Skolkovo Club

Type: Residential Village | Scope: Master planning, Architecture
Client: Skayer LLC
Location: Odintsovo district, Moscow Region
Year: 2014 | Area: 165,000 sq m
Status: Concept, Competition

The project was prepared for a closed international competition for a residential development near Moscow and was selected as the winning proposal among several prominent participants. The site is located close to the MKAD, adjacent to the Innovation Center and the Skolkovo Golf Club. The masterplan responds to this context through carefully oriented vistas, access points and an understated internal circulation system, positioning the project as a natural extension of its surroundings. The site’s topography acts as the primary organising principle. Subtle shifts in elevation define the boundary between public and private realms, roads and residential plots, while parking, technical spaces and infrastructure are embedded into the terrain. This strategy preserves a continuous green surface and allows the natural relief to remain the dominant spatial experience across the settlement.

Residential buildings are arranged across multiple height levels to minimise direct visual contact and maximise outward views. The strategic displacement of volumes within each plot increases spatial comfort and establishes generous distances between homes. At the intersections of these calculated sightlines, dense planted zones emerge as carefully scripted elements of the overall composition. Parametric façades operate as spatial filters, providing privacy and solar control while visually unifying the neighbourhood through a shared architectural language.
Estates ranging from 800 to 1,200 square metres are set deep within their plots and organised around flexible planning schemes composed of interconnected functional blocks. Some of the larger houses are positioned along the outer perimeter of the development, opening toward the surrounding landscape and the adjacent golf course. Villas of 500 to 800 square metres are organised in three typologies, with terraces arranged in relation to the terrain and neighbouring buildings to maximise the use of private garden areas. Each villa has an individual entrance and a garage set into the artificial relief, which separates internal access roads from private outdoor spaces. The apartment buildings adopt a stepped structure that reduces their perceived height and integrates parking and communal facilities into the terraced ground. At the centre of the settlement, a public zone with an artificial pond forms the main shared space, framed by a small pavilion accommodating a café-restaurant, community hall and management offices, together with pedestrian routes and recreational areas. Additional landscaped pockets appear near the entrance checkpoint, where a small square with seating and spaces for informal sport and play establishes a welcoming threshold to the neighbourhood. Together these elements create a cohesive environment where architecture, greenery and topography operate as a layered spatial system.

Project team: Evgeniy Shchetinkin, Vladimir Garanin, Dina Mezhevova, Andrey Dermeiko, Andrey Shmelev, Philipp Kats