“Turn the city to the water” and build a Ukrainian Rotterdam: how architects see Mariupol after liberation

Despite the fact that the city is still occupied, a new look is already being invented for it.

We tell readers Pravda_Gerashchenko about the project of Ukrainian architects and designers Re:Mariupol.

Authors, funding and time of the project
The initiator of "Re:Mariupol" was a native of the city, Sergei Rodionov. There are 4 more architects in his team. It is planned that the recovery will take $14.5 billion and 15 years. The World Bank, EBRD, USAID plan to finance the project.

Rodionov was inspired to create Re:Mariupol by the experience of the city of Rotterdam. It is also a major industrial center with a port that was damaged by the fighting but was rebuilt after the Second World War.

What will happen in the new Mariupol
▪️ "security hub" in the form of an international military base;
▪️re-planning of streets according to the concept of "15-minute city", so that in a quarter of an hour you can get to any service;
▪️landscape parks instead of factories and combines;
▪️construction of a new station, ship canal, ring road, international ferry terminal;
▪️ light rail lines;
▪️restoration of 19th century buildings in the center;
▪️conservation of the Drama Theater as evidence of war crimes of the Russian Federation;
▪️memorial park-reserve instead of "Azovstal";
▪️observation deck on the 250-meter CHP pipe;
▪️The cultural and historical space "Center of Steel" dedicated to industrialization and metallurgy instead of the blast furnaces of the plant.

The authors note that the final project is still far away. Even the current version has yet to be coordinated with residents and businesses. But in ambitious plans to build a modern European city.