Horseshoe Garage (Moscow)

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Horseshoe garage

The horseshoe garage is a large garage planned by the Soviet architect Konstantin Melnikow and the Soviet engineer Vladimir Grigoryevich Shukhov in the years 1926–1927 at 27 Novo-Ryazanskaya Street in Moscow . The garage was made of masonry in the avant-garde style represented by Melnikow and covered by a steel structure. It is located in the Krasnoselsky district, near the terminus of the Kazan Railway Station .

The two-storey garage was planned for 110 trucks per storey, which had to take the parking positions in reverse gear so that the space in the building could be optimally used. The building was accessed through entrances and exits at an angle of 45 ° to the street. The workshop and administration building is located between the two ends of the horseshoe .

The horseshoe garage was still used as a garage until 2011 and was the seat of Moscow's Fourth Bus Depot. Because today's buses in Moscow are longer than the trucks of the 1920s, the parking regulations are no longer as effective as intended in Melnikov's draft.

A second building by the architect / engineer couple Melnikow / Schuchow is the Bachmetevsky bus garage, which was also built a few years earlier in Moscow and provides a fundamentally different parking arrangement or arrangement for entry and exit. The Moscow Jewish Museum opened in the converted building in November 2012 .

literature

  • SO Chan-Magomedov: Konstantin Melʹnikov. Series: Masters of Architecture. Archtektura-S publishing house, Moscow 2006, ISBN 5-9647009-5-0 . (in Russian language).
  • KS Melnikow: Architektura mojej shchisni. Tvicheskaya Konzepzija. Tvicheskaya internships. Iskusstwo, Moscow 1985. (in Russian)
  • EM Schuchowa: Vladimir Grigoryevich Schuchow. Pervu Inschenjer Rossii. MGTU publishing house, Moscow 2003, ISBN 5-7038-2295-5 . (in Russian language)
  • S. Frederick Starr : Melnikow. Solo Architect in a Mass Society . Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey 1978, ISBN 0-691-03931-3 . (English)

Web links

Commons : Horseshoe Garage (Moscow)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Diana Laarz: Shtetl in the bus depot . In: Juedische-allgemeine.de , November 12, 2012, accessed on June 22, 2020.


Coordinates: 55 ° 46 ′ 20 ″  N , 37 ° 39 ′ 57 ″  E