Archi.ru: A dozen “honeycombs” in the back of Dynamo
The recently unveiled concept of Stanislav Kulish's office and hotel building on Nizhnyaya Maslovka-17 claims not just to be a new accent of a significant territory, but, as it seems, also to change the balance of forces and style preferences in an area that in recent years has developed rather in the paradigm of classical urban planning. No matter how you evaluate it, this is definitely a challenge building. It will be interesting to see what happens next.
The hotel is not very high and is formed by a conglomerate of asymmetric volumes with ribbon windows, they are planned to be lined with dark glazed clinker, the authors compare it with an "array of rocks" "framing a precious crystal".
The outline of a glass office tower resembles something like a pointed blade or, on the other hand, a sail, all this often happens with towers. According to the author's description, its design will be "made on the basis of a half–timbered system", and the glazing will be jumbo. On top of the glass surface we can see a copper-colored mesh in the form of large hexagonal honeycombs made of composite material. On the exterior facades, it is superimposed as a screen, and on the interior, in particular, from the entrance area, the grid connects to the glass surface, forming relief ledges and projections, also hexagonal. The top of the tower is solved in the form of stepped terraces; that is, it is as restless as the volume of the hotel, but it is solved differently – if a small volume is solved as natural, then this one is man-made and technological.
No less curious is the third volume, a faceted glass tower, which serves to rise to the top of the offices. Here, in this project, everything related to privileges is generally quite noticeably emphasized: "including a vip parking with access to personal elevators of the management staff." The glass crystal is cut through by the pipe of the passage leading to the office tower, in it, under a round transparent visor, there is an observation deck towards Leningradskoe Highway.
The text is taken from the website: www.archi.ru
