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Restoration Narkomfin "


 Investment Group Copernicus resume the project of scientific restoration of the House of People's Commissariat "

Investment Group "Copernicus" resume the project of the restoration of the House of People's Commissariat "- the famous house-commune 1928-1930 years. building, located on Novinsky Boulevard.

"Narkomfin" - the most important architectural monument of the first half of the twentieth century, was built by one of the ideologists of constructivism M. Ginsburg co-authored with I. Milinis under the auspices of the People's Commissar (Minister) of Finance N. Milutin as a model residential house-commune People's Commissariat for employees. Feature of the building is a unique three-tier plan "apartments-cells, and the fact that much of the accommodation was" socialized "and moved to separate" Shared housing, which have been dining kitchen, gym, laundry room and a solarium. However, the utopian picture of a joint public life has never been incarnated as the building was completed by the time these ideas have lost their popularity.

The fate of the house was not easy - it has never been renovated, and since the 1970's because of the high degree of dilapidation and deterioration building was meant for resettlement and demolition.

In 2006, thanks to the efforts of the public house, a municipality was considered an architectural monument. Renowned architect Alexei Ginzburg (grandson of the author of the draft M. Ginzburg), with the participation of Moskomnasledie drafted scientific restoration and adaptation "House of the People's Commissariat 'a boutique-style hotel in the Soviet avant-garde.

The restoration project involves the demolition of later additions, a return to the original concept of the building and preservation of unique layouts "flat-cells." This proposal was supported by the Moscow Government. As an investor of the project was the company MIAN, which held ransom and resettlement of most of the apartments.

In connection with the financial crisis in 2008 was suspended, abandoned areas came at a critical state, due to open access to the building in the "free" homes had settled the homeless, there were fires and vandalism. During this period, representatives of the international architectural community and the residents are not settled the remaining 12 apartments have repeatedly made demands to the city on the crossing project.

Currently, Investment Group "Copernicus" is ready to resume the project of scientific restoration. Since a significant part of the premises houses the memorial, including "Shared housing is a municipal property, a joint venture with the Moscow government, whose main objectives is the resettlement of the remaining flats (municipal and privatized), and further implementation of the previously announced project to transform the monument into a unique boutique Hotel.

To minimize risks in an empty apartment, work to restore the emergency (fire), wiring and antifungal treatment of the walls. Prior to the restoration of supply of creative unions and organizations of Moscow in a few apartments arranged temporary workshops, residences for young artists.

In parallel, renewed his charitable foundation "People's Commissariat, which aims to research and educational activities in the field of architectural heritage of Russian avant-garde, and studying, compiling and using the experience of scientific restoration of monuments.