Sumit Singhal Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination.
Comfort Town in Kiev, Ukraine by ARCHIMATIKA
January 16th, 2019 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: ARCHIMATIKA
The first residential complex in Ukraine based on the block development principle, instead of customary Soviet micro-district type.
Different number of stories of adjacent buildings (ranging from 2 to 16 floors) forms a picturesque image of every street. A restored park with perennial trees, sculptures and a fountain, block development, pedestrian courtyards where you can play with children – all that makes this residential neighborhood intimate and cozy. It has set a new level of quality in a residential building due to the block development. Thus, the industrial territory turned into a good living environment and the status of the district as a whole increased. Residents have received a complex, comfortable environment with green pedestrian courtyards. Full infrastructural service includes fitness clubs, stores, kindergartens and schools.
Comfort Town is one of the most successful residential property projects in Ukraine. Sales indicators peaked at over 200 apartments per month.
Creating a residential block that would sell itself even in the time of crisis, with the optimal cost price and attractive environment for future residents.
Optimizing both construction cost price and technology
Finding a technique that would use several standard sections to create a district from 150 repetitions of these sections while making it non-boring and comfortable
Preserving existing green areas left after demolition of factory
Challenge:
Transforming an industrial zone into ideal housing for happy people
Creating the first medium-rise neighborhood and the first block development project in Kyiv
Finding an image for an attractive residential neighborhood consisting of several types of repeating sections
Block development helped divide the space into two types: streets (allowing for motor traffic) and courtyards (located inside the block and featuring children’s playgrounds, benches and alleys). Motor vehicles cannot enter these inner courtyards, with the exception of emergency service vehicles which can use widened passageways paved with grass paver.
Block development allowed to increase the length of passageways, thus providing more parking spots comparing to the micro-district type of development.
Having preserved all green areas that existed on this site and all existing landscape elements, we have received a habitable environment ready for development and featuring a garden park and a recreation area.
In the conditions of limited cost price, we have created sections from simple geometric shapes and made flat facades, thus excluding balconies and decorative elements and focusing on three techniques:
silhouette: different turns and height of dual-pitch roofs allowed us to achieve an interesting silhouette
window: we were first in Kyiv to use the French balcony system and the window shifting system, which allowed us to avoid monotonous rows
color: the first daring color solution for a residential neighborhood in the country
Gable roofs are made from grooved metal. It was the range of manufacturers of grooved metal which determined the choice of color for particular sections. To compensate the brightness of this range, we introduced pastel shades in some places, and since their share wasn’t big, we were able to order, in the conditions of cost price, the necessary colors for individual painting and achieve a harmonious combination of bright and pastel shades.
Hardships:
Limited budget of the project, commencement of work during a global economic crisis
Revitalization of an industrial area for a residential complex
Comfort Town is the most successful commercial project in Ukraine in the residential property sector for the last 25 years
The Comfort Town area includes the Academy of Modern Education, a children’s complex consisting of a 160-seat kindergarten, a 140-seat elementary school and the 600-seat Academy А+ school
The residential complex also includes a 4500-sq.m retail complex with a supermarket, a 4600-sq.m fitness complex with three swimming pools and gyms, a 1.5-hectare complex of outdoor sports grounds, cafes, stores and offices on lower floors of apartment buildings, and an own maintenance service
The complex’s parking facilities include three multi-story above-ground parking garages for 1000 cars, and another 5 parking garages for 1500 cars are designed for the next line of construction
Comfort Town has its own active forum of residents
The initial design featured an open-access complex, but the neighborhood’s bad surroundings prompted the residents to erect a fence
The average number of stories in the complex is 8
The total area of the Comfort Town premise (including new construction lines) exceeds 40 hectares
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