Project
Blum House
Category
Best Implemented Adaptation Project of a Cultural Heritage Site
About the project (provided by the applicant)
Built at the end of the 19th century, the building was the home of merchant Andrey Blum. The project involved adapting this locally (municipally) significant cultural heritage site with a façade restoration. A mansard with a corner tower was added, giving the building a new appearance. The increased volume responds to the challenges of the changed urban context. Modern elements integrated into the historical building add new meanings to the intersection and highlight historical artifacts.
Interesting details:
- Rainwater funnels reproduced according to historical photographs
- Dormers with forged railings as an homage to the cast-iron balcony
- Clock on the tower with lighting and the arranged melody “So many golden lights on the streets of Saratov”
- Animatronics synchronized with the clock, with birds (bullfinch, titmouse, goldfinch, starling) hidden in four round attic windows
- Spire weather vane with three starlings
- Preserved historical granite cobblestones at the courtyard entrance
- Ceramic address plaques
Location
20 P. Stolypin Avenue, Saratov, Russia
Project implementation year
2023
Extra visual materials
https://disk.yandex.ru/d/2HYv5LKUGV3XKQ
Applicant
Victoria V. Vasilyeva
Chief architect of the project, Associate Professor at the Department of Architecture, Institute of URBAS, SSTU named after Y.A. Gagarin; Director of NPC “Urbanproject”, SSTU named after Y.A. Gagarin.
Author of the project
Victoria Vasilyeva
Photo
Dmitry Shvedov
Customer
LLC “Sistema pitaniya — Bereg”
Other participants
Ceramic address plaques — Yuri Osinin Ceramic Studio
Clocks and animatronics — Vadim Isachenko Studio
Building lighting — Arthut, Ekaterina Suvorova
Artistic metalwork — Oleg Ryzhenkov
Status of the project
Implemented
