Pedestrian Arc

Pedestrian Arc
Pedestrian Arc

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Video: Pedestrian Arc
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Svetlogorye is an ambitious development project, which has been being implemented for several years now on the 38th kilometer of Novorizhskoe highway. There are both very expensive "author's" mansions and quite budget houses - they are united by their proximity to the picturesque landscape near Moscow and a pleasant distance from the highway connecting the highway and the city of Istra. In order to provide this comfortable distance, the developer made a decisive step away from the road, and for some time the section between it and Svetlogorye was not built up at all. Now, when the need has ripened to somehow visually separate the cottage building from the highway, the architectural workshop of Vladimir Bindeman was invited to participate in the project. The designers were tasked with creating a kind of universal buffer zone, saturated with infrastructure facilities and capable of "completing" the village with housing of various types and classes. As a result, the "layer", which was initially assigned a purely utilitarian role in the general plan, the architects were able to turn into a cozy and self-sufficient area with its own face and character.

The plot allocated for mixed development has a very intricate shape in the plan and actually splits into two independent polygons. The smaller one was allocated by the architects for a kindergarten and a sports complex, separating them from the road with a wide strip of green spaces and a whole group of outdoor playgrounds. The second rectangle has been transformed into a system of open and flowing green courtyards, between which residential buildings are located. However, it is clear that, unlike a kindergarten, you cannot protect housing from road noise with trees alone, therefore, along the southwestern border of the site, where the rectangle “rests” on the highway, Architecturium designed a shopping center. In plan, this building has the shape of a segment of a circle and resembles a protractor, and behind it is an arched apartment building, the first floors of which are also occupied by trade and service premises. Together, these volumes form an internal shopping and pedestrian street, which not only helps to isolate the new residential area from the road, but also gives it the character of an integral urban environment.

“We based our project on the idea of introducing elements of urban planning and urban design into the countryside,” says Vladimir Bindeman. "After all, when a huge territory is cut into separate sections and driveways between them, it quickly gets boring, and the only thing that can be opposed to this is a public space saturated with different functions." As already mentioned, the first floors of a multi-section residential building are reserved for all kinds of shops and services, but this is not the only way to "load" the pedestrian street. On the side of the shopping complex, the architects also place several cozy miniature cafes - the convex facade of the building is lined with wide wooden wedges, the ends of some of which are strongly bent and become canopies. The upper terrace of the complex is faced with wood, and the high sides reliably protect it from the noise and dust of the road. But the shopping center faces the highway with wide glazed surfaces - "showcases" inserted into minimalist frames made of light clinker bricks.

The arched residential building is faced with the same brick, only of a dark brown shade, and in the appearance of the building that follows it, the architects combine both colors in different proportions. In order for the house not to look too dark and solid line, albeit cunningly curved, the authors divide it into four separate blocks (between them you can go to the territory of the district, but only its legal inhabitants can do this), and the theme is introduced into the design of the facades numerous vertical slots of different widths. Some of them are filled with glass, others with panels of light wood; on the side facades, glass-wooden surfaces, on the contrary, dominate, interspersed only with thin bridges of dark brick. The first public floor is completely transparent, and here the theme of rectangles is played up with rectangular pieces of glass of different colors.

The second building line is formed by one-entrance club-style houses. They are made up of three volumes, each - a two-storey one raised on pillars, a three-storey central one and a four-storey one, the upper level of which is trimmed with wood and designed as an attic of the largest apartments in terms of area. And behind them are two-storey townhouses - a kind of transitional link between houses and private cottages. Their architectural appearance is also based on a combination of simple geometric elements, however, to the theme of bricks and slots, large square windows and rectangular cantilevers are added here, likening these volumes to giant TVs.

In order not to erect a traditional fence around the new district, the architects propose to place open car parks around its outer perimeter - this will not only help isolate residential buildings from neighboring plots, but will also provide them with the necessary parking spaces, significantly saving on the creation of underground parking lots. As already mentioned, a similar planning principle was used on the second rectangle, only there are playgrounds instead of parking lots. And the facade of the children's institution, facing them, the architects make up of squares of the brightest colors, thereby emphasizing both the function and the main task of this object.

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