The Skolkovo Innovation Center, also known
as the Russian Silicon Valley,is a key Russian development project: a 460 hectare technology business
area planned at Skolkovo, near Moscow, Russia. The strategic goal of the
Skolkovo Innovation Centre is to concentrate international intellectual
capital, thereby stimulating the development of break-through projects and
technologies. The landscape by AECOM is designed to at once reflect and
encourage innovation, providing places to refresh and inspire the minds of the
people living and working within Skolkovo.
AECOM’s landscape proposals are innovative in
themselves and complement the intended programme of each adjacent development zone. Key principles driving the overall landscape
vision are:• Amplification of existing topography – extending the
x and y axes into accentuated landforms (building on the original concept by Michel Desvignes).
• Landscape as an expression of the character, use and
principles of the development zones.
• Integration of site-wide water management in an
extraordinary experiential landscape.