05/04/2025
The next layout is a logical continuation of the previous one. This is the very «dominant» of the development of the district. The architect «had a project of an unacceptably high in nine-point seismic and on subsidence ground building of a 22-storey hotel, a building completely torn from the ground by an interlayer of water, a kind of «float house», a combination of a children’s toy «vanka-stand up» with a steamer that entered the dock, centrically balanced, with a giant inner atrium, with a low center of gravity. This building, insensitive to any seismic shocks, weighing 75 thousand tons, was kept afloat by a layer of water 2 meters thick. A little later, similar atriums, being implemented in the United States, and later we will receive the names «Portman». The sun cutters designed on the facades allowed to cover the building entirely in the shade in the summer heat, and in the winter cold to open it towards the sun, receiving even some mirror sun captures from the north side. A new, integral, quite appropriate, beyond any stylizations and borrowings, modern, as if, national form was born.» Our model shows the building with a cut.