Immersive installation for the National Centre “Russia”
- Event
- ARCH Moscow 2026
- Dates
- May 2026
- Location
- Moscow, Russia
- Authors
- Anton Nadtochiy, Vera Butko, Sergey Nadtochiy, Alisa Silantyeva, Daria Markushevska, Maria Panshina
- Partners
- Dazzle creative collective; 15/25 model-making workshop
For ARCH Moscow 2026, ATRIUM created an immersive pavilion installation dedicated to the National Centre “Russia”. The theme of ARCH Moscow 2026 was the idea of the Ideal — a powerful driving force of architectural creativity, bringing together visions of the future, functionality, social significance, ethics and aesthetics.
For ATRIUM, this discussion is directly linked to one of the studio’s core authorial principles: creating spaces that inspire. In the studio’s practice, an architectural idea unfolds through form, scenario, emotion and human experience, while a public building becomes an environment where personal presence is connected with the feeling of a shared space.
The pavilion becomes a spatial simulation of the floating Pokrov — the project’s central metaphor, embodied in its dynamic white form. Within the pavilion’s immersive environment, visitors can approach this image, see it in motion and feel how an artistic idea expands into architectural scale.
The image of the Pokrov was chosen as a precise expression of the concept behind the National Centre “Russia”. In the architecture of the Centre, this metaphor is embodied in a complex dynamic roof: a light, wave-like shell filled with air and light. At ARCH Moscow, ATRIUM translates this idea into an immersive dynamic installation created in collaboration with Dazzle, a collective of specialists working at the intersection of different disciplines and new technologies.
Within the intense environment of the exhibition, the ATRIUM pavilion offers a moment of slowing down. Visitors can step out of the general flow, pause inside a darkened space and observe how the moving fabric changes the perception of scale, light and form. At the centre of the exhibition is a snow-white model whose plasticity echoes the wave-like fabric shell above it. In this way, the architectural idea of the National Centre is revealed through the very organisation of space — unifying, expressive and centred on human experience.
