The business center will be built in the Darnytskyi district of Kiev on the territory of the former industrial zone "Poznyaki", formed in the 1960-1970s. Now it is a place rarely visited - half-abandoned, mostly occupied by garages and warehouses, bounded by multi-lane highways.
However, due to the favorable location, the district will face big changes: a detailed development plan has been developed for the territory, within the framework of which several residential complexes are already being erected, and in the future the necessary infrastructure will appear, the exit from the Darnytsky bridge will be completed, the embankment of the Dnieper will be landscaped and the small lakes Korolek and Nizhny will be put in order. Talbin.
The site, with which "Archimatika" works, stretches along the entire shore of Lake Nizhniy Talbin along Kanalnaya Street. From the side of the Dnieper, the architects are placing residential buildings, from the upper floors of which they will open views of the river, bridge and the historical part of the city, and in the narrower part there will be a business center - the first stage of the entire complex and its "face".
The business center consists of four identical buildings, connected in pairs by an atrium space. The building, located closer to the road, had to be deployed because of the borders of the furniture warehouse located behind it. This decision, however, played into the hands, since the smooth indentation from the street created an inviting effect, thereby complementing other architectural solutions aimed at making the building impressive to the citizens passing from the highway.
The relatively high budget of the project, which included such a cost item as "wow effects", allowed architects a rare freedom. One of the main consequences is the presence of spacious atriums, the area of which, in terms of office space, could be 1400 m22 for everyone. It is not difficult to imagine how the average customer compresses all this air to the minimum meters required for a staircase and elevator node. Here is a completely different story.
The atrium is the heart of the office block, a kind of city square inside the building. This square is overlooked by panoramic windows of office slots, as well as balconies where employees can go for a coffee break or chat. The “vertical forest” enlivens the space, created by means of tubs of trees, exposed at different levels. The protagonist of this space is a staircase with a rich contrasting color, reminiscent of modern sculpture. It not only unites the floors vertically, but, when perceived from the outside, also “sews” the buildings of the business center with giant stitches.
Thus, life takes place not only on the ground floor, where the usual reception area and café are located, but also on other levels: there are actors and spectators everywhere. The workplace loses its isolation and expands to very tangible limits.
The two blocks of the business center are connected by a stylobate, most of which is intended for recreation and communication of employees. Here you can meet, hold presentations, parties, just breathe the air and enjoy the lake view. One of the options for the facade, by the way, - a volumetric one, consisting of cubes - was rejected for the reason that employees of companies or even departments would be going to relax on the isolated forms of their offices. In the final version, the streams intersect and mix on a common site, and a community is formed.
In total, the architects worked out about 20 facade options, the customer was offered six for consideration, the final choice fell on a flat facade with hinged elements. In order to achieve an expressive surface that will be perceived equally effectively both from close and from a long distance - after all, the building opens to the viewer ahead of time, even from the bridge, with the proscenium from the lake and the square - we decided to use aluminum panels cut by triangles, folded into volumetric pattern. Depending on the angle and lighting, the pattern changes: "folds" become more voluminous or flatter, dark or light, dense or sparse.
On a street scale, at the level of the first public floor, the "wrinkled" texture passes to the warm "seamy side" of the console, which protects the public gallery space from the weather with small ones. amphitheaters and plants in tubs. According to the chief architect of the project, Kristina Maliyova, the budget of the project allowed the engineers of "Archimatika" to work out a variant in which ten-meter galleries are not interrupted by a single column. This constructive solution makes the project unique for Kiev.
Aesthetic solutions are perceived by the project participants as an important addition to the main task - the comfort of workspaces. As in the residential complexes of "Archimatika", PRO-layouts are involved in the business center: the depth of lighting, the optimal location of office furniture, the distance from workplaces to elevators and recreational areas are thought out. The spacing of the columns allows you to "cut" the space into office slots of the size required by the economic situation - they can occupy both an entire floor and 250-300 m2, and in any case, each workplace will be organized taking into account the high standards of "Archimatika" and the BREEAM certificate, which the developer is counting on.
Among the requirements of the certificate is a certain number of parking spaces. Since a pedestrian area is planned nearby, most of them were placed in the stylobate floor, which, due to the proximity of water, had to be raised by 1.5 meters. Archimatika managed to achieve a high coefficient here too - 2 cars per 100 m2 office space. In the underground floors there are also bicycle parking lots with showers, separate elevators for employees and for deliveries. “Archimatika” thought through to the smallest detail and “lived through” the scenario of the employee working in it: how and on what he arrives, where he parks, where he rests during and after a working day.
Lake Nizhny Telbin, after it is reclaimed, and the adjacent territory will be landscaped - most likely, also according to the project "Archimatika" - will undoubtedly add another "star" to the business center and the future residential complex, and will also attract people to shopping the premises of the first floor of the business center.
