As the object of the graduation design project I chose the dormitory building of the health resort Lipetskkurort built in 1974. An important task was to emphasize the original architecture of the space intended for recreation, while taking into account modern trends and goals, the relevance of which for public spaces related to recreation and health has been identified by the pandemic. The new challenges facing civilization, and above all the COVID-19 pandemic that has taken hold of the whole world, force us to admit that our life will never be the same again. This thought led to the idea of moving away from the standards — the system of prohibitions, old and new, including the need to maintain ‘social distance’ in the outside world and from the discipline of the hospital, which traditional resorts are so fond of reproducing. Associative words: well-being, rest, learning.
Lipetskkurort, a functioning resort, was built in the centre of Lipetsk, but, thanks to its location in a park area near the Voronezh River, it has all the advantages of a suburban recreational facility. This is essentially a full-fledged ecologically clean resort with peloids and healing mineral water — contrary to established tradition, it happens to be situated in the city centre within walking distance for most citizens. However, these advantages are largely levelled by the fact that the buildings of the hospital were built according to a typical design of the late Soviet era, so they do not correspond to the modern standards in terms of function, scale or aesthetics. Therefore, the main task of the graduate project was formulated as follows: to propose ways for a deep modernization of a typical project of the 1970s using exclusively design techniques.
It is assumed that the approach demonstrated in this work is universal and can be applied to all objects made according to the specified standard project, or close to it.
