Location
Omsk
Year
2022
Architecture
Residential
Status
Construction
Team
A. A. Asadov, A. R. Asadov
Parametrs
The total area of the plot is 3 hectares
Our task was to “reset” the urban environment in this place and give it the opportunity for further development. The customer himself took the initiative to restore CHP-1 and turn it into a cultural and social space. It is worth noting that such social initiatives are not always found during the renovation of industrial zones – it is often possible to see residential or office lofts built in former industrial buildings, even if there are restaurants on the ground floors in such buildings.
In this case, we needed a ratio of “public spaces open to all”/”enclosed living spaces”. And we did it. We have studied several projects proposed for this place over the past 30 years and tried to develop all the useful ideas that appeared there: the continuation of the beams of the neighboring city streets inside the building, the recessed area in front of the power plant. a building with an excavated ground floor, the division of the building into three blocks, a pedestrian bridge over the Om River, the restoration of a chimney lost in Soviet times. Our colleagues have been looking at this territory for so long and so carefully that the most vivid stories have already appeared somewhere one way or another.
There were things that we interpreted, of course, in our own way. We have carefully studied the foreign and Russian experience of modern development of the historical center: Hamburg, Copenhagen, Kaliningrad, St. Petersburg, Arkhangelsk, Perm, Sergei Skuratov’s project in Minsk. We also focus on examples of the creation of cultural centers in the historical city – Tate Modern, MAAT in Lisbon and a number of others, and, of course, HPP-2 in Moscow. Our CHP is recognizably similar to HPP-2 in old photos and it seems to me that this is one of the good prototypes.
Our task was to “reset” the urban environment in this place and give it the opportunity for further development. The customer himself took the initiative to restore CHP-1 and turn it into a cultural and social space. It is worth noting that such social initiatives are not always found during the renovation of industrial zones – it is often possible to see residential or office lofts built in former industrial buildings, even if there are restaurants on the ground floors in such buildings.
In this case, we needed a ratio of “public spaces open to all”/”enclosed living spaces”. And we did it. We have studied several projects proposed for this place over the past 30 years and tried to develop all the useful ideas that appeared there: the continuation of the beams of the neighboring city streets inside the building, the recessed area in front of the power plant. a building with an excavated ground floor, the division of the building into three blocks, a pedestrian bridge over the Om River, the restoration of a chimney lost in Soviet times. Our colleagues have been looking at this territory for so long and so carefully that the most vivid stories have already appeared somewhere one way or another.
There were things that we interpreted, of course, in our own way. We have carefully studied the foreign and Russian experience of modern development of the historical center: Hamburg, Copenhagen, Kaliningrad, St. Petersburg, Arkhangelsk, Perm, Sergei Skuratov’s project in Minsk. We also focus on examples of the creation of cultural centers in the historical city – Tate Modern, MAAT in Lisbon and a number of others, and, of course, HPP-2 in Moscow. Our CHP is recognizably similar to HPP-2 in old photos and it seems to me that this is one of the good prototypes.
