Cultural development of the underground urban spaces on the experience of Saint-Petersburg and Harbin

Abstract

This article is focused on underground architecture design analysis, considering energy efficiency, green technologies, building structure optimization and other questions in Russia (Saint-Petersburg) and China (Harbin). Today, when our society advocatesfor the sustainable development and ecological architecture, the ecotypic underground architecture is an unavoidable theme. There were called some advantages and disadvantages of ecological design implementation methods – influence on environment and human behavior. Conclusion based on underground architectural design technologies comparison between contemporary public building construction experience in Russia and China. General plan of the using of underground urban spaces is not existat all, despite the fact that excluding of the same plan forbids any ground construction.There was given a long-time prognosis about underground architecture development - some perspectives and possible results in future.