The first to discuss proposals for the reorganization of the quarter in the area of the Savelovskaya metro station, known mainly for the building of the Ilya Golosov's Pravda plant, built in 1931-37. Today, this territory has a rather dull face. "Industrial galosh" - Svyatoslav Mindrul called it, remembering that the Moscow watch factory and a number of other enterprises are located next to the Golos plant, which looks like an indisputable anachronism. The construction site of a triangular shape within the boundaries of Butyrskiy Val streets, 5th Yamskogo Pole streets, Pravda and Nizhnaya Maslovka streets (authors: TsNIIEP dwelling, VM Ostretsov, SB Zvenkov, etc.) falls under the reconstruction.
According to the general plan, the function of this territory is planned to be changed from industrial to public by 2020. A large public center should appear here, similar, no less, Potsdamer Platz in Berlin - in any case, according to the project's referent Svyatoslav Mindrul, comparable to it in size.
It is planned to create a developed network of internal driveways inside the quarter. The main transport axis will be Bumazhny Proezd, currently closed by a dead end on the side of Nizhnyaya Maslovka, and therefore used as a parking lot. The movement of cars and people is divided at different levels: the pedestrian space is raised to a six-meter stylobate, which in the middle of the block turns into a square. The first ground level is used for loading cars; almost the entire underground space is given to the parking for 9 thousand cars.
The solution of transport problems, as is often the case in projects of this scale (in this case, the total area is 560 thousand sq. M.), Revealed a number of shortcomings. And although colleagues have repeatedly praised the work of TsNIIEP Dwelling on the whole, they recognized the movement pattern as unsatisfactory. The quarter is difficult to reach - it will be possible to drive up to it only from the direction of Leningradka - either along Pravdy Street, or along 1st Street of Yamskoye Pole, which is clearly not enough. In the future, there are planned entrances from the Butyrsky shaft (but it will appear only after the construction of an overpass over the Alekseevskaya railway line), and from the Dmitrovskoye highway (which will also become possible only after the appearance of a new tunnel).
With pedestrian accessibility, the business will be arranged somewhat better, the metro station "Savelovskaya" is located 400 meters away, from where the second exit will be made, connected directly to the quarter. In a kilometer from the planned quarter - "Belorusskaya", and in the future it is planned to build another metro station on Nizhnyaya Maslovka.
The distribution of functions and the volumetric-spatial solution of the quarter was approved by the council. Half of the future buildings will be occupied by "public and business" premises, which will be located in three buildings on the site of a long production workshop along Butyrsky Val. The second half of the area is allocated for a hotel and apartments: a high-rise volume, curved in the form of a Latin S along Butyrsky Val, and another, also rounded, at the corner of 5th Street of Yamskoy Pole and Paper Proezd. The height of the quarter in the process of work was reduced to 120 m, and nevertheless, the silhouettes of its buildings run the risk of being noticeable from the theater of the Soviet army and even from Vorobyovy Gory. However, as the author of the project noted, other new dominants will appear nearby in the near future: the Capital Group hotel and office complex along Butyrsky Val (30 floors) and the Congress Hotel on Nizhnyaya Maslovka (27 floors).
Speaking about the architectural solution of the future complex, Svyatoslav Mindrul suggested that the authors use the "experience of public centers in Germany and Japan", namely, to make the facades different. For example, the facade facing the railway should be different from the internal one and from the one that faces Pravda Street. The chief artist of Moscow, Igor Voskresensky, presiding over the Council, supported this idea, expressing the hope that a worthy city complex would grow out of this project. I would like to see a city-wide, and maybe even an all-Russian center connected with the press and publishing, continued by Igor Voskresensky. Probably, this assumption is somehow connected with the Pravda combine located on the territory; on our own note that we do not yet have information about future tenants.
Drawing attention to the high density of the planned development, councilor Yuri Gnedovsky suggested that the authors think more carefully about creating a “more humane space for people” inside the quarter - which was not as much in the project as we would like. However, according to Alexei Kurenniy, the change of status from an "industrial zone" to a public one implies the transfer of up to 30% of the territory for a natural complex.
Another important issue was the fate of the architectural monument, the Pravda industrial complex in Golos. The perspectives suggested by the authors raise fair concerns. Only the main editorial body-plate is subject to restoration; for this, the workshop of Alexei Ginzburg was invited. And the production building behind it with shed floors will be demolished (with the knowledge of the Moscow Heritage Committee) and rebuilt in the regeneration mode. An exhibition and entertainment center is planned to be located there. Council members agreed with the demolition, but called for the restoration of the hull in the same volume, without superstructures. In conclusion, Igor Voskresensky noted that this project of the quarter, taking into account the comments, can be used as the basis for a further planning project.
The second project considered by the council, the Russian-Korean Cultural Center, was presented by the head of the group of authors Vladimir Plotkin. The center will be located at the intersection of Profsoyuznaya Street with Obruchev Street. On the adjacent site, another similar complex will be built for the Center for Entrepreneurs and Industrialists.
The 22-storey building-plate of the Korean center compensates for its formal simplicity by precisely found proportions and plasticity of relationships with a similar parallelepiped of the industrial center. They "work" together, overlap each other, including when viewed from Profsoyuznaya Street. The strict shapes of the plates are prompted, on the one hand, by the author's experience and plastic preferences (which is impossible to doubt, remembering, for example, the Airbus house). But in this area, the austere style of Vladimir Plotkin is supported by the austere modernist buildings of neighboring Soviet institutions. Among them, the building-wall stands out on a large scale - the Institute of Space Research on the opposite side of Profsoyuznaya Street. By the way, the only bright spot here is Andrey Bokov's rainbow Kaluzhsky shopping center.
The building of the Russian-Korean Center in the project of Vladimir Plotkin was put on a two-storey stylobate with a comfortable roof. Above the entrance there is a canopy with a deep extension, under the canopy there is a gallery facing Profsoyuznaya Street.
The most noticeable architectural technique used in the project is the ornamental design of the facades. On the plane of a strict parallelepiped there is a "chain mail" made of oval cells, designed, as Vladimir Plotkin says, to become an allusion to Korean national motives. The drawing will be applied to the double-glazed windows using the silk-screening technique. The stylobate is even more decorative - here ovals of windows are superimposed on the grassy pattern.
Unsurprisingly, the discussion centered around ornamentation. Project referent Alexei Bavykin liked the solution of the facades with "jumping rhythm of windows", which dissolve upward, forming something like an attic, liked it. Aleksey Kurennoy proposed to enlarge the ornament, bringing it to the grid of a neighboring industrial center - a small drawing, according to Aleksey Kurennoy, is indifferent to the environment. On the other hand, Sergei Kiselev found the "runoff" of the drawing in the upper part of the building pessimistic; and proposed to "sprout" the visor pattern into the body of the building.
The displeasure of the council members was caused by the ambiguity around the second volume. Will they be one thing or not? According to Alexander Kudryavtsev, the neighboring house hinders the development of the first one, and stylistically it is “alien”, from the 1980s-1990s. Alexey Bavykin also found the double composition agreed upon by the public council unsuccessful.
In conclusion, Igor Voskresensky confirmed that without considering the two objects in aggregate, the correct solution cannot be found. And not only because one house does not correspond to another in terms of the quality of the facades, but also because “in the interests of the collective” it is better to keep in mind the concept already approved by the public council. Otherwise, if the project is again considered at a public council, then, given the acute and unusual architectural solution, the fate of this unique object may be in question.
