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Barkli Park Homes in Moscow
Housing and Sport-Center Development in Russia ? design by Atrium, architects
9 Feb 2017
Barkli Park Homes
Architects: Atrium
Location: Sovetskoi Armii str 6, Moscow, Russia
Barkli Park Homes

Barkli Park is a residential complex with a Moscow Committee of Sport sport-center. It is situated in a neighborhood built mostly in the soviet period, but on the border of the Ekaterininsky historical park. There was a small sport-school on the site previously, so the developer had to compensate for it with spaces in the new building. As a result the architects had two clients on the same plot.

The Moscow Committee of Sport decided to upgrade the status of the former school and now it is The Center of Sport Innovative Technologies and Training of National Teams. One of the new things it needed was the running track, the length of which could fit along the street only.
That fact determined the composition of the whole building with private courtyard for residents inside (there is a wicket gate to the park).

Proximity to the Ekaterinsky park determined the gradient design of facades, that visually dissolve as they become closer to the greenery. Architects tried to create a dynamic rhythm on the glass facade by incorporating balconies and oriels in different parts of flats. At the same time the park acquires a vertical dimension, moving through the yard to the floors and r...