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Lizaveta Chepikava

Design of a recreational zone in the existing green space

2022-2023

Urban design of new residential area

2023-2024

Lakeside Park North waterfront

Table of content:

residential Adaptation of the design project for Belarusian context

Alternative Vision of District Development

The concept of suburbs quarter development in a new micro-district

Analysis and design of user paths through the micro-district

District No.22 in Soligorsk: livable urban environment in high density conditions

Step-by-step transformation of a urban block

Residential complex

Design of multi-layer memory of urban space

Project Timeline: [June 2022 – March 2023]

Location: [Belarus, Miensk]

Affiliation: [ALC Proektinzhstroy]

Developer: [Riverside development]

Project stage: [Implemented]

Role: [Author of the concept landscape specialist]

Visualization of the project (made by Ivan Vesnin)

Lakeside Park

Design of a recreational zone in the existing green space

The territory along the storage lake was a forest strip and cultivated fields without any urban infrastructure. The task of the project was to make a park as an activator point from which a new residential area begins to be developed. Additional goals that was set by urban designers was to preserve the existing forest as much as possible and to integrate new functions of the place and new infrastructure into it without destroying the existing green context. Within the framework of the project, half of the park was designed and implemented, focusing on three main functional areas: a children playground area and an area for teenagers; an active recreation area that includes a scene, a beach, sports fields; and a recreation area near the water with large piers and hammocks.

Functional zoning scheme

Master plan

Bridge Pier Stage and amphitheater

Foto by Ksenia Ledohovich

Foto by onliner.by

Foto by Ksenia Ledohovich

Project Timeline: [December 2022 – present time]

Location: [Belarus, Miensk]

Affiliation: [ALC Proektinzhstroy]

Developer: [Riverside development]

Project stage: [In the process of implementation]

Role: [Urban design and landscape specialist]

The project represents the beginning of a mega project to develop an area of 119 hectares. The project area is located within the Minsk ring road, which was previously an agricultural area. The project is being carried out in collaboration between Belarusian urban designers and architects and specialists and the UAE.

North waterfront

Urban design of new residential area

This project is a group of 10 blocks of a gated community. The entire development has a central core in the form of a main square, around which all commercial premises in the house are located. Along the park, the buildings consist of urban villas on stylobates.

In the urban design of each quarter, a minimalistic approach was chosen; however, a unique set of landscaping was selected for each quarter. Since the blocks are located next to a park with various functions, it was possible to maintain privacy and recreational functions inside the blocks. The exception is playgrounds for preschool children. Each block provides a site for the courtyard community and the organization of local holidays.

1 - passage to the park

2 - stairs with ramp

3 - children’s playground on the stylobate

4 - rest places

5 - entrance to closed parking

6 - open-air food courts

7 - stage for performances

8 - lawn for relaxation and picnic

District master plan Legend:

9 - boulevard with bicycle path

10 - children’s playground with a difference in relief

11 - bike path

12 - outdoor car parking

of Cycle Path

Housing typology

Residential buildings

Residential buildings with stylobate

Park area

Scheme

Greenary Scheme

Greenary Scheme

Scheme of Cycle Path

Scheme of Pedestrian Path

Visualization of public space

Master plan of 1th block

Project Timeline: [December 2021 – March 2022]

Location: [Belarus, Minsk]

Affiliation: [ALC Proektinzhstroy]

Developer: [A100 development]

Project stage: [Concept]

Role: [Urban design and landscape specialist]

Project master plan Visualisation made by Ivan Vesnin

Aviaquarter

Adaptation of the design project for

The facility demonstrates an attempt at professional interdisciplinary work to integrate a group of residential buildings into the natural landscape while preserving the existing relief.

The existing practice in Belarus for working with relief is its total destruction along with green territories and the existing biological landscape. The goal set by the specialists in this project is to integrate the object into the existing natural and landscape context as much as possible without destroying the existing relief. Work at the concept design level was carried out in close cooperation between departments of architects, urban designers, specialists in engineering networks and constructors.

The object is being developed according to the preliminary concept of the Polish architectural buro Kuryłowicz & Associates. The architectural department and master planning department completely reworked the concept of the Polish buro to integrate the project into the Belarusian context and the Belarusian regulatory framework, which is very different from the European one.

Belarusian context

Scheme of the first floors

Functional zoning scheme

Walking path scheme

insolation scheme

All areas

An important part of the project was not to lose the commercial appeal of the development, relative to other development options. Special attention was also paid to the integration of new interdisciplinary approaches between architects and urban planners. Some of the functions that are traditionally kept only in the master plan section have been incorporated into the buildings, such as the garbage collection area. This project was planned to become a precedent for changing the regulatory framework of Belarus.

No less attention was paid to urban design. This building is cut off by a highway from the rest of the district, which prevents its integration into the existing urban life. Therefore, special attention was paid to the internal boulevard, as the main place of interaction between people.

Block

Visualization of the project (made by Ivan Vesnin) Block

Project Timeline [September 2017 – January 2018]

Location [Belarus, Miensk]

Affiliation [Miensk Urban Platform]

Full project album: [issuu]

Presentation: [YouTube]

Project stage: [Concept]

Role: [Co-author of the concept Urban planner and Urban design specialist]

The project was developed at the beginning of a wave of civic activism in the field of citizen participation in decision-making in urban planning projects. The projects of regulation of the urban territory proposed by the city offer the maximum level of abstraction on the one hand and on the other hand dictate the design of high-rise buildings that destroy the context. The goal of the project is to show an alternative use of the urban area using new approaches while maintaining the economic indicators prescribed by city planners.

Proletarka

Alternative Vision of District Development

Several scales have been worked out in the project: the general development concept, the concept ofeach individual block, the urban design of three blocks. At the district level, the main task was to identify the main points of the district activator and add new ones to them, as well as to integrate green areas into the district. Taking into account the new traffic load on the district, the transport and pedestrian scheme of the district was renewed. A new spatial organization was proposed for each quarter, taking into account the increase in the housing stock of the district. Existing building typologies were identified and new building types were added, offering a different way of living in the area. Urban design was developed for blocks that had a new buildings typologies. Those parts of the project was an explanation of the new possibilities that offer the new types of housing and the urban space around them.

Scheme of attraction points

Public transport and stops

Business center Transport hub

School

District center

Green connections

SBus route

Bus stop

City and commuter rails

Metro Transport hub

The district is located adjacent to the city core/ downtown;

The district has good transport accessibility (city and commuter rails, metro station, trolleybus and bus routes);

The district is surrounded by a large green system that includes “40 age of October” park, “Antonayski” park, “Gorki park”, Water-Green Diameter of Minsk;

The district has a dense streets grid; The district has perimeter blocks; The buildings are co-dimensioned to human sale; The district has an active center represented by a local market and “Raketa” cinema;

The district has a diverse set of residential buildings.

0The district could be developed on a human scale without expensive interventions;

The district could be integrated into the city fabric and linked to the city center and green areas; The block system could be fully realized in the district instead of “microrayon” system;

The attraction point of city importance could be created instead of underused industrial areas;

New typologies of residential buildings could be added in the district;

The district could realize its potential to become a transport hub;

The district could be densified without compromising the quality of life.

WStreet network

Projected street grid

Shared space

Elevated crosswalks

Fire transit

The district has a low density of dwellings below the level found in similar districts within the city; The district is mono-functional;

The district borders with the closed territory of the plant, which is partly empty;

The district lacks the defined structure of public space and pedestrian zones;

The district is separated from the city core by commuter rail; the new development plan proposes to increase this gap with a new highway;

The district does not have any internal public transport inside its area;

The main pedestrian flows don’t follow the street grid (people go through courtyards).

TThe new development plan for the district proposes too radical solution: simultaneous demolition of the majority of housing stock and construction of a new “microrayon”, which would impede its natural development;

Developers don’t have to follow any regulations on the cleared territories, and they are not interested in balanced district development.

In demolished territories, the developers don’t have any regulation and them don’t interested by them self to develop the district; The new development plan fails to realize the potential of the district as a transport hub;

The new development plan separates the district from the “Antonayski” park by a new high-way.

Current building typologies

Single-family home

Single-bay house

Corridor-type house

Multi-bay house below 5 stories

Multi-bay house above 5 stories

Non residential building

Proposed building typologies

Row house

Urban villa

Multi-family row house

Greenery schemes

Spatial organization schemes

villa

District Masterplan, segment

Project Timeline [July – October 2018]

Location [Belarus, Soligorsk]

Affiliation [Miensk Urban Platform]

Presentation: [YouTube]

Project stage: [Concept]

Role: [Co-author of the concept, urban design specialist]

Perspective view Visualisation made by Vera Platonava

Solik

District No.22 in Soligorsk: livable urban environment in high density conditions

The project demonstrates the urban development possibilities of using prefabricated panel buildings to form a clear spatial organization in contrast to the micro-district development.

In Belarus, the main spatial development practice is micro-district development, which became the main heritage in urban development from the Soviet Union. There is also a widespread myth that with the existing normative documentation and with the mass use of panel buildings produced in factories, it is impossible to make a different spatial organization. The goal of the project is to create an alternative vision project that will demonstrate to the administration of the city of Saligorsk and architects an alternative spatial organization of the urban space using typical panels produced in Saligorsk and using the existing regulatory documentation of Belarus.

The project uses the main popular urban forms: blocks with dense buildings, blocks with medium-density buildings, line-pattern housing development, urban villas. Also, 3 types of parking were used: underground parking, stylobate and free-standing building with parking.

Planning concept scheme

Commercial axis Center of the district Green axis

Toolbox

DIVERSITY IN POINTS OF ATTRACTION: tools of different scales for activation of pedestrian traffic.

Spatial scheme with major attraction points.

Small attraction points supporting major attraction points.

Attraction points along the facades that generate pedestrian traffic.

MULTILEVEL SPACE: rising or lowering space level with different functions to control users’ flows.

Patio formed by semi-underground parking.

Courtyard on a stylobate formed by ground parking.

C OMFORTABLE MOVEMENT: tools for coexistence of pedestrians and vehicles.

Pavement-level crossing.

Road-level crossing.

DIVERSITY IN STREET CROSS-SECTIONS: transformation of spatial organization according to different parking solutions.

Perpendicular parking.

Diagonal parking.

Sunken sports-ground.

Curved trajectory for vehicles.

Parallel parking.

Elevated playground.

Kindergarden Visualisation made by Vera Platonava

Project Timeline [March 2018 – June 2018]

Location [Belarus, Miensk]

Affiliation [Belarusian National Technical University]

Project stage: [Graduation Project]

Role: [Urban design specialist]

Visualization of public space

Kedyshka

Step-by-step transformation of a urban block

At the time of the development of the diploma project, the phenomenon of increasing the density of micro-district development was widespread in Minsk, due to the construction of 19 one-story single-entry houses on large courtyard spaces. This was considered the only mechanism by which more “efficient” use of urban space can be achieved. The diploma project is a speculation on the topic of how it is possible to achieve the same indicators as the completion of one high-rise building in the area.

The project will involve a step-by-step change of the urban space in 4 stages. Each stage replaces the previous houses with a new urban form. In addition to general indicators, attention was paid to the spatial organization of the district at each stage of transformation. Instead of a large common space, the project proposes a rough division into private, semi-private and public spaces.

Transport movement

Parking space

Ground parking Surface parking

Semi-underground parking

0 phase 1 phase 2 phase

Floor-spaces of all buildings

Floor-spaces of all residential buildings

Floor-spaces of new residential buildings

Floor-spaces of existing residential buildings

Floor-spaces of demolished buildings

Green territories

Courtyard greenery Buffer greenery

Block № 1

The concept of suburbs quarter development in a new micro-district

The project area is located on the edge of the city and borders a high-density neighborhood and a forest area. According to the design conditions, the building must be no less dense than the neighboring micro-distryct. Under the given conditions, the architectural group tried to combine as several types of housing, which correspond to urban forms (quarters and urban villas) and elements of the suburbs in the form of townhouses. An attempt was made to mix different typologies within one block, which is not typical for new construction in Belarus. Special attention to the project is given to a strict spatial hierarchy within the quarter.

Project Timeline: [March 2020 – May 2020]

Location: [Belarus, Miensk]

Affiliation: [Miensk urban platform]

Project stage: [Concept]

Role: [Urban design and project manager]

Navigation

Analysis and design of user paths through the micro-district

The project included the analysis of user paths and the development of a communication strategy (visual and textual), as well as the design of stands and small architectural forms that will accompany residents and visitors to the district. The main scenarios for use by the district were analyzed and, on their basis, a line of 6 types of stands was developed, each of which meets its own functional purpose. Canopies with different functional contents were developed on users’ key points intersections in the district.

Project Timeline [May 2020 – Dec. 2020]

Affiliation [Miensk urban platform]

User path analysis diagram

Affiliation [Miensk urban platform]

Role: [Urban design and project manager]

- Residential complex logo

Visualisation made by Anna Nikalajeva

Nikalajeva

Železnodorožnaja

Residential complex

The objective of the project was to create an urban design for the development area. The peculiarity of the designed territory is that the difference in relief between the houses is 8 meters high. According to the design conditions, it was necessary to avoid retaining walls in landscape design and use only slopes. Also, around the development site today there are industrial territories, so the functional content of the territory should provide maximum functions within the territory.

Project Timeline [May 2019 – September 2019]

Location [Belarus, Miensk]

Affiliation [ALC Proektinzhstroy]

Developer: [Skistroyinvest]

Project stage: [Concept]

Role: [Urban design]

Visualisations made by Maria Semenovich

Project Timeline [September 2021 – January 2022]

Location [Belarus, Miensk]

Affiliation [Miensk urban platform]

Developer: [JLLC INFOREALT]

Project stage: [In the process of implementation]

Role:

[Co-author of the concept, Urban design and landscape specialist]

The development area is located in the central part of the city of Miensk. The building is located inside another residential building and does not have access to the street from any of the buildings. The development area used to be a porcelain factory, and under the factori’s territory was and still exists a collector with one of the rivers hidden there located on the territory of the city of Miensk.

Porcelain factory

Design of multi-layer memory of urban space

The design team was brought in during the construction of the first of four residential buildings. The task was to develop a design for the boulevard zone between the buildings, which will be the only public space for all nearby houses. This territory has 2 important features that needed to be taken into account when developing the design: 1. under the entire territory of the boulevard there is a collector with a hidden river, which cannot be loaded with additional weight to the existing one, and the presence of the river mouth leads to minor flooding of the territory; 2. The territory accumulates a large historical layer, ranging from legends to the famous plant located there.

Genius loci

For implementation, 3 main stories were identified, which were included in the design of the territory: 1. the Perespa River, enclosed in a reservoir under the design site; 2. the legend of the hero Menesk - the hero of one of the legends about the founding of the city of Miensk; 3. Porcelain factory, the memory of which lives on in the community of townspeople.

on a stylobate formed by