Productive urban landscape. Reorganization of dismissed industrial territories in Kyiv

As it is generally known there is a long lasting economic trend of removal of the production of goods and its substitution with the production of services in urban environment. Migration from rural to urban environments in search of employment and better life quality is not new a phenomenon, but its recent acceleration created a very particular economical and social condition. Employment and meeting of needs of urban population is a question of a highest priority as now the majority of Earth population live in urban areas. Technology development requires increasing level of education and lower number of employees involved in production. The main opportunity to have a job with an overall reduction of jobs market is to create one. Modern high-tech production does not allow a single person to purchase his own means of production. The following design proposal is an attempt to recreate balance between production and consumption on the scale of an urban block. It is an exemplary project which may generate an effective synergic community which will produce goods and knowledge about their production. The aim was to design an architectural volume containing a program that is simple and down-to-earth. Literally down to earth, because the primary mean of production proposed is a traditionally rural landscape that is relocated in urban environment. Site chosen is a historically established industrial zone on the periphery of one of the oldest districts in Kiev. In more that there hundred years of its history it has been a ceramic tile factory, a brewery and a factory producing malt extracts. The last enterprise located here moved out in 2006.