The office center will be built near the Nakhimovsky Prospekt metro station, between Varshavskoye and Kashirskoye highways. However, with all the development of the transport infrastructure, it is very difficult to call this region attractive. Today it is almost a dump: a heap of garages, broken asphalt, rare unkempt trees and debris - this is what greets passengers leaving the metro. Of the significant architectural structures, one can perhaps name only the College of Economics and Law, located along Nakhimovsky Prospect. To the right of it, according to the project of the SPEECH bureau, a large business center is being built from three semicircular glass towers.
In this respect, the new complex occupies a less favorable position: it is pushed back from the avenue into the depths of the quarter and will receive only one passage - from the Odesskaya and Sivashskaya streets along a narrow path between private garages. The authors of the project could not influence this situation in any way: the garage development arose on completely legal grounds, and the only possible intervention here is the renewal of the asphalt. But ADM would not be themselves if they did not do everything possible to ensure that the site received the most diverse and interesting landscaping. So it is not at all surprising that the actual office space occupies only a small (and, moreover, rather narrow) fragment of the site, while the architects proposed to set up a park on the main territory.
Having designed an office building with a standard layout (open-plan floor and central communications center), the architects paid special attention to its appearance and facades. The authors of the project divided the conditional parallelepiped into two equal parts, which were then shifted relative to each other, and right angles were cut off from each, after which the volume instantly acquired completely different, soft outlines, subtly echoing the arcs of the buildings of the business center being built next door. Glass and terracotta panels with a volumetric wave pattern were chosen for the facades. The latter not only set a clear rhythm, but, protruding beyond the glazing plane, add interesting depth and multidimensionality to the facades. This effect is enhanced by the fact that the panels themselves differ in width and relief pattern.
Due to the displacement of the volumes in the level of the first and second floors, console protrusions appeared at both ends of the complex, resting on a row of slender round columns. It is here that the entrances to the building are organized. From the college and Nakhimovsky prospect, from where the most active pedestrian flow will move, the first floor of the complex is reserved for a restaurant. In front of him, it is proposed to break up a small public square, bordered by a dotted line of concrete tubs with green plants. In the warm season, an open summer cafe can be arranged here. The central entrance is located at the opposite end, towering over a natural hill about three meters high. This part of the building faces Sivashskaya Street, from which the entrance to the complex is carried out.
In total, the building has 14 floors, the 15th - technical one - shifted inland from the line of the main volume. Two underground levels are occupied by parking, where there is a separate direct entrance from the side of the hill, and the first floors are given over to public functions - a spacious two-story lobby and a restaurant. Above are the offices. Architect Andrey Romanov emphasizes that the building is absolutely verified in terms of the ratio of the floor area, the proportions of the core and the overall height of the complex.
However, even with all the correctness of the content and expressiveness of the external appearance, the complex could hardly be appreciated at its true worth in the urban environment that has developed around the site. The authors tried to reverse this situation. First of all, due to the work with the relief. The existing ADM drop was used to create a varied and picturesque landscape: trees close to the road and fill the spaces between the loops of the pedestrian serpentine, cut by a short, straight path of steep stairs, and tall grasses bring the landscape closer to the forest, semi-wild. The minimalist design of the streetlights scattered along the slope makes their presence almost ephemeral. In other words, it is planned to create around the complex, albeit a small, but completely self-sufficient natural environment, comfortable and safe, which, according to the architects' plan, will make visitors forget about the unsettledness of the city that has just been seen.
It is interesting that on the upper platform around the complex, there is no less greenery than on the slope. Fluffy tops of trees lined up along the right edge of the property, and then between the complex and the college, turning into a kind of green fence. The second line is a barcode from flower beds, green spaces and outdoor furniture. Ground parking is provided on the left side, but even the marking of parking spaces is interrupted by flower beds, low trees and a full-fledged green lawn.
