Fractional Scale

Fractional Scale
Fractional Scale

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The site for the construction of a new hotel has been allocated at 6 Alekseevskaya Street. For those who are at least a little familiar with the geography of Nizhny Novgorod, there is no need to explain that this is the very center of the city: Alekseevskaya is one of the four main "rays" converging to Minin Square and Pozharsky. And, by the way, the function of temporary accommodation of guests of the city for this address has been fixed for a long time: now the so-called "Peasant's House" is located on this place - one of the cheapest hotels in Nizhny Novgorod, in the rooms of which there are no bathrooms and sockets, but from which you can quickly walk to any point of interest. At the same time, the "House of the Peasant" itself is not a monument, therefore, the city authorities preferred a radical reconstruction to a simple renewal of the number of rooms. An investor was found for it, and he, in turn, invited to develop a project for a new hotel "Studio 44".

According to the chief architect of the project, Ivan Kozhin, work on the hotel's appearance began with the solution of two key issues - the height of the building and the length of its street facades. The fact is that, located at the intersection of Alekseevskaya and Piskunov streets, the site dictates a triangular shape for the future building, and the sides of this triangle are impressive in their length - 100 and 80 meters along each street, respectively. But buildings with such extended facades cannot be found in Nizhniy in the afternoon with fire, and especially such buildings are not typical for the center of the ancient city, so it was immediately obvious to the architects that the impressive planes needed to be visually shattered somehow. The solution was suggested by the surrounding buildings itself, woven from neat rectangles of facades of different eras - the architects borrowed their proportions, superimposing the resulting mesh on the hotel building. At the same time, the authors of the project deliberately did not copy the stylistic diversity of the existing buildings - the facades play on the theme of the lattice as such, which delicately and at the same time definitely indicates their modernity. The only stylistic reference that, if desired, can be seen in the proposed solution, is the construction of the constructivist era - the so-called "skyscraper" located opposite the future hotel, on the other side of Piskunov Street.

The length of each of the two street facades is visually leveled due to the fragmentation of the composition: the hotel building seems to be composed of separate "houses", which are both similar and not alike at the same time. The blocks have markedly different widths and all are faced with bricks, which, according to the authors' intention, makes the facades akin to historical buildings, gives them a humane scale and man-made character. The project is supposed to use several types of bricks, differing not only in color, but also in texture. The use of windows of different widths also contributes to the achievement of the collage effect - architects willingly experiment with lintels, transparent railing of loggias and vertical walls "under the blinds". The authors of the project also vary the height of the cornices (from 12 to 16 meters) of each of the segments, making the facades of the new hotel pulsate in the panorama of the city and creating the feeling of not one building, but a densely built-up quarter.

The very height of the cornices, of course, is not taken from the ceiling. Designing in the historical center of Nizhny Novgorod obliged the architects to comply with the high-rise regulations in force here, which limit the "growth" of buildings to 25 meters. However, the residents of St. Petersburg deliberately did not bring the eaves of the house to this limit: from their point of view, a monolithic volume of such a height would be discordant with the scale of the environment. They used the repeatedly proven method of a stepped layout, when the upper floor of the building is "sunk" inward and treated as an attic, skillfully cut out under a gable roof. The rooms located here have panoramic glazing, and the outer walls of the upper floor are sheathed with metal sheets.

The layout of the hotel provides that the rooms will be oriented both to the streets and to the courtyard. The space of the latter is being improved, and a restaurant and administrative premises are located in the block built between the two open wings of the hotel. The complex also includes underground parking for 100 cars, a conference hall and a shopping gallery. The shops, of course, are supposed to be located on the first floor of the hotel along the front of both streets, and in order to make the shopping areas as spacious as possible, the architects are slightly deepening them.

According to the project, the entrance to the hotel is organized from an intersection and is decorated with an expressive sharp corner, but this decision is not final. According to Ivan Kozhin, it was the expressiveness of this angle that caused the greatest criticism among the members of the city council of Nizhny Novgorod, so that its plasticity will have to be corrected. Most likely, the idea of firewalls, in the form of which both ends of the hotel building are solved today, will also be revised. “We understand that this is rather a St. Petersburg tradition and intend to find a more contextual solution for Nizhny Novgorod,” admits the chief architect of the project.

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