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Solar Nexus

This is the image: At the physical center of the human body--in the abdomen, just below the heart--a complex cluster of nerves coalesces into a network called the solar plexus. The equivalent place on the body of Kyiv is called Venetsianskyi Island, one of the pearls of the Dnieper River, but this emerald heart is not yet connected to the city.

This project forms a nexus from the vast series of networks already present around the islands by coalescing the ecological, cultural, and recreational vitality around the heart of Kyiv.

This is the situation: How can Kyiv activate the functional value of its islands while preserving their sensitive cultural and ecological conditions? The first objective brings more people, endangering the second.

This is the project: Solar Nexus extends the surface of the islands with a flexible, modular, floating landscape. This floating landscape accommodates new recreational program without adding recreational loads to the islands themselves. Simultaneously, the infrastructure of the islands is consolidated into interlocking networks ringing the islands, concentrating human traffic into a controlled barrier zone while leaving the interior ecologies cohesive, unbroken, and undisturbed.

This consolidated infrastructure becomes like a nervous system, activating, serving, and protecting both human and ecological activities on the islands. These ganglionic loops of infrastructure accommodate floating dachas for a tourist trip or weekend getaway, off-island space to grow plants used to repopulate damaged sections of island, or floating habitat for endangered fish and bird species.

Solar Nexus integrates the urban conditions of Kyiv with the unique ecological conditions of the Dnieper islands. It is an innovative, amphibious, landscape typology that equally serves, protects, and unifies the citizens and ecologies of Kyiv.

Dolobetskyi

Truhanov island

Kozachyi island

Olzhyn island

Vodnikov island

Zhukiv island

Galernyi island

Velykyi island

Venetsianskyi island

Lopuhovatyi

Muromets island

Havan

skyi

bridge

Pivdenniy bridge

Darnitskiy railway

bridge

Paton bridge

Metro bridge

Voskresenskiybridge

Podilsko-

Petrivs'kyj railway

Staryi gulf

Rusanivska branch

Matviivska gulf

Desenka

Rusanivska branch

Kyiv Harbor

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of preserved natural systems

consolidated infrastructure

human enjoyment

leaves natural systems intact

in a variety of uses

while facilitating adjacency

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Kozachyi island

Olzhyn island

Vodnikov island

Zhukiv island

Galernyi island

Velykyi island

Pivdenniy bridge

Darnitskiy railway

bridge

Paton bridge

Staryi gulf

active recreation

protective coastal buffer (20m, 50m. 100m, as per zoning)

sport

fixed leisure / recreation / tourism

single pontoon (i.e. dacha)

unbroken ecology patch

floating boardwalk programming

1 : 10 000 m0 50 100 500 1000

0 50 100 500

dacha

dacha

dacha

dacha

foraging

foraging

foraging

picnic

picnic

photohunting

photohunting

photohunting

powerboating

powerboating

small scalehydro-

turbines

pontoonmanufacturing

center

industrial water

cleansing

floating boardwalk

floating boardwalk

floating boardwalk

hotel /tourism

hotel /tourism

floating down the

river

rowing

hotel /tourism

boardwalk

sport

sport

sport

leisure / recreation

activerecreation

phyto- remediation

phyto- remediation

swimming / beach

swimming / beach




swimming / beach

fishing

wi-fiwi-fi

floatingboardwalk

boardwalk

wi-fi

plantrestoration

habitatpreservation

habitatpreservation

habitatpreservation

aquatic habitat

aquatic habitat

habitatpreservation

fishing

fishing

fishing

people per hectare allowed

coastal protective border 100 m

territory zoned: ecology / reserve

territory zoned: fixed recreation

recreation environment

k e y

p e o p l e / h e c t a r e

a l l o w a b l e

density

phase 1

Lisovyi peninsula1-2 people / hectare

people per hectare allowed

territory zoned: ecology / reserve

territory zoned: fixed recreation allowed

1-2 people / hectare1,609 people

1-2 people / hectare2,215 people

D o l o b e t s k y i

V e n e t s i a n s k y i

How can we resolve the missions to: 1) add recreational development that will draw and accommodate increased visitation, while2) limiting the amount of visitation to the islands for the sake of environmental protection?

Zoning regulations set a hard limit to the number of visitors the islands can accomodate, which concentrates visitors into two zones of fixed recreation.

To keep the island environments undivided as “a single complex,” all island infrastructure is consolidated into a barrier zone around the outside of the islands, just inside the coastal protective border.

C o n s o l i d a t i n g infrastructure allows for wide programmatic variation in a single strategic move. These channels accommodate everything from hotels & restaurants to walking trails and research stations, depending on requirement.

The border is multiplied and distorted, stretched in places to float in the water, functionally extending the ground plane of the islands without impacting their ecological limits. These floating portions provide recreational services or ecological support as needed.

This is the image: At the physical center of the human body--in the abdomen, just below the heart--a complex cluster of nerves coalesces into a network called the solar plexus. The equivalent place in the body of Kyiv is called Venetsianskyi Island, one of the pearls of the

Dnieper River, but this emerald heart is not yet connected to the city. This project forms a nexus from the vast series of networks already present around the islands by coalescing the ecological, cultural, and recreational vitality

around the heart of Kyiv. T How can Kyiv activate the functional value of its islands while preserving their sensitive cultural and environmental conditions? The first objective brings more people, endangering the second. Th Solar Nexus extends the surface of the

islands with a flexible, modular, floating landscape. This floating landscape accommodates new recreational program without adding recreational loads to the islands themselves. Simultaneously, the infrastructure of the islands is consolidated into interlocking networks ringing the islands, concentrating human traffic into a controlled barrier

zone while leaving the interior ecologies cohesive, unbroken, and undisturbed. This consolidated infrastructure becomes like a nervous system, activating, serving, and protecting both human and ecological activities on the islands. These ganglionic loops of infrastructure accommodate floating dachas for a tourist trip or weekend getaway, off-island space to

grow plants for the revegetation of damaged sections of island, or new floating habitat for endangered fish and bird species. Solar Nexus integrates the urban conditions of Kyiv with the unique ecological conditions of the Dnieper islands. It is an innovative and amphibious landscape typology that equally serves, protects, and unifies the citizens and ecologies of Kyiv.

this is the image

this is the situation: this is the project:

S o N e s o l a r n e x u s

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1 : 10 000 m0 50 100 500 1000 m

Petrivs'kyj railway bridge

Podilsko- Voskresenskiybridge

Metro bridge

Pede

stria

n br

idge

Paton bridge

Havan

skyi

bridge

Dolobetskyi island

Truhanov island

Venetsianskyi island

Lopuhovatyi island

Muromets island

Venetian branch

Rusanivska branch

Matviivska gulf

Desenka

Rusanivska branch

branch

Rusanivska

Kyiv Harbor

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+dacha plant

restoration

aquatichabitat

bio-trail

small scale hydro-turbine

aquatic phyto- remediation

recreationprogram

dacha volume

1 : 10 000 m0 50 100 500 1000

1 : 10 000 m0 50 100 500 1000

constructed park & recreation

structures (max. 2-3 stories in ht.)

sport

walking hiking access trail

restricted access for vehicles

beach

fixed boardwalk programming

single pontoon (i.e. dacha)

unbroken ecology patch

floating boardwalk programming

habitat foraging

the self sustained modular structure enables the floating landscapes to be positioned in any corner of the Dnieper corridor

enables public spaces, including swimming, amphitheaters, cafes, scenic views, botanic gardens, foraging, and much more

pedestrian traffic is directed for minimal conflict with ecological preservation while floating boardwarks support ecological functions such as phyto-remediat ion and gardens

opens to natural light

skin 1:climate-control/ privacy

skin 2:performativeenvelope

water filtration,swimming, cafe, dining, floatingbeach, various recreation

piers provide lighting and a metric against which to gauge the cyclical 1 meter rise and fall of the river, giving visualization to energy consumption’s effect on the Dnieper’s hydrology

bio remediation & fish habitat

s o l a re n e r g y

controlledorientation /views

w a t e r harvestingsingle

cluster

l i nea r

Two business people take a weekend away to enjoy one of their favorite pastimes...birdwatching...

An urban forager wonders why the directions to his grandmother’s favorite mushroom hunting spot get more vague the closer he gets.

A researcher rejoices (in his own quiet way) to see the return of thriving populations of endangered fish.

A melancholy teenager looks for a quiet place to write sad poetry.

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