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adress:
Granatny
per., 7
client:
"Union
of architects of Russia"
investor, contractor: "KFS-group"
LTD
architects:
A.Asadov, A.Chernienko,
N.Tsymbal, P.Gerasimov
engineers:
A.Nebytov,
G.Vaynstein,
L.Slolyar, A.Yuhin,
N.Besedina
annotation:
The project is a competition winner, judjed by
Architectural Union. The task was to add some storeys above the old
building and to expand to the site borders. We covered an old building by
the "wave" of the new volume, hanging above the main
facade by the wide shelter made from green copper.
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Publication:
"The roof
exited again..."
(Nikolai Malinin, headquartered number 2 (42)
The word "roof" is used today in three cases. When it flows (the roof as
such), when it goes (at the same time, when not all houses) and when the
bump (the roof in the sense of "protector"). In this building the architect
Asadov managed to materialize all three values at once. Case in the history
of Russian architecture unique.
Uniqueness of the emergence of the roof: it was the result of an
architectural competition. Alien say "what about that?", But in Russia is
extremely rare occasions when the winner of the contest represents your
project. Normally it or move, or process the project to full recognition, or
nothing construct. But hit face in the dirt was not: the customers
themselves boots were shoemakers. In 2002, the Union of Architects has
announced a friendly competition for the reconstruction of the building,
where sits his reign. Under the "reconstruction" means of course "the
demolition of the re-establishment", as well as the construction of an
additional amount that will be transferred to the investor. That is, the
roof is not only patron, but also the breadwinner.
Contest, despite the fact that he was invited to the proven masters,
demonstrated a complete lack of uniformity of views. There were quite
Luzhkov pobryakuhi Zakharova, and unbridled modernism Andrei Taranov, and
unexpected by Alexander Skokan inversion (the old volume is not restored,
but only stood solid in the body of the new glazing), and the most attentive
to the spirit of the place was Alexander Larin. Who proposed a kind of
paraphrase on the House of the architect - as he almost opposite. But the
logic of the jury seemed too obvious, or simply gone are the days of
allusions and reminiscences. Union of Russia and the so-ever accused of moss,
and here was a rare occasion to express its progressiveness, and more than
that: create a logo. In general, won Asadov.
Winning project is not only honest bred the old and new (which is considered
good form, though rarely is reserved the blackness), but also put them on
the hard contrast. There - weight, here - transparency; there - direct, here
- crooked; there - stucco decor, here - patinated copper. It was very
impressive, but once again arose sacramental question: Who needs this
replica? But such questions provoke Union considers itself may not (but who,
if not him?) And then, to somehow smooth out the contrast, Asadov resorted
to his favorite "wave". The topic of "new", smoothly covering the "old"
sounds in his work already for 15 years, and now found herself the perfect
application. Cover covered, but not sunk.
With a wave of the project has not changed, but got integrity. Instead of
separate volumes - one powerful line, which, as a wave and it should be,
then rises (east facade), then falls off (rear), then divided by the
breakwater (west), then runs to the shore mackerel (peak). And all this - no
decoration, but complicated curved hull (inside - the monolith from the
outside - copper), which for Moscow, especially after the collapse of the
water park, a thing totally unique.
The most fashionable trend today - Biomorphic architecture - the first time
in Moscow rang so clearly and strongly. He immediately pulled a chain of
associations: a concert hall in Rouen, Perrault, an art center Gehry in New
York, the church Meier in Rome, a country house of Anton and Vera Butko
Nadtochy ... this series seems to be here for anything, but the
justification for Admission - completely local: this is the usual copper
roof, what about full. Simply, it has grown to unprecedented proportions.
But at the same time - thanks to a mild form - not to crush others, a green
logically fitted into the park.
True, an elite school, behind the building, asked the amount of copper still
lower and the rear facade of the copper was only a quarter. But it went to
him only for the benefit of creating an elegant counterpoint. Another
counterpoint were two arcs, striking variance in different planes: one arc -
rear facade, and the other - a fragment of an extension to the same school,
made the same Asadov 10 years ago. The same theme also supports the main
facade, smoothly around the "old" house and "approach the" street to a sharp
nose. As a result of bending on the roof of the house formed a pleasant
terrace with an unexpected defect - a hole in the roof. Will Need to
visually facilitate the copper hood, resulting (due to structural features)
and really hard.
But this is the only thing you can blame the building. Inside - absolutely
wonderful space, which did not dream Leonid Ilyich, whose famous sixth floor
with a non-standard height - exactly the opposite. It's funny: that he "tsekovsky"
House that this constrained by various limitations (there had to be building
in 1885 to build anew, there is - to represent "ordinary" house), but that
there that there architects consistently looking for opportunities to extend
the space to climb the third dimension. But the most radical "lazatelem"
should recognize Andrei Burov, which houses architects, produced the facade
of a building with frescoes by Pietro della Francesca.
Could not reflect on the tragic fate of the architect. In 1938 (the year
speaks for itself) Burov embodies the rock alien fantasy, for it symbolizes
freedom, light, history - all of which he was deprived. In 1978 another
architect (his name I do not know) is building a house with an apartment for
the first person in the country, and all that he can afford - to push the
meter ceilings. Finally, in 2005, architects are building their own house -
a bold, innovative, radical - but can not afford to keep it for the logo.
Because all that bold and radical, belongs to the investor, and their share
- a modest meaningless "replica".
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