DESIGNING URBAN FLOWS FOR PEDESTRIANS Workshop at Strelka Institute
DESIGNING URBAN FLOWS FOR PEDESTRIANS Workshop at Strelka Institute
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INDEX introduction teachers student presentations student profiles
INTRODUCTION
The impact of private vehicles on the urban fabric is undoubtedly a well-known issue. The space that through the years has been dedicated to the car has often modeled the new form of growing settlements or profoundly affected contemporary cities. Due to the incredibly steep growth of vehicle ownership early in the last century in the States and after the war in Europe, a car-centered urban vision grew and strengthened, flourishing in the 60s with the Modernist vision. Roads and buildings weren’t meant to communicate anymore, their relationship was broken and so was any inter-disciplinary approach to urban planning. What Marshall describes as the schism of Modernism2, produced the consequent schism of professions. The identification of a “traffic flow” as a discipline led to the birth of a very specific professional figure to whom the study and design of the “movement channel” was entirely assigned: the traffic engineer.
The hyper-specialization of this professional figure, together with an inward looking approach based on quantitative issues alone, generated detrimental urban interventions that are now dotted throughout cities around the world, of which Moscow – possibly the most congested city in the world is a clear example. In order to address the new challenges produced by mobility in cities a new way of planning the urban flows has to arise. It should be based on understanding that the “shape� of the flows has a profound impact on the quality of the public space and ultimately on the quality of our life. Too often project on the public realm is looked as has a left over space in between the buildings and the movement channels, it is now time that the space is addressed holistically understanding that flows plays a major role in the shape and quality of a space. In the holistic approach to urban flow it will be of paramount importance to address pedestrian mobility, pedestrian mobility is traditionally not considered in the transport planning fields but the new focus on soft mobility and the progressive necessity of moving away from only car movement has lead to a new focus on pedestrian connectivity. The workshop will focus on pedestrian mobility and how and where to intervene to improve the urban flows with a specific focus on the pedestrian connections.
TEACHERS
Federico Parolotto is Senior Partner at MIC – Mobility in Chain which he co-founded with Davide Boazzi and Federico Cassani in 2009. He has been involved as transport planner in numerous major urban planning projects worldwide. He collaborated with firms such as Foster + Partners, OMA and other renown international design offices on several projects on ground breaking projects. He was a speaker in numerous international events including the Greenbuild conference (Boston), Ecological Urbanism (Harvard University, Cambridge) in 2009; Helsinki Design Lab in 2010; Superurbano Conference in Padova in 2011; Moscow Biennale in Moscow; SPIEF in Saint Petersburg; World City Forum in Naples and Connect Ideas Maximize Impact In Stuttgart in 2012 and for Daniels University in Toronto 2013. In 2011 he co-founded Flow(n) www.flow-n.eu, MIC research team. He lectured in several international universities and, among various publications, his essays were published in 2011 on “Ecological Urbanism” by Mohsen Mostafavi and Gareth Doherty and in 2012 on “Ecological Urban Architecture: Qualitative Approaches to sustainability” by Thomas Schroepfer, since 2013 is co-curator with Andrea Boschetti on the Magazine ThePlan of a series of articles on world cities. Federico since 2012 is a member of the scientific committee for the new Milan Sustainable Transport Master Plan.
Pablo Forti graduated in Architecture in Milan at the Politecnico University in 2010 with a thesis on pedestrian simulations in rail station design, he has started working with engineering firms long before the accomplishment of his studies focusing on town and transport planning, urban and building design as well developing a specific expertise in pedestrian analysis. He developed a good knowledge of the planning and design of transportation facilities throughout a long record of consultancy activities in which he supported architectural firms and real estate developers on all the aspects relating to transportation and accessibility issues. Given the wide range of projects and scales he worked on, he developed a particular flexibility in dealing with the interface to the built environment moving from the wide scale of the master plan to the micro scale within complex buildings. Actively involved in projects requiring simulation tools as a support for the planning and design tasks, he has developed good knowledge of the Middle-East market where he has acquired knowledge of the methodology required to carry out transportation studies and master plan studies.
WORKSHOP
The objective of the workshop was to investigate the existing mobility framework of a specific area of Moscow, the ulitsa Myasnitskaya and Lubyanka square, focusing in particular on the interaction between the different type of users in order to outline a possible alternative solution to improve the coexistence of vehicles, nonmotorized modes and pedestrian.
The final scope of the work, explained through a set of lessons and the presentation of some international projects, was to turn a very chaotic and unorganised part of the city into a strongly people-centered and lively space by enhancing the potentials of the area. During the first day of the workshop the participants were asked to attend a site visit to get a better understanding of the site dynamics, as well as of the wider context of the surrounding area, to have a clearer understanding of the area features and critical issues. With the support of video shootings and of the pictures taken on-site, it was possible to gather some preliminary material for the development of the projects as well to perform some preliminary counting in order to get a quantitative sense of the traffic and pedestrian volumes on the site.
In the the second part of the work the particiapiants were asked to make a few working groups and to identify a specific theme of their project, or better, to outline the development of a strategy which might bring to a safer and higher quality urban environment and to prepare a presentation for the end of the workshop.
STUDENT PRESENTATIONS
group 1
Lubyanskaya square is the gate to Myasnitskaya Street and one of the city places which shows a big gap between real needs of city and the current possibilities to use this area. Myasnitskaya Street which historically hosts lots of offices, retail shops and HoReCa spots now attracts big traffic flows from the surroundings because of numerous points of attraction located nearby and high density of subway system. It is obvious that Lubyanskaya square which is located in the heart of the big crossing of people flows could play the leading part in system of pedestrian ways but now it does not. That means the main part of Moscow center located on a traditional tourist route and heavy-used by day-workers and residents does not exploit its potential as a point of attraction and as a hub for pedestrian and traffic flows. Currently it is mostly unattrac-tive and nonfriendly place for pedestrians.
Redesigning of Lubyanka square
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Flows and spaces
By Daria Raspopina, Anna Filippova and Maria Senator Powered by STRELKA 2013
On this slide area of research is shown as several divided functional zones and bar-riers between those zones. Lack of connectivity between the square and nearby are-as due to the initial orientation on a transportpriority development of the place results in the square and surroundings do not exist as a continuous system for current pedestrians and traffic flows. We tried to understand what kinds of barriers exist in this area and the ways to break them.
Barriers and spaces
Places of interest, pedestrian zones Offices, government buildings Shopping malls, retail stores
First of all research about existing pedestrian flows was conducted. We found that current situation is not favorable for walking activity there and rather confusing than guiding. Currently there is only possibility to navigate along the walls of the buildings and very hard to cross streets and squares directly through wide car flows.
to Kuznetsky Most station
Existing pedestrian flows
The system of underground crosswalks under Lubyanskaya square characterized by complexity of tunnel crossings and absence of clear navigation in the net of tunnels and exits. As a result people feel uncomfortable and lost while walking there and spend much more time to get the destination needed.
Not clear system of underground crosswalks
The slide represents ‘ideal’ routes what people are willing to use intuitively. That will be a base for our design solutions. It is obvious that it will be impossible to create completely same flows in realities of current situation, but it is possible to try to be as close as possible to the desired lines.
Desired flow lines on the ground
Bolshoy Theatre
Kremlin
Chistye Prudy
So, taking into account the background of the place in this case study we observed and determined main problematic issues for pedestrian and traffic flows around Lubyanskaya square. The scheme is an analysis of physical obstacles that can be found around the square including presence or absence of cross-lights, pedestrian crosses and pedestrian flows blocking.
Uncomfortable pedestrian network
Absence of pedestrian zebra crossings provokes people to violate rules and cross the road through the moving cars. It is especially critical in the places which are the shortest ways to cross the street.
Absence of crossings – dangerous situations
Lubyanskaya square is situated in the middle of nearby pedestrian routs and the flat surface of the area let pedestrians see the points of attraction without any visual ob-stacles. That stimulates pedestrians to get there but in fact that becomes impossible as there are no zebra crosswalks. Thus there is a conflict exist between visual and physical connectivity between zones of this place.
Visible connection but no physical connection
Next kind of problems found in the area is problems with public and private transport flows. Three main issues were highlighted: double left-turn from Politekhnichesky passage, unusual configuration of the road at the junction of Myasnitskaya Street and Lubyanskaya square and frequently changing number of existing traffic lanes around Lubyanskaya square.
Not ideal transportation system
N of lanes - ?
N of lanes - ?
There are two left turns mostly duplicating each other with the distance of 100m – one is leading to Politekhnichesky passage and the other one to Lubyanskaya square.
Double left turn
Configuration of the right turn from Myasnitskaya Street to Lubyanskaya square takes much more space of the road than it really requires.
Configuration of the road
As it was found situation with number of lanes on the junctions around Lubyanskaya square is very complicated. They appear and disappear without any visible reasons and do not facilitate transportation.
Number of lanes
Another big issue which is topical all over Moscow is inappropriate parking of cars. This question becomes more and more significant day by day, and it requires to be solves as soon as possible.
Absence of legal parking – illegal parking problem
The situation with illegal parking turns into real chaos in Politekhnichesky passage‌
Politekhnichesky passage
…and all the rest of Lubyanskaya square surroundings such as Solovetsky Kamen’ square…
Solovetsky Kamen’ square
…and Myasnitskaya street.
Myasnitskaya street
The problem of illegal parking at Lubyanskaya square becomes especially tough be-cause of numerous points of attraction and subway exits facing the square.
Lubyanskaya square
And final problem that took our attention is a problem with public spaces by themselves. An overall perception of Lubyanskaya square, Solovetsky Kamen’ square and one green path in the beginning of Myasnitskaya street is that those vast areas are almost useless, non-functional and not connected anyhow with each other. Those three locations have a huge potential to become an attractive areas, but are not such right now.
Non-friendly spaces
Now the whole space of Lubyanskaya square looks like an asphalt desert. Absence of any greenery and crosswalks turns the square into giant flat polygon for cars and this makes the Lubyanskaya square very unfriendly and non-attractive for pedestrian flows.
Lubyanskaya square
The nearby Solovetsky Kamen’ square looks like an abandoned and desert place which no one needed. No zebra crosswalks leading to the small square and due to this it is isolated from pedestrian flows. The central monument on the place faces the road together with subway venting mines, greenery is stunted and few benches are mostly occupied by homeless.
Solovetsky Kamen’ square
At the beginning of Myasnitskaya Street just close to Lubyanskaya square one can find a small patch of green grass with some trees next to the government building. This tiny green space which could be a relax area for those who wants to make a short stop for sightseeing at Lubyanskaya square is not used by pedestrians now at all – except one covered safety crosswalk. That leads that the “gate point” where Myasnitskaya Street adjoined to Lubyanskaya square looks abandoned and used only as a transit path.
Myasnitskaya street
After researching and analyzing current situation we offer several ways to solve ex-isting problems. First and important measure is conversion of traffic lanes into places which can be used for other purposes. The second solution is the transfer of public transport lines that will greatly expand the pedestrian zone. The third solution is indi-cated in the diagram a red cross is the transfer of public transport lines and trolley stop.
Number of lanes
Following there is proposed set of decisions for redesigning the area. So we formed public areas, designated in the diagram in green. The first is the space around the central part of the square. The second area is located near the office building on Lubyanskaya Square, extended with the lane of public transport and the unused area located at the beginning of Myasnitskaya Street. The third area includes Solovetsky Stone Square and derived space between the Square and the Polytech-nic Museum. All zones are interconnected by ground pedestrian crossings, on which you can easily get anywhere in the area.
Green areas, squares and walks Suggested parking places
Widening of pedestrian zone New public transport flows
Solution #1
The next version of distribution spaces is the combination of two of them: central area combined with the area around the square Solovetsky stone creating large green space; and smaller patch extended with former road area. Traffic flows in this area will get around and on the junction with the other road a small ‘island’ for ground transport will be created, making sure that there is no interference of cars and pedestrians.
Green areas, squares and walks Suggested parking places
Widening of pedestrian zone New public transport flows
Solution #2
Here, we present our solution in favor to the parking areas which will help relieve the space transportation system. A parking area is located close to the public garden and the other in the area at the beginning of Myasnitskaya Street.
Green areas, squares and walks Suggested parking places
Widening of pedestrian zone New public transport flows
Solution #3
Our conceptual vision of Lubyanskaya Square area. Closed green space that can host people during all seasons: blossoming in spring, keeping shadow in summer and protecting of wind in autumn and winter. Multi-functional zone that can guide people through and keep their attention inside.
Sketch #1
Sketch #2
group 2
Our team addressed the issue of space being irrationally distributed between pedestrians, and cars (moving and parked). We looked into the junctions of Myasnitskaya street and tried to see if it is possible to redistribute space properly and provide the direction for developing this street.
MICROSPACES
GROUP
Project Redistributing the space of Myasnitskaya street
Conception
The space in the given area is used inefficiently since only one out of three car lanes is moving while pedestrians share very little space on sidewalks. The idea is to make the space more attractive and friendly, introduce lanes for public transport and bicycles by smarter redistributing the space between cars and pedestrians with little and subtle steps.
The problems of the street include chaotically parked cars (in double lanes and often right on the pedestrian crossings) which along with very long crossings makes it dangerous to cross the road and breaks pedestrian connectivity between sides of the street. Lots of obstacles on the sidewalks contributes to the whole picture.
Critical problems: Space Use
Chaotical parking
Lots of obstacles for pedestrians
MICROSPACES
GROUP
Too long crossings
The street is overcrowded with parked cars since parking is not maintained. Some areas have so much space for cars on the sides they park in doubled lanes.
Since only one car lane is moving and there is so little space given to lots of people on sidewalks while so much space is used for car parking we can with confidence say that space is used highly inefficiently.
Critical problems: Space Use
too narrow for pedestrians
too much space for parking
only one lane is moving
MICROSPACES
both sides are filled with parked cars
GROUP
low pedestrian connectivity
Space is used inefficiently for pedestrians. Since two of three lines are used for car parking cars can move only on one lane while pedestrians have very little space to walk.
Street slices: current situation If we take slices from different points along the road we can see that the same picture repeats itself everywhere. A great deal of street space is given to parked cars. Somewhere it reaches almost a half of the street.
MICROSPACES
GROUP
parking car lane 2,500
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sidewalks
2,500
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Narrow point: current situation
MICROSPACES
Let’s take a situation at the narrowest point of the street and see how we can redistribute the space.
2,500
4,000
3,500 16,000
parking
car lane
sidewalks
3,500
2,500
GROUP
Narrow point: redistributing the space
MICROSPACES
GROUP
Since there is not a lot of space at the beginning we cannot waste it to accommodate parked cars. To make the street more attractive and livelier we decided to leave only one moving lane for cars and introduce dedicated lanes for public transport and bicycles along the road which could contribute to overall street sustainability. The remained space must be given to pedestrians.
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16,000
parking
car lane
sidewalks
public transport
bicycle
Wide point: current situation
MICROSPACES
An absolutely surreal scene at the widest point needs changing more than anything else, especially if we take into consideration historical buildings and the environment at that point.
2,500
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3,500 25,500
parking
car lane
sidewalks
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GROUP
Wide point: redistributing the space
MICROSPACES
GROUP
The space at this point gives us lots of opportunities to revitalize the street by redistributing space to cafes, public space, benches and trees, while we still have some space to leave for car parking.
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2,500 6,300
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parking
car lane
sidewalks
public transport
bicycle
To see what the street can become we took a sample with an infamous parking triangle near the book shop and researched it carefully. Red color denotes the amount of space which is not used or used for parking and which can be given back to people. The place has very poor connectivity between streets, some of the crossings are placed where people do not want to cross which makes them jaywalk the street.
Microspaces: Work area Critical problems: Wasted Opportunity
Lot of space is not used or filled with cars which gives impact to the overall street perception. Poor connectivity between sides makes it not friendly to pedestrians.
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Microspaces: Work area Proposal: Reconquer the space
Better connectivity could make the street more walkable. Providing new micro public space could raise the quality of the space. Pedestrian should be defended from cars. Color and raised crossings can help do so. Myasnitskaya has trolley lane that could be divided from car lanes.
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Here is one of the ideas of reconquering the space. Little changes of the geometry of the street lets us put more crossings at the necessary points. Red color emphasizes the crossing for car drivers so they would slow down the car. Purple colored crossings on the map are elevated above the ground to the same level as sidewalks for better accessibility. Public transport and bike lanes are introduced and also stressed with color at the points of their intersections. The purple lane becomes a shared space which it really is right now. The triangle can become a new public space with trees or even a fountain. This is a good example how a place can change for better with very little steps.
group 3
Myasnitskaya street is an intensive city life part. It’s one of the main corridors for car movement the brings the cars’ flow to the city center. At the same time the street is an important space for people who work and live here. These two flows- traffic and citizens, meet each other, conflict, stuck on each other all over the street length during the all day long.
In the project of renovation of Myastitskaya Street we want to improve the car movement and parking conditions as much as to reconsider the peoples’ flow characteristics and spacing during daytime.
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Transportation analysis. There is a diagram which we made using the yandex online traffic jams’ service. The traffic density was analyzed during the normal working day. Here it’s obvious that the middle part of the street is overloaded from 10.45 am till 6.45 pm.
On the traffic density flows scheme we can see the parking situation all over the street length. There are several road segments where parking zones are pointed with dark blue which means they’re overloaded and chaotic. We also remarked the interrelation of the overloaded parking, traffic and traffic light conjunction that stops car flow as well.
Analysis of pedestrian flows. We observed the average day situation. We show the generalized density of pedestrian stream during the whole day. As we see the main attraction zones are the red parts and they are overloaded. And the other side is almost always free. There are three main reasons of such thing: the underground entrances are on this side, the system of crosswalks is very bad and the most of the interesting points for pedestrians are on this side.
We divided the spaces of the street for periods of the day on the main use. The diagram shows it. So in the morning hours most of pedestrians go to their work and the parts near the underground are full. In the midday people go to the lunch, shopping, meetings so cafe and retail zones are active for pedestrians. And in the evening the situation is similar as in the morning, but the parts where people communicate are useful too.
Proposal. Each segment of a street has it’s characteristic problems that’s why we propose typical problem solutions.
First is Lyubyanka square where we propose the new usage of some defined parts of the territory. In order to free the territory for another use we redefine the traffic lanes. These zones might be a new legal parking as well as small green zone.
On the second segment there is a demand of sidewalk widening . We use one of the car lanes as a flexible use lane. So mainly it is used for pedestrians’ moving and in some hours it’s gonna be used as parking.
The third part is a triangle wide part of the road which we make as a public attractive place, kind of a small plaza, at the same time we correct traffic lane that turn to the left side. The traffic light on this road conjunction is to be reregulated because it causes a traffic jam here within a day.
Another point is visually connected to the previous one. This street space we propose to use for pedestrian activity as well and to connect to the opposite street sides with pedestrian crossings.
Next is a long and very narrow street part where we make sidewalk wider and organize a legal parking on the left side of the street. For this purpose we use one of the lanes. One on the right side we define as a public lane and we remove parking from this street side. There are some significant points on Myasnitskaya street like such a cafĂŠ where we remove double parking and mark pedestrian ways in a clear way.
This huge green area situated on the street crossing to Turgenev square we propose to convert into pedestrian attractive square or mixed use space in front of the theatre. It will also help to unload pedestrian flow on the other side of the street and make the space pleasant for people.
We are poised to create a future where the greatest priority is given to pedestrian, bysiclicsts and transit. To be sure, cars will have their place, but the newfound ease of walking and “alternative transportation modes will make driving less prevalent in most streets. As a result we will see significantly more people on the streets, which will turn into public forums where neighbors and friends can connect with each other.
group 4
Our team members are traditionalists and natural born city planners. In this case it was very hard to research only the Myasnitskaya street, making no global analysis. But nevertheless, we have what we have.
Our goal was to make this borrow livelier, to make conditions of this street better. Now walking there is not only unpleasant, but also rather hard. For reaching our goal we have explored the site, analysed whats the matter with the current situation and discussed whats totally wrong.
The point was, that the Myasnitskaya street is rather crowded and populated, it contains many retail, restaurans and bars, offices, studias and even housing. A lot of people go there every day! We understood that the problem of this place is very complex and complicated. That’s why we’ve chosen three main aspects that can be solved easily in a short time and small amount of resources. The aspects were: annoying illegal parking everywhere, unfriendly and uncomfortable walking areas and sidewalks, indifference of the street to the buildings.
Then we’ve forged an idea from these problems, that can make all these aspects better. Gentle manipulating of the street geometry gives us instruments and spaces for changes. Doing that we can find a legal place for cars, widen the sidewalks, enlarge the street capacity, and even make a small plasas near the most interesting or important buildings. That’s it!
We’ve followed this idea and have made a conception with some define examples. This idea can be implemented not only on the Myasnitskaya street, but on almost every street of our capital. And make the conditions there much better.
STUDENT PROFILES
group 1
I am Daria Raspopina. I was born in Gorky region of USSR which now is Nizhny Novgorod region of Russian Federation. I am 25 years old now. After finishing ordinary secondary school in my hometown I entered Moscow State Forest University where I was graduated as a Master of Landscape Architecture in 2012. After that for 1 year I participated in Euroforester Master Program in Swedish University of Agricultural Science. I return from Sweden 3 weeks ago. Parallel with my studies I experienced work in different companies, from small family business in nursery garden to large architectural workshop, and including 1 year in international company supplying metallurgical plants all over the world (my hometown is one of metallurgy centers in Russia). So, after trying many things, meeting a lot of people from different countries and with diverse backgrounds I’m looking for the direction that will be the main course in my life and I feel that the topic of the workshop is really what looks valuable and attractive for me.
Anna Filippova 25, Moscow, studied at the Moscow Architectural Institute, on faculty Architecture of rural areas. My dream and the direction in which I would like to work in the future to do my city comfortable for living, while in Moscow there are many problems with traffic, pedestrian zones and bicycle infrastructure does. As in any other metropolis in Moscow lacks green spaces. The project I’m working in one of the contest is the creation of some of the oases in the middle of the concrete jungle. This will be the renovation of abandoned areas, vacant lots, which is complete in the city. On these free sites I plan to create a space for planting flowers and trees by the inhabitants of nearby houses, that is, they will create their own gardens and parks. And also for my project there may be arranged a small exhibition halls for residents and works of other artists. This project is in my opinion will help improve the urban city and in particular the lives of the residents who do not have enough greenery and living space around their homes.
Maria Senator Has graduate from the Russian State University for Humanities with the degree of international economist I started my career in marketing with one of the international advertising agencies. There I got the experience of handling the projects that helped me to get a leading position in a highly developing Russian advertising agency where I worked for 3 challenging and productive years. After that I joined the marketing team of one of the biggest Russian mobile operator MegaFon. As a head of special marketing project department together with my colleagues we managed a great number of launches, advertising campaigns, exhibitions and special events. I worked for MegaFon for 7 years and left the company when I realized that I want to make a pause in my marketing career and switch off to other fields where I can implement my experience such as urban planning and socially oriented projects.
group 2
My name is Alexander Starostin. I studied at Moscow Academy of Liberal Arts and Technology. I took interest in urban environment and urban planning a year and a half ago. Since then I tried to gather as much experience as I could and had the honor to work with such companies as Gehl Architects, MIC, Philips and Gabriele Filippini to make cities better place to live. My goal is to learn by doing, be taught by experienced teachers and finally to become competent enough to work as an urban planner.
Olga Mazurina
group 3
Daniil Gavrish
Natalia Korneva
Nadya Manakova
Xenia Obrucheva
group 4
Ksenia Polyanina, an architect born in Moscow, this year graduated from Moscow Architectural Institute. During the latter 2 years of studies dedicated to urban planning, carried out projects concerning Ryazan city reconstruction, Sapojok-Saray linear city planning and development of an agglomeration based on Ryazan and Kolomna (all located to the south-east from Moscow). Also participated in competition regarding Greater Moscow with a strategy for retrofitting Moscow industrial zones. Currently is going to do masters in TU Delft with an aim to explore European urban experience and modern issues. Among future plans are learning, thinking, observing, traveling and of course working hard to eventually manifest the more sensible, effective and profound urban planning.
My name is Nikita Kuchinskiy. Graduated from Moscow Instute of Architecture. Enjoy doing both urban planning and projects of buildings. Im planning to work as an architect, to constantly improve the skills in the field of architecture and to raise the level of understanding the architecture of people who are far from it.
Hello, my name is Veronika Prodanova. I’m an architect, I just graduated from Moscow Architectural Institute. I studied city planning. Me and my group made a complex project of an agglomeration in Ryazan region. Also I studied one semester Landscape in Rome in La Sapienza. I’m interested in the development of the urban space, the interaction of the roads and the pedestrian zones, how to make them more comfortable for people. And also house designing.
Hello, I am Greg Fefilov and I am an architect. I’ve just graduated from Moscow Architectural Institute. My faculty was city planning. That’s why my group and I have made a great complex diploma project of an agglomeration in the centre of Russia (Ryazan region). In addition to this stuff I am keen on transportation systems and also some small-scale things like house design.
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