DESIGNING THE ARCHITECTURE OF KINDERGARTENS WITH THE INCLUSION OF CIVIL DEFENSE FACILITIES (BOMB SHELTERS)

Abstract

The problem, which project designers did not think about for a long time, broke into our peaceful life in the early morning of February 24, 2022. On the way of the enemy’s movement, in the cities and villages of Ukraine, people faced the same problem – the pervasive absence of bomb shelters. Based on world experience, there is an urgent need to start building civil defense facilities in Ukraine as soon as possible. As today’s war has shown, the aggressor mostly poured out his fury on civilian infrastructure objects. His attention was especially focused on the buildings intended for the most vulnerable segments of our society: kindergartens, hospitals, orphanages, maternity homes, etc. The students of the current year of study were given the task within the course design of a small kindergarten to propose a solution to the design problem: to think about the object’s location; concealing it from the enemy; availability amidst extreme evacuation; arrangement of a sufficient number of exits; provision of emergency communication links; operational characteristics in peacetime, etc. An effective process of brai n working on the poblem has begun. The article is illustrated with the materials of the 2022 course projects of the second-year students of the Faculty of Architecture of NAFAA: Angela Kubrak, Katya Yezhova, Liza Andrusenko, and Katya Ivanchenko.