The giant wasteland, on which it is planned to build "Ivanovskoe", will separate the forest park from the territory of the 119th clinical hospital of the city district of Khimki. Apparently, last but not least, it was this gloomy neighborhood that for a long time kept investors from building this territory. The nature of the area itself also affected - in several places it is very swampy, which, of course, also complicates the process of its development. However, the general shortage of free sites in the near Moscow region and the presence of a good highway nearby (Mashkinskoye highway) ultimately outweighed all the difficulties - in the middle of last year, TPO "Reserve" received an order to develop a project for a residential area. The terms of reference were formulated simply: low-rise economy class housing and landscaped public areas, together creating a comfortable and visually rich living environment. Now the project has already passed public hearings, and the architectural studio is working on the "P" stage.
In plan, the site has the shape of an irregular polygon and is somewhat reminiscent of a butterfly, whose figuratively carved wings "embrace" the hospital territory on both sides, extending from it towards the forest. The future residential complex is separated from the hospital by Ivanovskaya Street, which connects the site with the Mashkinskoye Highway. Reaching the center of the site, it makes a smooth turn back to the federal highway - another, for now, unnamed street starts here, leading to the Kurkinskoye Highway. However, Ivanovskaya also has a continuation - so far in the form of a forest clearing, directed towards the Pyatnitskoe highway. In other words, even before the design of the residential complex began, an obvious crossroads had formed on its territory, and the idea of locating the public center of the future district on this very site suggested itself. The only adjustment that the architects made to this layout is the oval-shaped junction. “Firstly, this shape follows the logic of the smooth bend of the main street and makes the intersection of the roads not so hard, and secondly, the roundabout will allow you to get to any place of the village without using traffic lights and unload the intersection, which, taking into account the prospect of entering Pyatnitskoe highway, can become very active,”explains the chief architect of the project, Sergei Uspensky.
In the direction of the forest, perpendicular to the carriageway, from the designed "hinge" there is a series of swampy ponds. And again, the landscape itself suggested to the architects a town-planning solution: along the reservoirs, which are cleared, deepened and connected with each other by a small canal, a wide pedestrian boulevard is being created. And in order for its perspective to be closed by non-hospital structures, the oval intersection is surrounded by buildings of a public center, in terms of which it resembles a horseshoe split into several segments. Behind them, that is, from the side of the hospital, it is planned to place objects of the engineering infrastructure of the village, as well as tennis courts. On the boulevard itself (however, its impressive width - about 80 meters - makes this green vector more likely to be called a recreational zone) there is also a place for sports grounds, as well as for small shopping pavilions and cafes. This, by the way, was another prerequisite of the TK - all public functions should be carried out in separate volumes, and not occupy the first floors of residential buildings. Firstly, at such a distance from the capital, you may not find a sufficient number of tenants, and secondly, the buildings are so low-rise that it is simply a pity to sacrifice the number of apartments for the sake of offices.
As already mentioned, the architects gave preference to block buildings. Each quarter here has dimensions of 100 by 100 meters and is square in plan, built around the perimeter of three-, four- and five-storey buildings. True, in the event that the quarter is on the border of the site, it acquires the shape of a trapezoid, following not so much the red lines as the desire to open residential buildings to the forest. “We preferred the square, because rectangular blocks presuppose a hierarchy of streets, and in our small village it is not needed. The only difference between transverse and longitudinal driveways is the presence of a boulevard with parking lots at the latter,”says Vladimir Plotkin. Thus, the architects created a convenient "growth" grid (in the future, the area can be expanded with any number of new cells) and thus avoided the monotony of development.
According to the authors of the project, the question of whether to let cars into the courtyards of the neighborhoods or not is still under discussion. While there are parking spaces in the courtyards, they surround green spaces with playgrounds in the center along the perimeter. A covered, but not heated parking lot is also located at the entrance to the village, above a two-storey shopping center, which can be used not only by residents of Ivanovskiy, but also by visitors to the hospital, as well as motorists traveling in transit.
The architecture of residential buildings has not yet been worked out in detail, however, at the concept stage, the handwriting of TPO "Reserve" is immediately recognizable. The "pixel" pattern of windows and combinations of panels of different colors on the facades not only create a visually diverse environment, but also hide the true scale of rare high-rise accents - nine-storey towers fixing the corners of the blocks overlooking the boulevard.
