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Source: Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University –
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Representatives of the Civil Engineering Institute took part in the ArchIng workshop, which traditionally takes place within the framework of the Summer School project. This year, the event brought together more than 50 schoolchildren, students and young professionals from different cities and universities.
The Civil Engineering Institute was represented by Alexandra Zatsepina, senior lecturer at the Higher School of Industrial, Civil and Road Construction, who acted as the scientific director of the architectural and school tracks, as well as ISI graduates Ekaterina Zorina (director of the workshop) and Valeria Kozodaeva (curator of the architectural direction).
The workshop’s partners were the companies Metropolis and Petersburg through the Eyes of an Engineer, the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) and the Institute of Applied Urbanism.
The school track participants explored public spaces in Dubna: the Bolshoi Volzhsky Lighthouse, the Family Recreation Park, and the pier near the pedestal of the demolished monument to I. V. Stalin. The children visited the design site, took photographs, interviewed residents, and then created improvement projects and developed new architectural forms that embodied the memory and spirit of the place. For example, near the Bolshoi Volzhsky Lighthouse, the team proposed installing sculptures in memory of the political prisoners who built the lighthouse itself and the Moscow Canal.
On the architectural track, students and young professionals created art objects reflecting the unique identity of Krasnodar, Khabarovsk, Ulan-Ude, Vladivostok, Arkhangelsk and Chelyabinsk, which are currently experiencing population outflow. First, the participants collected associations related to each of the cities in zine albums. Then they rethought the images and embodied them in concepts of art objects that could become symbols of urban life and cultural heritage. For example, for Arkhangelsk, the guys reworked the image of a wooden bird of happiness, which is in every home, and for Vladivostok, they depicted colonies of Idiomarina Martina bacteria for cleaning the Sea of Japan.
Students and engineers of the design track created models of bridges. After a lecture on the development of span structures, which was given by the teacher, writer and head of the design bureau Anton Smirnov, the participants developed calculation schemes in software packages and implemented them using 3D printing. The projects included "Retro Bridge", "Celtic Grasshopper", "Whalebone" and "Arched Bridge". After testing, the winner was "Whalebone", which withstood a load of 29.8 kg with its own weight of only 1.2 kg.
Alexandra Zatsepina noted that the main success of the workshop is the formation of a community that opens up opportunities for joint projects and communication. This also contributed to strengthening cooperation between the university, companies and scientific organizations. In addition, the workshop showed how architects and engineers work and think, thanks to which many were able to decide on their choice of profession.
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