Residential premises with retail unit in Bolshaya Polyanka Ulitsa

Ulitsa Bol'shaya Polyanka 61A, TsAO, Moscow

architects: Sergey Skuratov, Sergey Kisselev
assisted by: Konstantin Khodnev, Vsevolod Shabanov, Ekaterina Paley
engineer: Igor Shvartsman

client 000 ENERGOGARANTKAPITALSTROY

design work 1999-2000
construction 2000-2001

Situated in the interior of a street block, in the tnangle formed by the intersection of Polyanka and Ordynka, this curving building responds to the courses followed by both streets, while the stylistic neutrality of its facades is in keeping with the «background nature» of its perceived role. The contradiction between the building's size (overall floor area: 7000m2) and the scale of the architecture that surrounds it encourages us to see it as containing two volumes each of which interacts with the other, as well as with neighbounng buildings. It is this that determines the building's main structural cnaracter.