Kiev Ukraine New Housing Areas
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In recent years a large-scale programme of housing construction has been unfolded, concentrated mainly on the alluvial floodlands of the left and right banks of the Dnepr, the south-west and south of the Kiev city of Ukraine. The authors of the general plan - Boris Priymak, Grigory Slutsky, Vadim Grechina and Nina Musatova - worked in terms of a huge construction project on the reclaimed lands.
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The buildings will stretch along the Dnepr river for twenty-six kilometers. Each of the new districts will have its own peculiarities. The left bank will consist predominantly of long, low buildings, in contrast with the hilly right bank which will be dominated by tall buildings among luxuriant greenery.
Kiev Ukraine New Housing Areas views
At the same time the nature of the floodlands made it possible to use the water spaces of the Dnepr and its inlets, sluices, and lakes both as a setting for architecture and as recreation zones. The new districts of Voskresensky, Lesnoi and Komsomolsky are laid out in a compact group. Their architecture is dominated by twelve- and sixteen-storeyed blocks. A second group consists of Vodopark ('water park'), Berezniaki and the Levoberezhny ('left bank') and Rusanovka housing estates.
Kiev Ukraine New Housing Areas views
Although these too are built up with houses of varying heights (9, 12 and 16 storeys), the high blocks are linked together by the horizontal forms of public buildings stretched out along the waterfront and decorated with ceramic mosaics according to a unified artistic and thematic scheme.
Kiev Ukraine New Housing Areas views
Another feature of these regions is the way in which large expanses of water are incorporated into the urban landscape. The largest housing estate is Obolon; this too stands on the alluvial lands on the right bank of the Dnepr. Its buildings are distinguished by their asymmetry and the juxtaposition of blocks of varying configurations, heights, and outlines.
Kiev Ukraine New Housing Areas views
Their attractiveness is enhanced by the architects' active use of color. While the western districts of the Kiev city - Svyatoshino, Nikolskaya Borshchagovka and Otradny - have much in common with the left bank and Obolon, they none the less have individual features determined first and foremost by the hilly terrain, the long-established park-lands, and the numerous orchards and ponds which have been carefully preserved and incorporated organically into the new building.
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