The housing areas in Moscow City are undergoing massive transformations. The demand for housing is extremely high. In many districts the typical 5-story blocks make way for high rise apartment buildings, putting pressure on the neighborhood and making the insolation requirements (sunlight on the facade of the new and the existing neighboring buildings) the top priority design challenge.
The “saw tooth” plan offers to each apartment windows in two directions. Therefore the apartment catches twice the amount of direct sunlight per day. This layout forms the base typology of the two buildings.
The blocks are developed as one ensemble with a strong identity. Within this ensemble the towers vary, just like individual persons can be different, but still everybody sees that they belong to the same family.
The influential Amsterdam School was the inspiration for the design of the architectural appearance of the blocks.