Politecnico di MilanoScuola di Architettura e Societá

Productive urban landscape. Reorganization of dismissed industrial

territories in Kyiv

Supervisor:Poli Matteo Umberto

Student:Stryzhevska Anastasiia

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As it is generally known there is a long lasting economic trend of removal of the production of goods and its substitution with the production of services in urban environment. Migration from rural to urban environments in search of employment and better life quality is not new a phenomenon, but its recent acceleration created a very particular economical and social condition.

Employment and meeting of needs of urban population is a question of a highest priority as now the majority of Earth population live in urban areas. Technology development requires increasing level of education and lower number of employees involved in production. The main opportunity to have a job with an overall reduction of jobs market is to create one. Modern high-tech production does not allow a single person to purchase his own means of production.

The following design proposal is an attempt to recreate balance between production and consump-tion on the scale of an urban block. It is an exemplary project which may generate an effective synergic community which will produce goods and knowledge about their production.

The aim was to design an architectural volume containing a program that is simple and down-to-earth. Literally down to earth, because the primary mean of production proposed is a traditionally rural land-scape that is relocated in urban environment. Site chosen is a historically established industrial zone on the periphery of one of the oldest districts in Kiev. In more that there hundred years of its history it has been a ceramic tile factory, a brewery and a factory producing malt extracts. The last enterprise located here moved out in 2006.

Abstract

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DistrictFragment of the recon-struction plan of Kyiv in X century A.D. made in 1868 by N.V. Zakrevsky

Fragment of a plan made in 1803 by archi-tect Andriy Melensky. It shows the layout of streets before the fire in 1811.

Fragment of a plan made in 1812. It shows the everlapping of the new and old street grids.

Fragment of a plan made in 1842. It shows the district after the reconstruction

Current situation

Puplic transport grid Public infrastructure grid

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Fragment of a plan of the estate made on 22nd of June 1878

1. Two-story brick brew-ery building2. One-storey wooden residential building3. Wooden outhouse where the brewing uten-sils are cleaned4. Wooden malt house5. Wooden ice-house6. Wooden warehouse7. Temporary wooden canopy

Fragment of a plan of the estate made on 1st of August 1895

1. New brick malt house2. New brick ice house with cellar3. New warehouses4. Old brick brewery building5. Old wooden residen-tial building

Fragment of a plan of the estate made in 1911

1. New brick three-sto-ry malt house with a six-storey tower2. Old brick malt house3. Brick ice-house with cellars4. Brick warehouse5. Old brick brewery building6. Old wooden residen-tial building

2013 masterplan scheme

Site

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Open with restrictions

Workshops

Tailoring shopCarpenter's workshop

Ceramics productionJewelry production

Co-working kitchen

Natural cosmetics production

Company 1Company 2Company 3

Generic offices Office

Co-working offices Office

Extensive agriculture Vegetable garden

Private

Workshops Ready production storageRaw materials storage

Restaurant Kitchen, storage, facilities for employees

Retail Storage

Services Facilities

Intensive agriculture Greenhouse

Residence

1 bedroom flat2 bedroom flat3 bedroom flat

Townhouses

Parking Parking

Open

Restaurant

Main hall (90 people)Secondary hall (50 people)

FoyerFacilities for visitors

Retail Hall

Orchard Orchard

Hostel

DormitoriesHall

KitchenFacilities

White collars

Blue collars

Residents

Visitors

Vehicles

Program

Accessibility rates Functions

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Open with restrictions

Workshops

Tailoring shopCarpenter's workshop

Ceramics productionJewelry production

Co-working kitchen

Natural cosmetics production

Company 1Company 2Company 3

Generic offices Office

Co-working offices Office

Extensive agriculture Vegetable garden

Private

Workshops Ready production storageRaw materials storage

Restaurant Kitchen, storage, facilities for employees

Retail Storage

Services Facilities

Intensive agriculture Greenhouse

Residence

1 bedroom flat2 bedroom flat3 bedroom flat

Townhouses

Parking Parking

Open

Restaurant

Main hall (90 people)Secondary hall (50 people)

FoyerFacilities for visitors

Retail Hall

Orchard Orchard

Hostel

DormitoriesHall

KitchenFacilities

White collars

Blue collars

Residents

Visitors

Vehicles

Premises Users

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When selecting which productive function had to be assigned to the landscape agriculture was chosen as the most suitable for the size of the plot. Having selected the landscape that produces food I had to decide who will operate it.

There is one enterprise that works on the landscape and profit of both its tangible production – the food and intangible – the image of owner of such an infrastructure. There is a restaurant and a retail that be-long to the same enterprise.

Other group of productive premises is the one of co-working kitchens. They are the professionally equipped kitchens available for rent for the small local food producers. There are artisan workshops for manufacture-like production. And a co-working office space with places preferably assigned to the entrepreneurs who work in the adjacent branch of industries.

There is a whole other group of elements in this program. There are the generic offices and the resi-dences. They do not work on the landscape of participate in production. They simply enjoy the pres-ence in such an environment.

The most attractive function – the landscape which is a huge vegetable garden works also as an urban park, because it is open to external visitors. They can’t touch it but can look at it as much as they want. Besides the vegetable garden there is another attractor. There was an old chimney on the site which in this proposal is converted to an observation tower. Due to the topographical conditions of the surround-ing it offers a unique view on the cityscape.

Agriculture is present on the site both in extensive and intensive forms. For intensive I intend the green-houses. I will later explain why their presence is necessary.

All the elements of the program won’t be implemented at one time. The first one to start working will be the landscape as the key element of the whole program. It will be followed by other objects of the same enterprise – restaurant and retail. Than to attract the attention of potential tenants and buyers the the-matic events – such as Sunday market will be organized. Other spaces will start to function gradually as their users will be found.

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Model

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Street view

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Main facade

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Exterior & interior views

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