MEMORIAL COMPLEX AND MUSEUM OF THE DEFENSE AND BLOCKADE OF LENINGRAD
Year: 2017
Bachelor's diploma project
Year: 2017
Bachelor's diploma project
The Museum complex is located in the historical part of St. Petersburg on the Smolnaya embankment not so far from the Smolny Cathedral. It includes the museum building and a regular memorial park around it.
The architecture of the building is very laconic and monumental. The building image is based on the chronology and symbolism of events. Four towers surrounded by water represent a city cut off from the whole world and everyday live. They are visible and everyone knows about them but it is impossible to approach them directly. The number of towers is the number of years of blockade. Each of them expands upward. This creates a feeling of pressure and instability. The museum is divided into two parts: ground and underground. In the ground part - the towers, there is a permanent exhibition telling about the four years of the blockade. Along their perimeter there are four large staircases and four underground pavilions. Through them you can get to the museum. Inside the pavilions are also: an educational center, a library, a restaurant and a museum shop. The underground floor connects the pavilions with the towers. It begins the inspection of the permanent exhibition and houses rooms for temporary exhibitions, as well as an archive for working with museum exhibits. The towers are connected to each other internally by a large lifting ramp. Visitors move along it while viewing the exposition. The upward path symbolizes the movement towards light and liberation, the removal of the blockade. The facades of the museum are faced with limestone slabs, a typical finishing material for public buildings of the era of Soviet modernism.
The architecture of the building is very laconic and monumental. The building image is based on the chronology and symbolism of events. Four towers surrounded by water represent a city cut off from the whole world and everyday live. They are visible and everyone knows about them but it is impossible to approach them directly. The number of towers is the number of years of blockade. Each of them expands upward. This creates a feeling of pressure and instability. The museum is divided into two parts: ground and underground. In the ground part - the towers, there is a permanent exhibition telling about the four years of the blockade. Along their perimeter there are four large staircases and four underground pavilions. Through them you can get to the museum. Inside the pavilions are also: an educational center, a library, a restaurant and a museum shop. The underground floor connects the pavilions with the towers. It begins the inspection of the permanent exhibition and houses rooms for temporary exhibitions, as well as an archive for working with museum exhibits. The towers are connected to each other internally by a large lifting ramp. Visitors move along it while viewing the exposition. The upward path symbolizes the movement towards light and liberation, the removal of the blockade. The facades of the museum are faced with limestone slabs, a typical finishing material for public buildings of the era of Soviet modernism.
At the moment, the St. Petersburg Vodokanal is located on the territory of the memorial park and museum. One of the first ideas was to propose to house the ideas in the existing wastewater treatment plant, which was built in the early 1930s.
Entrance
Temporary exhibition
Museum shops
Privat area
Education area
Main exhibition
Museum archive
Main exhibition
Entrance
Privat area
Library
Museum shops
Privat area
Privat area
Privat area
Underground floor -2
Underground floor -1
Ground floor