Planting Sunflowers, Protecting Kalyna

To plant and protect — small interventions which blossom to create networks of connection and life. The aggregation of these small interventions — two meter additions to each apartment, frameworks for rebirth in damaged bays, and bunkers planted as seeds — produce a new vision of the urban condition in places of uncertainty.

Programs are solidified as they fragment. Family structures are upheld through a light touch on existing residential structures, while the addition of a continuous exterior balcony provides flexibility. Further, they create an "air-bag" for the building in the form of a blast curtain which takes and lessens the impact of air shock waves. This blast curtain doubles as a performative facade, where an image of the building is printed onto its exterior to serve as camouflage, confusing enemy drone pilots through plays of trompe l'oeil.

The entirety of the site is animated through a series of bunkers. Covered by hard earth, they form a new figure in the tower-in-the-park typology, protecting their users through scale-specific decentralization and centralization. In times of peace, they are transformed into a variety of programs from theaters to sports centers to restaurants to parks.