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“The Rock” Innovation Center complex . Skolkovo

OMA . Skolkovo

Skolkovo Innovation Center innovation city’s “guest zone” building proposal designed by OMA in 2011.

The Rock was planned to have a shopping centre, hotel, movie theatre, cafes and restaurants, an expo centre and several promenade halls. It was a building where each resident or guest of the Innovation Center would have a chance to use different services or just relax and have fun. The building was planned to be 100 meters tall. OMA experimented with a lot of materials, looking for the right way to embody the building’s special nature. The intention was it should look like a rock, or even solidified lava with lots of tiny windows in its surface creating from a design standpoint a special sense of texture.