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project for the territory of the plant "Filikrovlya"
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Boris Levyant paid special attention to the problem of noise in the competition project for the construction of the territory of the Filikrovlya plant, and also made the most of the advantages of the site and took into account the prospects for its development. ABD architects proposed to locate four residential volumes on the territory - three rectangular towers in plan, facing the railroad, and a six-section house, running first parallel to the embankment, and then curving into the depth of the site in a smooth arc. On the rest of the territory, it is proposed to build a school with sports grounds, equip a recreational space. In a smooth arc from west to east, a boulevard runs through the site, descending to the embankment. At the western end of the complex there is a planned area, where one can get directly from the Fili metro station through an underground passage under the railway.
As for road transport, its movement is organized around the site, with a drive into the underground parking; the carriageway of the central boulevard is intended only for guests of the complex and special equipment. To mitigate the noise blow from the north, at the base of the three towers built along the northern border, the architects placed a stylobate on the roof of a three-tiered underground parking lot, embanking it from the outside and turning it into a kind of green hill. Since the relief drops by seven meters towards the river, the tiers of the parking lot turned out to be somewhere underground, somewhere above ground, but in general the parking seems to be a natural element of the landscape. On the outside, the stylobate accommodates retail spaces.
Large trees will also help to reduce the noise level, with which the spaces between the towers will be planted. In addition, the towers face the TTC with their ends, and the apartment layout is thought out in such a way that only kitchens and staircases go to the north. As a kind of compensation - it is from these windows that the best view of the famous Church of the Intercession in Fili opens, which Boris Levyant considers the main pearl of the region.
Another embankment, also planted with trees, closes the site from the south, protecting the schoolyard from the noise of the subway, which is open to the south and is well lit by the sun. But the role of the third "green rampart" may well be claimed by a sectional house - naturally curved, smoothly descending from the southwest to the northeast and expanding to the south, with a green roof, it seems to be a natural element of the relief, like a grassy hill or a mountain spur ridges. Bounded in this way on all three sides, the residential complex turns out to be almost completely closed within itself.
“It was invented and designed as a kind of enclave,” confirms Boris Levyant. “When viewed from the point of view of pedestrian zones and first floors, it is a closed world, isolated from a conventionally hostile environment.” The only "skylight" is the view from the boulevard descending to the embankment, from where a panorama of the river and the towers of Moscow City opens. But a person gets the full idea that he is in the center of the capital only by going up to his apartment and looking out the window - and the city from this height opens up to him from the most advantageous side.
From the point of view of the plastic solution, the towers and the sectional house work in contrast. Three strict vertical volumes, lined with long rectangles with a ceramic cage of a warm terracotta shade, are examples of modern high-rise architecture, they enter into an inevitable dialogue with the surrounding dominants, which stand around a lot and are being built - these are, first of all, the Moscow City towers, and Mirax Plaza, Fili Grad, and the house on Mosfilmovskaya are within sight … The regular structure of the facades is preserved along the entire height, except for the first few floors, where spectacular entrance groups with stained-glass windows are located on a metal frame, and the rhythm of the facade grid almost loses its horizontal component, and fully glazed upper floors: there will be penthouses with panoramic views.
Towers - "ribs of rigidity" of the whole complex; everything else in it is smooth, fluid, and if high-rise buildings are responsible for the dialogue with the city, then the landscape organization of the inner courtyard space, the lines of internal arteries, the school building (in the plan - a wide arc expanding to the ends) and, above all, the sectional building directly interact with the river, its curves and green shores. In this context, both terracotta ceramics evoke the inevitable associations with the color of the soil, and the roof terraces - with each section, the building “loses” one floor, and the resulting spaces were supposed to be actively used - resemble green lawns, and the pylons on the facades freely alternating with different widths seem to “have grown "Arbitrarily, like trees in a forest. Although, of course, there is most of all glass here, especially on the wide southern end, which is most advantageous from a species point of view, where there are no blind areas at all: by God, it's a sin to lose even a minimal part of these incredible species. Boris Levyant himself says that, developing the appearance of this building, he was guided by the architecture, relatively speaking, of the 1970s, albeit at a new qualitative level, using the latest materials. "The elements of modern" loop knitting "could not be avoided either," he adds, "but I like it even better."
The main recreational space of the complex should be the reconstructed embankment. From the stylobate across the boulevard, a pedestrian bridge is thrown to it, so that the residents of the towers can go directly to the river without crossing the road. The authors of the project suggested not dressing the embankment in concrete, leaving it alive, natural, and adding walking routes along the floating pontoons to the paths on the shore, where it is possible to equip both boat docks and river tram stops.
“Ardently approving the project as a whole as the most feasible of the presented ones, the customer asked us to modify it a little,” says Boris Levyant, “in particular, to design a gallery flanking house on the side of the railway in order to even more reliably protect the complex from noise. the need to rethink other elements of the project - in general, a lot of work was done within the framework of the competition. Then the competition was forgotten and the order was transferred to another company."
