Brick Tape

Brick Tape
Brick Tape

Video: Brick Tape

Video: Brick Tape
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The architects called their concept of a residential complex on Savvinskaya Embankment "Reflection", putting a whole fan of meanings into this concept. This is a reflection of new buildings in the water surface, and a metaphorical reflection in the architecture of the complex of the spirit of the embankments of the Moskva River and "memory of the place", as well as a hint of quoting the composition of a residential building located opposite. We are talking about house number 12 on the Berezhkovskaya embankment, built in 1955 by architects I. Kastel and T. Zaikin in a typical for that time monumental Stalinist style with towers and courdoners facing the water. “This typology seems to us, in principle, very characteristic of houses located on the embankments of the Moskva River. Unlike St. Petersburg or, say, London, where mostly flat facades face the water, in the capital houses near the river have a pronounced volumetric structure, and in our project we decided not to abandon this tradition,”explains Vyacheslav Bogachkin.

The complex consists of six buildings, five of which are interconnected by a two-level stylobate and overlook the Savvinskaya embankment. On the one hand, they support the rhythm of the existing uneven buildings on the embankment, on the other hand, they form a complex structure of courtyard spaces, "strung" on the axis of the pedestrian street. Recall that a characteristic feature of this site is also a strong relief drop (about 12 meters). And if other participants of the competition - Sergei Skuratov and Vladimir Plotkin - used it to organize a pedestrian boulevard and a landscape park, the Bogachkins "split" the site into two green terraces, which are united by an internal street running parallel to the embankment and Bolshoy Savvinsky lane. From the side of the river it is clearly readable, thanks to the higher buildings on the "second line" - in fact, these are the same buildings that go out to the water, but, retreating from the embankment and climbing a "step" higher, they naturally grow by several meters. It is also important to emphasize that, as in other competitive projects, here the courtyards are located on the roof of the stylobate and thus are reliably protected from the embankment saturated with transport.

The project provides that the buildings should be faced with natural light stone - thin vertical divisions on the main facades are perceived as another elegant paraphrase of the Stalinist house opposite, also light and also directed upward. But the architects wanted to complicate the image of the complex, therefore, at the level of the four central floors of the building, a ribbon of dark red bricks wraps around. A tribute to the history of the place here is not only the material (and the buildings of the factory intended for demolition were built, of course, from bricks), but also the very plastic of its interaction with light volumes, reminiscent of textiles and curtains that Gardtex once produced. Architects deliberately round off the corners and take away unnecessary "folds" on them - so that the buildings at the level of the fourth floor acquire spectacular brick consoles. And if the narrow vertical lines of travertine look extremely soundly and restrained - like an expensive formal suit - then the brick train, on the contrary, brings lightness and freedom to the appearance of buildings, which are characteristic only of thin and natural fabrics. This impression is especially strengthened by the double-height galleries connecting the buildings to each other - from afar, to the light, they seem almost chiffon.

It is also interesting that decorative brick cladding is present only on the main facade of the complex - laconic white-cream planes are facing the courtyards of the building, designed to visually expand the private green space and make it lighter. This decision also supports the palette of buildings on Bolshoy Savvinsky Pereulok, which is dominated by light colors. By the way, this is why the sixth building of the residential complex, built in along the red line of the alley, is made entirely in stone and, like its closest neighbors - the buildings of the Grachev estate, receives a pitched roof.

The residential tower, placed a little in the depth between the buildings, is solved in a completely different way: its complex multifaceted surface is lined with dark metal. It is interpreted by architects as an expensive art object - on the one hand, it supports the theme of rare but regular high-rise accents in the panorama of the embankment, and on the other hand, it gives the architecture of the complex a modern and even fashionable sound. It is a very striking building - black crystal with beveled walls, sharp triangles of solid glass, and rows of diamond-shaped slanted windows in deep orange frames. Continuing the analogy with textiles, this house can resemble an ultra-fashionable designer dress, which not everyone can afford. And it is true: each apartment in the tower occupies an entire floor, and the layout allows for the implementation of any interior project.

The tower undoubtedly serves as an important accent and even as a foreign (foreign?) Representative inside the complex: if the light stone houses in this project hint at the already established tradition of elite Moscow housing of the Ostozhensky class, red brick ribbons remind of the Russian avant-garde, the source of everything and everything in XX century, the black tower is suggestive of Gehry and Libeskind. Together we get an anthology of the most important architectural things of the last decade.

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