The Project of the Futurist Residential Complex

Section

Standard floor plan of buildings 1-3

Standard floor plan of building 4

Standard floor plan of building 5

Standard floor plan of building 6

Standard floor plan of building 7

Sketch

Site Plan

Project Owners

“Spetsializirovannyi Zastroischik Lambri” Limited Liability Company

Address

St. Petersburg, Barochnaya Str., 4

Designed

2016-2018

Plot Area

14077 sq. m

Built-Up Area

4782 sq. m

Gross Internal Area

46393 sq. m

Number of Storeys

3-9 storeys

Number of Apartments

199

Head of the Authors Team

Evgeny Gerasimov

Chief Project Architect

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 Structural Engineer

Margarita Reznichenko

Structural Engineers

Dmitry Astapchik (Deputy Chief of the Design Engineers Group), Denis Podgorny (Head of the Group of Design Engineers), Marina Inger, Alexandra Blinova, Andrey Denisov, Artiom Alimirzoev, Olga Shevchenko

General Layout

Yelena Kuznetsova, Alexandra Titova

Utilities

Piter Masterovoy Co.

Chief Project Utility Engineer

Natalia Grazhdanova

Description

The art-deco residential buildings create a rhythmic composition around a constructivist landmark, that being the former Levashovsky Bread Factory.

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.

References in Media

The most beautiful new buildings in St. Petersburg

Rosettes appeared on the facade of the Futurist house, referring to the patterns on Soviet cookies from a local bakery

THE FUTURIST RESIDENTIAL COMPLEX

The art-deco residential buildings create a rhythmic composition around a constructivist landmark, that being the former Levashovsky Bread Factory

Between the Past and the Future

The Futurist residential complex is balanced between Post-Constructivism and Art Deco and has been neatly introduced into the architectural environment of the respectable Petrogradskaya Side. Yet the main task here was to highlight the Levashovsky Bakery Plant building and thus to bring life back to it.

Read at Archi.ru

Zodchestvo 2018 awards

Two facilities designed by the Workshop have received awards at the Zodchestvo festival: the design of the FUTURIST Residential Complex received a silver badge and a diploma, while the Europa City residential complex on Medikov prospect received a diploma of the Russian Architects Association in the Buildings category.

Awards

A silver badge of the international Zodchestvo festival. Works of Architecture of 2016-2018. Building designs. Multiapartment Residential Houses

A diploma of the Golden Trezzini 2019 contest winner for the Best premium and business class residential complex design

Urban Awards-2019. Grand Prix

The charitable foundation for the support of culture and art DICTUM FACTUM was awarded at the XXXI International Architectural Festival «Zodchestvo 2023» in the competition «Best Printed Publication on Architecture and Architects» for the monograph «Architect Boris Girshovich»: awarded a Gold Sign in the nomination «Best Album on Architecture and architects».

The book was published on the initiative and with the financial support of the Charitable Foundation for the Support of Culture and Art DICTUM FACTUM: Evgeny

and Yulia Gerasimov.

Author: Alexander Chepel

Photography: Sergey Vesnin, Sergey Karaulov, Victor Savik, Ivan Smelov

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Europa City Residential Complex