Environmental Complexes with Thermal Zoning for the Conditions of the Far North and the Arctic

The author’s proposals dedicated to the optimization of the design process, considering the specific requirements determined by the natural and climatic conditions of the Far North and the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation are disclosed. The authors rely on two methodological approaches: optimization of urban planning policy, on the one hand, and revision of the typology of residential and public buildings for the conditions of the Arctic and the Far North, on the other. The authors have developed and are actively promoting the basic principles of “green architecture” (the buffer principle, the community principle, the compensation principle, the principle of nature-likeness and the principle of vertical transfer). The main objective of this article is to put forward, develop and develop the concept of “thermal zoning”, which inherits the productive typological ideas of the Soviet period. It is shown how the scientific developments of the authors are tested in experimental and competitive design. In addition, specific proposals have been put forward to improve the urban development policy of the Arctic and create a new body that will optimize the activities of designers for the sustainable development of the architectural environment of Arctic cities and settlements.

A.V. MERENKOV¹, Candidate of Architecture, Professor (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.);
Yu.S. YANKOVSKAYA², Doctor of Architecture, Professor (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

¹ Ural State University of Architecture and Arts (23, K.Liebknecht Street, Ekaterinburg, 620075, Russian Federation)
² Saint-Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering (4, 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya Street, Saint Petersburg 190005, Russian Federation)

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