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Kristall Factory Reconstruction
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Under Construction
SIZE
500,000 sqft - 1,000,000 sqft
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Undisclosed
Kristall Factory is the adaptive reuse of one of Moscow’s most significant industrial ensembles, located on the banks of the Yauza River in the Lefortovo district. Founded in 1901 as Moscow State Wine Warehouse No. 1, the factory operated on its original site for more than a century, shaping the industrial and social history of the area until production was relocated outside the city in 2013.
NOWADAYS office approaches the transformation of Kristall as the reactivation of a historically layered urban fabric. Working at the scale of the entire ensemble, the project establishes a master plan that reintegrates the former production territory into the city. New streets, courtyards, squares, and public passages emerge on the footprint of former workshops, forming a new urban toponymy while preserving the logic of the industrial layout.
A central spatial element is an elevated public square that unifies the site and organizes pedestrian movement. Parking infrastructure is placed beneath it, freeing the ground level for public use and landscape. Former industrial water tanks are carefully reinterpreted: one is converted into a cultural venue, while the second is preserved as a spatial outline — a built blueprint that marks memory without assigning a new function.
The architectural language is defined by a precise boundary between old and new. Historic buildings retain their material density and industrial character, while contemporary volumes are clearly legible. New architecture introduces its own material logic: one building is clad in glass blocks, a direct reminiscence of the factory’s name — Kristall — while another replaces traditional red brick with red ceramic tiles, echoing the color of the historic fabric without copying its form.
NOWADAYS office approaches the transformation of Kristall as the reactivation of a historically layered urban fabric. Working at the scale of the entire ensemble, the project establishes a master plan that reintegrates the former production territory into the city. New streets, courtyards, squares, and public passages emerge on the footprint of former workshops, forming a new urban toponymy while preserving the logic of the industrial layout.
A central spatial element is an elevated public square that unifies the site and organizes pedestrian movement. Parking infrastructure is placed beneath it, freeing the ground level for public use and landscape. Former industrial water tanks are carefully reinterpreted: one is converted into a cultural venue, while the second is preserved as a spatial outline — a built blueprint that marks memory without assigning a new function.
The architectural language is defined by a precise boundary between old and new. Historic buildings retain their material density and industrial character, while contemporary volumes are clearly legible. New architecture introduces its own material logic: one building is clad in glass blocks, a direct reminiscence of the factory’s name — Kristall — while another replaces traditional red brick with red ceramic tiles, echoing the color of the historic fabric without copying its form.
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