STG Continues the Construction of M&TEC

Rendering of the future educational complex in the Leninsky District, Kemerovo

STG continues the first construction stage of the Museum and Theatre-Educational Complex in Kemerovo as scheduled. The future cluster in Kemerovo is part of one of the largest cultural projects of the recent years, thanks to which the city will become the cultural centre of Siberia. The task for setting up new cultural centres was assigned by the Russian President Vladimir Putin, who announced the opening of multi-purpose complexes in four cities of our country, to enable the residents of the regions to unlock the cultural and educational potential, "having access to the main artistic values". Similar clusters are being built in parallel in Kaliningrad, Vladivostok and in the south of Russia.

Despite the fact that the construction of all four cultural complexes was entrusted to our company less than a year ago, i.e. in September 2019, the first-phase M&TEC facilities in the Leninsky District of Kemerovo will be commissioned as early as in July 2021, when the region will commemorate the 300th anniversary of the Kuzbass commercial exploitation. The buildings of the High School of Music and Theatre Arts with an educational theatre, the Museum Depository, the hall of residence for the students of the High School of Music and Theatre Arts, which belong to the second stage and are located on Voroshilova Street, will be ready by December 2023. The facilities of the museum and theatre complex that includes the Opera and Ballet Theatre for 950 seats accommodating a branch of the Mariinsky Theatre, the cinema and concert complex (Kuzbass Centre for the Arts with a concert hall and cinema halls), and the Museum Centre that will accommodate a branch of the State Russian Museum belong to the third construction stage, however, they will also be delivered by the end of 2023.

The architectural design for a total area of over 100 thousand sq. m was approved by the regional centre of Kuzbass, its funding source and construction supervisor being the National Cultural Heritage foundation, the general designer LLC Gorka (former LLC GorKapStroy), and the general contractor JSC Stroytransgaz.

The Leninsky District is the location where the educational and residential parts of the complex are being built, for which the Main Department of State Expertise (Glavgosexpertiza) of Russia issued positive opinions after reviewing the design documentation and the engineering survey findings. The opinions were issued for the educational complex facilities, namely: the academic building of the Choreographic Academy with a boarding school (for 150 students) and an educational theatre, the regular school for 300 schoolchildren, the boarding school for the students of the special secondary music school (for 75 people), the academic building of the special secondary music school (150 children) with a concert hall, as well as the hall of residence for the students of the High School of Music and Theatre Arts, the block of flats for the teachers of the branch of the Moscow State Academy of Choreography and the High School of Music and Theatre Arts. A positive opinion of Glavgosexpertiza for the building of the High School of Music and Theatre Arts and the Museum Depository is expected in June 2020.

The lodging units of the hall of residence will occupy the second to seventh floors: the students will be provided with 60 dwelling units. The dwelling unit will include two rooms, each for two persons, as well as sanitary facilities, an entrance hall and a kitchen. The sports grounds for high and broad jumps, gymnastics and team sport games, as well as running tracks and an obstacle course will be built near the building. 

The three-storey building of the Choreographic Academy with a mezzanine floor, a basement floor and a crawl space for utilities will accommodate large and small ballet halls, classrooms, studios and rehearsal rooms.

Installation of the basement slab formwork for the Choreographic Academy’s academic building

The varied-height building of the music school with a concert hall with a total area of 7680.7 sq m is designed to accommodate 150 students. The music school will have classrooms, record libraries, audio and video recording studios, as well as several halls.

The regular school building will be designed for 300 schoolchildren. The building is functionally divided into 2 blocks, northern and southern, interconnected by a two-level passage. The northern block will accommodate public and academic rooms, the southern one will include the sports and academic rooms for the lower grades, and a canteen.

Brickwork of the walls of the regular school’s basement floor

The educational infrastructure of the complex will also comprise the functioning Kemerovo State Institute of Culture and the newly built High School of Music and Theatre Arts, and there will be the Museum Depository with a restoration centre near the Cultural and Educational Complex. 

According to the design author, the architect Aleksy Orlov, in designing the Cultural and Educational Complex, he developed a special relief facade of the windows. For example, on the southern side it is formed to play the role of a sun screen, which is especially important for the dance rooms. In the west, the relief prisms, on the contrary, expand the window opening making the rooms even lighter. In a word, the complex concept is far from being a typical solution.

"Taking into consideration the climate and light day specificities in Kemerovo, we wanted to make the complex as light as possible. The corrugated facade is an allegory of the ballet skirt," the design author explained to the regional newspaper Kuzbass.

To facilitate the construction, StroyTransGaz established its subsidiary STG-Siberia. Today, about 344 people work at the construction site in the Leninsky District on Voroshilova Street, including: 220 workers, 11 machine operators, 9 geodetic engineers, 15 people of linear engineering personnel, and 90 people of administrative personnel. In addition, the facilities engage 11 construction equipment units.

From the beginning of construction, STG-Siberia, in cooperation with its subcontractors, has completed the pits, the pile field of over 4500 foundation piles, and the foundations for all the buildings of the complex. The pile field is designed to take operational loads, considering the number of floors, the vertical load, the snow load in winter, and other factors.

So far, about 16,000 cubic metres of concrete have been cast in the foundations, the semi-basement floor walls, and the ground floors of the educational complex facilities; the foundation slab of the Choreographic Academy’s boarding school has been concreted, the basement floor slabs of the Choreographic Academy’s academic building have been installed, the brick walls of the regular school’s basement floor have been concreted and erected, and the ground floor columns of the special music school’s academic building have been installed. The power supply lines and sewers were removed from the construction footprint of the future school and the residential building for teachers.

The construction site of the cultural cluster’s central part at the intersection of Michurina Street and Sovetsky Avenue witnessed the installation of a fence and the beginning of construction of a site office (400 m2) for the Museum and Theatre Complex that will include the Opera and Ballet Theatre building with an approximate area of 27 thousand sq m to accommodate a branch of the Mariinsky Theatre, the Kuzbass Centre for the Arts with an area of about 5 thousand sq m with a concert hall and cinema halls, and the Museum Complex with an area of over 4 thousand sq m to accommodate a branch of the State Russian Museum. The project will be completed in 2023. 

Installation of the ground floor columns for the special secondary music school’s academic building

Concreting of the foundation slab for the Choreographic Academy’s boarding school