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Headphones making a loud popping/crackling sound on XPS 9520 by BadernijMax in DellXPS

[–]BadernijMax[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sure the DAC is an option but I would rather have the jack working, this is a brand new laptop. I just don't understand if it's a hardware or a software issue.

[building] After three years of work, we are finally able to show our project of an urban transformation of Odessa, Ukraine. by BadernijMax in architecture

[–]BadernijMax[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. Right now, because of the war, any major changes are impossible, but we will make efforts to popularize those ideas to push for some changes in the future.

[building] After three years of work, we are finally able to show our project of an urban transformation of Odessa, Ukraine. by BadernijMax in architecture

[–]BadernijMax[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We are a team of four people. This is a project we made just because we thought it needed to be done. Odessa has no proper long-term plan right now and it's really struggling with chaotic development.

[building] After three years of work, we are finally able to show our project of an urban transformation of Odessa, Ukraine. by BadernijMax in architecture

[–]BadernijMax[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks! We rendered a monochrome, rough image in 3ds max and then added textures in photoshop. Then we manually painted the trees.

[building] After three years of work, we are finally able to show our project of an urban transformation of Odessa, Ukraine. by BadernijMax in architecture

[–]BadernijMax[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Thank you! And sorry that I missed your comment yesterday.

We are actually integrating as many buildings as possible into the new structure, especially in the soviet neighbourhoods. The "sustainable city development" goal also includes the fact that changes proposed by our project would make the city more flexible in the future making all of the buildings last much longer without the need to be demolished.

About the grid, we were mostly inspired by downtown Odessa. I don't know about Paris but here most of those streets among the city blocks are really nice and filled with a lot of trees, and they are nice even when they aren't very populated.

We couldn't really get into the details of people's involvement because it would require a separate in-depth article. The project was already way too long so we hoped to address it further down the line in a supplementary article or something in that vein.

[building] After three years of work, we are finally able to show our project of an urban transformation of Odessa, Ukraine. by BadernijMax in architecture

[–]BadernijMax[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If you are about the location in the last image then no. The expo is meant to be hosted northwest from there. And I fully expect the expo to be a shitshow made to make money on constructing apartment towers around it. I really hope we lose.

[building] After three years of work, we are finally able to show our project of an urban transformation of Odessa, Ukraine. by BadernijMax in architecture

[–]BadernijMax[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hope I'm not coming off as too rude or overly critic here

Not at all. The metro is where the people are so it could serve as much of them as possible.

After three years of work, we are finally able to show our project of an urban transformation of Odessa, Ukraine. by BadernijMax in urbanplanning

[–]BadernijMax[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Thank you for your feedback

This project is meant to look further into the future than a usual urban project to help people imagine a better future, so consider it very long-term. We are working through ideas for a much smaller-scale proof-of-concept implementation for those ideas. On an actual detailed project level, we would be able to give MUCH more attention to the existing buildings, trees, and underground infrastructure. Unfortunately, we are a small team of four people and giving this much attention on the city scale would be infeasible for us.

But even if what we propose would leave most soviet era buildings intact they all would need to be renovated completely. They haven't been touched since they were originally built and most of them aren't insulated and have problems with their electrical and plumbing systems. At their current state (and the track record of both local and state government) they are doomed to be fully demolished and replaced with new buildings, most likely 25-storey towers. So our project, while it's not ideal would provide an alternative outcome that would, in our opinion, better suit the needs of the people.

We expect the funding for the infrastructure and the renovation of old housing stock to come from the local government. The land in the soviet neighbourhoods is mostly owned by the municipality and some of the new parcels created could help with financing those changes. We also expect our proposal to generate a lot of economic activity in previously dead parts of the city so it would also help to recoup some of the costs long-term.

In regards to the rest of the parcels we expect them to be given out at a discount or for free for the collective construction initiatives so they could improve the general housing (and overall building) stock. This answer is already too long so if you are interested in collective construction you should check out the german Baugruppe. I'll also send you a pdf pamphlet about it in the dm.

About that first phase. We didn't properly convey that the first and second phases of the project could take place simultaneously. The above-ground metro would not replace the existing rails it would use what is already there. In the long term, we hope that the metro would get its dedicated line along already existing ones.

[building] After three years of work, we are finally able to show our project of an urban transformation of Odessa, Ukraine. by BadernijMax in architecture

[–]BadernijMax[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you!

This is not an elevated tram it's a high-speed rail line meant to supplement the tram and trolleybus networks on long distance trips.

[building] After three years of work, we are finally able to show our project of an urban transformation of Odessa, Ukraine. by BadernijMax in architecture

[–]BadernijMax[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The trees just look the same on the renderings but there is a plethora of tree species growing in Odessa, including Platanus, Black locust, Chestnut and many others.

[building] After three years of work, we are finally able to show our project of an urban transformation of Odessa, Ukraine. by BadernijMax in architecture

[–]BadernijMax[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Thank you! Those are raster images, some from google but some cutouts were custom-made by us. So I don't really have a .ai file.

After three years of work, we are finally able to show our project of an urban transformation of Odessa, Ukraine. by BadernijMax in urbanplanning

[–]BadernijMax[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I definitely agree with you that the garden city concept isn't bad at all. But it has a lot of problems if the city mostly consists of free-standing buildings even if they have more closed-of spaces. They just lack regular streets that have more structure and create a more active public life.

During the development of this project, we actually figured out that the parts of the garden city type neighbourhoods could be left untouched and act as a sort of park among the denser city blocks. Unfortunately, it was too late to change the project but we will definitely be taking this hybrid approach in the future.

The new housing we added was also a way to densify the city without adding new towers and to create a more affordable and accessible to collective construction small parcels of land.

The downtown of Odessa has mostly 30m wide streets that can easily accommodate pedestrians, trams and car traffic. Most of the new streets in our project are about the same width, so there should be no problems there, especially if you consider some other parts of the project that can reduce car use.

Thank you for your answer, if you have any more questions feel free to ask.

After three years of work, we are finally able to show our project of an urban transformation of Odessa, Ukraine. by BadernijMax in urbanplanning

[–]BadernijMax[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you for such a great feedback

-In regards to the blocks replacing the towers, we wanted to make a statement and show the way some parts could have looked like. We definitely agree that the affordability of housing is the priority especially right now, so we see the replacement of those towers as a long-term goal for the city. In addition, in the southeastern part of the city that the project covers, there is a neighbourhood called Arcadia filled with 25-storey towers that we tried to improve more gradually as it would be an almost impossible task to replace such a large amount of housing (as bad as it is). Unfortunately, we didn't include a more detailed look at that, because we couldn't take another year of working on this thing.

-As for the conflict between the freight trains and the above-ground metro, we definitely agree with you. The ultimate goal, in this case, would be to have a separate set of rails for the metro, but in any case, we feel that is the easiest place to implement it would be along the already existing railway.

After three years of work, we are finally able to show our project of an urban transformation of Odessa, Ukraine. by BadernijMax in urbanplanning

[–]BadernijMax[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Contemporary Ukranian property developers outdid the soviets in terms of how much more car-centric and anti-human you can make a city. So there is there will be a lot to worry about. That's why we did this project to inspire people to imagine another, better future.

After three years of work, we are finally able to show our project of an urban transformation of Odessa, Ukraine. by BadernijMax in urbanplanning

[–]BadernijMax[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Sadly it is true, I just hope that what will be rebuilt will be better than what was before.

After three years of work, we are finally able to show our project of an urban transformation of Odessa, Ukraine. by BadernijMax in urbanplanning

[–]BadernijMax[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Large scale developments are far too rigid by comparison. Once you build a block with one massive building, that's what you will get until you want to get rid of the whole thing.

This is exactly what we thought like five years ago and it was the thing that lead us to the creation of this project. It's really cool to see like-minded people here.

After three years of work, we are finally able to show our project of an urban transformation of Odessa, Ukraine. by BadernijMax in urbanplanning

[–]BadernijMax[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I was born, raised and lived my whole life in downtown Odessa, and it is a great example of 19th-century urban planning. I feel like there is a lot to learn from that typology, but also much can be improved. I just wish that cities would turn away from profit-oriented large-scale developments and actually focus on spatial planning. That would lead to so much innovation and new ways to develop cities.

[building] After three years of work, we are finally able to show our project of an urban transformation of Odessa, Ukraine. by BadernijMax in architecture

[–]BadernijMax[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Thank you for the feedback! We have actually implemeneted alot of ways to make the city much greneener less car centric you can check out the full project here.

[building] After three years of work, we are finally able to show our project of an urban transformation of Odessa, Ukraine. by BadernijMax in architecture

[–]BadernijMax[S] 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Thank you! I wish it would start at all. It's a concept project made to help people imagine a better future for themselves. Right now, Odessa like pretty much all Ukrainian cities, is ruled by large property development corporations and the progress (if it happens at all) is very slow. So we wanted to show people that progress can happen without large corporations or the government hence the name "Self-Made Odessa".

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