An innovative exhibition space was developed based on Kuibyshev pumping station complex, built around 1880, currently abandoned and partially destroyed. It supposes to hold forum-related events such as congresses, exhibitions, round tables, meetings, lectures, presentations, and educational programs. The redevelopment intervention includes the restoration of the pumping station turbine hall, which has a historical, architectural and archaeological value.The interior conceptually resembles the structure of the water: transparent, volatile, sometimes unpredictable, but programmable. The aesthetic was inspired by Kazemir Malevich's suprematist works around 1915 as well as post-modernist reflections on design and architecture of the second half of the twentieth century, which belong particularly to Ettore Sottsass and Memphis, Superstudio, Archigram, Rem Koolhaas and other radical design thinkers.The goal was to overcome a strict functional utility. The exhibition supposed to be in constant movement, so visiting would cause more emotional response than if it was functionally determined.​​​​​​​

Great Rivers Forum, Nizhny NovgorodProgram: RenovationDesign: Arseny BezrukovArea: 668 sqmProject year: 2016