Eureka
This project attempts to extract and casually put together the better quali-
ties of both prototypical situations: Europe+Russia = Eureka
On the one hand, EUREKA maintains the spacious parameters of a classi-
cal block and secures the private exclusive character of its inner commu-
nal courtyard. The proposed composition is easily recognized as an urban
unit: it gives a sense of particular address in the city and makes clear
distinction between the private and public/street space.
On the other hand, it plays out the familiar scale of the five-storey build-
ing and the qualities of the standard Soviet layout. With traditional
proportions improved, building materials brought to another level, and
apartments planned to suit contemporary lifestyles, EUREKA still ac-
knowledges its distant kinship with the microrayon and on the scale of
the individual building - with khrushchevka. It is an ideal living environ-
ment for those who grew up in the Soviet city but work and travel today
all over the world.
