Luxury Village

The 500m long shopping street is only accessible to pedestrians and is built on top of an underground parking garage.

Project details

• Project Name: Luxury Village
• Client: Mercury
• Project Type: Urban Space Design
• Principal Designer/s: Adriaan Geuze / Jerry van Eyck
• Design Team: Alexander Sverdlov / Freek Boerwinkel
• Project architects: Project Meganom
• Date of commencement of project: 2004 (design started)
• Date of completion of project : 2006 (end)
• Location of site: Moscow, Russia
• Site Area: 6.5 hectares

Luxury Village is an exclusive shopping street situated in a new urban development in the forests just outside of Moscow. In addition to 60 high end shops, such as Prada, Gucci, Rolls Royce and Yves Saint Lauren, the street acts as a 'spill out' for a luxury hotel and casino which will be completed in 2006.

View of the shopping street which also acts as a spill out for a luxury hotel and casino.

The 500 m long shopping street, which is only accessible for pedestrians, is built on top of an underground parking garage.

Dutch clay bricks are laid out in two intertwining patterns.

The street is finished using 'Dutch clay bricks' - an uncommon paving material for Russia. Laid in two inter-twining patterns, the first pattern is a modern interpretation of the old fan shaped pattern. The second being a dual coloured pattern that cuts through the first. Each brick is custom cut and fit, resulting in a sequence of lines, juxtaposed against the rigid, wooden facades of the shops.

The paving is perforated in parts by green pockets.

The brick paving is perforated in several places with round green 'pockets', planted with pine trees (Pinus sylvestris) and seasonal flowers. The trees, which can stand the extreme temperatures of Moscow, are reminiscent of its surrounding birch-pine forest.

Credits

• Text and Photographs: courtesy, the architect
• Compiled by Mitesh Saraf