The round house is built in the architectural style of monumentalism, which is embodied in the facades with recessed loggias and ribbons of balcony fences. Monumentalism - a style in world art and architecture popular until the middle of the twentieth century, gained widespread use in Soviet and Nazi architecture, and in the Soviet space also has the name - Social Realism.
The house is an attempt to build a commune, which consisted of large apartments, which were to become a new form of collective housing, where residents jointly solved household problems: heating homes in the winter, food.
The idea of combining in a single housing structure of collective housing and public service for a certain period becomes the basis of architectural searches and realizations - one of the first examples was the Round House. The building as an architectural and social phenomenon of 1920-1930 was a manifestation of the Soviet avant-garde era, which was later recognized as utopian.
Living in a communist utopia was intended to bring us closer to early Christian models of paradise gardens. At first glance, it seemed that the everyday life of the inhabitants of the future socialist towns should approach the medieval utopian ideas of a paradise city, which originated in ancient civilizations of the Inter-Rivers and were borrowed and incorporated into the European Christian world outlook. The fascination with such a cult in the ideology of Bolshevism was short-lived.
The building has 14 cross-porches, built as a structural first unit of the Sotsmist - a commune house or a commune quarter with a developed system of integrated public service, where the individual functional elements are combined into a single unit.
The round house is built in the architectural style of monumentalism, which is embodied in the facades with recessed loggias and ribbons of balcony fences. Monumentalism - a style in world art and architecture popular until the middle of the twentieth century, gained widespread use in Soviet and Nazi architecture, and in the Soviet space also has the name - Social Realism.
The house is an attempt to build a commune, which consisted of large apartments, which were to become a new form of collective housing, where residents jointly solved household problems: heating homes in the winter, food.
The idea of combining in a single housing structure of collective housing and public service for a certain period becomes the basis of architectural searches and realizations - one of the first examples was the Round House. The building as an architectural and social phenomenon of 1920-1930 was a manifestation of the Soviet avant-garde era, which was later recognized as utopian.
Living in a communist utopia was intended to bring us closer to early Christian models of paradise gardens. At first glance, it seemed that the everyday life of the inhabitants of the future socialist towns should approach the medieval utopian ideas of a paradise city, which originated in ancient civilizations of the Inter-Rivers and were borrowed and incorporated into the European Christian world outlook. The fascination with such a cult in the ideology of Bolshevism was short-lived.
The building has 14 cross-porches, built as a structural first unit of the Sotsmist - a commune house or a commune quarter with a developed system of integrated public service, where the individual functional elements are combined into a single unit.
Public transport to the stop of Metallurgy Ave. Nearby: Sotsmisto, Concert Hall. E. Glinki, DniproGES, Museum of the History of Weapons
The apartment building was designed by architect G. Wegman, located on the ...
The round house is part of quarter # 3 - Sotsgorod, which emerged as a residential complex of the plant "Zaporizhstal", was built during 1933-1937 by the project of the author's team under the direction of the architects G. Orlov and V. Lavrov, who owns the design of the Sixth settlement.
The round house is part of quarter # 3 - Sotsgorod, which emerged as a residential complex of the plant "Zaporizhstal", was built during 1933-1937 by the project of the author's team under the direction of the architects G. Orlov and V. Lavrov, who owns the design of the Sixth settlement.