Three years after its foundation, the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture moves its location from the semi-industrial neighborhood in the north of Moscow to one of the city’s best known public spaces, Gorky Park; from the former bus garage designed by Konstantin Mélnikov to the Vremena Goda (seasons of the year) pavilion, abandoned for twenty years and in a decaying state. Mantaining the existing structure of prefabricated concrete, the unobstructed two floors are used for exhibitions while the adjacent garden will host all open air activities. Three specific strategies of mobility in the facade, floor and partitions dynamize the intervention. Globally, the project respects the original construction while showing the posterior decay into which it had fallen for years...[+]