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Address: 3, Gikalo Street,
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Business and residential minipolis «Kaskad»
Business and residential minipolis Kaskad is a new place on the map of Minsk. Kaskad minipolis is not just a residential complex or district. It is philosophy, a special place, a self-sufficient part of the megapolis that has its own engineering and transport infrastructure as well as a considered concept of both real estate construction and its operation. Kaskad is being raised in Frunzensky administrative district, bordering on Kalvarijskaya str., Skryganova str. and Biruzova str. A 5-minute walk to Molodyozhnaya metro station, surface public transport of more than 10 routes provide convenient and quick connection with the centre as well as with other districts of the city. This advantage of Kaskad will become more obvious as soon as the reconstruction of the road interchange Kalvarijskaya-Kharkovskaya-neighbouring streets is finished. Boris Shkolnikov, chief architect of the project, defines Kaskad as “a new city model, an independent town planning unit” and lays special emphasis on a unique combination of the scope of the development and its integrity. Developing the Kaskad concept, the Univest-M group of companies cooperated also with international consultants - Cushman & Wakefield Company, Vx3. Architects. Strategists. Urban Designers. Architectural and planning concept of the minipolis contributes to the integrity of site development and natural landscape, possessing both severity of lines and European laconism as distinctive features. The latitude orientation principle, laid down into the basis of the buildings’ compositional location, allows to achieve maximum illumination of both the houses and adjacent territories in the minipolis. Historically reasoned principle of increase in the number of storeys towards the center of the housing area makes it possible to precisely accentuate urban planning. The existing gradation of the buildings’ height from 5 to 25 storeys is visually perceived as waterfall differences, as a picturesque cascade of water sheets. Actually it is the factor that has predetermined the choice of the relevant name of the minipolis. In Kaskad, which covers the territory of 16 ha, around 125 000 sq.m. will be assigned to residential area and more than 60 000 sq.m - to commercial property. Residential part of the minipolis is represented by multisection monolithic framed dwelling houses with individual architecture and unique design of the flats. Business part of the minipolis Kaskad will comprise seven independent business-centers, a hotel, a supermarket and assistant infrastructure: minor retail facilities, public catering facilities as well as consumer services. Office park and residential development will be joined together by a local street and a walkway. There will be recreational zone for both Kaskad tenants and its office employees right in the central part of the minipolis. Particular attention should be paid to the organization of the road traffic in minipolis Kaskad. Thanks to a well thought-out scheme of local passing there won’t be any traffic current through the residential part of Kaskad. The automobiles of Kaskad tenants will be kept in separate multi-level parking systems. For the office part, on the contrary, there will be an inner street for underground parking entry. It is worthy of note that the green area makes up almost half of the whole built-up area, which is a unique feature of minipolis Kaskad, located in the very heart of the city. Favorable ecological microclimate and relative isolation of Kaskad from the noise of a big city will contribute to the would-be tenants’ full-fledged recreation and recovery after everyday work. It is in Kaskad that individual dispatch system will be implemented for the first time in Belarus. This system will control the condition and work of all engineering systems both in residential and office buildings. Minipolis Kaskad is a place for people who are within the epicenter of the capital business activity, who appreciate comfort and security, giving preference to progress and growth over prosiness. |