BRODSKY

Architectural bureau Tsimailo Lyashenko and Partners created a concept for Brodsky, a new residential building on the high-density plot in the central district of Moscow at the river embankment. It should be the viewpoint that never existed: a two-points perspective from the courtyard to the river and backward. The building is making a strong functional and visual connection between itself and surrounding context. Vesper, the project developer known as the Russia’s most successful one specializes in high end real estate, named the residential building after worldwide known Russian author Brodsky. The 14-storey residential building is placed on the edge of the plot close to the river giving opportunity for the surrounding residential and school buildings to avoid the negative impact of construction but also to create a courtyard with a pedestrian alley. The courtyard alley passes throughout the building arch giving a new pedestrian connection with the embankment. It also releases a viewpoint that never existed: a two-points perspective from the courtyard to the river and backward. The building’s façade has been designed in collaboration with French studio Antonini Darmon, forming a pattern that responds to functional and aesthetic challenges. The facade is formed with three types of arches with different width and height. Such geometry creates two different images of the building: a solemn and elegant one from the embankment side and calm and peaceful from the side of the courtyard. The largest arches are the apartments living rooms windows and look over the river while the bedrooms windows look over the quiet courtyard. Monolith white architectural concrete is chosen as the finishing exterior material. Inside, 65 apartments vary between 100 and 600 square meters, spread across 14 floors. In addition to its residential function, the scheme contains wellness center, kids club with a playground and underground parking for 132 vehicles.