TIE-IN: Celebrating Diverse Interconnections of Moscow

TIE IN suggests architectural researchers, anyone from any piece of Moscow and the street people an opportunity to personalize, democratize and criticize the space. How architecture would suggest for alternative forms of education, accommodation and public space in the middle of Moscow's Komsomolskya Square holding three stations and metro lines?

Komsomolskaya square, in-between 3 main train stations in Moscow, houses diverse individuals, mostly the street people. Thus, the middle of Komsomolskaya square had chosen to be settled as it is fed by the subterranean fluxes of metro lines. The trilogies of accommodation, education and public space are interpenetrated to the architectural program of TIE IN. The program hybridizes in 3 routes. First, architectural education is holding proto space, tool library, LAN gaming space, techshop, exhibition hall on street level and the hackerspace. The second route, accommodation, is holding laundromat, barbershop, soup kitchen, food bank, thriftshop,waste-collection and hygiene space for street people of Moscow. And the last route covers all above with a public program hybridized into architectural education and accommodation,including the programs of the metro line and the rail station programs as waiting, ticket buying, accommodating etc. The spaces were designed by analysing the activities in and possible space for those activities. For instance, Protospace has an expandable spatiality with the help of pneumatic envelope, as architectural learners, researchers may need adjustable spaces for 1:1 prototypes. Again, the tool library was designed as a vertical vending machine by redefining the tools of architecture as reference books, drawing tools, drills, wire cutters etc. Space enhances the concurrent centralism referring the political realm of Moscow by the way of pneumatic delivery – collection tubes of foodbank, waste collection and laundry, TIE IN gives a space to be personalized by multiplying the volume of the square. As the cold weather conditions of Moscow is a determining factor of public space, the horizontal axis-based spatiality of a subway, -which is quite commonly used in Moscow due to cold winter- is merged into the design and is imitated in the vertical axis to for the circulation. TIE IN has a common architectural fiction, for underground and aboveground, as the materiality and physical conditions of medium changes, it responds them with the spatial solutions.