The aim of A101: Urban Block Competition is to create typical housing project of a Moscow region neighborhood conveniently named A101. The projects should correspond to plottage, number of floors and another typical indicators defined by developer project.
Our project A101: Urban Block Competition is called 'Random'. The project is relevant to the aims of the contest and has its original features—aesthetics, which is not common for typical architectural solutions and cost–efficiency. Building composing typical neighborhood can be combined in various combinations like a constructor—significant number of variations can be created using limited quantity of blocks. Thus, it makes the project truly typical, affordable and multi–functional on the one hand and allows avoiding dull and ordinary architectural solutions that are common for residential districts. We believe it will make each neighborhood unique and will please the eye.
'Random' project offers unique solution—being typical on the one hand, affordable and simple on the other—it allows constructing typical objects, which are unique in their own way. This solution offer new opportunities for perfecting low-cost but quality municipal building and allows to solve the issue of typical buildings aesthetics.
About Random
A basis for the design is traditional architecture of European towns—modest human-scale houses built close to each other.
Four-storey neighborhood placed around the periphery of the building site consists of separate modular units. It can be modified by means of random selection approach arrangement: three types of space concept, three finishing colors, and three window types—stirred and not shaken. Such usage of separate units enables to vary neighborhood size.
In case of arranging public spaces or access ramps on the ground floor brickwork areas start from the first storey.
The necessary parking spaces are situated in underground garage, which is placed under the basement courtyard affording inner quarter space being used comfortably. Parking stairways are combined with clear-stories for daylighting.