Warming / Утеплення

Series of photos “Warming” is focused on architecture anarchic phenomena of Kyiv – warming. Warming of facades of apartments of block houses has been very popular service within last 15-20 years. Citizens actively insulate with foam plastic and plasterboard fragments of facades of houses of Soviet times – of “khrushchevki”, “stalinki”, and block houses of later period of typical architecture. Common trend gradually change collective image of sleeping districts, quickly built after WWII to provide labor class with accommodation and bring its living conditions in cities closer to socialist ideals. The title “Warming” refers also to global warming, due to which paradoxically winters are colder and citizens have to insulate facades of their own apartments. The phenomena of “warming” also points at the gap between initial intentions of architects of multistore block houses of the era of industrial growth that were rather focused on quick and cheap process of construction and current reality in which natural resources are limited, energy and particularly warmth are expensive, thus saving costs means proper insulation of accomodation, in case it was built out of materials with high thermal conductivity.