Video: "Flat" house on Taganka: architectural miracle and optical illusion of the beginning of the last century
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
"Flat" houses always attract attention, because this is surprising: a tall narrow multi-storey "wall" stands and does not fall. In fact, of course, they are not flat at all, but this is exactly the effect these buildings produce on passers-by, if you look at them from a certain angle. And, what is most interesting, these unusual buildings for some reason are not widely known among the townspeople. An example of this is the flat house on Taganka. Few people know him, even from Muscovites. Of course, also due to the fact that for many years it was closed from passers-by with a construction net …
The house got its "flatness" thanks to an ingenious architectural project. The building with a beveled corner appeared due to the unusual shape of the site and the owner's desire to use the land area as efficiently as possible. Before the revolution, it was used as a tenement house.
A five-storey apartment building with very high ceilings and wooden floors, from the outside something like a ship or a wall (depending on which side you look from), was erected in 1914 next to the more classical buildings already on this street. In other words, at that time this house was a new building that stood out quite strongly against the general background. Since it was not customary to build buildings of this form in the Soviet years, after the revolution this "upstart" remained the only one not unique in the old, and even in the new capital. This does not mean that flat houses have not been built and are not being built anywhere else. It's just that they are all completely different.
In Soviet times, the apartment building-wall on Taganka, as well as in other similar buildings, was populated by motley families, and it became an ordinary five-story building. They inherited from the pre-revolutionary tenants huge double doors with twisted metal handles, kitchens with a chimney for a samovar, stucco moldings on the ceilings - in general, everything in this building was saturated with the spirit of an irrevocably gone tsarist era.
In the second half of the last century, this house began to age gradually, communications - to wear out, walls and wooden floors - to decay. As a result, residents began to be relocated to other areas.
For a long time, the house remained abandoned, but a few years ago the authorities began to renovate it. It is now almost complete. Many Muscovites, hurrying past this house to work every day, did not even suspect what was behind the building behind the construction grid.
Now those who first notice the restored flat house are surprised: “Well, wow! How does he stand and not fall? In general, the optical illusion, created more than a hundred years ago by a talented architect, still works today.
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