The terminal itself claims of renovation and expansion and has no space among the well-established buildings. It is usual for Moscow that most expansion projects doesn’t include alteration in vertical direction. The development in the Soviet period used to settle on the flat spaces and avoided any relief changes. All the hills and lowlands were left for green zones. That means the city is flat for almost hundred years and doesn’t form any kind of vertical diversion itself. It is meant to plan multiple layers with different functions and figure an unusual piece of relief. The necessity of connecting all these spreading plane territories became obvious in the beginning but was not solved properly. It is time to collaborate individual transport and public transport systems. But the project is not only about transportation, there are some other benefits, such as modular public spaces above the parking, which creates an open structure system. It can be used one block after another and it makes a large scale structural grid system for public and commercial usage. It allows to fill the core with public spaces, galleries, shopping malls, museums, concert halls, sport facilities, amusement parks and other entertainment and trading attractions. All ofthesewouldattractmuchneededinvestmentandvivacityinthisarea. Thedistrictis isolated from more vivid areas by the railroad and the Moscow river and serves just the labour function. The monotony was also sustained by the former situation as the region haven’t got any kind of street mesh and was almost huge courtyard. Consequently It lacked convenient public street life so the main idea of master-plan of the sector adjacent to the railroad is to form the system of alleys. Plus I considered to add residential function so that the use of territory spread out ( go beyond) day hours - this also encourages various types of commerce in the blocks and provided the loop with various pedestrian routs. Beyond that the project includes the living and offices areas compiled from the urban blocks. Offices sectors includes two types of buildings – towers and 9 story blocks with park view, when residential has more variety. There are private luxury townhouses, 9 story dwellings and apartment towers, which can be turned into an hotel, with riverside view.Thus it makes steps to resolve housing shortage. Every block has it’s own court and parking under it, responding to the Riverside and Building code of Moscow. So while the traffic conjunction organise commuter connection, at the same time the layer above it sustains transverse intraurban communication. The overlapping roof is turned to a large park, forming another unit after highway in the urban fabric. It corresponds in a sense with common for Moscow sector-shaped parks with an advantage of undulating land, what diversifies public recreational green area. Also it is possible to extend it above the highway creating a new boulevards line through the city recalling to the High Line. Unused space underneath can be filled with earth providing planting lots for trees. There are some insolation windows in the roof structure transmitting light inside and a large round hole above the soccer field, which can be covered with transforming dome. For comfortability of pedestrians, the passages inside can be used as warm transitions during the wintertime. Finally this project shows a principal new scheme of organising the urban spaces in Moscow and can be an example for solving accumulated city problems. Railway area with all of buildings on it is preserved, as well as some factorial buildings and thermoelectric plant, which supplies all this region. Besides there are 6 main major stations and the city suffers from partition made by railroads and their conjunctions. There are only few places where city structure gets over these borders and there are definitely no examples where space above the railways is used. The project represents a complex system of multifunctional revitalising at the same time providing necessity for development of New Moscow transport hub.

TRANSPARENCY OF AUTHORITIES The task was to design a new building of United States Capitol. The place for construction was given in Long Island City, NY , on the other side of UN Headquarters. Relying on the experience of Capitol in Washington DC, the idea was to make a new symbolic object of US and New York in combination with new ecological trend, additionally recreational area makes this place convinient for US people expressing their opinion on topics that are discussed in the Capitol. Moreover the bridge expands the vivid influence of Manhattan to less active part of the city. In democratic societies the most effective goverment should be transparent and enlightened. Thus spiral pedestrian ramp is formed around the chambers.