Institute: Peoples' Friendship University of Russia
Course: 4
Theme: masterplan of the planet
Archilits are global spatial structures that can be applied in the design of completely new cities to create an artificial urban relief. For further sustainable development, it is important to create a new urban layer of anthropogenic relief, which will create a correct and rational system of transport links and engineering communications.
This type of urban relief is formed by extensive platforms with a layered structure. In their lower layer there are engineering and transport communications, intercepting car parks, industrial enterprises, including waste processing plants. The middle layer contains office and commercial spaces. And the fully pedestrianised upper layers accommodate residential spaces for city dwellers, both apartment-type and in the form of individual land holdings with low-rise residential development. Extensive roofs of functional platforms are used for growing various agro-industrial crops, which will reduce the process of soil depletion and free up the spaces of natural relief for the revival of natural eco-systems.
When scaling the city, the archiliths can be docked, layered or connected by means of pedestrian bridges and ramp systems.
Due to the embedded architectural spatial principles, archiliths can positively change the relationships and ecology in the system ‘city-suburb-countryside’.
