The first snow city in Russia was built just 5 days. Designed from the author’s sketches, selected on a competitive basis, and built by 18 curators, invited from all over Russia, snowy MOROZ CITY has become one of the most unusual structures of winter 2012.
The leading creator of the project is Kyrill Bair – already experienced for a few years of snow architecture, having built the Snow Hotel in the Arkhangelsk region in 2010.
Construction in snow and ice is a peculiar trend in art, a synthesis of sculpture, architecture and land art, which is becoming popular throughout the world. Now the brilliant snow and ice structures can be enjoyed in Moscow.
MOROZ CITY gathered participants from all over Russia: Moscow, Barnaul, Kostroma, Saratov, Krasnodar, Tyumen, Khabarovsk, Surgut, Penza, Kharkov, Kiev. For architects to create their own development for 5 days out of this unusual new material seemed fun, but in fact it became a serious test. Zero temperatures and rainfall in early January in Moscow was a surprise and the building material quickly came to an end: the ice melted, the snow turned to mush.
Participants of the festival persisted and beat the bad weather. The main constructions of city building were ready in time: a registry office, chapel, hotel, cinema, bar, a lighthouse, a concert hall, temple, and even a prison and a mini golf course – all made of ice and snow. And at the official opening on January 10 the architectural objects and sculptures looked just magical.
Snow city from an architectural project turned into a city of celebration, a place of creative arts, where one festival is replaced by another, and design objects live side by side with a photo exhibition.
Lisitsyna Daria, art director of the project: “We created not only a city, but an interactive project, which was developed by its own rules. The city is really alive, as this city should be. “
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