Creation of expositional routing structure in the form of orthographic-ring network of ground paths with an expressed major direction, connecting the principal functional blocks: hotels, exhibitions, entertainment centers. Painting and bleaching block – renewal of aged exterior facades. 3 star hotel for 250 guestrooms, integrated with the museum of the Ryabushinskaya family history, history of textiles, topic: textile. The main pair – the new and the aged – the museum of the world perception. The aged – former giant (260 m length) spinning and weaving block – restoration of facades, 4 stars hotel for 300 guestrooms, boutique hotel, organization of the exposition on the history of the world perception. The new – exposition ≪The Future≫, parallel to the old building, 20 ×30 m profile rectangular tube floating over the ground.
The Ryabushinsky Factory: ‘Getting to Know the World’ (a technology and entertainments park)
Creation of a state of sustainable harmony. A great (remote) past connected to water: links with water; construction of new canals and a demonstration pond.
A great past connected with the textile industry: conservation, renovation, and conversion of the dyeing and bleaching block, the main weaving block, and office and ancillary blocks.
An ordinary (recent) industrial past: continuation of textile production during the first stage of the development project, followed by incorporation of the manufacturing plant in the exhibition.
A survival-oriented present based on gardens and vegetable plots: an artificial diffusion of neighboring gardens and vegetable plots belonging to the workers’ settlement will be incorporated in the park (as both history and a demonstration of how agriculture may be successfully integrated in the urban environment).
An incredible future: creation of a universal exhibition space (both open and enclosed) entitled ‘history, present, future’.
Project proposal:
- Radical improvement of the transport system, including construction of a driveway and a guest car park for 300 cars in the northern part of the site. A new driveway will be built leading to the manufacturing unit which is to be retained in the north-east of the site.
- Creation of an exhibition route in the form of an orthogonal/radial pattern of elevated pathways with an emphatic main axis linking the main functional blocks (hotels, exhibitions, entertainments centres).
- Dyeing and bleaching block: recreation of the lost external facades; creation of a 250-room, 3-star hotel integrated with a museum of the history of the Ryabushinsky family and the textile industry. (15,000 m2)
- Principal pair: old and new. Museum of Getting to Know the World. The old is the gigantic (260 m long) weaving block. Work will involve: restoration of facades; creation of a 300-room, 4-star hotel and a boutique hotel; creation of an exhibition of the history of cognition of the world. (30,000 m2).
- The new is an exhibition called ‘The future’. Parallel to the old block, this will be a rectangular pipe with a 20 x 30 m cross-section floating 5 m above ground. Structurally, it will consist of alternating open and enclosed spaces for virtual and real exhibitions (8000 m2). Transparent sections in the walls, floor, and ceiling will create the feeling that the past and future are constantly present.
- Between the old and the new there will be an open space devoted to the history of technology. This will include a demonstration pond with an exhibition of aquatic equipment.
- The warehouses, fire station and office buildings will be preserved and used to demonstrate traditional crafts as part of the program for the park.
- An extremely important part of the program is ‘gardens and vegetable gardens’, which will occupy all space not taken up by buildings. This will be a hyper-ornament made from natural and artificial herbal, vegetable, and other unique coverings demonstrating the infinite potential of the agricultural cultures of the future.
- A children’s entertainments centre with a swimming pool, artificial skating rink, go-cart track, and so on with an amphitheatre roof will about the pond and complete the complex’s main axis. (7500 m2)
- The manufacturing block with its unique early-20th-century shed roof will during the first stage of the development project continue to produce textiles. Subsequently this may be converted for other functions. Its facades will be reconstructed.
