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Black, Latinx, Asian/Pacific Islander, Indigenous, Disabled owned

Moscow, RU

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Residential building on Borisovskaya street

The residential building consists of two architecturally different volumes – more prominent from the side of the road and smoother in the depth of the site. The large scale of the pylons gives expressiveness to the facade, lined with embossed granite.
The contours of the site defined the composition. At first, there were many options, ranging from a building elongated obliquely to an extravagant ellipsoid. But the classical modernist solution turned out to be optimal, consisting of two 15-storey, almost 50-meter sections, placed with a diagonal offset and connected by an angular "jumper", in which the living rooms are also located.
"The buildings are solved in different ways, but they are conceived as two halves of one whole, like Yin and Yang," says Andrey Asadov. Indeed, the housings are similar, almost equally large – the back is slightly smaller – and even use the same facing materials: porcelain stoneware. But not simple, which everyone is too used to, but large–format and ordered from the Spanish factory Porcelanosa Grupo in three types: smooth light beige, glossy gray, in the walls between the windows, and embossed, wavy brown, reminiscent of ceramic panels of the 1970s, but at the same time somehow, indirectly, but in tune with the simple brick of the neighboring Stalinist house. The slabs of wavy porcelain stoneware were custom made for this house: as a rule, such textures are used in the interior, but here facade quality was required. The authors did not lose – the texture masked the seams and annoying "paws", in the sun it glitters almost like majolica.

 
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Status: Built
Location: Moscow, RU
Firm Role: Architecture