The reason for the discussion was the competition for the development of the concept of building up the territory of the "Serp and Molot" plant, the interim results of which will be announced this week. The moderator of the round table was the curator of special projects of the Project Russia magazine
Elena Gonzalez, which immediately posed the question to the participants: what should be done with such industrial zones as "Hammer and Sickle" today, what tasks should be set for developers and designers, and in what ways they should be solved.
Deputy Director of the Institute for the General Plan of Moscow
Oleg Baevsky
recalled that the idea of reorganizing the Hammer and Sickle industrial zone had arisen quite a long time ago. For the first time they started talking about it in 1997, and ten years later the Moscow government approved the territorial scheme for this site. Baevsky emphasized that in the general plan of Moscow, it is considered one of the key ones for the development of the city as a whole, due to its proximity to the historical center and transport accessibility. The reorganization of industrial zones, which, according to the latest data, occupy about 19 thousand hectares in the city, is, according to Baevsky, not only the development of a territorial resource, but also an opportunity to significantly reduce the number of sanitary protection zones, thereby enriching the surrounding spaces.
First Deputy Head of the Department of Urban Planning Policy and Development of Moscow
Oleg Ryndin
noticed that any area of the capital contains many urban planning problems associated mainly with the underdevelopment of social, transport and engineering infrastructure. The potential of industrial zones here could be in great demand. Production is dying out, and the territories of industrial zones are currently being used extremely ineffectively, so their potential should be studied in detail in order to use it for the benefit of the city. Ryndin called the development of the optimal form of interaction between the investor, owners and the city as another important point in the development of industrial zones.
Head of the Prospective Development Department of the Urban Development Policy Department
Andrey Petrov
stressed that
“Industrial territories are one of the last reserves of the city, first of all, for the construction of the road network. Therefore, I would like the developers of the concept to pay more attention to the issue of permeability of the territory, as well as provide for areas for recreational areas."
One of the striking examples of redevelopment of industrial zones was the project for the development of the territory of the ZiL plant. One of the authors of the project told the round table participants about the experience of planning this space, head of the zone workshop number 15
Vitaly Lutz.
He noted that the ZiL territory has common features with the Hammer and Sickle site. For example, in both cases, there is a key copyright holder, which greatly facilitates the organization of the process. But in the planning project of such spaces, it is necessary to take into account the adjacent territories, especially when developing a transport scheme. “When planning the road network,” said Vitaly Lutz, “we moved tens of kilometers from the boundaries of our site. We had to understand very well how the territory of ZiL would interact with the city. It was a painful and multifaceted search that took into account the interests of the city and the potential investor. Lutz also noted that the planning project must necessarily be supported by an implementation plan.
Chief Architect of Moscow
Sergey Kuznetsov:
“In addition to the implementation plan, there is one more very important direction - functional programming of the territory, which is inextricably linked with the economics of the project. It is necessary to correctly predict how the territory will work after the implementation of the project. Industrial zones should become part of the urban fabric. This can be done only if the balance of private and public spaces, public ground floors, saturation of the territory with cultural objects and park zones is observed. The variety of functions makes the area a vibrant and natural part of the city."
I agreed with Sergey Kuznetsov
representative of the customer of the competition, general director of CJSC "Don-Stroy Invest"
Alena Deryabina:
“We definitely do not have a task to transform one reservation, an industrial one, into another - for example, another sleeping area. Our task is to create a product that will be successful in terms of market demand, which is impossible without taking into account the interests of the city. We also strive for versatility. It is important for us to create such a functional set inside the building that would allow people living and working there to satisfy all their needs. And besides, we plan to form new centers of attraction to attract citizens to this territory”.
Vice President of the Research and Development Institute Urban Ecology
Anna Kurbatova
dwelled on the main points that should be taken into account when developing the project of this site: “When approaching the design of industrial territories, it is important at the initial stage to understand that any territory has its own potential, but there is also a development framework. The definition of this framework in terms of consumption resources should be spelled out at the stage of developing the urban planning concept. Borders exist only on paper - in nature, as in a city, there are no such borders. In addition, the time factor should be taken into account, indicating a clear time frame for the implementation of the project. The project creation period should be as well thought out as the design period."
She spoke about the transport capabilities of the Hammer and Sickle site
Deputy Head of NPO T&D No. 5 NIiPI of the General Plan of Moscow
Tatiana Sigaeva
“The site is located at the junction of the southeastern and central districts, and it is this site that has great transport potential. There is a reserve that is being implemented today - this is the northeastern expressway of the former Fourth Transport Ring, a new distribution transport highway, the creation of which will have a positive effect on the territory under consideration. The development of a metro line is also planned, the MK MZD line runs near the site, a tram runs along the Entuziastov highway, and it is planned to make it a high-speed one on the section of the Fourth Transport Ring and an accelerated one in the area of the Serp and Molot plant. Inside the district, a road map has already been formed, but, of course, it is necessary to create a street and road network inside the plant site."
Sergey Kuznetsov added: “If you look at the map of Moscow in this part, you can see that the territories of the industrial zones - and these are ZiL, Yuzhny Port, Moskvich and Hammer and Sickle - cut off a giant chunk of the city, making it depressive. This affects both the quality of real estate and the quality of life. Redevelopment of such territories will create a system of internal capillary network, which is very important”.
Head of the direction "Legal support of public-private partnership agreements" of the City Investment Management Agency
Artem Barashev
spoke about the possibility of implementing such large projects within the framework of public-private partnerships.
“At the project stage, it is necessary to take into account both the interests of the state and the city, and the interests of private partners. And here there should be a fair distribution of risks. First of all, the effectiveness of the project should be assessed,”concluded Barashev.
“The approach to public-private partnership should be different,” retorted
Alexander Olkhovsky, member of the Supervisory Board of CJSC VTB-Development, -
The state should not consider the funds invested in the project in the way that a private investor thinks, it should first of all take care of the improvement, the comfort of citizens, and the creation of public places. Quality of life must be built on budget. At the same time, the state must formulate very well the tasks that it sets for the investor. As for the approach to the Hammer and Sickle territory, here Olkhovsky noted that such large sites cannot be occupied by monofunctional buildings: for example, tens of hectares cannot be densely built up with one dwelling. Only an integrated approach, providing the district with public areas and buildings, the necessary social and transport infrastructure, the device of a frequent street and road network, which will provide high throughput not only for external, but also for internal traffic flows, will make it possible to create a product that will find a consumer.
Summing up, Elena Gonzalez expressed her conviction that projects like ZiL and Hammer and Sickle are a precedent capable of provoking the transformation of other industrial zones, not only in Moscow, but also in other regions of the country.
