The sewing factory is located next to the sea, on the shores of the Artillery Bay of Sevastopol, in the green "Stalinist" area on the embankment, which recently bears the name of General Kornilov. On the one hand, there are magnificent columns and massive cornices of the post-war classics, on the other, the brutal figures of the heroes of the Great Patriotic War.
The main building of the factory is a long rectangular building, the volume of which cuts in half a trapezoidal quarter, built around the perimeter of residential buildings. This very long house, in fact, serves as a bridge between Aivazovsky streets, leading to Artillery Bay, and Mayakovsky, which leads, on the contrary, away from the sea, to the city center. In place of this building, the architects proposed to build a new building, cutting it diagonally with a new pedestrian street towards the sea. The commercial viability of such a solution is obvious: much more public establishments and shops can be opened on the pedestrian zone than on the existing streets, to which the complex initially faces with narrow ends. And the site is located on a slope and the height difference in its territory is almost 7 meters. The idea of a winding cobbled street leading down to the sea seemed to the architects so close to the spirit of Sevastopol that no other arguments in favor of this decision were required.
The pedestrian zone was designed to be curved, not only out of the desire to create a cozy space for a southern seaside town and close the vistas with bends of narrow streets. First of all, the architects cared about the comfort of those who would walk along it: if the street were flat, it would turn into a rather steep hill, a hike along which not everyone could call pleasant. Breaking picturesquely, the pedestrian street divides the complex into two buildings, which at ground level seem to be completely independent buildings, although in fact they are united by a common underground space with a parking lot. The fractures of their facades are mirror images of each other, which makes the complex look like a mountain cut in two by a lightning strike. This feeling is enhanced by the emphatically zigzag pattern of the street: the buildings separated by it resemble the Latin letters p and b folded together in plan. But the height of the buildings is different: one clearly descends the slope and "unfolds" into several giant steps, and the second, on the contrary, grows in the opposite direction from the sea. Otherwise, the rather narrow crevice of the pedestrian street and the windows of the offices overlooking it would not get enough sun.
The proximity of the sea and the charm of the resort town have had the most direct impact on the appearance of the complex. At the same time, the architects did not begin to reproduce the features of classicism so characteristic of Sevastopol, or to fantasize about the marine theme. The authors pay tribute to the bright southern sun and the existing development of the "august city" with the help of a carefully thought-out selection of materials. All facades of the complex will be finished exclusively in light colors and thereby support the festive palette of the Sevastopol buildings. For framing window openings, corners of houses, as well as facades overlooking the streets of Aivazovsky and Mayakovsky, the architects intend to use light limestone, while the main planes of the walls will be covered with large-textured plaster and painted white or light beige. As for the architectural solution itself, three of the four street facades (the latter belongs to the restored administrative building of a garment factory) of the complex are made emphatically laconic and represent either almost deaf rough surfaces, or a glass screen, cut by stone lintels into several rectangles. The planes facing the pedestrian zone are much richer in windows of various sizes and shapes. Some openings grow straight from the ground and more resemble portals, others run across the facades with a deck of cards, and others are narrow horizontal stripes. It seems that the buildings, looking at each other at close range, do not have a single repeating window, and it is largely due to this technique that architects manage to avoid the feeling of a well.
It is planned to place a cafe and a shopping gallery in the center of the pedestrian zone, so that each shop will have its own showcase on a new street. An entertainment center will be located on the side of Aivazovsky Street, and a cinema will open on Mayakovsky. The latter will have two halls, and the difference in relief allows them to be positioned one above the other, which, in turn, will divide the audience streams and relieve the crowd at the box office. Offices will be located on the third, fourth and fifth floors of the complex. Due to the fact that the volume of houses is increasing in the opposite direction, the area of work premises decreases with the increase in number of storeys. Thus, a business center with the largest selection of offices of different sizes will appear in the city.
However, the main acquisition that Sevastopol will receive together with the implementation of the SKiP project is, of course, the pedestrian street itself. The street, which looks like a lobby under the open southern sky, will let in a stormy stream of people inside the quarter, which had never participated in the life of the city before.
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