The site at the intersection of Rublevskoye Highway and Yartsevskaya Street in 2013 was the subject of a large closed competition. To search for a "preliminary architectural and compositional solution for a residential complex," PIK, together with the Moskomarkhitektura, attracted the best Moscow bureaus: Sergei Skuratov, Vladimir Plotkin, Atrium, AB, Sergei Kiselev and Partners. Then the word “propylaea” appeared in the terms of reference, which prompted almost all the contestants to react to the “candle” of the RC “Rublevskiye Ogni” on the other side of Yartsevskaya Street with similar high-rise volumes, reaching the maximum mark of 150 meters indicated in the assignment. Sergei Skuratov, whose project won first place, got four towers, Vladimir Plotkin - two parallel plates with symmetrical "spans" above and below, "Atrium" - three high-rise dominants and several low-rise buildings.
However, the option that is eventually implemented is not very similar to those bids. The commercial name of the project - VanderPark - simultaneously hints at a noble aristocratic origin (the Dutch family prefix "van der") and evokes an association with the word "wonder" - "miracle". The Netherlands-based bureau de Architekten Cie, which has already developed a number of urban development projects for plots west of the capital, decided to take an alternative route. The area, prestigious for many reasons, near the Molodezhnaya metro station, the Krylatsky hills and the Suvorov forest park, is already packed full of roads. about th, but often tasteless real estate. And instead of “raising their voice” and zealously “pulling the blanket over themselves,” the Dutch chose to design a complex that, although it dominates its surroundings, does it surprisingly delicately.
Of course, this complex could not be completely invisible in principle: the site is located on a hill. However, the mass necessary to ensure the given density was evenly distributed along the entire perimeter of the almost rectangular building area. First, they limited it to a solid stylobate, then, guided by the insolation indicators, they made slots, dividing the future quarter into conditional four parts. The angles of the resulting broken contours were articulated with towers - eight relatively equal volumes with a maximum height of 26 floors (99 meters) emerged. Finally, each of the towers was vertically divided into blocks and moved relative to each other - thus not only achieved the required illumination of all buildings and good view characteristics, but also formed platforms for open terraces with an area of up to 150 m2.
The six-meter stylobate that outlined the quarter is a place where commercial and public functions are concentrated. There are planned cafes and shops, a pharmacy, a hairdresser, a medical center, a kids club and a fitness center with a swimming pool. Through the spacious lobbies and entrances, leaving your car in the two-level underground parking, you can enter the permeable green courtyard with two playgrounds. A running track around the perimeter of the courtyard and a promenade that protects from wind and precipitation are the things that unite Sergei Skuratov's project, which won the competition, with a project by a bureau from the Netherlands. Another common detail is the exploited roofs of the stylobate, which are available, however, exclusively to residents.
However, it turned out that the "vibrating" silhouettes of buildings, characteristic of the Dutch version, can more effectively organize the surrounding chaos than large-scale volumes of strict proportions. And this vibration, in the right way “blurring” the contours and contributing to the contextual “mimicry”, also arises thanks to carefully calibrated solutions of the facades. In particular, this is a deliberately syncopal rhythm of stained-glass windows: they completely fill the formally even, if you look closely, the cells of the facade grid only on the first floors of the stylobate. That is, where you need maximum connection with the street and openness. In other cases, it can be either two wide windows, or two narrow ones, or one wide and one narrow.
The key role in achieving the desired effect is played by the use of bricks.
Hagemeister, which is supplied in Russia by the Kirill company. Six shades were used according to the types of bricks: Lubeck GT, Liverpool GT, Woerden Alt, Kopenhagen BA, Luca GT, Weimar HS format 290x90x65. Although, in reality, more shades are obtained: due to a special production technology, which has already been practiced by the fifth generation of the Hagemeister family, no brick is like another. Clinker firing takes place at a temperature of 1250 ° C, leaving no chance for voids and cavities, and the shade is different every time. Therefore, the laying of such a brick resembles a multicolored mosaic rather than a plain boring wall - there is an impression of a gradient transition.
In this case, it is enhanced by the fact that the color of the brick changes sequentially from dark to light - the higher, the lighter. Because of this, even the tallest tower flanking the highway intersection itself seems lower than it really is. And the famous “New York trick”, when ephemeral skyscrapers rising upward “plant” on massive dark stylobates, and here it works flawlessly, forming an environment on a human scale inside and outside the quarter. In order to preserve it and in no way disturb the play of color, textures and light, all buildings of the residential complex provide for central cooling, as required by the typology of a business class house - that is, no blocks of split systems on the facades offending the look of an esthete. All that remains is to find a suitable layout for the apartment. But considering that there are 71 options - from 20 to 228 m2 - this is unlikely to be difficult.
The Russian bureau Apex is in charge of the project support, as well as the development of design and working documentation.
