New Design Ideas

New Design Ideas

ISSN Print: 2522-4875
ISSN Online: 2524-2148

The Journal New Design Ideas is a peer-reviewed, open-access on-line & print journal devoted to publishing research papers in all fields of design, including industrial design, visual communication design, interface design, animation and game design, architectural design, urban design, and other design related fields. It aims to provide an international forum for the exchange of ideas and findings from researchers across different cultures.  We aim to be a channel for the knowledge exchange between academia and industry by identifing the results are of interest or applicable to practical design.

Abstract

Larger than similar settlements in other polar countries both in terms of climatic extremes and population size, the Russian Arctic city is a unique phenomenon - a product of the Soviet period of colonial urbanization. Its architectural environment does not provide a comfortable everyday interaction (physical and emotional) for citizens with the natural and artificial environment. At the same time, modernist utopian ideas, transformed under the influence of the urban mainstream, still largely determine the present and future of Arctic architecture in Russia. The current paper presents a theoretical model that conceptualizes the urban lived space as an object of architecture. The notion of lived space is based on Lefebvre's idea of space production and is seen as a phenomenological field in which architecture, context and individual perception are in empirical interaction. The proposed model attempts to integrate the key factors of Arctic urbanism into a coherent system, including aspects of the human-city nexus, such as year-round soft mobility and emotional perception; the challenge to the colonial view of the region and the potential of architecture to establish a strong human-city relationship.


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