Sevkabel Port, which opened for daily visits in the fall of 2018, is a fashionable space in St. Petersburg, which was gradually and quickly promoted: since the summer of 2017, festivals have been held on the territory of the future cluster, and during the test period such tenants have appeared that almost everyone has written about the new party space. publications following public life (The Village; Poster; Paper). Sevkabel confidently claims to be a reference example of the development of public space of a modern post-industrial type: reconstruction barely keeps up with the semantic "stuffing", tenants from the right parties, graffiti is already there, factory buildings are not being demolished, moreover, traces of industrial life are preserved and sometimes multiplied in installations. There are a lot of reels of different formats - and this is the symbol of the cable factory - inside and outside. The Strelka Institute spent its “week” here with lectures, the other day the Archparokhod celebrated: an architectural club Materia was opened in Sevkabel. In May, the results of the Horizon competition for the roof of building B were announced, in which the DNK ag project took the first place. The fashionable space seems to be successful and accomplished, well, or confidently developing.
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zooming 1/6 Sevkabel PORT / project of JSB "Khvoya" Photo © Grigory Sokolinsky
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zooming 2/6 Sevkabel PORT / project of JSB "Khvoya" Photo © Grigory Sokolinsky
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zooming 3/6 Sevkabel PORT / project of JSB "Khvoya" Photo © Grigory Sokolinsky
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zooming 4/6 Sevkabel PORT / project of JSB "Khvoya" Photo © Grigory Sokolinsky
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zooming 5/6 Sevkabel PORT / project of JSB "Khvoya" Photo © Grigory Sokolinsky
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zooming 6/6 Sevkabel PORT / project of JSB "Khvoya" Photo © Grigory Sokolinsky
The project of reorganization of the territory is being carried out by the architects of the Khvoya bureau. And to our attempts to get to know the project better, they answered roughly the same as what is written on the bureau's website: the project is in development, it is basically a process. Therefore, we can only show the concept. So our story is based on concept materials and information found in publications about the stormy party / social life of the complex.
“We started working on the project at the invitation of Lesha Onatsko, with whom we had previously tried to make Vzmorie Park, and who simply liked our two paper projects: the skating rink on Moika and the renovation of the Yacht Club,” the architects say. “What is remarkable, we did both of these projects for our own pleasure and for the Project Baltia exhibition.”
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zooming 1/3 Sevkabel PORT / project of JSB "Khvoya" Photo © Grigory Sokolinsky
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zooming 2/3 Sevkabel PORT / project of JSB "Khvoya" Photo © Grigory Sokolinsky
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zooming 3/3 Sevkabel PORT / project of JSB "Khvoya" Photo © Grigory Sokolinsky
So, the territory allotted for the cluster is located between the river and the Kozhevennaya line: about a fifth of it is separated, the most advantageous area with a view and by the water. The working part of the optimized production to the north of the street deepens into the city. Sevkabel, I must say, is building a new plant in the Maryino industrial park near Peterhof.
On the site of the new multifunctional space, the fences around which were removed last fall, there are several buildings: a three-story factory management from the late 19th century, with it, a chimney from which it is planned to release colored smoke during concerts, stretched along the Leather Line. Nearby, in the depths of the site along the plant management - a one-story building of the same time, at the factory, intended for the production of cable reels; it was opened first, in 2017 as an event platform - an exhibition hall and a venue for festivals. In a long brick building, most likely at the beginning of the 20th century, there was a cable research institute - it will accommodate offices and creative workshops.
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zooming 1/6 On the left is a reel-to-reel case, an exhibition hall, on the right is a 19th century factory management. Sevkabel PORT / JSB "Khvoya" project Photo © Grigory Sokolinsky
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zooming 2/6 On the left is the research institute building, on the right is the coil body and the plant management. Sevkabel PORT / JSB "Khvoya" project Photo © Grigory Sokolinsky
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zooming 3/6 Sevkabel PORT / project of JSB "Khvoya" Photo © Grigory Sokolinsky
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zooming 4/6 Reel body, showroom. Sevkabel PORT / JSB "Khvoya" project Photo © Grigory Sokolinsky
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zooming 5/6 Reel body, showroom. Sevkabel PORT / JSB "Khvoya" project Photo © Grigory Sokolinsky
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zooming 6/6 On the left is the coil building, the exhibition hall, on the right is the 19th century factory management and the pylons of the main entrance from Kozhevennaya Street. Sevkabel PORT / JSB "Khvoya" project Photo © Grigory Sokolinsky
Brick buildings hold the northern corner of the site, two Soviet buildings are located to the south. This is a huge concrete building "B", in which the cable was produced, from there it was reloaded onto ships approaching along the river via a hinged bridge.
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zooming 1/7 Embankment and cable loading bridge. Sevkabel PORT / JSB "Khvoya" project Photo © Grigory Sokolinsky
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zooming 2/7 On the left is the research institute, on the right, building “B”, straight reel-to-reel case / showroom. Sevkabel PORT / JSB "Khvoya" project Photo © Grigory Sokolinsky
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zooming 3/7 End of the building "B". Sevkabel PORT / JSB "Khvoya" project Photo © Grigory Sokolinsky
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zooming 4/7 Stands on site: also corten. Sevkabel PORT / JSB "Khvoya" project Photo © Grigory Sokolinsky
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zooming 5/7 Terrace along the Tanning Line. Sevkabel PORT / JSB "Khvoya" project Photo © Grigory Sokolinsky
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zooming 6/7 Terrace along the Tanning Line. Sevkabel PORT / JSB "Khvoya" project Photo © Grigory Sokolinsky
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zooming 7/7 Terrace along the Tanning Line. Sevkabel PORT / JSB "Khvoya" project Photo © Grigory Sokolinsky
And the building of the administration of the Soviet plant along the Kozhevennaya line, connected to the cable building by another "bridge" - a closed overhead passage. On its southern corner is a miniature remnant of an architectural monument: the tower of the Messonier / Carl Simons mansion, the founder of the cable factory. The wooden house was demolished around 2009 and armed in 2014; prospects for the restoration of the mansion and the placement of the factory museum in it are being discussed. In principle, it is interesting how his fate will develop in the process of creating a cluster.
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zooming 1/3 Axonometry, view from the river. Sevkabel PORT: project-perspective of a new public space Project © Khvoya bureau
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zooming 2/3 Axonometry, view from the Leather line. Sevkabel PORT: project-perspective of a new public space Project © Khvoya bureau
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zooming 3/3 General plan. Sevkabel PORT: project-perspective of a new public space Project © Khvoya bureau
But back to the project. A chain of open public spaces was formed along the contour of the largest building “B”. The embankment was the first to be landscaped - one of the signs of modernity, as you know, our embankments are everything, and the view from it is really enchanting, of the WHSD bridge, which now rhymes with a new wooden fence, its organizers define it as the longest bar counter in St. Petersburg. Between the ribs of the cable body on the river side - they are concrete, textured and echo the brutalist Sea Terminal - wooden benches were placed, in front of them there is a wooden platform, then there is grass. "Vertical loungers" were placed on the grass; according to the authors, they remind of the habit of Petersburgers to sunbathe, standing at the walls of the Peter and Paul Fortress. But the steps of the wooden "beach" leading to the water are still in the plans.
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zooming 1/4 Embankment. Sevkabel PORT: project-perspective of a new public space Project © Khvoya bureau
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zooming 2/4 Embankment. Sevkabel PORT: project-perspective of a new public space Project © Khvoya bureau
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zooming 3/4 Entrance to building "B". Sevkabel PORT / JSB "Khvoya" project Photo © Grigory Sokolinsky
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zooming 4/4 Embankment. Sevkabel PORT / JSB "Khvoya" project Photo © Grigory Sokolinsky
The gate on the Kozhevennaya Line between the 19th century brick building and the 20th century concrete building became another primary inclusion: four large swivel corten pylons, similar to lamellas on the second floor of the Central House of Artists, represent both the factory past and the creative present of the territory.
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zooming 1/4 Pylons of the main entrance. Sevkabel PORT / JSB "Khvoya" project Photo © Grigory Sokolinsky
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zooming 2/4 Pylons of the main entrance. Sevkabel PORT / JSB "Khvoya" project Photo © Grigory Sokolinsky
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zooming 3/4 Main entrance pylons. Sevkabel PORT / JSB "Khvoya" project Photo © Grigory Sokolinsky
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zooming 4/4 Pylons of the main entrance. Sevkabel PORT / JSB "Khvoya" project Photo © Grigory Sokolinsky
The open space behind the mansion was divided into two unequal parts: one, slightly b about The largest one is reserved for flat parking, the other, smaller, but adjacent to the river, has become a multifunctional site; a transformable amphitheater, sun loungers, and a skating rink are planned here. Here, under the “foot” of the cable body, a berth is already functioning - a special pride of the architects, since it fully justifies the name “port” assigned to the new creative space. The ship is running, a new water route is working.
An inner boulevard street was formed inside the territory between the Soviet buildings. She was paved with geometric ornaments, as if she had put a carpet under her feet. The drawing is large, symmetrical and contrasting, which vividly distinguishes it from the pampered smooth gradients adopted in our time. Along the "carpet" there are reel lanterns, apparently inspired by reel installations, everything is in them. The contextual-semantic lanterns shine quite brightly, with the light reflected from their wooden structures. It turns out such large fireflies, it's even surprising that a tree can glow like that, there is some kind of paradox here. In addition, the authors remind us that a cable wound on such coils helps to illuminate Petersburg, and not only it. And here's another thing: "coil" lamps are installed on wheels, mobile, they can easily be rearranged and rearranged.
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zooming 1/10 Luminaires-reels on the boulevard. Sevkabel PORT / JSB "Khvoya" project Photo © Grigory Sokolinsky
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zooming 2/10 Luminaires-reels on the boulevard. Sevkabel PORT / JSB "Khvoya" project Photo © Grigory Sokolinsky
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zooming 3/10 Boulevard. Sevkabel PORT / JSB "Khvoya" project Photo © Grigory Sokolinsky
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zooming 4/10 Boulevard. Sevkabel PORT / JSB "Khvoya" project Photo © Grigory Sokolinsky
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zooming 5/10 View towards the inner overhead passage. Sevkabel PORT / JSB "Khvoya" project Photo © Grigory Sokolinsky
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zooming 6/10 Lamps-reels on the boulevard. Sevkabel PORT / JSB "Khvoya" project Photo © Grigory Sokolinsky
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zooming 7/10 Boulevard, top view. Sevkabel PORT / JSB "Khvoya" project Photo © Grigory Sokolinsky
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zooming 8/10 Luminaires-reels, boulevard Sevkabel PORT: project-perspective of a new public space Project © Khvoya bureau
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zooming 9/10 Entrance pylons and boulevard. Sevkabel PORT: project-perspective of a new public space Project © Khvoya bureau
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zooming 10/10 Sevkabel PORT / project of JSB "Khvoya" Photo © Grigory Sokolinsky
Turning to the north, the boulevard turns into a square - between the end of the reel housing and the building of the research institute. It expands towards the river and, according to the concept, should end with steps to the water. In the middle of the square some time ago there was a factory artifact - an extract from the carpentry shop, aka the coil shop; Now it has been dismantled and the architects of Khvoya AB promise a “new industrial monument” - but so far they keep the intrigue, they do not tell which one. In principle, anything can play the role of a sculpture. This, by the way, is also a distinctive feature of the genre: an iconic sculpture on the territory of an industrial zone being reorganized into an urban space, for example, in Moscow's Stankolite it is a cast-iron column of those that the plant cast to restore the Bove's Triumphal Arch on Kutuzovsky Prospekt.
The architects accompany the development of buildings with iconic inclusions - for example, the first of the buildings open to the public, the reel shop, received a deep portal decorated with lamps-circles "pressed" into the wall, akin to a quote from the tomb of Evrysak in the courtyard of the RSL. Or a fragment of some kind of technogenic science fiction film. Moreover, this is another way of supplying light - not through wood, but through metal.
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zooming 1/5 Portal of the reel-to-reel case. Sevkabel PORT / JSB "Khvoya" project Photo © Grigory Sokolinsky
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zooming 2/5 Portal of the reel-to-reel case. Sevkabel PORT / JSB "Khvoya" project Photo © Grigory Sokolinsky
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zooming 3/5 Portal of the reel-to-reel case. Sevkabel PORT / JSB "Khvoya" project Photo © Grigory Sokolinsky
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zooming 4/5 Portal of the reel-to-reel case. Sevkabel PORT / JSB "Khvoya" project Photo © Grigory Sokolinsky
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zooming 5/5 Portal of the reel-to-reel case. Sevkabel PORT: project-perspective of a new public space Project © Khvoya bureau
Several buildings have already opened restaurants and various other unusual establishments, such as a beer workshop, where you can brew your own beer in small batches. It can be seen that the promotion is done by professionals. But the main space of the new cluster will nevertheless be the cable housing, the largest, the same one for the roof of which the competition was held. Inside - an exceptionally spacious three-tier space, the height of the lower tier is 10.5 m, the upper tier is 5 m each. The brutally luxurious interior is not planned to be burdened with permanent partitions, the temporary retail conceived here - a brood of small stores - the architects placed in groups of containers of different configurations, reminiscent of volumetric Tetris and the layout of the cells of the Stroykom Moisei Ginzburg. A flexible approach will allow you to adjust the premises for tenants - objectively speaking, not quite freely, but still, the filling is flexible.
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zooming Layout of containers with retail. Sevkabel PORT: project-perspective of a new public space Project © Khvoya bureau
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zooming Layout of containers with retail. Sevkabel PORT: project-perspective of a new public space Project © Khvoya bureau
At the same time, the authors figuratively emphasize the inconstancy of the content and the otherness of the previous function of the building, which, we admit, is rather subtle - it turns out to be a somewhat aestheticized paraphrase of the post-Soviet market, the plot is akin to the exposition of the Strelka Institute at the 2014 Venice Biennale. And of course, containers are a direct property of the port. That when the name Port Sevkabel is named, it turns out to be an exclusively contextual decision.
The architects propose to turn the large windows of the building in the lower, ten-meter tier into swing doors so that one can freely pass from the boulevard to the embankment. It is difficult to say whether this is good in the St. Petersburg climate, and even near the river, but the solution is beautiful. The free space in the middle of the hall turns into an area under the roof, a kind of analogue of an underground passage, but only a very large one - it's not for nothing that a party with a guitar is drawn here.
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zooming 1/3 Building B, hall, staircase. Sevkabel PORT: project-perspective of a new public space Project © Khvoya bureau
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zooming 2/3 Building B, interior, current position. Sevkabel PORT / JSB "Khvoya" project Photo © Grigory Sokolinsky
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zooming 3/3 Building B, project. Sevkabel PORT: project-perspective of a new public space Project © Khvoya bureau
But the main spatial attraction is the staircase, which the architects build into the space of the hangar building. Large, concrete, with gentle marches - three of them fit in the lower tier - a giant volumetric tape, as they say, organizes the interior. But in fact, she holds it, works as an attacker and - now it will be about the Biennale again - reminds of all those staircases to heaven that every two years different progressive architects build in the Corderie of the Arsenal. The effect is akin to: large metal I-beams, open windows and doors, a huge staircase that allows you to observe the space from above from different angles. To illuminate it, the Khvoi architects are constructing a large glass dome on the roof of the building, which we have already mentioned in our story about the DNK ag roof project (by the way, it seems that the two archburers got along well in the same building, which is remarkable in itself).
In the second tier, the staircase, becoming a little smaller - it develops like a ziggurat, gradually decreases upward and leads visitors to the above-mentioned footbridge, through which the cable was once transmitted to ships. The end of the hinged passage is planned to be glazed, from there a beautiful, and even warmed, and therefore comfortable, view of the river will open. A metal staircase will be built into the “leg”, which rests on the embankment, as we remember, next to the pier and ticket offices, thus creating a route: “a transit multi-level passage from the main entrance to the pier,” the architects explain.
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zooming 1/4 Staircase of Building B, second tier. Building B. Sevkabel PORT: a project-perspective of a new public space Project © Khvoya bureau
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zooming 2/4 Section. Sevkabel PORT: project-perspective of a new public space Project © Khvoya bureau
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zooming 3/4 Staircase in a support on the embankment. Sevkabel PORT: project-perspective of a new public space Project © Khvoya bureau
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zooming 4/4 Flagpole. Sevkabel PORT: project-perspective of a new public space Project © Khvoya bureau
Here a certain sum of various spaces and routes arises with different levels of penetration into the cluster and interaction with the river. You can sit near the city street on the terrace, you can, passing the massive pylons, get to the boulevard and the square, take part in the festival, start studying the proposals of the residents; sunbathe or drink (remember the bar) on the embankment, and finally go for a walk on the water. One route clings to another, with the appearance of stairs it is especially noticeable that they, shall we say, "wind" on each other - the circle of the boulevard and the embankment on the spiral of the central staircase, and the staircase itself winds space around itself, like the notorious cable on a coil. In what you can see the deep feeling of the theme and the specifics of the territory: nevertheless, the products of the plant since its foundation were responsible for communication and light: Siemens & Halske launched the first trams in St. different fixtures, even different ways of thinking about light. A space with such a background simply has to be light and coherent. So far it turns out.
