The project of temporary shelters, developed and implemented by us together with our partners Replus bureau and Ponomarenko Bureau in the first months of the full-scale invasion, is on display at the exhibition Constructing Hope: Ukraine at the Chicago Architecture Center.
Photos by: Parrish Lewis
Constructing Hope: Ukraine illustrates how architecture can foster mutual aid and create critical support networks for entire communities.
Among the works on display at the exhibition is our Temporary Shelters project, which was created in the first months of the full-scale invasion, when western Ukraine became a temporary home and a stopover for many people fleeing the war. While working on this project, we set ourselves the main task of creating a package of solutions that would be simple and quick to install, as well as adaptive. This project is not about a new house. It’s about a space where you can feel safe, and about humane privacy, respect, and sensitivity to each other.
The exhibition is open to the public until September 1, 2025.
Curators of the exhibition: Ashley Bigham, Betty Roytburd, and Sasha Topolnytska
Poster: Aliona Solomadina
The Shelter project team: Oleksii Vostrykov, Andriy Golovchenko, Kostiantyn Paleiev, Dmytro Sorokevych, Oleh Drozdov, Maksym Dudiak, Mykhailo Shevchenko, Serhii Shtogun, Kostiantyn Rudnev, Lilit Hakobian, Volodymyr Ponomarenko, Inna Shapovalova, Maksym Vatralik.
