DISTRICT 75

New residential district in Moscow, NW Zone,
Providing new TFA of 500000 sq.m. Moscow, 2000-2001

The client’s commission was to elaborate a masterplan for the whole district No 75. The area was loosely constructed with 5 storey very modest panel apartments building in the 1960s. Three principal tasks were solved by the project: The project should densify the territory use by eliminating the old panel structures and by instalment of 7-9 floor apartment buildings, with possible certain amount of high-rise structures. The design should create the state of art sample of European standard of living in the apartments’ units and studios as well as in servicing public spaces in the buildings, and in the outer park spaces of the District 75 zone. The project must integrate a local kindergarten and primary school building for 210 children, and some health care facilities into its social and communication systems. In attempt to gain from the experience of different European architectural and urban design traditions, the client invited 6 selected foreign architecture studios, namely, from France (Georges Hentz), The Netherlands (Paul de Vroom, DKV and KCAP), Germany (Gruentuch-Ernst), USA (Winka Dubbeldam), UK-Croatia (Andrew Yeoman), Bulgaria (Georgi Stanishev Projects GS), based on the local studio of Andrey Chernikhov (Russia), who also worked as a design coordinator. The master plan has elaborated a cluster-based fabric where the residential is supported by policlinics, kindergartens, schools, and shopping spaces. To construct some continuity in the architectonic result of the multinational team, the designers elaborate a series of invariant “group-form” units, which established the theoretical strategy of the design process.

Year: 2001
TFA: 150000 m2
Type: Residence district with School, Kindergarten, Shopping facilities
Investor: Krost Ltd
Status: Project