The Formation of the Artistic-Communication Environment of the City of Astana in the Context of Kisho Kurokawa Town-Planning Project Implementation

Abstract

The article is devoted to the interrelation of the master plan for the development of Astana, developed by the Japanese architect Kisho Kurokawa, and the peculiarities of the formation of the artistic and communication environment of the new capital of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The article presents the philosophical ideas of symbiosis and metabolism of Kisho Kurokawa, which are the basis of the development concept of Astana. In the practice of designing the urban environment, they were implemented through the absence of a dominant style, numerous repetitions, the use of techniques of eclecticism, hyper-symbolism and historicism. The specificity of the formation of artistic and communication environment of the left and right Bank of the Yessil river is considered. The attention is drawn to the fact that if the territorial area of theleft Bank is a new administrative and social center, built in a short period of time on freeland, the right Bank is an area of historical development, that has undergone reconstruction and has been included in the overall trend of the city. It is emphasized that the monumental character of Astana architecture is combined with the originality of the organization of urban spaces. The article presents the names of masters - architects, sculptors, designers of foreign countries and Kazakhstan, who actively participated in the design of the artistic and communication environment of the capital. The results of the study are presented: 1) the characteristic features of the formation of the artistic and communication environment of the capital in the context of the implementation of the Kisho Kurokawa project are revealed; 2) the types of objects that make up the basis of the artistic and communication environment of the city are classified; 3) the types of advertising and information carriers, the most suitable for the city with a specific severe sharply continental climate and steppelandscape. It is concluded that the organization of the urban space of Astana as a whole, and the formation of its artistic and communication environment of the XXI century have a pronounced creative vector.

Keywords

• concept, zoning, general plan, artistic and communication environment, city status, project culture