Palace of Martial Arts
Russian Federation, Cherepovets 2024
Author's team:
Chief architect: Aleksandr Melnichenko
Architects: Vsevolod Gusev, Dmitry Vodovatov
Stage: Architectural competition, finalist
Status: Concept
Organizer: Department of Architecture and Urban Planning of the City Hall of Cherepovets
Address: Russia, Cherepovets, Zasheksninsky district, first line st. Leningradskaya near the Southern Highway
Annotation:
The project is located on the site in the most efficient way, dividing it into two parts diagonally, along the designed road from the southwest - there are parking spaces for employees and visitors of the complex, behind the complex from the northeast - there are sports and recreation areas.
Compositionally, a form was found that met the requirements of functional zoning and the principles of building a volumetric composition. In order to create a building on a scale for a person, a fundamental decision was made - to group the halls not into one monotonous hypertrophied volume, but to divide it into separate functional blocks visually larger in scale for a person and create a play of volumes and facades.
Functionally, the building is divided into two fundamental blocks: training halls and competition halls, between which there is a communication and service function.
The most successful compositional solution was the division into 5 blocks, 2 large one-story competition halls with an entrance and service area for visitors and 3 two-story smaller volumes with training halls and a service function for athletes. In addition to the aesthetic and functional component, this division into 5 volumes also successfully has a symbolic meaning, reflecting the category of Chinese philosophy of the five elements of Wu Xing, which determines the main parameters of the universe. These are fire (火), water (水), wood (木), metal (金) and earth (土). In addition to philosophy, it is widely used in traditional Chinese medicine, fortune-telling practice, martial arts, numerology, and in the art of feng shui.
The roofs of the volumetric blocks are made with an accent with an expressive, smooth silhouette, under the aesthetic inspiration of Asian pagodas and their refined curvilinear outlines. This roof silhouette is intended to give the strict and logical, rectangular structure of the building the necessary artistic expressiveness and recognition, reflecting the spirit of the East and oriental martial arts. The roofs are made of metal using the fold technology with a built-in parapet on the inside, a water intake gutter along the entire perimeter with an internal drain along the walls. This roof structure is supported by large-span forms and a curvilinear upper belt. When designing the entrance groups, it was necessary to organize canopies over the entrances that have artistic expressiveness in order to reflect at the level of the 1st floor the spirit close to oriental architecture, the canopies are not made as separate objects, but as a single belt along the perimeter of the building, which has both a decorative and functional meaning, increasing above the entrance area and turning into a covered gallery with a red colonnade and a black belt, directing to the entrance groups for athletes and spectators and protecting them from precipitation. This gallery-pergola also forms semi-open square patio courtyards, in every sense being a successful reference to Asian patio courtyards and symbolizing the black belt so desired by athletes.
The building facades are made of large-format vertically oriented metal cassettes, with a chaotic outline achieved through a combination of 3 shades and several formats across the width of the cassette. The facades, in contrast to the horizontal gallery belt, symbolize an upward striving, like stone blocks of cliffs.
The central roof - the communication connecting block - is made flat, lowered due to the lack of need for large-span trusses and low ceilings in the corridors of the 2nd floor. It is possible to place engineering equipment on it without compromising the aesthetics of the building's silhouette.
The building uses a frame system: load-bearing reinforced concrete columns and metal trusses covering large-span halls. The facades are made of sandwich panels with subsequent cladding using a curtain wall system made of metal cassettes with a designer silhouette.
In the semi-open courtyards "patios" there are recreation areas and entrance groups. The height of the pergola = 4500 mm. This allows for the organization of both the passage of cars to the VIP entrance and special equipment for fire extinguishing.
In the open parking lot there are "green islands" with lawns and trees, which reduce the heating of the asphalt and cars, due to the falling shadow.
Chief architect: Aleksandr Melnichenko
Architects: Vsevolod Gusev, Dmitry Vodovatov
Stage: Architectural competition, finalist
Status: Concept
Organizer: Department of Architecture and Urban Planning of the City Hall of Cherepovets
Address: Russia, Cherepovets, Zasheksninsky district, first line st. Leningradskaya near the Southern Highway
Annotation:
The project is located on the site in the most efficient way, dividing it into two parts diagonally, along the designed road from the southwest - there are parking spaces for employees and visitors of the complex, behind the complex from the northeast - there are sports and recreation areas.
Compositionally, a form was found that met the requirements of functional zoning and the principles of building a volumetric composition. In order to create a building on a scale for a person, a fundamental decision was made - to group the halls not into one monotonous hypertrophied volume, but to divide it into separate functional blocks visually larger in scale for a person and create a play of volumes and facades.
Functionally, the building is divided into two fundamental blocks: training halls and competition halls, between which there is a communication and service function.
The most successful compositional solution was the division into 5 blocks, 2 large one-story competition halls with an entrance and service area for visitors and 3 two-story smaller volumes with training halls and a service function for athletes. In addition to the aesthetic and functional component, this division into 5 volumes also successfully has a symbolic meaning, reflecting the category of Chinese philosophy of the five elements of Wu Xing, which determines the main parameters of the universe. These are fire (火), water (水), wood (木), metal (金) and earth (土). In addition to philosophy, it is widely used in traditional Chinese medicine, fortune-telling practice, martial arts, numerology, and in the art of feng shui.
The roofs of the volumetric blocks are made with an accent with an expressive, smooth silhouette, under the aesthetic inspiration of Asian pagodas and their refined curvilinear outlines. This roof silhouette is intended to give the strict and logical, rectangular structure of the building the necessary artistic expressiveness and recognition, reflecting the spirit of the East and oriental martial arts. The roofs are made of metal using the fold technology with a built-in parapet on the inside, a water intake gutter along the entire perimeter with an internal drain along the walls. This roof structure is supported by large-span forms and a curvilinear upper belt. When designing the entrance groups, it was necessary to organize canopies over the entrances that have artistic expressiveness in order to reflect at the level of the 1st floor the spirit close to oriental architecture, the canopies are not made as separate objects, but as a single belt along the perimeter of the building, which has both a decorative and functional meaning, increasing above the entrance area and turning into a covered gallery with a red colonnade and a black belt, directing to the entrance groups for athletes and spectators and protecting them from precipitation. This gallery-pergola also forms semi-open square patio courtyards, in every sense being a successful reference to Asian patio courtyards and symbolizing the black belt so desired by athletes.
The building facades are made of large-format vertically oriented metal cassettes, with a chaotic outline achieved through a combination of 3 shades and several formats across the width of the cassette. The facades, in contrast to the horizontal gallery belt, symbolize an upward striving, like stone blocks of cliffs.
The central roof - the communication connecting block - is made flat, lowered due to the lack of need for large-span trusses and low ceilings in the corridors of the 2nd floor. It is possible to place engineering equipment on it without compromising the aesthetics of the building's silhouette.
The building uses a frame system: load-bearing reinforced concrete columns and metal trusses covering large-span halls. The facades are made of sandwich panels with subsequent cladding using a curtain wall system made of metal cassettes with a designer silhouette.
In the semi-open courtyards "patios" there are recreation areas and entrance groups. The height of the pergola = 4500 mm. This allows for the organization of both the passage of cars to the VIP entrance and special equipment for fire extinguishing.
In the open parking lot there are "green islands" with lawns and trees, which reduce the heating of the asphalt and cars, due to the falling shadow.