The Residential Heritage in Times of Multiple Crises
The research project aims to integrate approaches to sustainability and resilience in addressing the residential architectural heritage from the Soviet era, aiming to generate foundational knowledge and develop specific recommendations for resilient and sustainable urban development in cities across Ukraine, the Caucasus, and the Baltic region.
The KIT subproject is focusing on aspects of migration and the need for housing provision, as well as climate adaptation and climate protection. The work builds on the results of the first phase of research, in which the sub-project analysed morphological and typological transformation processes of the residential heritage from the 19th and 20th centuries, identifying significant risks as well as potentials.
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| Funder: | Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) |
| Programme: | Area Studies |
| Overall budget: | €381.000 |
| Grant amount: | €381.000 |
| Role KIT: | Project Lead |
| Project duration: | 2024–2027 |
| KIT researchers: | Prof. Dr. Barbara Engel, Dr. Anastasia Malko, Ekaterina Gladkova, Marina Sapunova |
Project partners
RWTH Aachen, GWZO Leipzig.
Living Labs Socialist City
The core question dealt with by the project is how the existing living space in large housing estates in former Socialist and post-Soviet cities can be secured for the future and further developed in a sustainable manner. The aim is to map out the spatial qualities and deficits of the housing estates – in terms of both the living space and the residential environment – in order to develop recommendations for action on this basis. The results will be guidelines for the further development of the existing housing stock- In addition to the concepts for the concrete case studies, generally valid planning approaches shall be worked out.
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| Funder: | Volkswagen Stiftung |
| Programme: | Trilaterale Project Cooperations |
| Overall budget: | €296.400 |
| Grant amount: | €296.400 |
| Role KIT: | Project lead |
| Project duration: | 2019–2027 |
| KIT researchers: | Prof. Dr. Barbara Engel, Ekaterina Gladkova, Nikolas Rogge |
Project partners
Ilia State University (Prof. Dr. Ia Kupatadze, Dr. Nano Zazanashvili, Odessa State Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture (Prof. Dr. Olga Savytska, Dr. Nadiia Dmytrik).