The CREAM Factory is the capitalist realist industrialized cultural institution. It is the typological converging between the factory and the museum, a building accommodating the production, storage, exhibition and trading of art. A functionalist managed machine designed for breeding and preying surplus value. Set in Moscow, a context demarcated by political and financial instability where its ideological shifts have forced its urban fabric to endure numerous lobotomies and genetic manipulation. As a response to this condition The CREAM FACTORY  is a proactive preservation strategy that, rather than to fall victim for nostalgia, focuses on progressively preserving and revising the theoretical properties of the existing. The now derelict and abandoned Hammer And Sickle Metallurgic Plant is re-opened through a critical reading of the linear diagram. The diagram that revolutionized not only the manufacturing of goods but also the confines of human life. By reading the factory first through its own historical context and secondly through an act of imposition upon the contemporary context of Moscow the discussion of its relevance and untapped potential begins to unravel. And when physically condensing the art world into one single architecture in a streamlined vertical integration of the industry, the projects seeks to illustrate and  form a discussion wither the contemporary factory is in fact becoming the contemporary museum.The CREAM Factory is an exploration and exploitation of the relation between Culture and Capital. It is a study of how capital can influence architectural form but also how architectural form can influence capital. The project gives a diagnosis and illustrates the new roll and identity of the contemporary museum. How, when tied to rules of the free market, it has accumulated new ambitions that impose new programmatic and organizational challenges. Challenges that require a re-conceptualization of its architectural concept. By learning from the Factory, which since its birth has been a metaphor for progress and change and adopting its diagram, The CREAM Factory conveys a mutated typology of the Museum and Factory.

The project is a provocative illustration of a hypothetical condition. An alarming example, exaggerated to clearly illustrate a point. It is by nature a political act, since it has to react to the transformations in political, economic, and social environments. Proposing an architecture, The CREAM Factory, the prime instrument for proposing that change, becomes an instigator and ultimately an initiator.