This workshop is not organized by Les Ateliers de Cergy, this initiative is prepared by the historical and independant partner: the Irkutsk National Research Technical University.

The university invites masters to participate in the 27th urban planning session and joint development of projects for the future main axis – Karl-Marx Street in the historical city center Irkutsk.

The development of the historical center of Irkutsk for four centuries as the largest public and business district of the city and the region remains a unique place to visit. In addition to the fact that the historical center is a modern business, shopping, public center. At the same time, in recent years, the historical center of the largest Siberian city has faced growing challenges and difficulties: the pressure from peripheral trade and service centers, a real estate crisis, and a decrease in the comfort of the urban environment. Reaffirmed the importance of aligning urban development with broader community and environmental goals.

In the theme of the project for updating the central streets and the unique location of the historical center of Irkutsk on the coast of the Angara River flowing from Lake Baikal, various opportunities for revitalizing the historical city open up.

What values should be guided by projects for the future of the historical center?

How to improve this unique place in the face of numerous environmental, economic and social challenges?

How can the multifunctional area of the city be reintegrated into its unique natural environment?

What program and model of the historic center corresponds to the 21st century?

As a historical street, its central spaces can become a motor of the revival of historical center Irkutsk?