Project
Archaeology Center

Category
Best Architectural Design for a Museum

About the project
The Scythian Naples is a cultural heritage site with ruins of the Scythian capital that dates back to the 3 century AD.
The author suggests a design concept for an academic archaeology center in Simferopol that will also be a tourist attraction. The center will comprise a multifunctional public complex, a city park with the Salgir embankment (today housing an abandoned plant), and a protection area of the Petrovskiye Rocks plateau that houses the Scythian Naples.
The multifunctional public complex that is the centerpiece of this project is designed with a museum, an exhibition, a business, an educational, a research and an administrative blocks. The exhibition will start along the serpentine road leading to the building.

Location
23 Vorovsky Street, Simferopol, Crimea, Russia

Project design year
2021

Applicant
Ekaterina Shmatkova.