Once again, blogs are discussing the shortcomings of domestic housing construction. In the RUPA community, where they have repeatedly written about the dangers of neighborhoods, the discussion has now reached a new level: urbanists, following an article by Vasily Baburov, Fyodor Kudryavtsev and Olga Druzhinina on rossk.ru, declare the need to revise the entire housing policy of the Russian Federation. And this, as Alexander Antonov writes, means, in particular, the refusal to weld square meters in favor of the development of households, the revision in this process of the role of the developer and the assessments of the activities of municipalities, aimed, as noted in the article, at the production of millions of joyless and monotonous standard floors. sections, houses, districts, spaces.
Many RUPA participants, however, noticed that in the current situation the professional community is powerless. For example, the architect Andrei Ivanov writes that the correct article is addressed to nowhere, because “there is no housing policy in Russia. There is nothing to reform. " But it is possible to influence the market through the end consumer, says Alexander Kholodnov: “Why buy today what you will not sell to anyone tomorrow. This is a very serious argument against anthills. " To remove all restrictions and wait for the market to regulate everything itself - the proposal of Alexander Antonov. “If projects with a diverse environment appear and the market appreciates it, developers will immediately react to it. If a diverse environment is clothed in the form of SNiP, developers will find a way to get around it, since the market asks for anthills,”agrees Alexander Kholodnov.
In the Gazeta.ru blog, meanwhile, they discussed an article with another recipe for getting rid of traffic jams in the capital. The recipe is to deprive Moscow of its status as a capital and transfer the centers of power to the regions: “Frightening imbalances in development make any local-Moscow decision meaningless,” the author concludes. “There is no need for a capital with a population of over one million, the same problems will be, it is better in an open field or on the basis of a small town with a population of up to 100 thousand,” comments Sergey Yakupov. “Better yet, scatter officials in a dozen cities, a couple of ministries in Nizhny, a couple in Kazan, a couple in Ufa." - “The officials were not evicted where, and they will be where the money is, and the money is where the officials are,” expresses the opinion of the majority of dimonbb bloggers. It turns out that it is impossible to evict, since "the development of the economy is determined by the seat of officials," as Fyodor Konyakin writes. But the user grossdin believes that officials should not be evicted, but systematically deprived of distribution powers. “When returning to real production, business and people themselves will be drawn to places where it is more efficient to cut metal: higher qualifications of workers, cheaper real estate and energy. If the model is preserved, the move will only create problems, costs and punishment for the residents of the new capital,”the blogger concludes.
Italian transport workers Federico Parolotto and Pablo Forti, who came to the Strelka Institute with a workshop on organizing pedestrian zones, expressed their vision of the transport situation in Russian megacities. The Europeans once again spoke about the need to reduce the gigantic transport infrastructure in favor of the pedestrian. The RUPA participants readily agreed with this, but noticed that Moscow still has its own scenario, since, as Alexander Antonov, for example, notes, there were no highways in it; but in Europe they appeared 30 years ago, and now there, as the blogger writes, they streamline the street network, without removing high-speed roads for transit transport. “The post-war automobilization of Europe was explosive and already in the 60s it became clear that road construction would not keep up with it,” says Alexander Lozhkin.“So the turn to pedestrians, cyclists and public transport is not because they have already built enough highways, but because it’s a road to a dead end.” Nadezhda Pakhmutova, in turn, believes that the European bias towards pedestrians is "just a consequence of their understanding of a number of omissions and political correctness, since they cannot openly declare that it is necessary to fight social and ethnic segregation in the city."
Meanwhile, another urban planning discussion on the Archi.ru portal unfolded around an article by Alexander Lozhkin about the dark side of Russian urban regulation. And it, as Lozhkin writes, even after the adoption of a new city code in 2004, continues to be conducted precisely in the dark, in the so-called. "Manual mode" of all kinds of approvals, and not strict regulations. However, as Alexander Antonenko comments, “the author's hopes that everything will be legal by itself, everything will be beautiful - utopian”; in any case, now it is easy to make changes to the regulations and the PZZ, but they are approved without the participation of architects and everything is decided by money, the author of the commentary concludes. Dmitry Khmelnitsky is also sure that the system of manual control of hailstones is holding on quite tightly; according to him, the legitimization of the tasteful approval of an architectural solution by officials is "even a formal return to the practice of artistic censorship introduced by Stalin," the architect concludes, hinting at the Moscow Arch Council.
Mikhail Belov also wrote about censorship the other day on his blog, summing up recent reflections on the current Moscow competitions. The architect finally found the answer why closed competitions and contests with a preliminary selection of a portfolio annoy a certain part of his colleagues so much - "for a simple reason: they have not done anything yet, but they have not been chosen." However, it is unfair to choose on the basis of past, often dubious or not personal, but corporate business merits, Mikhail Belov is sure; as well as "clicking on the nose" of thousands of graduates, preventing them from expressing their innermost ideas.
Meanwhile, an architectural competition in Yekaterinburg for the reconstruction of a local TV tower is also criticized in blogs for bias. The author of the magazine vladimir-kreml.livejournal.com writes about how the "especially smart" participants in the closed competition began to promote their projects even before the jury decided. For example, here the contestants, apparently, hoped to get additional points by the fact that specialists from Dubai became interested in their concept, as well as these participants, who had published their project in advance on the social network. And this project, where the 220-meter long-term construction is included in the grandiose "Circo-Land", according to the newspaper, has already been approved by the governor.
Meanwhile, the owner of the hotel in the Dutch Delft, where Sergey Estrin happened to stay, decided to surprise his guests with his own design creativity. As the architect writes in his blog, while reconstructing the old building, the owner apparently had to make do with his own means: this is how a chandelier made of blue bottles and carpets made from local cow skins, cardboard sconces and a plastic goat on the balcony appeared in the room. However, despite some inconveniences, Sergei Estrin, according to him, is very pleased that he saw something authentic.
