Despite the skepticism with which some perceived the topic of "public interiors", the mere fact that, following this topic, we came to create the most voluminous issue of Project Russia in history (so much so that we considered it worthy of double numbering) proves at least it consistency. Where did the 300+ pages come from? In the "Projects" section, there are still 30 objects selected by an international jury. But this time we have included all related articles and interviews. And "Texts" turned out to be a kind of magazine in the magazine, which was prepared by the researcher of architecture Alexander Ostrogorsky.
It is dedicated to the NER phenomenon, which, on the one hand, is expected in connection with the events of recent months, and on the other hand, in the light of the topic “public interiors”, it may seem completely “from another opera”. In reality, it was the NER who viewed communication between people as an ideological system capable of uniting the city, and architecture as the container of this idea. It was in their view that the dominant form of communication, requiring a special space, determined the specifics of settlement. But at the same time, unlike the constructivists, who appointed the main goal of the architect to invent public spaces as "social condensers" that would shape new human relations, the NER spoke about the freedom of architectural form and its independence from ideological content. What we are seeing now is obviously closer to the first approach - and at the same time opens up new opportunities for the second.
Paradoxically, the desire to create function-oriented spaces that adapt to all kinds of user actions led to hybrid models that, due to their flexibility, began to be applied everywhere, but at the same time became somewhat too similar. For example, in schools and in office and cultural centers, we see the same principle of organization around the atrium or any other nucleus, which plays the role of "agora", where flows and functions are mixed. Although it must be admitted that wherever it is about the educational environment, this is more than justified.
At the same time, the role of public interiors as “new churches” is preserved - places where people, regardless of social and material status, receive a unique experience that is inaccessible to them within the usual “four walls”. This ideology is actively used not only by "impression architects" in theaters and philharmonic societies, but also by designers of workspaces, since the office itself has become a competitive advantage.
But the authors of office interiors talk about human oriented planning. Because in parallel with total digitalization, there is a fear of progress, characteristic of humanity at all times, and a turn towards more humanistic ideas. If the architectural form, according to the NER, can be anything, then it must be created based on the values of the ecosystem of the global habitat - the planet.
At the same time, a new social demand for culture is being formed, the answer to which we have yet to comprehend. And, perhaps, it is culture that will help architects remember their freedom to design not only buildings and interiors, but also moral guidelines - that part of the NER paradigm that excited our contemporaries to a greater extent. Like a lost technology that should have been learned anew.
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