The architectural group DNA presented a large-scale work for the consideration of the architectural council - the multipurpose complex Media Center, consisting of several buildings designed by order of the printing complex "Pushkinskaya Ploshchad" on Shosseinaya Street (property 4). The site is adjacent to the existing building of the polygraph plant and at the moment is a typical Moscow inconvenience, an industrial zone, amused by several chaotically placed 1-2-storey buildings. Collectors and other communications pass through the site, which cut it into several parts and significantly complicate the design. DNA (Konstantin Khodnev spoke about the project) is designing several buildings on this site with a total area of about 85,000 square meters. m, which will have to be built in two stages.
A glance at the tablets is enough to understand that, apparently, a "sculptural" design method was used here: it seems that the complex was first "sculpted" by a single volume, and then, based on the location of communications, "dissected" into separate buildings. They line up in a single ribbon that runs along Shosseynaya Street, bizarrely curving around the middle in order to form a vast oval square, which overlooks the most representative office spaces. The axis of the square is turned diagonally in relation to the street and the future square, thus, is turned towards the nearby Pechatniki metro station, building a kind of front facade that makes the whole complex visible to people leaving the metro. The rest of the bodies also bend, echoing the main ellipse, supporting the image of a single, but “cut” ribbon.
The site is not only dotted with communications, there is a river, taken into a pipe, which feeds the Lublin pond; not far from the Moskva River, and the groundwater rises very high. Therefore, the architects did not manage to arrange, as is now customary in Moscow, a multi-level underground parking - garages are located above the ground and form extensive stylobates, from which the aforementioned ribbon-like buildings grow.
DNA architects have proposed two options for the facades, both related to the theme of the media. In the first, the texture of the surfaces is formed by a pixel-like set of glass of different colors and transparency, in the second version, the facades in the upper part are strictly striped, but at the bottom, at the level of the stylobates, the use of real media panels is conceived.
The project was accepted by the council with exceptional goodwill after discussion, a significant part of which was expressed in various forms of compliments and wishes for a successful continuation of the work. Doubts of those present were caused only by the fact that in the composition of the "tape" of buildings there is one building, which has not yet been ordered by anyone and is planned only in general terms - a hotel. Those present expressed the hope that the design of the hotel will also one day be commissioned by the same architects.
Also on March 19, the project of Sergei Tkachenko's workshop was re-examined - the building of ITAR-TASS at 12 Dorogomilovskaya, about which we wrote about at the OERG some time ago. This is a "complex" project, which has been discussed for a long time - during this time it managed to change significantly, in particular, the glass modernist facade was replaced by a glass-order one. True, Sergei Tkachenko urged those present "not to look yet" at the architecture, since at the moment we are talking only about pre-design consideration, primarily about the volume and scale of the building. The volume is large - more than 70,000 square meters on a plot of 0.68 hectares - which gives a higher building density than even in the City. At the same time, Alexey Vorontsov, who was the referent (author of a professional review) of this project, noticed that on the communication plan - corridors, elevators and stairs, they occupy an area that is close in size to the actually useful office. Strictly speaking, this means that the project still has the potential to increase its efficiency.
Two-thirds of the building is set aside for investment construction, and only a third is intended for the federal news agency. During the discussion, a proposal was made to build the entire building somewhere else, for example in the City, making it more modern and "iconic", as befits such a well-known federal agency. Or move the investment part to another site, and leave only ITAR-TASS at Dorogomilovka. In terms of architecture, the main proposal was to make the building more solid. Now it "breaks up" into at least two parts - the main one goes to Dorogomilovskaya Street and develops, as Alexei Vorontsov said, "the ruined theme of the Children's World." The second is a relatively low volume from the side of the courtyard, the upper part of which folds into a sharp modernist "accordion" - this shape almost literally echoes the lines defined for this site by various restrictions. All the necessary parameters, however, were observed and the necessary approvals were obtained, including from residents of neighboring houses. The pre-project proposal was generally supported with the condition of fulfilling all the comments made, including the request to preserve the oak growing next to the future house from the courtyard during construction.
The meeting of the architectural council on March 19 was chaired by the first deputy. Chairman of the Moskomarkhitektury Mikhail Posokhin.
