MIXED-USE RESIDENTIAL AND OFFICE BUILDING IN POZHARSKY LANE

Authors
A. Skokan, K.Gladky, S. Kaverina, I. Rozina, P. Goncharov, K. Artemyev

Address
Moscow , Moscow, Pozharsky Lane, 13

Client
CJSC “DEKRA Akadem Invest”

The total area
6 800 sq.m

Start
2003

Completion
2008

The development site is a wasteland surrounded by firewalls of the neighboring buildings. The printing house standing here earlier had a three-part facade whose flanking parts had at their ends the external dormers in the wall plane. Two-storey volume created a characteristic anomaly in the line of higher buildings. The new structures which appeared later made this feature even more expressive. Having decided to keep in the project«a trace» of the existing situation, we reconstituted the lower part of the house on the grounds ofmeasurements and photos of old printing house. The upper, added part gradually recedes from the building line and is formed as a visual pause, neutrally, that more brings her out of perception zone and articulates the recovered facade.

 

Residential function required to raise the apartment block to the level of the 2nd floor and to place it closer to the lane, proceeding from reasons of insolation and illumination. Thus, it was appeared the two-levelnonresidential block-stylobate, which included the historical facade. Additional two-storey volume is located in the depth of the site between firewalls of the neighbouring estates, round the courtyard. The green yard-public garden of residential part with the exit to it from the 2nd floor of the building is raised to the level of themultipurpose flat roofing over non-residential premises.

 

The underground space of the building is occupied by parking, the first two overground floors house cafe and offices, upper four floors - apartments.