Journal
Insight articles on architecture, urbanism, masterplanning, and territorial design.
- How to test dozens of park versions before defending the concept (2026-05-04T00:00:00+00:00). Parametric masterplanning lets the architect test a hundred or more park versions before one goes to review. Numbers, method, and the Akademgorodok case.
- What is included in a resort island masterplan concept (2026-04-11T00:00:00+00:00). What a resort island masterplan concept actually contains: site reading, spatial diagram, zoning, circulation, microclimate, ecosystem, areas, renders. The Astrakhan Hills package.
- How to Turn a Seasonal Resort into a Year-Round Destination (2026-04-08T00:00:00+00:00). A seasonal resort runs all year when its program is split into four clusters with different peaks. The Astrakhan Hills method, in detail.
- How to Turn a Hidden Urban Valley into a Social Park (2026-03-28T00:00:00+00:00). How a 3.55-hectare hidden valley in Nizhny Novgorod becomes a social park: an organ-and-circulation diagnostic, a dual path system of raised wooden bridges and a slow ground trail, ten programme zones for four user groups, a corten-steel fox as wayfinding totem, and winter as a primary operating mode.
- How a Lake Can Structure a Resort Masterplan (2026-02-03T00:00:00+00:00). A good resort is not a collection of buildings placed in nature. In this lakefront masterplan, water becomes the central organizing element, shaping movement, program, and atmosphere into one coherent landscape system.
- How to Turn Landscape into Architecture on a Flood-Prone Site (2025-11-12T00:00:00+00:00). On Proletarsky Island in Astrakhan, we proposed a masterplan that does not place buildings on the landscape but sculpts the terrain itself into architecture. The project works with flooding, seasonality, and ecology rather than against them.
- How to Reimagine the Perimeter Block for Nature, Community, and Density (2024-11-14T00:00:00+00:00). The perimeter block is one of the most powerful urban typologies, but too often it becomes rigid and closed. In the Breath of the Forest project in Grodno, we explored how to open the block to nature, layer community spaces from street to rooftop, and prove that density and ecology can work together.