«FIRST DOCTOR'S HOUSE»  HISTORICAL DOMESTIC EXPERIENCE OF DESIGNING AN APARTMENT HOUSE FOR RESIDENCE AND WORK OF DOCTORS

Abstract

The article reveals the historical experience of designing an apartment building in Kiev, intended for living and organizing the work of doctors. The purpose of the article is to present and analyze the domestic experience in the design and further functioning of multi-apartment buildings for residents of certain professions, in particular medicine. The article may be of interest to an audience who studies national historical monuments, unique buildings, or deals with the problems of designing multi-apartment buildings for certain groups of the population. The research methodology is based on historical analysis, systematization of the data obtained from various information sources. Ukraine has its own historical experience in the design and construction of unique and special buildings, which may arouse interest among the international community, domestic specialists in the architectural and design sphere and among investors interested in creating multi-apartment housing for a group of residents united by a certain profession. Unfortunately, these Ukrainian practical developments are still insufficiently disclosed and not represented at the proper level in the research community. In particular, the problem of designing apartment buildings for doctors and medical personnel is an open and unresolved issue for international researchers. Today, the First Doctor's House is a prestigious building, although over time it turned out to be located on a very noisy and busy city highway in the center of the capital city. In this house there are no longer any indigenous people of Kyiv and those for whom this project was developed by the architect - people of the medical profession. Almost none of today's residents of the building and its surroundings remember why it has such an unusual name. Alas ... A couple of decades ago, well-known Kiev doctors, some of the best Ukrainian surgeons of the Soviet school, lived in the First House of Doctors. Now the house is filled with «new Ukrainians», «new financial elite». And the people who were the pride of Kyiv and Ukraine, the best specialists in their field, remained only in memories. Such a personal fate of this particular historical building, it has lost its purpose to unite people of medical professions, perhaps this is due to its location in the prestigious central urban environment of Kyiv. But at the time when doctors really lived in the «First House of the Doctor» - the building was an ultra-comfortable object for combining residential, professional functions for its residents.