Authors

Sadykov Mikhail O.
THE DYNAMICS OF ECOSYSTEMS AS A FACTOR OF TERRITORIAL PLANNING

Architecton: Proceedings of Higher Education №2 (34) June, 2011

Land use principles are rooted in human values and ideas about the world. Ideas dominating in society contradict natural science, and these misconceptions are present in the resettlement structure and are invariably reproduced in it. Related problems are having a substantial, mainly negative influence on city life and on the environment. The importance of changing the territorial planning principles has arisen because the currently realised concepts, including the concept of sustainable development, help resolve only specific problems without resolving their root causes.

According to the author, a possible alternative to the sustainable development concept is the concept of administration and trade cities which are not fixed geographically. The main objectives of the alternative concept should be soil conservation (allowing for the regional specifics of ecosystem dynamics manifesting itself in ecogenetic succession) and enhanced adaptability of changing social and economic conditions due to continuous upgrading of the urban structure.

The social rationale of this concept is supported by international town-planning practice. However, up till now geographic migration of cities has been provoked by catastrophies, and any attempts at non-violent upgrading of cities have been doomed to failure. This is explained by recent changes in the town-planning factors under the influence of progress in science and technology and incomplete understanding of principles underlying the functioning of the biosphere.

In the current context, the proposed concept has scientific and social support in favour of its realization despite its seemingly utopian character, but some interdisciplinary research is needed to gain more evidence.

Sadykov Mikhail O.
THE MODEST CHARM OG THE INTERNATIONAL STYLE

Architecton: Proceedings of Higher Education №3 (31) September, 2010

Perception of Voznesensky Business Centre (Ekaterinburg) in the existing urban fabric The author analyses the compositional features of the Voznesensky Business Centre as a skyline-forming and contextual object of the Ekaterinburg city environment.

Sadykov Mikhail O.
CONCEPTUAL MODELLING OF A FLOATING CITY

Architecton: Proceedings of Higher Education №2 (26) June, 2009

As the civilization progresses, the issue of utilization of global ocean resources, including territorial ones, is growing more and more acute. Science and technology no longer have an adequate arsenal of means for resolving this problem, and delays in the use of these means is connected to a great extent with the absence of architectural and, more importantly, town-planning solutions. The idea of a water-surface construction as an urban environment has little changed since the first edition of Jule Verne’s "A Floating City», and alternative developments by Japanese metabolists are not finding their way into modern water-surface architecture. This article presents a brief set of requirements for a floating city, a classification of the existing models of water-surface constructions and offers a technique for constructing a new hybrid class of structures possessing all the range of the features of an urban environment.