The project of Vera Butko and Anton Nadtochy won an architectural competition for the reconstruction of the facades of the Havana cinema to house the Moscow Youth Center Planet KVN (Stroyproekt is engaged in the internal reconstruction). The competition took place at the beginning of this year, two months after Putin "presented" the KVN building in front of the TV cameras. We already wrote about the projects that participated in the competition in the spring, now we will tell you more about the winning project, the implementation of which is now in full swing. It is planned to be completed in the spring.
The Atrium architects proposed to drape the building with two giant ribbons of light flowing (or even flying) outlines, fixing them to a metal structure, in places strongly receding from the walls. It must be admitted that this technique should change the box of the former cinema beyond recognition: a flexible dynamic shell, like a carnival mask, does not completely hide even the walls of the building. But it changes its image, that very fleeting sensation that arises when an inattentive look: a driver from a speeding car or a pedestrian carried away by conversation. In a word, these stripes, reminiscent of either a Gothic pennant, or the flight of a gymnastic ribbon, changed the main chord. The former "Havana" was a calm representative of late modernism with a characteristic note of the classics for its time, with a measured look at the avenue. Now - a whirlwind, a stream, plasticly entwining, overshadowing, and certainly not static.
“One of our tasks was to rethink the town planning significance of this building in the current situation,” says Vera Butko. - Previously, the cinema "looked" frontally at Suschevsky Val, but we reoriented it to the crossroads, which in our time has become a busy square. Not so long ago, an exit from the Maryina Roshcha metro station appeared here. That is, we made the corner point of view the main one - in response to the Soviet residential building, which stands diagonally opposite”.
Indeed, the building of the Havana cinema, built in the 1980s, looked not at the highway overloaded with foreign cars, but rather at the calm and measured Soviet avenue. It was built according to the project developed by the architect Gennady Nadtochy, the father of Anton Nadtochy, who also takes an active creative part in the work on the new project (that project was a typical "re-use project", based on which cinemas were built in different cities, in Moscow they were built on Suschevsky Val). The geometrized light portico-loggia of the building of that time echoed the park opposite, and maybe even with the rotunda of the church, barely visible behind its trees. That building looked in the city for echoes of lost estates, and in the typology of the cinema - a classic approach to a public building (hence the portico; it is almost a palace of culture). The nineties did not spare him, the building housed a casino, marking its presence with a large portal with illumination in the spirit of Las Vegas, asymmetrically adhered to the loggia. Then the Suschevsky Val changed and the building of the former cinema was turned not at all to the avenue, but to a secondary backup of the city highway, which went into a tunnel at this place.
So, the new facade of Vera Butko and Anton Nadtochy reacted to the changed urban planning situation. But not only for her: the architects proposed to make the building modern with the help of modern materials. The two flowable ribbons were initially supposed to be made of architectural fabric. “The facades were made from this fabric.
pavilion of Germany at the world EXPO 2010 in Shanghai”- says Vera Butko. It can be added that fabric architecture is in general now popular in the world, especially after the crisis, as it allows you to create inexpensive, but durable and effective structures - architectural textiles were used in many buildings of the London Summer Olympics. Stretch domes, canopies, exhibition pavilions are made of durable, flexible and lightweight textiles, and Chris Boss from the LAVA bureau, for example, in 2009 proposed wrapping an entire tower in Sydney in fabric, deciding that the fabric would collect rainwater and perform many other functions, that is, it will become almost interactive matter. So the innovative impulse of the "Planet of KVN" was more than in line with world trends.
However, since there is no great experience of working with this material in our country, the customer abandoned the idea of using it back in the spring. Then, over the course of several months, the authors studied several options for other technical solutions that could provide them with the implementation of the idea: in particular, the option of using PVC and ETFE membranes was considered. Ultimately, closer to the summer, we settled on a solution that was relatively simple from a technical point of view: the belts will be made of perforated aluminum sheets - this is also a mesh, but its holes are larger, and the performance characteristics are more predictable. Now the facades of the former "Havana" are being assembled with structures that will carry perforated metal. Meanwhile, the walls are covered with multi-colored panels that form an asymmetrical pixel pattern.
From the very beginning, the architects decided that the façade would be multimedia. At night, the images are planned to be shown using laser projectors, and for the daytime, an LED screen will be mounted in the metal of curved surfaces. This is perhaps the first significant experience of using laser projection systems to change the appearance of a building; it is especially pleasant that this is done by Russian companies and using Russian technologies.
Along the way, during the year, the architects made several more projects for the Planet of KVN. The interior of bending white surfaces, some of which would also serve as video projection screens, could become a logical continuation of the facade "wave", especially since the loggia of the main entrance will be cleared and become a solid transparent stained-glass window. If the external structure visually almost does not touch the rectangular box of the building, but "levitates" in front of it (although, of course, it will be firmly fixed), then the interior in the project of Butko and Nadtochy is solved as an open open "cover" strung on thin supports buildings, without touching either these supports or walls.
Later, the customers asked the architects to think about a draft project for the reconstruction of the square itself, after the construction of the metro, which was filled with heavy ventilation boxes. Butko and Nadtochy proposed to cover some of the "boxes" with multi-colored panels, and to cover the largest of them, as well as the exit from the metro, with curved visors that echo the facade.
If all these plans could be realized, the area around the former "Havana" would have turned into a serious reserve of nonlinear architecture, whole and fresh, which has never happened in Moscow. But, unfortunately, now only the facade project is being fully implemented. Despite this, we are all in anticipation of innovative implementation.
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