The new residential complex PerovSky by the developer MR Group is the case when the location away from transport routes is an absolute advantage. Yes, on foot to the Perovo metro station, about 15 minutes, but the site is literally surrounded by a ring of greenery: in two minutes - Terletsky Park with ponds and 300-year-old oaks, on the other side - Izmailovsky Park, on the third - the territory of the hospital, deployed to the complex by the courtyard, which is also essentially a park.
At the same time, the courtyard and street space are clearly separated - Andrei Romanov and Ekaterina Kuznetsova from the ADM bureau are convinced that a person is much more comfortable this way. The Moscow authorities are actively promoting such a division through quarterly development, that is, the construction of a closed loop of houses of approximately the same height. However, the authors believe that if this height is more than 13 floors, the feeling of comfort and scale disappears, the sky becomes small, and houses begin to crush. It is much more honest in this case to build a composition of freely spaced towers - here there are three of 23 floors each - and to draw and fix the contour-border of "our" and "public" with a unifying stylobate.
So in PerovSky in the center of the site, facing the Terletskaya Dubrava, a relatively closed courtyard without cars appeared: leaving the car in the parking lot under this very courtyard, you need to cross it in order to get from the central lobby to one of the two distant towers. A large public area is organized just at the lobby: the entrances to the premises designed on the first floor of the stylobate intended for shops, service centers and cafes are oriented here. The built-in kindergarten also has a separate entrance. Its own sports and playgrounds on the outside of the complex form another functional block. And so something, but there is a lot of sky in PerovSky: both from the ground level, in the courtyard, bathed in the sun, and from residential floors soaring above the trees. Up to the fact that the bodies themselves bear the names of the constellations: Pegasus, Phoenix and Aquarius.
By the way, the articulated height set a certain level for the “fifth facade” of the stylobate. And although it was not possible to make its roof green, as originally planned, the use of tiles and pebbles in the decoration, and most importantly - camouflage of all communications with neat translucent cylinders - turned the flat surface of the stylobate into an organic part of the landscape.
In many ways, the effect was a success due to the fact that landscapes for their complexes ADM always design themselves. And circles - and as such Plato called all the heavenly bodies - now folding into complex molecular structures, now scattering paving stones from trees, as from pebbles thrown into water; either covering ventilation shafts or growing out of the ground with green hills, or invisibly "cutting" into the line of the stylobate, turned out to be that simple in essence, but effective uniting technique that formed a living environment that was harmonious to the eye (as well as to all other senses). At the same time, the curvilinear "incisions" visually leveled the length of the stylobate and gave rise to apartments with a non-trivial layout: the second floor here was eventually made residential. In general, the complex has both studios with an area of 32 m2and five-room apartments up to 172 m2.
In the vertical planes of the notorious diversity - an obligatory component of comfort - architects achieve in completely different ways. In complexes of this (middle) class, they usually get off with different types of materials, without fundamentally changing the facade patterns themselves. But ADM has become one of the leading metropolitan bureaus for the design of residential complexes because it works with materials at a much more subtle level, and even “flat” architecture, in the formal absence of plastic, acquires an additional dimension with them. In one of the light towers, due to the gray inserts, the outlines of the windows turn out to be "knocked down" and unpredictable (although everywhere there are absolutely three-meter ceilings).
Two other towers "make" corner windows and specially designed metal grilles: somewhere they adjoin the wall with such decorative balconies, and somewhere they move away from it, like real balconies, but in fact serve as screens for air conditioners. The clinker "wraps" in the windows - and this also gives the surface volume and depth. And the facades of the stylobate are articulated with vertical wooden slats - all at different distances from each other, like tree trunks in some miraculous grove - but at least in the nearby Terletskaya oak forest. And in all this deliberate arrhythmia, the art of virtuoso performance of architectural syncopated "jazz" is clearly manifested, in which each improvisation is carefully calculated and rehearsed.
Although it is possible that the main melody is still "overheard" in the Perovskiy skies.
