Architectural practice of shaping urban spaces through the prism of traditional ideas of the Turks (Nursultan, Kazakhstan)

Abstract

The article discloses architectural ideas, aesthetics, ethics and social ethics of state power in terms of designing architectural spaces in the city of Nursultan. Universals of traditional Turkic culture and modern stimulating impulses of creativity are analyzed. The criteria for searching for a "collective portrait" in the representation of urban spaces and ways of constructing mythological and symbolic meanings in them are revealed. Architectural images are formed at the level of accepted literary patterns - mythological, symbolic formations. The urbanization of a metropolitan place determines a hierarchically organized semiotic product that has the stability of archaic meanings, as stages of construction, with ethnic and mythopoetic constructivism, marked by the conditional concepts of “capital nodes”. The first metropolitan spatial node was revealed by the principles of a new independent and self-sustained world order, renaming the streets of the virgin land, but adding an object of power - the Presidential Palace of Culture. The second node - Nurzhol Boulevard laid down a new principle of spatiality - the Ritual Path through the Exhibition of Independence Achievements: from one symbolic structure of the Power to another, replacing the Square, as the Soviet form of ritual expression. The third node began with the shopping malls, making out and closing the Way to the architectural passage, which eventually culminated in the appearance of the image of the Sphere-Universe - EXPO 2017. This development of figurative forms reveals the stages of understanding and acquiring a topological space - the "face" of the capital, primarily in the republican, regional and planetary scale.