Traces
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OLHON
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Project by:
Valeria Lifshitz
Supervisor:
Stefano Stabilini
POLITECNICO
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C O N S T R U C T I O N E N G I N E E R I N G
MASTER OF SCIENCE IN SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE OF MULTI-SCALE PROJECTS
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Lake Baikal [Ozero Baykal] is a rift lake in
It is the seventh-largest lake in the world
Russia, located in southern Siberia,
by surface area. Baikal was formed as an
between Irkutsk Oblast to the northwest
ancient rift valley, having the typical long,
and the Buryat Republic to the southeast.
crescent shape with a surface area of 31,722
km 2.
The
lake
is
home
to
Lake Baikal is the largest freshwater
thousands of species of plants and
lake by volume in the world, containing
animals, many of which exist nowhere
22–23% of the world's fresh surface
else in the world
water. With 23,615.39 km 3 of fresh water,
a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1996.
R U S S I A N F E D E R AT I O N Siberia
KAZAKHSTAN
MONGOLIA
CHINA
it contains more water than the North American Great Lakes combined. With a
It is also home to Buryat tribes who
maximum depth of 1,642 m, Baikal is the
reside on the eastern side of Lake Baikal,
world's deepest lake
rearing goats, camels, cattle, and sheep,
among the world's clearest lakes and is
where the mean temperature varies from
considered the world's oldest lake — at
a winter minimum of −19 °C to a summer
25 million years.
maximum of 14 °C.
POLITECNICO DI MILANO
POLO TERRITORIALE DI PIACENZA
SCUOLA DI
MASTER OF SCIENCE IN
ARCHITETTURA URBANISTICA INGEGNERIA DELLE COSTRUZIONI
SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE OF MULTI-SCALE PROJECTS
SUPERVISOR: STUDENT:
S T E F A N O S TA B I L I N I VA L E R I A L I F S H I T S
TRACES OF PEOPLE
OLHON ISLAND
SITE ANALYSIS :
SHEET N BAILKAL LAKE
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