기억 재생, 새롭게 건립된 3개의 오피스 빌딩, 시븐 앙상블은 잃어버린 장소의 기억에 대한 회귀로 건축가가 장소에게 지켜야할 약속을 극명하게 표현한다. 이전 소비에트 연방 시절 거대한 군수산업지대로 주변 자연환경과의 단절된 시공간을 연결하는 건축은 중심부에 위치한 중정을 기점으로 각각 3개의 빌딩이 배치된다. 이번 프로젝트의 가장 큰 특징인 파사드 디자인은 이전(소비에트 연방 이전 공원에 대한 회상) 장소에 대한 기억을 떠올리며 이곳의 3계절에 해당하는 다양한 꽃들과 식물들의 패턴디자인으로 구현된다. 먼저 중심부에 위치한 지마 비즈니스센터는 역사적인 포티코 양식과 (6개의 코린티안 기둥) 겨울을 테마로 (밝은 회색과 검푸른 색의 조화) 디자인되며, 각각 좌우에 가을을 모티브로 오렌지 컬러의 다양한 꽃들이 만개한 오센 비즈니스 센터와 그린과 엘로우의 적절한 조화로 여름을 상징하는 레토 비즈니스 센터가 자리한다. 매우 단순한 형태 위에 프린팅된 장소의 기억은 이곳을 특별히 추억해야 하는 이유일 뿐만 아니라 내부 비즈니스환경을 외부로 부터 필터링하는 건축기능으로 작용한다. 곧, 시즌 앙상블을 정의하는 주요한 매개체가 된다.
reviewed by SJ,오사
The three glass buildings of the Seasons Ensemble, a new office complex in the St. Petersburg district of Kalininsky are situated on a plot with vibrant history. The area on the eastern banks of the Neva River opposite the famous Smolny Institute used to be a tree nursery before it was transformed into a spacious landscaped park for the palais of the Kushelev Bezberodko family at the end of the 18th century. The place became a venue for social events of vital prominence. However, at the end of the 19th century the family abandoned the estate, and it was turned into a nursing home by the Society of the Elizabeth Sisters, while the property itself was divided.
Architects: NPS Tchoban Voss
Location: Saint Petersburg, Russia
Architect In Charge: Sergei Tchoban, Architekt BDA
Area: 20,320 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Aleksey Naroditsky, Courtesy of NPS Tchoban Voss, Teorema
Project Leader: Frederik-Sebastian Scholz (Leto), Pavel Zemskov (Osen, Zima), Valeria Kashirina (art direction façades)
Design Team: Silvia Grischkat, Rene Hoch, Eugen Pfeil
Façade And Interior Cladding: Panorama, St. Petersburg (Leto); Glaskek, St. Petersburg (Osen, Zima)
Digital Glass Print: Okalux GmbH, Marktheidenfeld (Leto); OOO Akma, St. Petersburg (Osen, Zima)
Client: Teorema
At that time Russian painter and art theorist Alexandre Benois stayed in the neighboring Polyustrovsky spa and summer resort forming and promoting his Mir Iskusstva art movement. During the Soviet period the Rossiya engine factory took over large parts of the area as industrial premises establishing production facilities, warehouses and administration buildings. The former picturesque garden was lost. After the fall of communism the factory was closed down, and the buildings – some of them even unfinished – fell prey to decay.
The master plan for the area came off as the winning entry of an urban planning competition suggesting office and commercial buildings of different dimensions. The area is defined by the Sverdlovskaya Embankment at the Neva River to the south, two rows of pavilions of the nursing home in the former Kushelev-Bezberodko palais to the west, another development on the premises of the former spa at the Polyustrovsky ponds in the north and north-west, and by Piskarevsky Prospectin the east. In its main axis the plan is geared towards the dome of the Smolny Cathedral, with the southern and eastern borderlines largely closed and different groups of constructions in the inner zone.
The Seasons Ensemble is located in the western area adjacent to the offshoots of the Polyustrovsky ponds. It encloses a new rectangular plaza opening to the backroad of Zhukova Ulitsa. The design of the fully glazed, printed facades shows floral motifs, reminiscent of the former park on the site, and varies the theme of three seasons. An unfinished industrial structure from Soviet times supplied the basis for the western structure. Extended with two new floors and glazed with printed leaves and floral motifs in bright green and yellow the new glass building reminds of the summer, called Leto in Russian.
Towards the pond on the rear the Leto Business Center opens with a broad conservatory on the ground floor. The Osen business center on the opposite, named after the Russian word for autumn, is an all-new construction showing autumnal leaf motifs in orange tones. And towards the south the Zima Business Center completes the plaza with printed winter motifs and a central historicizing portico with six Corinthian columns, lion corbels and arched interstices formed by pine green in shades of light gray and bluish black. The printed glass volumes grant their users picturesque framed views through the foliage. And even the fully printed areas create various effects and an intriguing atmosphere inside, depending on the different light conditions over the course of the day.
From the outside the hollowness of the three volumes slackens off in bright sunshine bringing the simple shape, the scale and the dimensions of the patterned blocks into focus. Whereas by dusk and at night or especially in foggy weather, or the Petersburg-specific gloomy times around the solstice, the artificial interior lighting literally deconstructs the buildings with the large-format designs in innumerable surfaces of various positions, colored layers and different depths, giving an almost surreal impression. The interior reception areas of the office buildings are also clad with glass panels resuming the outside patterns of the façades or taking on their respective main color.
from archdaily