Connected by a covered basement with a private garden for residents, the project by the architecture studio Tsimailo Lyashenko and Partners creates an intimate common space that plays with different materials, creating golden corridors and bright spaces that lead to each other symmetrically.
The combination of pieces that make up the building, with openings decorated with brass and a white atmosphere present in its halls, provokes a sensation in those who visit it that simulates a museum tour, which places the building as a possible art object around which small art galleries are created that exhibit sculptures and installations.
"White Khamovniki" by Tsimailo Lyashenko and Partners. Photograph by Anastasia Samoilova.
Project description by Tsimailo Lyashenko and Partners
The project is based on the idea of a building as a sculpture, something that can become a recognizable object and an attraction for its neighborhoods’ residents. Their shape affords the towers a timeless silhouette and helps leverage the site’s potential in terms of views.
The two towers are assembled from modules that expand as the height increases. The curve of one tower is pointed towards the Devichye Pole Park, a landmark of the complex’s namesake Khamovniki district; the second highrise is curved towards the Garden Ring and Moscow city centre. The building’s recesses are furnished with brass. This detail makes for interesting foreshortening: located in a narrow alley, the buildings can only be seen up close from below, and from there they appear golden.
The two towers are connected by a stylobate basement. Elevated on top of this is an intimate garden, only accessible to residents. On the ground level, there is a сity plaza symmetrical to the garden.
The lobbies function as mini-art galleries showcasing sculptures and installations. The combination of the pieces and the lobbies white ambience creates a sense of museum space and continues the concept of the building as an art object.
