Residential complex on Simonovskaya embankment

Authors
A. Skokan, R. Baishev, E. Kopytova, O. Ponomarenko, S. Pomelov

With the assistance of
A. Anikeev, A. Kudimov, M. Kudryashov, M. Matveenko, N. Tonkaya, T. Khvorostyany, LLC Gillespies (London) GILLESPIES

Address
Moscow, Vostochnaya St., vl. 4A, Simonovskaya Embankment, vl. 1

Client
OJSC OPIN

The total area
300 000 m2

Start
2014

The presented urban-planning concept of the territory reconstruction aims at creating an architectural form of the Moskva River embankment which is adjacent to this territory, as a fragment of the metropolitan city center. Now, this piece of the riverside line, as well as many other embankments is excluded of everyday life of the capital. At the same time it has great landscape and historical value of citywide importance.

The low bank of the river bend opens beautiful views to the Simonov Monastery which played earlier before the destruction the very important role, as a visual and sense dominant in the city landscape.

The tower “Dulo” standing on the edge of the slope certainly is the main cultural and historical value and becomes in the proposed solution to be a natural focus, a center of the whole composition of the residential buildings which will be developed in front of the tower, the shorter sides of buildings looking at the embankment. Drawing of the master plan literally reproduces the scheme of the control directions of the landscape and visual analysis, providing practically continuous viewing of the tower from the side of Derbenevskaya and Krutitskaya embankments. The building goes down towards the composition center. At the same time it is obvious that the height of the shorter sides of buildings looking at the embankment is not so important for perception and is caused rather by the need to have a scale sufficient for the capital embankment.