The Ring of Manzherok is a whole year round holiday village, offering sports and leisure amidst untouched nature. Situated in south Siberia between a lake and the entrance to the famous Altai Mountain Range it offers all year round travel destination.

Rethinking The Future Awards 2021
Second Award | Sports & Recreation (Concept)

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The concept is based on the footprint of a ring  with a  diameter of about 500m. This ring is forming a landmark also orchastrated with light which can be perceived also from a plane. This footprint or ‘building zone’ is programmed as a pedestrian zone with only electric carts for  infrastructural care and disposal.

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the ring is dilted according to the slope of the mountain. In the lower part it becomes a building structure itself and is bridging the existing levels. This bigger building structure is housing a sport hall, a fitness centzer, a shopping center, a swimming hall, a cinema and a shopping center. All care and disposal transport is hidden in  underground tunnels and is distributed via elevators and electric carts on the ring`s surface.

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The building on the rings surface are configured in different zones. From the high activity zone (restaurants, shopping, gondola station, bigger hotel and apartment structures) to low activity zone (chalets with single or double occupation, welness and sauna huts etc) Through this configuration as a ring in the landscape – the landscape can be  perceived from every point of the ring. As you look inside or outside the ring you are always right infront of the nature.

The ring surface of the ring is designed nature and orchastrated with light. It offers a size which can be detected from passing airplanes.