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Competition for the coastal quarters of the ALIA district

information:

status
project
date

2021 —2021
place
Russia, Moscow
function
Residential / Residential complex
Total Area
267700 м²

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Aleksei Ilyin has been working on major urban projects for more than 30 years. He has all the necessary skills for high-rise construction in Moscow – yet he believes it’s essential to maintain variety in the typologies and scales represented in his portfolio. He is passionate about drawing – but only from life, and also in the process of working on a project. We talk about the structure and optimal size of an office, about his past and current projects, large and small tasks, and about creative priorities.

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The design sites are located on the territory of the former Tushino airfield along the embankment of the Moskva River, within a large mixed-use development that includes the ALIA residential complex, the Rostec City business park, the Chkalov Arena sports complex, and an apartment complex. The company SOM (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill) developed the master plan that defines the main planning principles: placing residential buildings of different typologies — towers, perimeter blocks, sectional buildings — and creating a central park inside the residential complex that connects to the riverside park.

The competition proposal continues the concept of diverse building typologies and expresses this idea in the quarters located along the embankment.

Across six sites, the project places perimeter blocks, sectional buildings, and towers. On the plots with towers, the courtyard space is formed by retail and open pedestrian galleries at the ground-floor level. Perimeter, sectional buildings and towers on individual plots are all designed differently, yet all quarters are united by the theme of the river. Each building is inspired by a river image and is given a name that reflects this idea.

The building on the second-line plot has fewer river views due to its position, but this is compensated by a modest height of seven floors and the arrangement of a spacious, picturesque courtyard with private front gardens, enabled by the closed oval form of the building, reminiscent of a fort.

Terraced buildings of varying heights and towers of different scales form a wave-like, dynamic skyline along the riverfront. The terraced houses set deeper within the first-line plots also create a wave-like contour in the second layer of the development. Thanks to this approach, a sequence of diverse, picturesque views opens up along the entire pedestrian route beside the complex.

The main planning principle is to maximize the number of apartments and summer spaces with views of the river and the park — both for the first-line and the second-line buildings.

The creation of a wide variety of building silhouettes, courtyard and block typologies, and different balcony, terrace, and loggia solutions results in a unique offer on the real estate market.