The core element of the site and of the whole project is the building of the former Levashovsky Bread Factory. This constructivist landmark of regional value was built in the beginning of the 1930s. Its shape is based on interlapping cylinders, this form being related to a then new industrial breadmaking technology and having been designed by the engineer G. Marsakov. At the time of the Siege of Leningrad, the factory provided the besieged city with bread; it was in operation until the beginning of the 2000s. The project suggests to eliminate later annexes to the building, to make a renovation, and to build a public cultural center inside. The residential buildings of the new complex are to be located so that the architectural monument would be seen from the adjoining streets, and the redeveloped public spaces would provide for a free access thereto. Triangular in plan, the site between Barochnaya, Bolshaya Zelenina streets and Levashovsky prospect would be occupied by residential buildings with a diverse number of storeys (3-5, 6, 7, 8, 9), which would establish a dynamic composition. The buildings would stay upon an underground parking and grouped around the main landmark. Higher buildings would be moved farther backwards into the site. The project does not provide for different architectural solutions of the street and court facades, as it does not imply secondary buildings or facades. All the facades would have an expressive decoration and are designed as part of a common solution. The style of the project is inspired by the best world architecture samples of the 1930s, by constructivism and art-deco. Various decorative elements remind one of art-deco, such as stone rosaces, metallic lattices with an ornament typical of the style, decoration around the windows. Natural Jura stone is to be used for buildings facing, and dark granite of various textures for the ground floor. An essential detail of the Futurist complex is a redevelopment comprising an individual landscape design. The visual image of the general composition proposed in the master layout plan and in the redevelopment design stem from the Russian avant-garde graphics and paintings, which emphasizes the relationship with the history of the site. The entrance areas bear art-deco style features, too: the entrances of three buildings have a facing of imitation marble of various shades. |
The Project of the Futurist Residential Complex
Function:
residental
Projection: 2016-2018
Address:
St. Petersburg, Barochnaya Str., 4
Customers:
“Spetsializirovannyi Zastroischik Lambri” Limited Liability Company
Chief manager:
Evgeny Gerasimov
Chief architect of the project:
Zoya Petrova
Architects:
Yevgeniya Reznikova (Head of the Group), Ivan Khukhka (Leading Architect of the Project), Yevgeniya Bochenkova, Sofia Yegorova, Alexander Gvozdik, Marina Gorbatenkova
Chief designer:
Margarita Reznichenko
Designers:
Dmitry Astapchik (Deputy Chief of the Design Engineers Group), Andrey Prokofyev (Head of the Group of Design Engineers), Marina Inger, Alexandra Blinova, Andrey Denisov, Sergey Nenashev, Artiom Alimirzoev, Olga Shevchenko
Plan:
Yelena Kuznetsova, Alexandra Titova
Engineering sections:
Piter Masterovoy Co.
Chief engineer:
Natalia Grazhdanova |