The OPUS project consists of two separate buildings - a residential complex and a business center. Situated on Moscow’s Derbenevskaya embankment, the apartment complex’s sweeping elongated form responds, land art-like, to the curve of the Moskva River. The building varies between 2 and 11 stories tall, and the floor plans are conceived so as to ensure every apartment has a view of the river.

Mirroring the flow of the river itself, the building generously splays open providing riverfront public access. The contrast between the bustling riverfront and the quiet secluded space on the back side formed by the building footprint adds to the character of the project. The entire structure can be divided into four distinct parts, emphasised by the facade design and differentiated by window systems used. Glazing area is generously maximised in every unit, while protruding buttresses between the units’ terraces contribute to maintaining everyone’s privacy.

The office program is a detached 13-storey building, flanking Derbenevskaya street. The area in front of it is turned into a small landscaped park. The space serves as a leisure area for office workers and functions as a transit zone connecting the facility with the alley it faces.

Drawing inspiration from water, the design concept entails that the four different public spaces separated by the building’s wings—the dynamic riverfront, the quiet courtyard, the landscaped park, and the street side, all spilling one over to another—are assigned their own nautical mood, expressed, among other things, in their paving patterns.