ARCHITECT: Russian architects and French

studio(Sade Sarl)
LOCATION: Beside Eiffel Tower, Paris
BUILDING TYPE: Spiritual center
CONSTRUCTION SYSTEM: Glass

The site is located in the eastern corner of the large
triangle formed by avenue Rapp, quai Branly and
avenue de la Bourdonnais.
One of the most important components of the design
here proposed is the large garden which occupies the
entire site.
This garden is open for the public.
NORTHERN FAADE:
Tourist walkway from Notre Damn to Eiffel Tower.
Directly abutting the complex is an old palace building



On the other side of the palace is the world famous
museum which has a wall of glass facing the
embankment and screening of its garden.
The design involves the creation of a new internal alley
on the site running between the existing palace and
the Russian orthodox church.

Idea behind the complex is to employ traditional church architecture in
a modern cultural and religious complex.
The unifying element is a transparent canopy which descends from the
domes of the church, covers the garden and bends around the
reconstructed corner building.
As in traditional Christian church complex, the entire area around the
church is a garden with a perimeter wall.
In this design its boundary is more symbolic than real since it consists
of a glass wall made from coated glass of reduced reflectivity.
On the glass wall the static and dynamic images are displayed.
Creating both open and closed space and to set up an interaction
between holographic characters and objects and the real world,
creating a new type of communication in real time.


The church is situated at the spot where the ribbon of the canopy
and the ribbon of the garden coming together in the corner
building.
Passing through the entire site is a new alley, which is paved with
large slabs of stone with grass growing between them.
The project uses three main materials:
white stone for the church(symbolizing Russian tradition),
Paris stone for the corner building and glass for the canopy
(symbolizing openness and protection)
The canopy covers the three main parts of the complex the
church
the garden
reconstructed corner building.


Located at the center of the site and the center of the garden and
behind the glass faade.
Building the church in a style deriving from the 14 16
th
centuries as a
pure and simple structure which will be especially clearly legible
against the background of the side faade of the palace.
The church has five domes and three naves and lateral sanctuaries.
Its main volume confirms the elongated portion of the traditional
church.
The floor area of the interior is 400sqm.
There is a single altar underground church.
The church is constructed of large slabs of white limestone.
The main western entrance to the church is from the new alley.
There are two additional entrance on the south and the north side.


THE DOMES:
The domes are to be constructed using a special technology
which will give them a traditional appearance during the
day but allowing a golden light to show the paint at night.
All the drums of the churchs domes are glazed.
The windows of the drums and the walls of the church are
designed in such a way as to avoid direct sunlight.
The interior will have traditional wall paintings in the style
of Andrey Rublev.
The western sanctuary at the main entrance has a staircase
leading down to the lower church.

The system of the terrace and the green roof and terrace of
the cultural center of the building, the garden occupies the
entrance of the building.
The low bell tower forms the highest point of the complex
on the roof of the corner building.
Most of the plants in the garden are Trinity Greenery of
the kind that is traditional plants in Russia.
On one corner of the site near the new alley three existing
tree have to be preserved, they form the organic part of the
garden, surveying the symbol of the tactful and the caring
attitude to the history of this site and of the city as awhole.


No separate building for cultural center.
The entire complex under the canopy is a spiritual and cultural
center.
This building makes the entire complex seems to go out of the
historical flesh of Paris.
Modern faade created from recycled blocks of stone taken from
the faade of the building that has been dismantled from this
site.
The two top residential stories are set back relative to the bottom
stories and screened by a transparent glass-less mesh, canopy
covering the garden.
The conference hall of the cultural center is in the basement
under the garden.
Inside the building has an atrium stretching to its full height and
admitting natural light to its basement level.