Authors

Zhukovsky Roman S.
URBANIZED ENVIRONMENT IN MASTER’S THESES 2019-2022: CURRENT PROBLEMS AND CONCEPTS

Architecton: Proceedings of Higher Education №4 (80) December, 2022

Urbanized environment design and study is a promising inter-disciplinary subject area at the intersection of architectural environment design, urban planning, and architecture. This paper presents a review of the range of challenges and conceptual contents in this area treated in several dozens of recent master's degree theses that received awards at international review competitions in 2019-2022. The research objects of the theses were various urbanized spaces (spaces as places and spaces as communications), as well as some aspects of these spaces (components of spaces, factors of influence on spaces, methods of space development). Semantic analysis revealed not only specific problems and remarkable conceptual solutions, but also universal concepts and approaches to improving various urban environments as internally diverse systems at all levels (urban planning, architecture, environment). The general conceptual field in relation to urbanized environments as viewed by modern master's degree authors may be characterized by the paradigm of "Three Is" (3i-Paradigm): Individualization, Integration, Intellectualization, which includes universal notions and concepts such as "environment targeting", "design code", "scenario approach", "environment permeability", "densification", etc. The article may be of interest to students and graduate project advisers at higher schools of architecture and design.

Ovcharova Diana A., Zhukovsky Roman S.
SUBURBANIZATION OF BARNAUL CITY: A RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW AND DEVELOPMENT FORECAST

Architecton: Proceedings of Higher Education №3 (79) September, 2022

For the city of Barnaul, a study was carried out on the development of suburbanization –growth of a habitable suburban area with low-density building. Archival maps, up-to-date aerial photography, and materials of the master plan helped establish the periods of Barnaul suburbanization from the foundation of the city to the present time. Based on the research literature devoted to the current problems of suburbanization and selected scenarios of suburbanization according to the world urban planning experience, a forecast is made regarding further suburbanization of Barnaul over the next decade. It is assumed that in this large regional city with a compact planning structure, suburbanization will follow a hybrid “post-Soviet” scenario, in which low-intensity development of suburbanization will prceed along with “peripheral urbanization” partially replacing suburbanization through the construction of high-rise neighborhoods along the Zmeinogorsky and Pavlovsky tracts, mainly within the administrative boundaries of the city. An assumption is made about the limitations of the suburbanization processes in the city of Barnaul due to the exhaustion of migration and demographic resources compared to the situation in the 20th century.

Zhukovsky Roman S.
PRINCIPLES AND TECHNIQUES FOR SHAPING SOCIAL AND BUSINESS SUBCENTERS IN LARGE AND LARGEST CITIES

Architecton: Proceedings of Higher Education №2 (62) June, 2018

Based on the results of the studies carried out by the author previously, the articles proposes some principles and techniques for successive and controlled formation of social and business subcenters (SBS) in large and largest cities such as: a principle of sustainable poly-centralization of cities, a principle of architectural and planning similarity of SBS to city centre, a principle of sustainable formation of SBS.

Zhukovsky Roman S.
THE ARCHITECTURE OF UBRAN SUB-DOWNTOWN AREAS AS A FACTOR OF THEIR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Architecton: Proceedings of Higher Education №2 (58) June, 2017

The object of the study is public and business sub-downtown areas (SDs), secondary elements of the system of urban centers which are closest to main centers (downtowns) in the features. They are characterized by a mix of uses and large urban scales. SDs may develop sustainably if positioned firmly as a intermediate urban niche between the downtown area and suburbs as areas which are less economically developed but more affordable than the downtown. It is concluded on this basis that it is necessary to develop SDs (especially at the initial stages) as spaces with simultaneous introduction of downtown-like archetypes of urban milieu and techniques that can reduce the costs of construction and maintenance. This may be ensured by the introduction of mid-rise built-up blocks with high-rise landmarks, vertical zoning with the inclusion of dwellings and primary mixed-use buildings, expansion of modular, mobile, framed, spatial systems and temporary structures, and use of architectural styles from the group of neo-modernism, neo-brutalism and hi-tech movements.

Zhukovsky Roman S.
A DEVELOPMENT FORECAST FOR PUBLIC AND BUSINESS SUBCENTERS IN MAJOR CITIES (WITH REFERENCE TO WESTERN SIBERIA, RUSSIA)

Architecton: Proceedings of Higher Education №2 (58) June, 2017

The object of the study is sub-downtown areas (SDs), secondary elements of the system of urban centers which are closest to main centers (downtowns), characterized by polyfunctionality and a large urban scale. Literary sources, available cartographic materials and actual master plans were used to study the history and modern status of the SDs in large Western Siberian cities with a population between 0.5 and 2.0 million people as being typical climatically and demographically. An extrapolation forecast has been made on the development of SDs in the cities of the type considered. The formation of small commercial cluster-like (territorially two-dimensional) and centrifugal commercial corridor-like (one-dimensional) SDs is to be expected primarily in compact cities such as Kemerovo and Tomsk (with a population of 500 to 700 thousand people) and in spatially fragmented cities or agglomerations such as Novokuznetsk. Large commercial cluster-like SDs are primarily to be expected to be formed in cities such as Barnaul, Omsk and Novosibirsk with a population of more than 700 thousand people, and or divided into large urban areas by strip urban infrastructure or landscape. The emergence of large SDs is to be expected primarily in sites within cohesive urban areas that are more than 10 km (6 miles) away from the downtown area, within metropolitan area sectors with large satellite towns.

Pomorov Sergey B., Zhukovsky Roman S.
THE EVOLUTION OF URBAN POLYCENTRISM THEORY AND PRACTICE IN RETROSPECT

Architecton: Proceedings of Higher Education №4 (52) December, 2015

The author considers the dialectical evolution of the 19th-20th century concepts of urban decentralization whilst reviewing the evolution of major cities from monocentric to polycentric plans in developed countries (USA, Europe, Russia, etc.). An attempt is made to periodize this process and to identify practice-based principles for encouraging the development of public and business activity subcentres as a basis for the theory of urban decentralization.