The Wine House residential complex is being built on the site located between Sadovnicheskaya Street and Kosmodamianskaya Embankment. This is the very center of the capital: on one side - the low-rise Zamoskvorechye, on the other - the Moskva River and the spire of the Stalinist skyscraper on Kotelnicheskaya embankment. Before the revolution, this territory was occupied by the winery of Pyotr Arsenievich Smirnov, and in Soviet times, champagne "Cornet" was produced in its neat red brick buildings. Actually, this gave the name to the project - one of the surviving buildings of the former factory is included in the “Wine House” complex.
From the very beginning, two major Moscow bureaus were involved in its design - TPO "Reserve" and SPEECH. As the architects themselves explain, this was mainly due to the client's desire to create a multifaceted quarter, in which each individual building would acquire its own scale and recognizable character. The closely adjacent buildings were not supposed to "shout out" each other, but create an interesting architectural dialogue. That is why the choice fell on companies so different in their style: "Reserve" with its emphatically laconic tectonics of buildings and dislike for excesses, and SPEECH with its commitment to detailed reliefs and natural materials of the highest quality.
In addition to the fact that each bureau worked on the solutions of the facades (their architects divided equally among themselves so that the buildings, drawn by different teams, alternated with each other), the powers were distributed as follows: TPO "Reserve" acted as the general designer, responsible for the planning structure, engineering and landscaping of the adjacent territory, and SPEECH bureau took over the entire technical part of the work on the facades, and also made the interiors of public areas. In addition, the team of Vladimir Plotkin prepared a project for the restoration of the factory building included in the complex.
Built in 1888-1889 designed by the architect N. Voskresensky, this red brick building with elegant white decor elements is now recognized as a cultural heritage site. Its main facade faces Sadovnicheskaya Street. In accordance with the restoration project, all of its architectural and artistic details: snow-white rusticated pilasters, window decoration and an openwork cornice crowning the building are being accurately restored. Inside, the factory building is transformed into a modern residential building with loft-style apartments with high ceilings and spacious rooms. It is planned to open a restaurant on the first floor of this volume.
For the development of the rest of the territory of the former winery, the designers chose a quarterly layout. Modern, not trying to imitate the historical building, the volumes of residential buildings line up clearly along the perimeter of the site, due to which a wide courtyard, closed from prying eyes, appears inside. You can get into it both from the side of Sadovnicheskaya Street, where two wide passages are left along the ends of the building being restored, and through the arches located in the building opposite, from the side of Kosmodamianskaya embankment.
The buildings have a variable number of storeys, rising up towards the Moskva River in three large steps, on which open terraces are arranged for the residents of the apartments. If you look at the complex from above, you can see that on the roof, cut by ledges of various configurations, there are quite a lot of such cozy terraces overlooking the city, similar to green lawns. The first, four-storey front supports the development line of Sadovnicheskaya Street with its old Moscow chamber houses. In the depths of the block, there are higher sections - up to 7 floors, since there they are adjacent to rather high Stalinist buildings located along the embankment.
It is quite simple to identify the authorship of one or another building within the complex - you just have to look at its facades. Following a single concept, Vladimir Plotkin and Sergei Tchoban each speak their own language. Plotkin's facades with their large spans of dark glass windows, painted on a white canvas wall, are as graphic as possible: every line, every corner is drawn with geometric precision and strict adherence to ideal proportions. The facades of Tchoban turned out completely different - carved natural stone of light shades is actively used on the walls of his houses. Somewhere these are simple vertical embossed surfaces, and somewhere ornate ornaments. Here and there soft smoothed corners, spectacular cornices, a clear structure of belts and vertical pylons and semi-columns appear.
On the ground floors on the side of Sadovnicheskaya Street and along the side thoroughfares, it is planned to place public functions - boutiques with large glass showcases, a fitness club, a spa and a beauty salon. On the opposite side, at the courtyard level, there are separate entrances to the duplex apartments. A total of 176 apartments are located in seven buildings of the complex, ranging from 62 to 227 sq.m. In addition to standard apartments, there are penthouses, apartments with access to terraces and mezzanine floors.
Separately, it should be said about the improvement of courtyard areas, the project of which was carried out by TPO "Reserve". Initially, the theme of the two-facedness of architectural solutions, the bureau fully implemented in the concept of courtyard spaces. The main courtyard, located on the stylobate part of the complex and completely closed from outsiders, was interpreted by the authors as a ceremonial regular garden, while the green space outside the Wine House (on the adjacent territory, guaranteed free from buildings) turns into a natural, maximally natural garden. And if the second is dominated by large-sized trees planted in a free order, and the footpaths between them are barely outlined, then the solemn rhythm of the courtyard is set by the strict geometry of all elements, be it flower beds, dedicated recreation areas or paths. The materials were carefully selected: the paving of the central paths is supposed to be done with aged clinker bricks, reminiscent of the preserved factory building, while the outer borders of the courtyard will be decorated with granite slabs, echoing the facades of natural polished stone. In the design of the lawns, which are somewhat raised above the level of the courtyard, Jurassic stone and corten steel will also be used, entering into an interesting dialogue between the eternal and the modern, which generally runs like a red thread through this project.
The construction of the Wine House is scheduled for completion in 2016.
