A family project with classic layouts that refers to the history of the place, pictures of MSU professors’ life in light Stalin-era buildings and images of New York skyscrapers from the 60s. When we worked on it, we asked ourselves how we could make exteriors very modern, but keep all the best historical features in the layouts.
A family project with classic layouts that refers to the history of the place, pictures of MSU professors’ life in light Stalin-era buildings and images of New York skyscrapers from the 60s. When we worked on it, we asked ourselves how we could make exteriors very modern, but keep all the best historical features in the layouts.
WHY THERE ARE NO ONE-ROOM FLATS IN THE PROJECT
Houses will grow on Krzhizhanovskogo street, in the south-west. This district has evolved together with MSU: first the university was built, then professors’ houses appeared around, then other colleges followed. For more than half a century, professors’ families and Moscow intellectuals have lived here in silence, surrounded by greenery. We wanted to support the spirit of this place and make the best residential area for families in Moscow. That’s why layouts in these houses start with two-bedroom apartments.
WHY WE CHOOSE NEO-CLASSICAL LAYOUTS
Stalin-era buildings will be seen out of the windows and we wanted to keep everything good about them in the layouts. We used images of spacious flats in which professors of the Moscow State University lived, with wide windowsills, cozy spacious rooms with high ceilings; and we decided to bring these feelings into the flats. Our house will be neoclassical: it won’t have enormous lofts, rather a collection of the best and well-known pictures of the past but with modern comfort.
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