New Life of Old Structures
Reconstruction of residential, public, industrial and cultural facilities in Russia is a distinctive mark of the recent years. It is aimed at offering more comfort and safety enhancing urban aesthetics. Application of obsolete construction technologies and insufficient heat insulation of walling lead to higher operation costs, substantial energy losses and mass environmental pollution. The contemporary solutions of world and domestic science offer effective way out.
Rehabilitation of residential buildings using TATPROF construction system.
Following the German habit the reconstruction of residential structures is often called “apartment rehabilitation”. The need for “sanitation” of multi-apartment houses at present is rather urgent in connection with the fact that most of them, in all without the exception cities of Russia, are much outworn. Rehabilitation of a building is the set of measures directed toward restoration of initial technical state of it; enhancing of living conditions; energy saving (reduction of wasted consumption) and raising of real estate’s market value.
Reconstruction or rehabilitation is most frequently launched when the facade became out-of-date, but the building is yet not beyond its service life or there is no way to redevelop the site - demolition and erection of a new building of the same purpose. Rehabilitation using TATPROF construction system is being deployed in Sochi as a stage of preparation for XXII Winter Olympic Games 2014.
In line with the regional specialpurpose program “Construction of Olympic facilities and development of Sochi as a mountain-climate and balneological resort (2008-2013) the residential blocks at Navaginskaya Street were rehabilitated. The aluminum section of TATPROF construction system was used for used for reconstruction. The technical solutions based on TATPROF ventilated facade system were customized by the TATPROF’s partner in the South Federal Region - design bureau Facade Technologies (Stavropol’).
Navaginskaya Street is the central retail avenue of Sochi. It springs from Kurortnyi Avenue close to that famous “Singing Fountains” locking right in front of the railway station. Here’s the mall with many fashion shops, cafes and night clubs. Bustling around the clock (especially during the high season) makes the street looking like Moscow’s Arbat, and its architecture obviously needed rejuvenation.
It is notable that in the course of reconstruction the tenants were reluctant to get rid of all those illassorted canopies, window bar screens, clotheslines and attached conditioner units. Nevertheless, it was necessary to remove them, since they spoil the appearance of front facades violating at the same time the city-planning code in force. Today Navaginskaya Street preserving its inherent southern flavour looks distinctly younger, up-to-date, which reinforce the present status of the city - the capital of the future Winter Olympics.
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