Royal Beach Restaurant
ROYAL BEACH RESTAURANT
Astragal Design
ARCHITECTS
Astragal Design
LOCATION
Saint Petersburg, Russia
AREA
1300 M²
CATEGORY
Restaurant
YEAR
2015
MANUFACTURERS
Rheinzink, Reynaers Aluminium, Agc
PHOTOGRAPHS
Dmitry Tsyrencshikov
The restaurant building is located in the Primorsky Victory Park, in the center of St. Petersburg, in the western part of the Krestovsky Island.
A regular flat site occupies a part of the artificially reclaimed beach on the western side of a small harbor on the bank of the Malaya Nevka River. A park walking area adjoins the site from the west and the east.
The building represents itself a complex shape structure of 50x26 meters, rectangular in plan, 9 meters high, covered by pitched green roof. The designed building in overall plan dimensions and location at the site repeats the structure of the restaurant which was located at this site until 2009 and was destroyed as a result of a fire.
The design proposals on the park development in the 1940s-1950s suggested including this fragment in the general composition of the park (there was considered a system of park paths, viewpoints, landscaping and inclusion of recreational facilities: a boathouse, arbors, beach arrangement along the Malaya Nevka bank).
According to the designs of the 1940s-1950s the park composition at the site under consideration was only partly realized.
The architectural solution of the restaurant, executed in the "landscape architecture" style, develops the idea of A.S. Nikolsky (the designer of the Primorsky Victory Park project) to create park pavilions in the form of an "inhabited landscape".
The folded shape of the green roof, the overhangs and ledges from the ground make it possible to "merge" the building with the surrounding landscape, to achieve the integration of the form into the surrounding park environment. A view terrace is located at the roof of the restaurant.
The high groundwater level was a great difficulty during the construction. Base of the building is a cast reinforced concrete foundation plate. Bearing structure is a prefabricated met-al frame. Fencing structures are made of structural glazing using the Reyaers aluminum profile.
The accessible roof is made in the form of a folded structure of a complex shape, which is a corrugated profile laid on steel trusses on top of which a make-up of the "green roof" is arranged. Rheinzink titanium-zinc panels were used for covering the parapets, fire division walls and wide eaves of the restaurant roof.
Large glazing plane in contrast with a folded roof makes possible to arrange a good view over the water area of the Malaya Nevka River.
