In June, it became known about a new victory for the company - the campus of the Moscow School of Management "Skolkovo" was recognized as the Best Building 2010 in the nomination of popular Internet voting. The bold idea of the British architect, embodied by Russian builders, did not leave indifferent the site visitors, who not only voted for him, but also vigorously discussed the project on the forum. “A building that really deserves an award”, “A good non-trivial idea!”, “Cool. Technically difficult. With taste. Jewelry incarnation. Do not cut - this is not an advertisement, but "Alcon" worked for 5! ", - the guests of the portal shared their impressions.
"House of the Year" is an architectural and construction award that has been held since 2006 with the support of the strategic partner Duvils Group. The list of participants is drawn up based on the results of independent monitoring by the organizers of the award of buildings built over the past year and worthy of the title "House of the Year".
In 2010, objects from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Yekaterinburg, and Riga were nominated for the award. You could vote for the buildings you liked on the website https://www.domgoda.com, as well as in the framework of the 2nd Moscow Biennale of Architecture (Central House of Artists, May 26-30). This year, more than 6,000 people from Russia, the USA, Germany, and Japan took part in the voting. At the same time, the second voting took place - a professional jury gave their marks.
The main prize in the nomination “House of the Year: People's Choice. Moscow "received the campus of the Moscow School of Management" Skolkovo ". Special prize of the Best Building award - “House of the Year: The Choice of Professionals. Moscow "went to the office complex" White Square ", the area of the Belorussky Station. What is the architectural project - the campus of the Moscow School of Management "Skolkovo", which has conquered thousands of people and is considered one of the brightest and most discussed architectural projects of recent years? The author of the idea is the British architect David Adjaye. He was very lucky - the artist was provided in fact with the most important thing that is necessary for the flight of an idea: a lot of space. And not only in a creative way, but also in a literal - territorial one.
He could create a project that did not have to adapt in style, color, size to dozens of surrounding buildings, to city standards: three years ago, the place where the campus building is now built was just an ordinary green field. Legend has it that the first sketch of the building was drawn by the founders on a restaurant napkin during preliminary discussions.
The project, proposed by David Adjaye, actually represents the embodiment of the utopian dreams of Kazimir Malevich, who painted "planites for earthlings" - that is, houses for the people of the future.
Fantastic design
The guests of the Skolkovo Moscow School of Management were able to see whether the experiment was successful in September 2009 during the ceremony of presenting student cards - students received them personally from the hands of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, who is also the chairman of the Skolkovo International Board of Trustees. The President was inspired by what he saw.
The event was attended by over 600 guests: General Director of OJSC Severstal Alexey Mordashov, Executive Director of TNK-BP Viktor Vekselberg, Chairman of the Strategic Development Committee of Trading House GUM Mikhail Kusnirovich, Head of the Board of Directors of Troika Dialog Group Ruben Vardanyan, Speaker of the Chukotka Duma Roman Abramovich, the head of Sberbank of Russia German Gref and many others. Among those invited was the General Director of CJSC Alcon Trade System Yuri Khripin.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev noted that not so long ago, three years ago, there was an open field here, but now it is such a beautiful building. “… The fantastic design, the way everything is done, the place, the land - everything is impressive, amazing,” Dmitry Medvedev said.
Unreal beauty
- In fact, it is unrealistically beautiful if you watch it live. Captures the spirit! - writes Anastasia on the Best Building 2010 portal. The same opinion is shared by many who have visited Skolkovo. By the way, to see the building of the Moscow School of Management "Skolkovo" with your own eyes, you do not need to be a student or a VIP-person - you just need to drive along the Moscow Ring Road near the intersection with the Skolkovo highway. The unusual building can be seen from a kilometer away.
The base of the campus is a huge disk, inside of which are the main classrooms, a library, and conference rooms. The disc is staggering in its size: 133 meters in diameter, three floors (including underground). Inside, the building is reinforced with dozens of columns.
For the arrangement of the facades of the D disk, Alkon-Trade-System CJSC used an unusual large-format structural glazing with a cell size of 1.2 m by 4.5 m. Moreover, a special extrusion order was required, since the standard height of the Schueco rack is 6 meters, and for the D disk racks with a height of 9 meters were required.
David Adjaye:
- The shape of the building is a tribute to the ideas of Malevich, before whose genius I admire. His work is key to understanding the history of modernism and modernity. Malevich represents a system that has never fully received the proper manifestation. Malevich's modernism is more in line with a certain system of chances, built on a hidden order in relation to the environment and nature. Another source of inspiration for this project is the bronze religious-mythological sculptures of the Yoruba in Africa. These sculptures were based on the belief in the ascension of people from one world to another on a disk. Thus, the project is based on a mixture of ideas, but most importantly, it is an experiment to create a utopia.
The exploited roof deserves special attention, on which cafes, recreation areas and paths will be located. Once on it, you feel the whole futurism of Skolkovo. On the one hand, you walk along what could have been just a roof, a summit. And this is where it ends. But what is the limit for one, then only a start for talent: on this huge roof, four more buildings were built. Such an unusual concept was suggested by … the Russian climate.
As David Adjaye recalls, the original discussion was about a classic campus with several free-standing buildings. However, the question immediately arose: what to do when the thermometer drops to 30 degrees below zero, how to move from one building to another?
- The most sophisticated suggestions poured in, for example: what if you dig tunnels? Everyone tried to solve the problem of the local climate. But why project a campus idea in a place where it clearly doesn't work? Then I said: we need a new model, a new utopia,”recalls David Adjaye. He offered it. And what is important, I have implemented it.
In general, for a person who finds himself on the roof of the disk, the concept of space is lost. To a large extent, this is facilitated by the so-called skylights literally "growing" from the roof by 1-4 meters. There are 43 of them here. All of them have a non-standard geometric shape - they resemble a rhombus. The largest area is 117 sq. m, diameter - 15 meters.
In Russia, the idea of anti-aircraft, or, as they are also called, light lanterns is becoming more and more popular, but not everyone is able to implement it efficiently. The design and installation of translucent structures for "second light" lanterns differs from similar works for standard windows and stained-glass windows. This is due to the fact that the skylights are located on the roofs of buildings. They must be able to withstand a heavy vertical weight load in the form of snow and remain completely sealed during heavy precipitation. For example, when designing skylights for the Skolkovo campus, it turned out that the load from their own weight, the weight of glass and snow is greater than that which classical power beams can bear. After lengthy discussions, it was decided to use a stretching system - the so-called truss trusses.
As a result, it was possible to avoid the use of a massive power beam and achieve a cleaner solution in terms of the visual perception of the skylights: the width of the beam used is only 60 mm over a span of 15 meters. As conceived by the project architect David Adjaye, the lanterns have a variety of non-standard shapes and sizes, which also brought its own peculiarities into the process of production and installation of structures. Thanks to the talent of its design engineers, installers, the availability of modern production facilities, and the use of high-quality materials, Alkon-Trade-System CJSC has successfully coped with the extraordinary task set by the architect. Each campus building is special and deserves a separate story.
BODY A (dimensions in plan, on the long side, ~ 54x34 m, on both sides it has relatively small cantilever overhangs of 8 and 4 meters).
Sports block, or wellness center. In addition to the traditional ways to get in shape - a pool and a gym - the Moscow School of Management Skolkovo will offer students the latest world trends in the field of recreation: an aromatherapy zone, a hydro-air massage pool, a wellness bar, rooms for spa treatments and others.
This is the tallest building of all, its top mark is +46 600, that is, given that the D disk ends at mark +18 000, the net height of the building is 28.6 meters. Also, this building is notable for the fact that the heaviest double-glazed windows in comparison with the rest of the hulls were used - their weight was 360 kg, the height was 4 m. Moreover, double-glazed windows were installed on the uppermost tier, which required special assembly equipment for delivery and installation.
Also, this case is the brightest in terms of color scheme. Its golden, sunny facades cheer up anyone who sees them. The exterior seems to indicate the purpose of the building - to help people maintain health, youth and beauty.
One of the most important mysteries of the Skolkovo facades is that if you look at them from afar, you get the feeling of their relief and bulge. And only close up do you realize that this is a visual illusion. The facades are absolutely flat: each building consists of four absolutely flat walls. This was the idea of the architect David Adjaye.
To create such fantastic facades, ZAO Alkon-Trade-System designed and manufactured elements for each building that match the color of the architect's sketches as closely as possible. The company's specialists selected hundreds of filling options: transparent, translucent, opaque. In the end, we settled on 10 different shades of colors, made on special order. Before the start of the work itself, life-size samples were mounted for the facades of buildings A, B, C, D and D.
BODY B (plan dimensions ~ 37x13 m, on one side (along the long outer side) it has a cantilever outreach of 7 meters, the upper elevation of the building is +44 900).
This is the location of the so-called administrative block. The color scheme of the body fronts is the most restrained of all four. It is inferior to the rest of the buildings and in size. Like all other buildings, it has a stylobate part at the base, for glazing of which Alcon-Trade-System used non-standard infill structures with overall dimensions of 4.5 by 1.2 meters.
The facades of Buildings A and B are unique for the world practice of building facades with their horizontal racks. The word "pillar" itself implies that it should stand, that is, be positioned vertically: the classic facade consists of vertical pillars and horizontal transoms. All system solutions of world manufacturers are based on this principle. One of the main reasons for this is the drainage of condensate and rainwater: it, being collected along the entire facade, is discharged into special channels in the racks and is already discharged down through them or discharged from above through special "spouts" (overflows).
For the campus of the Moscow School of Management Skolkovo, ZAO Alkon-Trade-System, it was necessary to mount facades with horizontal racks - that is, in this case, all standard solutions of the profile developer cease to work. To solve this problem, it took several months of discussion of various options and tests. Ultimately, ZAO Alkon-Trade-System successfully coped with it.
Facade glazing technology was also non-standard. Since half of the work had to be done in winter, it was impossible to make structural glazing. The specialists of CJSC "Alkon-Trade-System" began to look for an alternative solution. At the same time, it was important to comply with the condition set by the architect - the creation of an absolutely flat facade. After considering various mounting options, a choice was made in favor of a mechanical glass fixing method using an ultra-flat pressure cover. It does not protrude beyond the plane of the facade and outwardly imitates structural glazing. Thus, ZAO Alkon-Trade-System has achieved the desired result - a flat facade.
CASES В and Г (building В: dimensions in the plan 109 x 14 m, upper mark +39 220, consoles on both sides, with the outer ~ 28 m, and from the inner 22 m; body D: dimensions in the plan 130 x 11 m, upper mark +42 660, consoles on both sides ~ 26 m). These are the longest hulls with an unusual, "floating" architectural solution: their length exceeds the diameter of the disk D - the ends of the hulls hang over the ground, overcoming the laws of gravity.
Here will be located dormitories for short and long-term residence for students of the Moscow School of Management "Skolkovo".
The coloristic solution of these facades is distinctive, contrasting: in black and white. The facades of these buildings differ from the previous ones in the direction of the posts: buildings A and B have horizontal posts and inclined beams, forming the horizontal direction of the facades, and buildings C and D, on the contrary, have vertical posts and inclined beams giving a vertical direction. The number of these elements, dissimilar to each other, exceeds 100 options, and each is individually made and, in turn, consists of at least 15 parts. And that's just for one case! And there are 4 of them.
The facades of these buildings are just as unique not only for Russia, but for the whole world practice as well as buildings A and B. But for other reasons. If the first two cases are notable for horizontal racks, then the peculiarity of cases C and D was that their device was made on a movable base. Let's explain: these housings have 26-28-meter consoles on both sides, which will move depending on the impact of different weights on them. For example, in the evening (let us remind you that the buildings are intended for students), several hundred people entered the room - the consoles dropped a few millimeters (tens of millimeters). In the morning, the students went to class - the consoles returned to their previous position. Accordingly, the facades must also be able to move. This had to be taken into account by the specialists of ZAO Alkon-Trade-System when designing and installing facades: leave deformation gaps, calculate the dimensions of the fillings, and so on.
The installation of these facades is also remarkable. Due to the great compatibility of the works (during the installation of the facade, the roofing was carried out on the disk and on the bodies), it was required to install the facade frame from the inside of the building, without erecting a scaffold. Unusual brackets helped to solve this problem. Also, due to the parallel progress of work on the facades and the roof, special metal consoles were developed and installed, allowing the scaffolding to be supported on them: they were, relatively speaking, "suspended in the air," and the roof was installed under the scaffolding at the same time.
Maximum mechanization of installation work
Installation of such complex facades required a variety of modern installation techniques. Each installation of the facade required its own equipment.
For example, a feature of the D disk (as well as the stylobates of all housings) is a large-format structural glazing with a cell size of 1200 mm by 4500 mm. Since the facade of the disk consists of two such cells, installed one above the other, in the end, the cell height was equal to 9 meters. For the installation of double-glazed windows in these structures, vacuum suction cups with a carrying capacity of up to 800 kg were used.
The high-rise buildings were mounted using the most modern equipment. Including with the help of 14-meter front cradles GEDA (Germany) with a lifting height of up to 100 meters, mast front platforms Safi (Italy), cargo hoists like Safi (Italy) - the lifting capacity of one lift is 1.5 tons, the maximum lifting height is 200 meters. For the installation of the so-called ceilings of buildings C and D, special volumetric scaffolding was erected to a height of 25 meters.
Architecture that is relevant even after 100 years
The combination of a bright architectural idea, high quality construction work allowed us to create a project that has already won several architectural awards. And this is probably just the beginning.
- Science fiction architecture. It looks incredibly beautiful and interesting! The architecture of this building will be relevant and modern even after 100 years. Whoever built this building jumped over himself. Fully corresponds to the spirit and significance of Skolkovo as a technopark and scientific town of the future! - writes a visitor to the site www.domgoda.com.
And it seems that many - both professionals and ordinary observers - will agree with this.
An object. Moscow School of Management "Skolkovo"
Customer. LLC "Management company SKOLKOVO management"
The author of the project. David Adjaye, Adjaye Associates
General contractor. LLC "PSP-Farman"
Facade contractor. CJSC "Alkon-Trade-System"
Types of jobs. Installation of facades, lanterns of "second light", illumination of facades
Scope of external work. 27 100 sq. m
Date of work. August 2008 - August 2009
Facade systems. Schueco FW 50+ HI, FW 50+ SG, ADS 70 (Germany), U-KON (Russia)
Systems for flashlights "second light". Raico Term + 56 St-I (Germany)
