The project of the experimental sports school "Moskvich" on Volgogradskiy Prospekt was submitted for consideration by the Architectural Council after adjusting to the comments of last year's Public Council under the Mayor of Moscow. Recall that the territory bounded by Volgogradsky Prospekt, Lyublinskaya Street and the projected section of the Fourth Ring is subject to reconstruction. The sports school buildings of the same name, built back in the 1970s, are now living out their days here - all of them are to be dismantled. In their place, three large facilities will be built - a universal athletics stadium, a sports complex and a hotel.
The new stadium is planned to be built in time for the likely holding of the World Athletics Championship in Moscow. He, like many other sports facilities of Andrey Bokov and Dmitry Bush, has constructive innovations - the most noticeable of them is the canopy-lens over the stands. The stadium is designed for 20 thousand spectators, plus collapsible stands for another 5 thousand seats. In accordance with the recommendations of the public council, the lower tier of the stadium in the new version covers the entire athletics "core". The geometry of the canopy shell has also changed: in the first version it left the lower tier open, in the new version its front side is inclined towards the field, covering the stands completely.
A universal sports complex adjoins the stadium along Volgogradsky Prospekt, the distribution of functions in which resembles, figuratively speaking, a “puff pie”. A parking lot with 1,450 spaces occupies two underground levels. The next "layer" is the curling and shooting field. Above them - an indoor track and field athletics arena, tennis courts, two ice arenas. In the uppermost tier there is an open football field with training sectors and an athletics "core". In the southern part of the site, a natural complex around the Sadki pond adjoins the stadium. In order to prevent the park from suffering from the invasion of fans during the days of the competition, it is planned to temporarily “cut off” it at the level of the stadium platform.
The windows of all rooms of the 11-storey hotel face the pond. The project also provides for the construction of a covered pedestrian crossing at a height of 6 meters above the ground; the crossing will connect the Tekstilshchiki metro station and residential areas, repeating the spontaneous route existing here.
The project was well received by colleagues, although it was not without criticism. Alexey Vorontsov expressed doubt that this expensive stadium will be effectively used later, after participating in the proposed championship. He also drew attention to the mega-scale of the building and found the town-planning solution of his surroundings not entirely convincing - the “plasticity of road junctions”, as the architect used the figurative expression. Project assistant Nikolai Lyutomsky drew attention to the "tightness" of the volumes caused by the increase in the total area from 27 thousand 192 thousand square meters. Yuri Grigoriev pointed to the excessive rigidity of the "wedge" of the building of the sports complex, which, as it were, invades the adjacent residential buildings.
As a result of the discussion, the project was adopted by the council with recommendations to work on the facades of the sports complex, adjusting them towards "pure style"; over the appearance of the hotel, including, to clarify the geometry of the canopy over the tribune and the design of the towers of the searchlights, which reminded Yuri Grigoriev of "two-legged robots", not to overload the pedestrian bridge with retail outlets (although the latter is more under the jurisdiction of the prefecture of the South-Eastern Administrative District).
Then the council considered the project of a residential building in Zelenograd. This building should complete the composition of the experimental red brick microdistrict, designed in the 1980s at the entrance to the city by I. Pokrovsky and V. Kuvyrdin. The construction of the microdistrict took a long time and gradually, for a total of about twenty years. In the early 1990s, the first few towers were built, then a “wing” of stepped-down volumes in the form of a Latin V, red-brick with green roofs, was added to them. Now it is necessary to build a semicircular residential building of several sections, which was supposed in the project of I. Pokrovsky.
In the project presented to the council by the architects of the NP MZHK "Zelenograd", this house is curved in an arc in the north-south direction, closing the composition, developing along the Leningradskoe highway. It consists of seven sections with variable number of storeys, from 10 to 17 floors with a developed basement for parking, a store, etc. The courtyard is designed as a green amphitheater, opened to the south.
Council members' criticisms focused mainly on apartment layouts. The layouts are free; but they were carried out with a number of regulatory violations: in particular, the entrance to the bathroom is carried out directly from the bedrooms and living rooms, there are junction of the bathrooms to the walls of the rooms of adjacent apartments, some bedrooms and kitchens are not provided with standard illumination, the passageways to the rooms are designed through the kitchens and bathrooms, which, according to the opinion of the council members is unacceptable.
The main thing, however, became obvious by the end of the meeting - the house was already built on 10 floors without an expert opinion, which the co-investors and future tenants did not wait for. The Architectural Council decided that in this case this case does not belong to its competence, and the project, apparently, will be sent to the “commission on unauthorized construction” under Vladimir Resin.
