RENOVATION PROJECT OF THE SOVIET RESIDENTIAL QUARTER
Year: 2019
Master's degree diploma project
Year: 2019
Master's degree diploma project
Areas of industrial housing construction occupy about 40% of the territory of St. Petersburg. The history of their origin is connected with the need to provide housing for the urban population of the USSR which was growing in the second half of the 20th century.
To solve the housing problem as quickly as possible new methods of designing and building housing were needed. It became clear that the construction of houses on individual projects is not economically feasible. Starting from the mid-1950s Soviet architects began to develop projects for serial houses which were to be manufactured industrially from reinforced concrete panels. The construction of such houses was carried out according to the micro-district principle.
The generation of the first micro-districts built up in an industrial way was predominantly five-story. The most common in Leningrad were the series OD, 1-355, GI, 1-507. Subsequently they began to introduce 7 and 9-storey panel houses. Since the late 1960s the 1LG-600A series the so-called "home-ships" has become one of the most popular here.
To solve the housing problem as quickly as possible new methods of designing and building housing were needed. It became clear that the construction of houses on individual projects is not economically feasible. Starting from the mid-1950s Soviet architects began to develop projects for serial houses which were to be manufactured industrially from reinforced concrete panels. The construction of such houses was carried out according to the micro-district principle.
The generation of the first micro-districts built up in an industrial way was predominantly five-story. The most common in Leningrad were the series OD, 1-355, GI, 1-507. Subsequently they began to introduce 7 and 9-storey panel houses. Since the late 1960s the 1LG-600A series the so-called "home-ships" has become one of the most popular here.
Many of the industrial housing construction micro-districts were built more than half century ago. Nowаdays there are a lot of problems with infrastructure, transport scheme, as well as the appearance of residential buildings and the state of the living environment in general. Living conditions, population, life and needs of people have changed in 50 years. In this regard, the function of some buildings built in such places also became different. The task of the architect is to rethink the existing structure of a typical Soviet micro-district adapting it to modern needs without radical methods of influence.
Master plan before the renovation
Red - buildings to be demolished
Orange - new buildings and public spaces
A new master plan
Several options for home renovation.
