OFFICE BUILDING IN 3-Y ZACHATIEVSKY LANE

Authors
A. Skokan, D. Gusev, I. Voronezhsky, O. Friedland

Address
Moscow, Moscow, 3-y Zachatyevsky Lane, 3-5

Client
JSC “Capital Group”

The total area
4400 sq.m

Start
1997

Completion
1999

The office building is erected within the program of the Moscow Government for “recovery” of the lost historical buildings. The site is located near the Zachatievsky monastery and “Shalyapin's House” which are protected by the State. The building fixes the frontal line at the corner of lanes and its dead firewalls look at the neighbouring estates.

 

Northeasterly from “Shalyapin's House” the building height becomes lower to 1-2 floors. The upper floor has a setback and continuous glass cover. The glass bay window marks the corner of lanes and draws attention when looking from Ostozhenka Street. The entrance is from Korobeynikov Lane and designed in the form of the arch leading to two-level lobby. The facades, deprived of active plastics, support the scale of surrounding historical two-storey houses. The constructive scheme is the cast-in-situ reinforced concrete skeleton, materials for finishing are a natural stone (granite) and plaster.