Домостроительные Комбинаты (ДСК)

The first housing construction combines (domostroitel’nye kombinaty (pl.), or DSK) were existing industries retrofitted for housing production. Such was the case in Moscow with the DSK-1, where the first K- 7 buildings were produced. The DSK-1 integrated the work of three existing factories specializing in reinforced concrete production: the Krasnopresnenskii, Khoroshevkii and Rostokinskii.67 The resultant industrial “combine” was set the goal of turning out all the necessary components for one sixty-apartment K-7 building per day by 1961.68 The integration of the work of three factories into a single combine was completely unprecedented in Soviet architecture; the DSK-1 became a veritable conveyer of industrial housing production, integrating several industries into a singular machine.69 Precise scheduling, the coordination of all aspects of industrial production with transportation and delivery produced phenomenal efficiency. The DSK-1 more than doubled the output of more traditional factories that had not compartmentalized production.70 The establishment of housing construction combines proved so effective that in 1963-64, Moscow opened two more such combines. By 1963, 80% of total construction in Moscow came from the DSKs – this type of construction was termed as polnosbornaia, roughly translated as fully pre-assembled.71

71!Stroitel’stvo*i*arkhitektura*Moskvy!4!(1964),!p.!6.