The large-scale housing complex EVER, designed by GAFA Architects, is built by TEKTA Group not far away from the crossing of Profsoyuznaya and Obrucheva streets, on the territory of an industrial estate that is being actively renovated. So far, it still includes garages of commercial fleets, surrounded by Soviet research institute buildings, but the place has huge potential: in addition to the fact that we are speaking about Moscow’s southeast, the most attractive area of the nation’s capital by default, the nearby projects include School 1514, one of the nation’s best, two parks – Vorontsovsky and the Southeast, and the Kaluzhskaya metro station, situated a 5-7 minutes’ walk away from here. Thus, it comes as no surprise that several residential complexes have appeared around here, with several more being built right now, EVER being one of them.

The complex, stretching from southwest to southeast along the Vlasova Street, consists of six “tower” buildings of an elongated configuration, each 120m high. Four houses stand on the border of the street, with two others standing perpendicular to them in the depth of the site – the composition turns out to be quite regular, based on two T-shaped groups, yet with some adjustments to the curve of the street and narrowing of the contours of the site towards the north. On the whole, according to the architects, it was defined by the insolation factor, the optimal configuration of the 3-level underground parking garage, and views from the windows.

Yana Nemenko, GAFA Architects

We worked a lot with the detailing of the lower area of the facades and now we continue to work with suppliers – all these solutions are very precious to us: options for brickwork, colors, and so on – we would very much like to preserve all this and bring it to fruition, creating a rich visual environment for people who will walk here. Wherever the eye falls, we should have something attractive, beautiful, and interesting. After all, people are not birds, they do not fly, they walk on foot, and in our opinion it is very important that what a person sees from the ground level is neatly drawn and thought out. Some of the brickwork offered by us will be created by the suppliers for the first time. I would very much like to see all this come true.

We are also very enthusiastic about the landscaping  project, a lot of work has also been done in that field, and we would like the proposed idea of a “virgin” environment to come true: it will allow a person who constantly lives in the context of a dense development of a big city to switch for a while and, relatively speaking, feel like a “savage on a rocky shore”.