Youth Creativity and Culture Development Center

Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture

Project idea

Existing situation:
1. Troeschina - the biggest sleeping area in Kyiv containing 280 000 inhabitants
2. Urban tissue is old and sick, depressing as all post-soviet massive-built districts
3. Modern teenagers are without interests and aims, agressive and on a way to marginality
3. All cultural life is placed on other riverside

Main goal: to create an urban acupuncture in the post-soviet sleeping massive to drawing teenagers from the streets into the cultural environment.

Project description

The project is divided into 3 functional zones: the active zone (sports, games, movement - to attract teenagers, relieve stress and aggression with sports); creative zone (creation of objects of different art); think zone (stop and think, relax, receive or exchange information).

All main rooms open onto a shared courtyard. People can see what is happening in the rooms opposite and be interested in what is happening, take part.

The rooms are divided through walkways that overlook the courtyard.

From the street, people see green roof-ramps on which anyone can climb and spend time watching what is happening inside. It can be a picnic or gatherings with a guitar for example.

The courtyard is presented in the form of a curved amphitheater of free use. There can be performances, poetry readings, lectures, exhibitions, presentations, concerts by street musicians or just watching skateboarders.

Technical information

Location: prosp. Mayakovskogo, 85, Kyiv, Ukraine.
Built-up area: 905 sq. m.
Number of floors: 4
Floor height: 4 m
Building volume: 17 253 m
Number of rooms: 54
Total area: 4 420 sq.m.
Social need: high
Natural and climatic conditions: the climate is moderately continental, with mild winters and warm summers. The average monthly temperatures in January are −3.5 ° C, in July +20.5 ° C. The absolute minimum is −32.2 ° C, the absolute maximum is +39.9 ° C
Traditions and rules: Open public spaces, sports fields, playgrounds. Vandal-proof design. A lot of greenery
Urban planning decision: the only cultural center in the area
Constructive solution: Frame-wall constructive scheme. Brick walls 380 mm thick + ventilated facade (total wall thickness -610 mm). Reinforced concrete frame (prefabricated with monolithic elements (curved floors)). Foundations - monolithic tape for the wall part of the building, pile with a grid for the frame part of the building. Roof - pitched operational landscaping 8-12 degrees. Flat operational pedestrian, covered with paving slabs. Tilt angle - 2 degrees. Internal drains. Overlapping prefabricated slabs. Overlappings are monolithic - on beams. The approximate thickness of the monolithic floor slab is 8 cm. The approximate cross-sectional size of the largest beam (span 12 m) is 1000 x 400 mm.
Heating technology - Decentralized heating with a ground heat pump and photovoltaics. Centralized supply of cold water for domestic and drinking water supply, domestic sewerage. Solar collectors for water heating
Lightning protection - at a distance of 1 m from the highest point of the building
External firefighting is carried out from fire hydrants installed on the city water supply network. The household sewerage is taken away in a diverting intra-quarter network
Rainwater drainage is combined and provided through rainwater collectors - from the territory to the center - external, with subsequent collection in the internal self-flowing sewerage and collection in the irrigation and landscaping system, from the flat roof - internal with further drainage for the stage.
Storm sewer - internal and external.

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