The Elara plant is engaged in the production of electronic equipment for civil and military aviation, railways, cars and banks. Several squat production workshops, complemented by a tall administrative building, have now been allocated for the manufacture of devices. The Soviet architecture of the factory buildings inadequate for high-tech production and the large undeveloped area adjacent to it, probably, prompted the customers - the VolgaDevelopment company - to a global reconstruction of old buildings and the construction of new ones - a public trade and business center.
A. Asadov's workshop based the general plan of the territory on the "3 layers" scheme. This is an old building, a new building and a "web" of green roofs of already existing workshops, attached terraces and passages connecting about 10 buildings of the techno-park into a single complex. As a result, the square site of the plant was completely built up, i.e. used with maximum efficiency, and a network of passages and green terraces lay along its perimeter.
The idea of a possible combination of technopolis and eco-architecture in the Elary complex was originally proposed by the customers. Its prototype was the German technoparks, inside of which the jungle literally reigns. A striking example of such environmentally friendly science cities is the work of the architects "Benish and Benish".
Taking into account the experience of German colleagues, A. Asadov's workshop made an attempt to lay the foundations of environmentally friendly architecture in the general plan of the future technopolis with the hope of their further promotion later directly in individual buildings of the complex. During the reconstruction of the existing production facilities, it is planned to arrange green terraces with hanging gardens at different levels. Most of all, the huge space of the roof of the main production hall, visible from the windows of other buildings, is landscaped. It is being transformed into a greenhouse garden where you can grow anything from tomatoes to exotic plants.
Rooftop greenhouses did not appear by chance - they embody one of the principles of eco-architecture, which is the beneficial use of the heat generated by the production, the building will heat the plants. The rest of the principles - natural ventilation of buildings, double facades, the use of solar and wind energy, direct and reflected sunlight, a minimum amount of waste - are also laid down in the planning of the buildings of the future complex.
At the moment, the most developed is the project of the business center, decorated with bright green ribbons, which have recently become one of the recognizable "visiting cards" of A. Asadov's workshop. Similar stripes are lined with the building of the Olympic reserve school in Mytishchi, the project of which was developed by architects this spring. In Cheboksary, green stripes are also becoming an additional means of indicating the environmental friendliness of the new complex. He is "green", thus, not only inside, but also outside.
