he development project of the quarter, taking into account the location of the administrative building of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan, was developed on the basis of the Order of the Head of the Executive Committee of Kazan, the program and conditions of the closed competition for the best conceptual design of the development of the quarter, taking into account the location of the administrative building of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan .
The space-planning idea of the Ministry building is to harmonize it with the complex of the Kazan Kremlin and neighboring buildings. The Kazan Kremlin is a historical pearl of Kazan. Next to it, in our opinion, architecture in the style of past eras is best combined. Therefore, it was decided to design the building in the classicist style, in the spirit of Belle Epoque prevailing in the second half of the 19th century - the golden age of architecture. In order for the building not to compete with the Kazan Kremlin in the panorama of the city, it was necessary to limit it to a four-level storey and arrange it in length. The building is integrated into the slope of a fifteen-meter hill and exceeds its height by only one floor. This ensured the maximum underestimation of the building relative to the Kremlin hill.
The idea of the building itself was that the Ministerial building would look extremely monumental. For this, authentic architectural orders (Corinthian, Ionic, Doric) were chosen in the processing of facades, strictly adhering to Vignola's treatise on five orders in architecture.
The center of the composition of the building of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food is a tree (twenty meters high), inscribed in a deep arch. This tree symbolizes fertility and prosperity. Agriculture is essentially concerned with the cultivation of wildlife. A large tree, inscribed in a strict classical arch, symbolizes the beauty of the nature that man cultivates. The second important detail of the building is its central dome. It is made in the form of a slotted, spirally twisted sphere. The dome has a classical silhouette as it is part of a classical building, but its slotted latticework and swirling helix add a touch of oriental architecture.
Kazan is a city where both Eastern and Western cultures have been present since ancient times. And in our project, we wanted to express the idea of a harmonious combination of these two cultures with the domed part of the Ministerial building.
planning idea
According to the APL, the building should have three separate entrances:
- for employees of the Ministry
- for employees of the agro -industrial complex
- for the management of the Ministry.
In our design solution, the central part of the building is the halls and lobbies located one above the other, and the right and left parts are two autonomous parts of the building connected to each other by floor corridors. Accordingly, one wing (the first three levels) belongs to the agro-industrial complex, and the other wing belongs to the employees of the Ministry. Therefore, on the facade from Fedoseevskaya street there are two main entrances. The entrance for the leadership of the Ministry is located on the fourth level from the side of Nagornaya Street, and this entire level in the majority belongs to the governing apparatus.
The planning decision was influenced by the fact that the building with its southern part crashes into the slope. As a result, there was a shortage of insolated area. To address this issue, three atriums were introduced in the roof, which illuminate both the office, vestibule and parking areas. Due to the proximity and backwater of groundwater, we did not introduce a basement floor for parking. Parking is located on the first floor of the building.
Structural solutions
For the implementation of this project, a structural scheme with a monolithic supporting frame was used.
The foundations are piled with a monolithic reinforced concrete grillage. Columns and floors from monolithic reinforced concrete. External walls are self-supporting with external cladding made of fiber-reinforced concrete elements and facing bricks.
Internal walls made of light partitions with sound insulation. The roof is flat with an internal drain. Doors and windows are wooden. Atrium cover made of aluminum profile.
The main dome is made of prefabricated fiber-reinforced concrete elements. Architectural elements (columns, balustrade, cornices) made of fiber-reinforced concrete. Floors with soundproofing screed. Suspended ceilings for engineering communications.
The transport scheme allows you to provide access to all sides of the building. We have also introduced road transport between Nagornaya and Fedoseevskaya streets without going to B. Krasnaya and Baturin streets.
The planning idea of the adjacent territory is that between the building of the Ministry, the Kazanka River and the foot of the Kremlin there is a city park. Baturina Street is expanding according to the red lines with a parking area at the intersection of Baturina Street and Fedoseevskaya Dam for the convenience of visiting the park.
The Fedoseevskaya dam is being expanded for the construction of a road and a sidewalk zone with the location of trade pavilions. A boulevard runs from the central axis of the Ministry building to the embankment and through it to an artificial peninsula, where there is a restaurant, a berth for light ships and a high fountain (80m) from the water surface, in the image of the Geneva Fountain. Fedoseevskaya dam, thus, turns into a spacious embankment adjacent to the city park.
