On the Sun and in the Shadow
When designing the resort facilities special importance acquire not only spatial, but also the semantic relationship between architecture and the environment components. The water body shore, the slope or any other terrain, green spaces and other natural factors become active participants of architectural performance. But their role is largely dependent on climatic conditions and the specifics of the resort facilities - its therapeutic and recreational profile and sojourning contingent.
Green technologies more often are concealed from our eyes. They invisibly carry out their noble mission, manifesting themselves only with gleaming solar batteries, or other open engineering elements. The architect is more focused by compositional device or artwork means by which one can achieve not only the basic - the aesthetic qualities of the object but also its sustainably rational, efficient operation, which ensures a harmonious alliance with nature. As for the term “functioning”, here we also don’t want to limit its meaning only to utilitarian processes. It is rather the vital activity, which is somehow seen in the architecture of various purposes, including recreational.
RESORT “KHRUSTALI”
One of the nowadays recreational facilities, designed by architects from PTAM “Vissarionov” is the vacation hotel of “Khrustali” located in the Maloyaroslavetsky region of Kaluga and intended for veterans of Gazprom. In this project the architects had been diligently worked out the method of scenario design, has been tested the model an active lifestyle of adherents in a certain “ideal settlement” in a transparent shade of pine forest on the shore of a small river. Functional content of such an object takes into account and ensures needs for physical labor, sports, art, cultural, leisure, communication, and other active sessions, along with treatment, carrying out health care procedures and medical supervision.
Along with multifarious leisure activities and physiological comfort, the inhabitants of this “town” are immersed in unique atmosphere of mental equilibrium that is achieved, in particular, by selfsustaining natural and architectural environment of this secluded resort “town”. The scale, form, rhythm, color and other features of development are quite modern. At the same time, they are consonant with those old fashioned, familiar, very human that already have become almost bookish areas and neighborhoods, streets and homes, public gardens and gazebos.
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