The multifunctional complex GRANI on the Petrogradskaya side is a complex hybrid project that combines restoration work, reconstruction and new construction. The complex is formed by three buildings: two historical ones are adapted for offices and face different streets, and they are connected by a new building of the apart-hotel, located in the courtyard of the quarter.
Each of the buildings has its own "plot": the new one was designed with the help of parametrics - we wrote about this in detail here, the Soviet building from the side of Bolshaya Zelenin received new proportions and a "layered" facade, and in the buildings on Korpusnaya Street the work with brick is remarkable - about it and the speech will go.
The two red-brick buildings on Korpusnaya Street originally belonged to the Konradi and Engel partnership's garter and knitwear factory. In Soviet times, they were given to the Electronpribor plant and built on. To preserve the area, the architects of the Institute of Territorial Development proposed replacing the superstructure with a contrasting volume, but in St. Petersburg such solutions are rarely understood. I had to "clone" the architecture of the historic floors and add a two-level attic.
The result, however, came out quite in the spirit of the recommendations of the Venice Charter. The strong historical masonry only needed careful cleaning, and the border between the old and the new was marked with the Terca restoration brick, which was supplied and helped to select for the project by the Slavdom company. The architects used Terca Bijou and Terca Belbrook ceramic bricks, produced in Belgium, as well as Terca St. John's from Estonia. Mixing three types of bricks gave a moderately variegated texture, which made it possible to avoid the effect of novelty, and also made it possible to delicately inform the observer that the last floors belong to a different time period than the first. At the same time, the well-chosen shades of the new brick make the building look solid.
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zooming 1/5 MFC GRANI Photo © Grigory Sokolinsky
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zooming 2/5 MFC GRANI Photo © Grigory Sokolinsky
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zooming 3/5 MFC GRANI Photo © Grigory Sokolinsky
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zooming 4/5 MFC GRANI Photo © Grigory Sokolinsky
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zooming 5/5 MFC GRANI Photo © Grigory Sokolinsky
Terca bricks have been produced at the factories of the Wienerberger concern in Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Finland and Estonia for about 200 years. Ceramic bricks of this brand are popular in projects for the historical part of the city due to the variety of colors, formats, voids and textures. Terca brick is strong, durable and frost-resistant, and its color does not fade under the influence of unfavorable weather conditions, stains from precipitation do not form on the surface.
