The Formation of Industrial Housing Construction. Late 1950s – 1960s. Leningrad Experience

The article is a continuation of the research devoted to the formation of industrial methods of residential construction in Leningrad. At the end of the 1950s, it was decided to build economical, prefabricated residential buildings to provide the population with housing in the required volumes. Previous construction methods could not solve the problem of rapid resettlement of the population from houses, barracks, communal apartments dilapidated by the war. During the period under review, there were searches for residential series solutions that meet economic and technological requirements. The first experimental quarters of industrial housing construction erected in St. Petersburg, as well as typologies of serial large-panel housing construction of the late 1950s – 1960s, are described. Despite the fact that industrial methods were used earlier, the task of mass construction of such facilities was never set. It was necessary not only to change the apartments layout of residential buildings, but also to rebuild the entire building complex to solve this problem. In the 1950s – 1960s, there were searches for rational and economically justified solutions for the implementation of the construction process, which were adopted by design institutes and implemented at housing and communal services plants and construction sites. The distinctive features of the residential buildings used, and the areas of their predominant placement on the territory of Leningrad are given.

M.V. ZOLOTAREVA, Candidate of Architecture (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.),
A.V. PONOMAREV, Architect (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., тел. +79219930982)

Saint-Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering(4, Vtoraya Krasnoarmeiskaya ul., Saint Petersburg, 190005, Russian Federation)

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