- Archmoscow 2025
- location | Moscow
- status | built
- area | 12
- year | 2015
- crew | Andrey Volyntsev, Anna Volyntseva, Rafael Mukhametsalikhov, Sergey Pavlov, Ivan Burakov
- credits | Yulia Zakharova
The KANVA Moscow architectural bureau stand, created for the jubilee 30th edition of the ARCH MOSCOW International Architecture and Design Exhibition-Forum, was conceived as a spatial reflection on the idea of a path–complex, nonlinear, and at times contradictory. It speaks of the journey of the individual, the profession, and civilization as a whole, contemplating forward movement that is rarely straightforward and almost never self-evident.
In the bureau’s interpretation, architecture is neither an abstract discipline nor an ideal detached from real life. It is our everyday environment–a cast of time itself, recording its passage without judgment or commentary. Architecture reflects the history of generations, embodies a longing for harmony, and represents a dialogue with higher meanings–a timeless Platonic striving toward light. At the same time, it is also a coffee ring left on a café napkin: a fleeting trace behind which entire conversations and human destinies may be hidden.
The visual composition of the stand takes the form of a metaphorical multi-storey building, rising upward as it moves through the layers of centuries and linking past, present, and future through an intricate system of window-like structures. As the viewer approaches and shifts perspective, the architecture reveals itself gradually, as if emerging from darkness. The project invites not only observation, but engagement—encouraging visitors to enter into dialogue, adjust their focus, and discover their own path.
