Smart City-3 Residential Complex

The third phase of the Smart City series in Odesa: sectional blocks built from white, graphite and brick-red volumes with lime-green balconies, efficient housing whose sales helped fund the phases that followed.

Smart City is a series of sales-driven architecture: economical sections, a high share of compact apartments and a predictable construction rhythm. Phase three continues that approach. The long block is broken into several volumes of different heights and colours, which keeps the scale human and gives each section its own address and entrance. Projecting corner volumes anchor the composition at the edges of the site.

The facades use three tones, white, graphite and brick-red, and one accent: lime-green balcony panels set in a rhythm that animates the window grid. Entrances are marked by dark canopies and green portals with large stair numbers, so wayfinding is built into the architecture. Compared with earlier phases, the facades are refined and two-level apartments are added to the mix. Lawns, paths and parking surround the buildings.

This facade code makes it possible to build economically without looking standard: variety comes from colour and rhythm, not from complex construction. Sales of the series funded the next phases before the first one was complete. The building is completed. TVORZI delivered the concept, the architecture, the engineering and author's supervision, keeping the construction pace with decisions made on site.

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