RESIDENTIAL HOUSE ON KLIMASHKINA STREET

Authors
A. Skokan, V. Kanyashin, A. Asse, E. Vintova

Address
Moscow, Moscow, Klimashkina St, 19

Client
OOO “Capital Group”

The total area
22 000 sq.m

Start
1999

Completion
2000

It was very difficult to put a traditional slab within the narrow site which westerly faces long building and only one its side looks at Klimashkina Street. The devised House-arch solved many problems simultaneously.

 

The coincidence of the aperture axis with longitudinal axis of the church, the unique local attraction, enabled to impart to the House the secure position in the space.

 

The arch is a form whose both fronts are principal, and the narrow side has no importance. Therefore one can not choose what front is more principal. Both the eastern front faced the church, and the yard front where there are entrances, each of them became principal in its own way, like “head” or “tail” of a coin. The narrow side of the building only supports the line street development.

 

And finally, the empty space in the house body gives an opportunity to the yard to be lighted up during the most day time and to the entering people to see the church in the framing of arch aperture.