The project of German StrassenHaus suggests constructing automobile roads via the roofs of nonresidential premises.
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Luzhkov to Lay Roads Via Roofs
German StrassenHaus presented the highway project to Moscow Duma yesterday. The project advocated by Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov provides for constructing the roads via the roofs of the buildings.
The project of German StrassenHaus suggests constructing automobile roads via the roofs of nonresidential premises. Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov saw the project at the Expo Real show in Munich in October.
Back in Moscow, Luzhkov ordered the Moscow Architecture Committee and the city’s government to study the chances of implementing the project in Moscow. For StrassenHaus, this project is the sole achievement and Russia’s capital is the first city chosen for this undertaking.
StrassenHaus suggests constructing in Moscow a chain of four-to-five story offices and warehouses (from 13m to 15m in height), which roofs could be used for toll highways.
StrassenHaus will completely fund the construction, counting on generating profits from automobile parking to be arranged on the roofs and from leasing the walls for advertising.
The construction of such office buildings will cost ˆ1200 ($1600) per a sq meter, said StrassenHaus President Roland Lipp. It could begin in 2007 if the project gathers all sanctions by that time, the president specified.
So, the General Plan Design Institute of Moscow has been committed to study the chances of constructing a back-up road for Varshavskoe highway via the roofs of the offices. “We take this idea as something exotic,” said Yury Korotkov, the chief engineer of Design Institute. The project won’t solve problems of jams in Moscow, as it could be implemented only locally, in some district of the city, the chief engineer explained. “No way to squeeze it into the current system of municipal highways because of the tense development,” Korotkov said.
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All the Article in Russian as of Dec. 06, 2006
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