CONCEPT OF TRETYAKOV GALLERY NEW BUILDING FACADES

Authors
A. Skokan, M. Dekhtyar

Address
Moscow, Moscow, Kadashevskaya Embankment

Client
LLC Zarubezhproject

Start
2013

We believe that the best is a decorative and ornamental facade structure following all lines of the layout, andpresenting a set of colour concrete elements of different configuration and size, interspaces between them areinterposed with vitrage structures. Such design solution enables rather flexibly to react to requirement of internal rooms for day lighting playing with the ornament, and naturally presupposes rather large variance of the proposed solutions among which the proposed one “is no more than one among others”.

Following our understanding we made an attempt to build an architectural dialogue with the existing historical buildings by V. M. Vasnetsov and A.V. Shchusev, using the same mainly red-white colour gamma with separate multi-coloured additives and three-dimensional ornamental elements. But, inlike these and other buildings of the complex, faced cosy lanes of Zamoskvorechye area, main facades of new buildings look the channel, open city spaces where there are the Kremlin, group of buildings by B. Iofan and other large edificesdominating in this area.

Ornament passing from the decorative and applied context begins to acquire a hyper scale, and acts as a hero. And it is logical that the museum quarter, looking Kadashevskaya Embankment gets into a new situation of open space, reacting by change of scale and laconicism of the imaginative solution.