Lagonaki Mountain Eco Resort Master Plan by Dina Dridze is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 Bronze A' Design Award in Urban Planning and Urban Design Competition Category.
BronzeUrban Planning· 2023
Lagonaki Mountain Eco Resort Master Plan
by Dina Dridze
Client: Rtda
Bronze A' Design Award Winner in Urban Planning Category
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About Lagonaki Mountain Eco Resort Master Plan
Lagonaki Mountain Eco Resort is a master plan for a mountain resort in the Republic of Adygea, Russia. The plan places hotels, a cable car station and public infrastructure within a compact area of changing elevations and rocky hills surrounded by relict trees. Valuable natural features were mapped and preserved, and view axes and observation platforms were planned. Tourist routes prevent unauthorized access to protected natural areas. Building forms follow traditional Adyghe houses, with a stone base, a wooden roof and a gallery around the house.
The Recognition
About the Bronze A' Design Award
Lagonaki Mountain Eco Resort Master Plan is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a highly prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. Lagonaki Mountain Eco Resort Master Plan is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. Lagonaki Mountain Eco Resort Master Plan splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- The Lagonaki Mountain Eco Resort is situated in a truly unique environment with incredible landscapes, so the development is designed to ensure the preservation of natural diversity, much attention is paid to the development of hiking eco-tourism and acquaintance with the local culture and ethnicity. It provides for the construction of hotels, a cable car station with related public infrastructure facilities within a compact area terrain characterized by changes in elevation and rocky hills, and surrounded by relict trees located.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Ski cluster area - 1698.7 ha
Upper Village area - 63.8 ha, including building area of 151,191 sqm, including hotels and apartments, service facilities and utilities, buildings for emergency and technical services. - Tags
- sustainable, eco-friendly, with a unique identity, innovative, recreational
- Production Technology
- Various programs were used while integrating the project into the difficult terrain based on geology and forest inventory data. It was important to identify and preserve valuable natural objects: relict trees, ravines, rocky hills. Based on the landscape and visual analysis, view axes were planned, locations of observation platforms were determined.
- Design Challenge
- The main factor influencing the design solution was the unique natural context. The team faced a challenge to create the resort identity based on the culture of the Adygs - the indigenous people of the North Caucasus.
- Research
- As part of the development of the master plan, a socio-economic justification for the location of the resort was prepared and measures were developed aimed at preserving the UNESCO World Natural Heritage Site and adjacent specially protected areas.
- Inspiration
- The Lagonaki Mountain Eco Resort Concept was inspired by the mix of gorgeous nature and rich culture of the region, which is the area of the Adyghes. The general strategy for the massing and layout solutions of hotel buildings respects the typical Adyghe housing, that is a stone bottom (core house), a wooden top (roof) and a canopy gallery around the house. For the manifestation of the identity of the place and culture of the region, it is possible to use typical ornaments in the painting of roof overhangs, as well as in interiors.
- Project Duration
- The project started in November 2021 and will be finished in Q4 2024. The project is located at Dakhovskoye village, Maikop district, Republic of Adygea, Russia
- Operation Flow
- The resort development involves strict regulation of adjacent natural areas, ensures their monitoring and protection. The project defines development zones considering the impact on the natural context. The project provides for the creation of tourist routes that exclude unauthorized access to protected natural areas. The buildings are equipped with resource-saving equipment (thermostats, LED lighting, smart lighting control systems, rainwater collectors and water recycling systems etc). It is based on the so-called “3R = Reduce + Reuse + Recycle” approach.
- Patents
- Copyrights belong to RTDA LLC
- Team Members
- Creative Director, Chief Architect: Dina Dridze
Design Lead: Anton Petukhov
Design Lead: Ivan Astafurov
Project Manager: Maxim Makarov
Architect: Roman Gritsay-Bogdanov
Architect: Ivan Dubrovin
Architect: Polina Balysh
Architect : Ksenia Kashina
Architect: Ekaterina Vlasenko
Architect: Irina Yamashkina - Image Credits
- Image # 1 RTDA LLC
Image # 2 RTDA LLC
Image # 3 RTDA LLC
Image # 4 RTDA LLC
Image # 5 RTDA LLC
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