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Constructivism · communal housing
Narkomfin Building
A laboratory of the Soviet "social condenser" — a building meant to engineer a new kind of citizen.
Why this matters
- Ribbon windows and pilotis pre-dating Le Corbusier's five points
- Two-level "F-cell" apartments connected by an internal street
- Communal kitchens, gym and library: domestic labor as collective
- Restored 2017–2020 by Aleksey Ginzburg, the original architect's grandson
Reference prompt
long pale-cream ribbon-window apartment block on pilotis, constructivist Narkomfin Moscow, overcast light
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Drawings · Pro
Floor plans, sections and elevations for this building will appear here.
Coming with archpin v0.3 — a 200-building drawings pack curated from published monographs.
Coming with archpin v0.3 — a 200-building drawings pack curated from published monographs.
Critics
“The social condenser was a building meant to engineer a new kind of citizen. Narkomfin is the surviving evidence that the engineer almost succeeded.”
Source
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narkomfin_building ↗Photo: Ludvig14 / Wikimedia (CC BY-SA)