The scheme will avoid 'eco-bling' but include high-grade insulation and a 'heat sink' lake

MCM Architecture, Southwark, have designed this masterplan for a 1.4m sq ft sustainable business park in Moscow for developer, ST Group.

Architect Ken Giannini, project director at the firm, described the development as 鈥渙ne of the first green developments鈥� in the Russian capital.The buildings have been designed around a lake which is to be constructred as a heat sink to maintain the temperature of the buildings as well as a landscape element.

Giannini said he was keen to incorporate as many practical elements as possible within reason: 鈥淲e do not want to resort to eco-bling,鈥� he said. 鈥淲ind turbines and PVs are out, but super-insulated facades and green roofs, good building orientation and balancing solid versus glazed are in.鈥�

MCM will bury car parking beneath the sloping site and aims to tuck the buildings into an exposed natural habitat. The firm is looking at CHP and a shuttle service. Construction is expected to begin in the first quarter of next year subject to planning approval and will take around two years.

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