The heads of the architectural bureau Tsimailo Lyashenko & Partners combine their main activity with teaching at the Moscow Architectural Institute. This year, the studio decided to take an unusual topic - to offer its versions of projects for the largest Moscow architectural competitions in recent years - for the development of an urban planning concept for the territories adjacent to the Moscow River and for the Parliamentary Center in Nizhny Mnevniki. We are showing three graduation projects of students-specialists of the Department of Residential and Public Buildings, created in 2016 under their leadership. Parliament Alexander Plotkin
After the past
of competitions for the complex of the Parliamentary Center, the student presented his thesis project on this topic. The building is located in the Mnevnikovskaya floodplain. An urban planning analysis was carried out, as a result of which an interesting feature was revealed - it turned out that if you draw an axis from the proposed construction site of the parliament to the Kremlin, the conditional axis will pass through all branches of government: the Parliamentary Center - the legislative branch, the government house - the executive branch, the Supreme Court - the judicial power, the Kremlin - presidential power. On the same axis, there are many iconic objects of Moscow: the Rowing Canal, the City area, Trekhgornaya Manufactory, Novy Arbat, Zaryadye Park, a high-rise building on Kotelnicheskaya embankment, the Spaso-Andronikov Monastery, the territory of the Hammer and Sickle plant and the Kuskovo estate. The author of the project called it the "Axis of Russia".
The complex consists of two towers - North (SF) and South (GD). The building is installed on a stylobate, which becomes part of the landscape and connects the two banks of the Moskva River. The stylobate forms two ports: a large and a small one; it also contains the main entrances for the center's employees, parking entrances, access roads for freight transport, metro exits and a tunnel for the projected north-west expressway.
The building has 98 floors. Solar panels on the roof reduce its energy dependence on external resources. The main premises in the Parliamentary Center are meeting rooms, 10 pieces, placed in a special shell and installed at a height of 120 meters. The shell connects the two towers and the deputies' offices. In total, about 1,500 employees can work here. A cell is provided for each deputy and his assistants - a total of 450 pieces.
The building is not symmetrical. The basis is made up of four cores of stiffness - 24x12 meters - and two large stiffness diaphragms. The structure that holds the shells of the halls consists of longitudinal and transverse ribs. These are steel I-beams with a perforated web.
In addition to halls and offices, the project also includes a room allocated for a museum and an observation deck on the roof of the SF tower. In addition, the standard floors house a winter garden, media rooms, sports and medical centers.
Alexander Tsimailo
“The chosen theme immediately struck me as very difficult, since it was not just a structure, but a symbol. The symbol of the country and the symbol of the people. Actually, exactly how to design a symbol or sign, Alexander Plotkin treated the work on his project. The building turned out to be not simple in terms of technology. It looks like a complex mechanism designed to accurately fulfill the tasks assigned to it."
Park in the Empire
Daria Nosova
The subject of this thesis project is a park complex on the first line of the Moscow City business center on Krasnopresnenskaya embankment. The projected building could become the final stage in the development of the Empire Tower complex.
The main concept of the project is related to the urban planning and social context of the selected area. Moscow City is an important part of the city, where a large number of people spend their time every day. Currently, the territory of the business center is experiencing an obvious shortage of green public spaces that would serve as a recreation place for the business community and citizens. In this regard, the author of the project splits a park on the proposed site, which will connect the business center with the opposite green coast. Thus, the new urban space is "thrown" across the river. A kind of path from the city to nature is being created, which carries the function of the missing public spaces in the Moscow City.
The park starts from the town square, which serves as a meeting point. It is replaced by a courtyard with playgrounds that turn into a boulevard, and then into a city park and gardens. The bank is proposed to be landscaped with trees and shrubs, as well as to create free access to the water. On one side, the park is bounded by the building of the cultural center. Since the main body of the building is raised above the water, the height of the buildings is changed to provide better views of the river.
The main role in the choice of a lightweight structural system of the building was played by the need to create a span over the river. As a result, the entire "body" of the building is a crossed metal structure. A fundamental feature of structural structures is their geometric structure, similar to the crystal lattices of a metal.
Nikolay Lyashenko:
“This project is an example of the architect's delicate and attentive attitude to the environment and context. The landscape and constructions put together gave an interesting result from an urban planning and architectural point of view. The park that spans the river and gives the City much-needed green spaces is the most demanded of the missing features of this territory today."
Baths in the City
Anastasia Kalmykova
The main idea of the winners of the international competition for the urban planning concept of the coastal areas of the Moskva River - the architects of Project Meganom - is to create a network of ports along the river. In this case, the port is the place where the city meets and interacts with the river, creating new centers of activity and involving the Moscow River in the life of the city. A total of 39 points-ports were allocated. As a graduation project, the student worked on the creation of a port in the area of the Moscow City complex.
The diploma project is aimed at solving several problems at once in the territory of the business center. The first urban planning problem: the complex is isolated from the river due to the large number of ground parking lots and the lack of a landscaped embankment, descent to the water and public spaces along the river. The second problem is functional: the lack of cultural and educational functions within the complex.
First of all, it was decided to move the ground parking that occupies the entire embankment to two underground floors of the new projected building. The embankment improvement concept is a system of elements that must be "strung" on one axis, which will be reflected in the project as a free descent to the river - a staircase along the entire City embankment. The system includes a projected building, a pier, a public garden and a park. The embankment improvement concept also involves the creation of a new green promenade - maple alley paved with granite, with modern outdoor furniture and lighting.
Diploma proposed to fill the lack of cultural activities in Moscow City by creating a new space for communication and recreation. The student designed the bathhouse as such an object. Having appeared before our era, the baths immediately became the center of cultural life in Ancient Rome. Here they not only washed, but were treated, went in for sports, talked and conducted business negotiations. It is unique that it was in the terms that a kind of mixing of estates and classes took place.
The project is a two-story building, consisting of two parts: an outdoor swimming pool facing the Moscow River and an indoor swimming pool / greenhouse. The greenhouse is surrounded by six different baths - Russian, Finnish, Irish, Roman, Turkish and Japanese, and plays the role of a unifying center. On the ground floor, there is a children's and playroom, an educational center, a lecture hall and a coworking space. The complex has a spa and gym. Two underground floors are reserved for parking.
Alexander Tsimailo
“This work is an excellent example of an answer to the question 'What does this place need to make it better for the people who live and work there?' Given the incredibly high business activity of the City and the presence of a clear understanding of the hierarchy among the people working there, the baths are an ideal function for bringing closer together and gaining a new quality of communication. In addition to the high quality of the architecture itself, in our opinion, the author managed to comprehend the urban planning context, and his proposals for the development of the embankment and the rethinking of pedestrian flows deserve special attention."
