At the end of January, the company Vesper, specializing in premium real estate, announced the start of sales of apartments in its largest residential complex at the moment - Lucky Residential Quarter, whose name means “lucky”, and maybe even “happy”. The cost per square meter in the new "quarter" starts from 420,000 rubles, the price of an apartment is 50 m2 - 23.2 million rubles; It is located to the west of the Moscow White House, next to the December Uprising Square and the Zvenigorodskoye Highway, on the site of the former wax factory, and in Soviet times - the paint and varnish production, now withdrawn in Biryulyovo. The authors of the project - architects of the Meganom bureau under the leadership of Yuri Grigoryan, won a closed competition held by the customer.
The project is built on a combination of a number of recognized benefits of modern urban planning: in addition to housing, “park zones” of 1.5 hectares are planned, as well as public urban spaces, cafes, restaurants and various places for sports and intellectual pursuits and “personal growth”, as well as and blotches of office buildings.
The task of the architects was to preserve as much as possible about Most of the old buildings on the territory, - says Yuri Grigoryan, - “Ideally, of course, I would like to keep everything, but in the process of revision the idea of offices came up - the right idea, since without office buildings, with only one housing, the district will not heal, they simply will not work cafe on the territory.
In order for the premises to be of high quality and, as a result, to be in demand, we need, preferably, class A offices that attract respectable tenants, and not a so-called "cluster" that could be arranged in historical buildings (but which would be designed for tenants simpler). This is how three new office buildings appeared in the project: one of them stretches along the border with the territory of the publishing complex "Moskovskaya Pravda" and will take the place of the factory building of the "Partnership of brothers A. and N. Mamontov", built in 1914. Another will be located in the depths of the territory on the site of another building of the same factory, built in 1916: it is "brick", although it is of modern architecture, but repeats the previous volumes, - says the architect. The third office building should appear on the site of the administrative building of the Soviet era, 1969, with tape windows. “In the competition project, we kept everything,” emphasizes Yuri Grigoryan, “including the Soviet strip building, we vacated its first floor. The final decision is a compromise, our only compromise in this project."
The building was built in 1969, on the 2nd Zvenigorodskaya street:
As for the rest, many of the buildings of the former paint and varnish shop were preserved in the presented project: seven buildings inside the territory and, of course, two brick factory chimneys - they make wonderful landmarks, the architects of "Meganom" use them effectively and tastefully, endowing the public spaces of the complex with a smack at the same time urban palimpsest, multi-layered reminders of local history - and the hipster spirit of a modern city, which in any price category is increasingly demanding an emotional, and it would be nice to have an intellectual flavor, and not just luxury and comfort.
Speaking of the intellectual zest, this is especially emphasized in the project: a significant role is played by the "socio-cultural cluster", which is planned to be located in the preserved and restored factory buildings. It will include: in addition to the usual retail, cafes and restaurants - exhibition spaces, a multifunctional hall for events, Fitness Market sports studios and the Mind Gym educational center. The feature sets in both cases are not very standard: from public speaking courses to squash. There is a separate sports center with a 25 m long swimming pool and hamam; a heated outdoor pool and landscaping have been conceived on its exploited roof. “All public spaces and infrastructure of the quarter will be available to all residents of Moscow,” says Vesper's press release.
The space of the complex is divided into two parts: one is, to a greater extent, a park, divided into different zones, from the “green labyrinth” to “gardens” with “red brick paths” that take on the image of the old industrial. The other is more urban, with a public center in the form of a square closer to the (former) office building of 1969, 12c6 on 2nd Zvenigorodskaya Street. Here one of the factory pipes is located successfully to the north, and another to the east, if you draw lines from each of them along the parallels-meridians, the area will be just at the intersection. Supporting the theme of brick columns-without-capitals, so obvious in the factory chimney, the architects put on the sides two rows of brick "columns" borrowed from metaphysical painting and reminiscent of the remains of the porticoes of Petrovsky-Alabin, designed to strengthen the theme of ruins and at the same time create on the sides squares of pseudo-portico, enclosing its space and metaphorically related to it with the Roman forum - a space of ruins, once public, but now of tourist significance.
The square is surrounded by wide steps, the steps are striped, and the planes above are checkered, as in Ge's painting "Peter I interrogates Tsarevich Alexei" and in Quattrocento's paintings, Piero della Francesca's lead hints at us. It will be pleasant to sit on the steps in the summer - the technique, which is widespread now in the historical centers of European cities, turns the square into a kind of amphitheater.
The entire block will be open to the city during the day, but the park area is planned to be closed in the evening, guaranteeing residents a certain degree of privacy and security. This creates two levels of accessibility: open and semi-open; but for a premium residential complex, this is a giant step up from security-at-the-entrance-scary-to-go. The openness of the diverse infrastructure and space of the complex to the city is an important step forward both in social terms and in terms of return on the services planned within the “Lucky quarter”.
Residential buildings are designed in an emphatically neutral and modern way, the subtle cut of the glass facades tends to vertical proportions. Closer to the southern border of the site, along Kostikova Street, six towers are neatly staggered, mostly 21 floors each - in general, the number of storeys of new buildings varies from 13 to 21. Two more towers are found closer to the corner of Kostikova and 2nd Zvenigorodskaya streets … The layouts are not published even on the official website of the complex, but the area of apartments is planned from a small 41.5 m2 (according to other sources - 50 m2) up to a huge 290 m2… There are 654 apartments, there are 850 underground parking spaces - an average of one and a half spaces per apartment, which looks like a luxury in our times.
interview with Elena Petukhova
