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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. «Alliance 1892» Brandy Distillery Museum & Warehouse in Chernyakhovsk, Russia by TOTEMENT/PAPERJune 5th, 2019 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: TOTEMENT/PAPER The building is located in Kaliningrad region in old German town which was seriously damaged during World War II. In an empty place adjacent to the railroad a modern plant of brandy production was built. Our task was a warehouse building project which apart from its main function – storing brandy tierces – would serve as a place of meetings and com-munication, guests reception as well as a symbol of creation and rebirth, demonstrating the role of the plant in the city life. The applied while considering all the parts of the project has led us to creation of an ex-tremely symbolical architectural ensemble.
 Image Courtesy © Gleb Leonov and Anna Ponomareva
 Image Courtesy © Gleb Leonov and Anna Ponomareva Starting with the notion that the initial material brandy manufacturing deals with is a grapevine (a most mystical image in Christian symbols, embodying the sense of Tree of Life as well as Eucharist and Paradise (Holly Fire)) and wine (Divine Blood), — we decid-ed to place the form under the authority of literary symbols, which are to create the images of harmonious interaction of various symbols and signs, sometimes opposite and antagonis-tic, but making stable pairs, giving rise to a new symbol.  Image Courtesy © Gleb Leonov and Anna Ponomareva  Image Courtesy © Gleb Leonov and Anna Ponomareva Internal and external, male and female, low and high, closed and opened, wood and metal – here is just a short list of pairs, which we used in order to create shapes of the buildings. A low wooden building, serving as a warehouse, embodies an image of Earth “giving birth to” – it is an image of a woman protecting and bearing. It is bound to the earth tightly, grows into it, grows from it and protects and preserves a birth in it. It is an Yin sign, deep, cool, low — internal. A high capacity made from metal is reaching for the sky and is associated to light, mind, external, male. It is slightly liable and mobile, opened (the capacity has simply been torn and burns like a candle at night).  Image Courtesy © Gleb Leonov and Anna Ponomareva  Image Courtesy © Gleb Leonov and Anna Ponomareva The low part of the capacity is turning into a ladder, which as a triangle runs into the hori-zontal capacity, allowing visitors to examine the warehouse interior, without entering. At the same time a tail of the wooden block on the other side also gets into the corpus of the high capacity as a triangle. In this plexus they give birth to a space between and inside themselves, organizing the around space together.  Image Courtesy © Gleb Leonov and Anna Ponomareva  Image Courtesy © Gleb Leonov and Anna Ponomareva Buildings have been designed basing on the same geometrical platform (by which they are connected to the cognac distillery main building and to the site geometry as well). Each line both horizontal (according to the plan) and vertical (facades and sections) has been deter-mined by a complicated geometrical scheme, which itself has formed the capacities of the buildings, and the architects appeared to be just tools of this structure, after it had been cre-ated by them. The third object — a checkpoint, is the beginning — the gates to the following stage of the project — the creation of a park — a new line.  Image Courtesy © Gleb Leonov and Anna Ponomareva  Image Courtesy © Gleb Leonov and Anna Ponomareva  Image Courtesy © Gleb Leonov and Anna Ponomareva  Image Courtesy © Gleb Leonov and Anna Ponomareva  Image Courtesy © Gleb Leonov and Anna Ponomareva  Image Courtesy © Gleb Leonov and Anna Ponomareva  Image Courtesy © Gleb Leonov and Anna Ponomareva  Image Courtesy © Gleb Leonov and Anna Ponomareva  Image Courtesy © Gleb Leonov and Anna Ponomareva  Scheme-01, Image Courtesy © TOTEMENT/PAPER  Scheme-02, Image Courtesy © TOTEMENT/PAPER  Scheme-04, Image Courtesy © TOTEMENT/PAPER  Dance, Image Courtesy © TOTEMENT/PAPER  Basement, Image Courtesy © TOTEMENT/PAPER  First floor, Image Courtesy © TOTEMENT/PAPER  Section 1-1, Image Courtesy © TOTEMENT/PAPER  Image Courtesy © TOTEMENT/PAPER
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