Contemporary Framework of Housing for Multifunctional Territories of Former Industrial Zones
The general tendency to reconstruct Moscow industrial estate consists in transforming them into multifunctional territories, where the residential function is one of the major instruments of shaping the environment. In this connection, the question arises about the purposive choice of typology and architectural and planning solutions for housing, which is embedded in the structure of multifunctional territories. The present article considers the types of housing, which has originated in the new economic conditions. They are the apartments, lofts, apart-hotels, condo apart-hotels. Nowadays, these types of housing already exist de facto, but legally are considered residential buildings. They are developing and occupying one third of the market in the newly built residential quarters of the capital. The article represents the architectural typology of the buildings with the residential function as preliminary results of the research of housing of the multifunctional territories, which has been carried out on the basis of different types of “residential-cells”