School on Peterhof highway
Architectural and town-planning appearance of the school
Peterhof highway, section 121 (north of house 78, building 6, letter A along Peterhof highway)
Designer: Yusupov Architectural Workshop
Customer: LLC "BALTPRODKOM"
The site is located on Peterhof highway, not far from the residential complex "Baltic Pearl". It borders on three low-rise residential complexes: "Lenino", "Konstantinovskoye" and "English Mile", and from the north it has a park of Villegorsky's historical dacha "Pavlino".
A three-storey school building for 550 students is located in an elongated part of the territory. Its height is 15 meters, with the permitted 25 meters. Additional auditoriums at the ends adjoin the long rectangular classroom building, and from the north there is a gym and a canteen overlooking the park. Each floor has a long corridor that widens towards the ends of the building, turning into a recreation area. A junior school with a separate entrance was placed closer to the stadium, the main entrance was on the opposite southern side.
Facade solutions are close to
"English mile" designed by the Asadov Architectural Bureau: the same color scheme and the way to combine the windows of the first and second floors.
The members of the City Planning Council generally accepted the project coolly. Sergei Oreshkin did not like the structure of the building: the primary school block is located too far from the gym, there is no spacious recreation, the dining room is "squeezed" in the courtyards, and the kids enter from the dark and slushy north side. According to the architect, "the symmetrical south side with two wings at the back swirled and turned into confusion and mess." Many expressed doubts about the need to "mimic" the "English mile". Architect Sergei Bobylev compared the school building to the tax office and the barracks.
Unexpectedly and, as always, emotionally, Nikita Yavein stood up for the project. Although one would hardly want to hear such support again: “Yes, boring, barracks, but better than motley painted facades. Decent facade, human, nothing nasty. Probably, the volumes are glued to the tyap-blooper, but everything is pretty professional. A three-storey house is generally difficult to do badly. He also spoke about the role of the City Council: “We are needed to exclude ugly and disgusting things - there is no such thing here. God grant that all houses are of this level."
Nikita Yavein was supported by Evgeny Gerasimov: it is not clear how volumes can be placed on this site in a different way, and the facade turned out to be calm, out of fashion. He urged critics to “be humble and know their place” and refrain from subjective “like / dislike” assessments.
Evgeny Gerasimov also pointed out the problem of school stadiums, which are used only for a couple of months a year, but require high operating costs. Instead, he proposed making indoor sports grounds, where citizens can come, too, after the training sessions are over. Chief architect Vladimir Grigoriev agreed: he compared children with oligarchs with several cars, because they have two sets of playgrounds - in a kindergarten and in the courtyard of each house, and also said that in the city “there is a wild shortage of everything: we built everything up and not the most in a good way."
Also, Vladimir Grigoriev noted that he looked at the project five times, but the architects did not listen to the recommendations. However, after the project was brought to the City Council, adjustments still happened: the day before, there was recreation and a more thoughtful solution of functional areas. ***
House with a hotel on Sofiyskaya street
Architectural and urban planning appearance of an apartment building, hotel and kindergarten
Sofiyskaya street, 63, letter A.
Designer: Stolyarchuk's Architectural Workshop
Customer: management company "Alliance-Invest"
The site overlooks Sofiyskaya Street and is adjacent to the large residential complex "Sofia", as well as the Park of Heroes-Firefighters, which the city plans to improve.
The site planning project was approved in 2010, now it needs adjustment, since the customer wants to place four types of objects on the site at once - a hotel, a residential building, a kindergarten and a parking lot. Also, the City Council was required to consider the maximum permissible height of 90 meters for a residential building.
The authors located a kindergarten for 90 kids and recreation with a view of the pond in the depths of the site. The remaining territory, not much larger than that of the kindergarten, went to a residential building, a hotel and a parking lot.
The hotel is cruciform in plan: three stars, 1350 rooms on average 38 m each, facing the lively Sofiyskaya Street. The height of the 25-storey building is 83 meters. However, to make room for driveways, the "docking" angles had to be made not quite straight. It is assumed that the first floor will be faced with natural stone, the rest - with porcelain stoneware.
The house is oriented meridionally, from north to south. There are seven apartments on each floor, five of which overlook the pond and the park. The customer refused from underground parking, therefore a garage stylobate was attached to the house, an additional 4-storey garage for the hotel is located in the courtyard.
The City Council overwhelmingly accepted the project with sympathy. According to some - not least due to the beautiful presentation and renders, none of which can see the building of the parking lot. There were only tips and small remarks: "lighten" blind firewalls, add another elevator to the residential building, work with color - for example, "smother the greenery."
Otherwise, the council members noted the successful interpretation of the volumes, their cleanliness and restraint, the consistency of urban planning decisions and, in general, the high quality of work. Evgeny Gerasimov called the project “fresh, powerful, daring and brutal” and said that there are few people like Anatoly Stolyarchuk, but this is how it should be.
