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July 24-25, in the village of Nikola-Lenivets Kaluga festival to be held "ARCHSTOYANIE-2009. Summer. This year its theme - "Out of the earth." This theme reflects the essence of the festival. "Out of the earth" - is an architecture without architecture, the opportunity to express its nearhitekturnym language. Festival "ARCHSTOYANIE" held since 2006, winter and summer. During the three years of its existence in the Nicola-Sloth was presented a lot of interesting projects, ranging from the army snowmen and finishing hay tower. Typically, the work was done out of natural materials - wood, twigs, straw, but this year the festival participants decided not to limit them, and also used sound, projection, color accents.
French architects from Atelier 710 at the festival will present a draft Lenivets [lab] scape, for up to three years. Within its framework, through the methods of landscape architecture will create a park. Electroboutique - Aristarchus Chernyshev, Alexei Shulgin, Inna Astaf'eva - in their work developing the idea of the transport system of the future. Their project "Air Port" - a fusion of nature and modern civilization. Placards with the flight schedule is in the woods. It is constantly updated, from time to time, as it should be in any airport, be heard ad. Perhaps in the distant future is indeed possible, and technological achievements of mankind will not destroy, but to complement nature. "Mechanical wood" architect Oscar Madera driven by a hydraulic piston: de revya in his work is done, it is impossible to see in nature - simultaneously swinging.
"Hyperboloid cooling tower" Vulcan "Nicholas Polissky - a huge tower of twigs and branches, which breathes light and smoke, this volcano, moreover harmless. Perhaps this is the main idea of the festival - to show part of the landscape architecture and the achievements of science - are harmoniously woven into the fabric of nature.