Preobrazhenie Residential Quarter
- location
- Russia, Moscow
- completed
- 2021
- design
- 2017-2018
- site area
- 4,78 ha
- total area
- 200 000 m²
- number of storeys
- 31
- client
- Ingrad
- architects
- Anton Nadtochiy, Vera Butko, Petr Alimov, Polina Yavna, Andrey Sizyuk, Ilya Zhukov, Liza Malakhova, Sergey Lukiyanchuk, Alexey Sorokin, Alexander Sechenov, Olga Romanova, Natalia Kudryashova, Adel Khakimullin, Ivan Khripkov
Today, the site of the Preobrazhenie residential development is surrounded by 1960s housing and a large number of industrial zones. At the same time, it forms part of an actively developing area with strong transport accessibility and the potential to become one of the most contemporary and vibrant districts in Moscow.
The four towers of the first phase begin to shape the future urban square at the intersection of Otkrytoye Shosse and Rokossovsky Boulevard, which the city plans to extend at this point. On the facades facing the square, the towers are designed as plastic, intricately composed structures made up of equal-sized volumes, as though inserted into a single “frame”. Their side elevations, by contrast, are treated as artistic panels with a dynamic ornamental pattern.
The colour palette is natural and restrained, while bright accents — one for each building — give every tower its own recognisable identity. The towers are positioned so that the courtyards receive as much sunlight as possible. Stylobates with active ground floors form cosy courtyards protected from the surrounding roads, three of them car-free. At the heart of the residential district lies an internal neighbourhood square, intended as a place for rest and meetings, around whose perimeter non-residential premises are also arranged, accommodating shops, cafés and other infrastructure. One of the buildings in the centre of the district incorporates an attached nursery school for 85 children.
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