The article points to the possibilities and perspectives of using BIM technology in the organisation of spatial and numerical data used in the management of space on the urban scale. The current use of BIM technology in urban planning has a selective character and is oriented towards providing data useful to the needs associated with carrying out specific construction projects. The postulated model, called the BIM Urban Mock-up can function as a database managed by the public administration, constituting a form of access to public information to citizens on the one hand, while on the other as analytical material supporting decision-making processes. The article’s goal is to justify the assumption that systematised spatial data in the form of a BIM Urban Mock-up can exponentially increase the effectiveness of the management of space on the urban scale.

A safe and comfortable place to live is a basic need of every human. However, modern tendencies in housing construction appear not to answer this deeply rooted human need: the need to live in a sustainable environment and to create neighbourly ties. One of the forms of neighboirhood units is Cohousing. The name has been coined as a combination of the words „community” and „housing”, and describes a situation in which a group of people initiates the construction of a settlement in which social ties and integration go hand in hand with respecting the autonomy and privacy of an individual.

The dynamically developing world requires effective design tools. We work faster; we create buildings that are taller and more technologically advanced, while at the same time documenting every detail more comprehensively than ever before. As a result, design offices implement tools that allow them to optimize the design process, manage the team, documentation, and the building’s life cycle in a more efficient way. The development of the BIM (Building Inform ation Modeling) technology means that the 21st-century buildings are made using software for 6-7D interdisciplinary design. By using parametrically defined interdisciplinary databases containing complete information about the structure, materials, installations or construction, the design process is precise and all clashes are detected at the initial stage of design works rather than at the construction site. Analyzes, research, and proprietary architectural solutions are harmonized with the construction and installation industries, taking into account the process of construction, operation and aging of the facility, until its utilization as part of the integrated design process.

The notion of ‘smart building’ was taking shape over the last twenty or thirty years of the past century. Initially, the term was used with respect to the advancement of the technologies installed in the building. With the development of information socjety and new forms of labour, new requirements appear with respect to buildings, which – apart from technological quality – extended to the quality of man’s life and work.”

The high requirements as regards the building’s technological quality and high standard, quality of the space of life and work have all been met by the world’s tallest building named Burj Khalifa, erected in Dubai. The building is a model example of the smart building concept that “apart from technological quality, extends to the quality of man’s life and work”. The solutions applied correlate with one another, drawing upon the principles crucial for innovative combination of what is economical, ecological, flexible, and aesthetic in modern design trends.

The article raises the issues of color and light in architecture as part of what is called the „smart city”, where Communications and aesthetics solve the latest technology. Color and light in „smart city” create mainly its artistic side, intellectual and emotional game aimed at ordering space for life, the need that lies in the nature of man. The fact is that all color composition in the urban interior is subject to unconscious and unavoidable observation, subconsciously influenced (scientifically proven) to the psyche and physiology of the observer. The analysis of the colors of architectural ensembles in Poland points to the still secondary role that is the color of both buildings and the context. Visible in Poland the color chaos of most urban interiors still leaves no illusions in this regard. However, the hope of improving the situation is the global exchange of designers’ experiences and intense migration between rapidly emerging new urban centers, leading to the need for color coding of entire residential complexes.

Civilisation development and the urban sprawl and requirements of the contemporary society it entails force to constantly search for answers to questions relating to the form of the city of the future. The city which would address the growing social needs, and at the same time would provide favourable living conditions, consistent with the principles of respect for natural resources, recognised to be limited in volume. This paper presents concepts of the smart city and of the eco-city as the leading trends in building the image of cities of the future. The second part of the publication is devoted to the area of the eastern section of the Vistula river in Cracow as the subject of theoretical visions taking the trends referred to above into account.

The article highlights the results of modern entertainment buildings design in Kielce performed by Ukrainian and Polish students. During the workshop students focused on designing modern performance architecture, in a sense of architecture-formal solutions, concept of forming the creative environment according to the demands of Polish and the world nowadays. All projects of Polish and Ukrainian students, mentioned in the article, are prepared under the guidance of Professor V. Proskuriakov, projects of the Ukrainian students also involved the Master T. Harashchak.

Sustainable development of built environment is necessary much more than in the past, but a very stringent monitoring of environmental impacts is needed to get economic balance and social acceptance of the constructions. Green economy generates new jobs and the new culture, but reliable assessment of net green revenues is still lacking. Moreover, construction sector faces with more than 50% of waste generated in total scale, 40% of all consumed energy, and 35% of CO2 released emissions. This study aims to provide more insights in green sectors, and the evaluation of sustainability. Green public procurement along with the circular economy was found as the right measure towards green sustainability where environmental, economic, and social aspects are harmonized.

The current, widely used traditional standards of architectural and construction design should be radically modified and adapted to modern needs.

• SMART PROJECT – There is currently an information technology-based revolution happening in the modern architectural toolset, associated with introducing new BIM-standard digital design support tools into common use. These tools make it possible to create a virtual model of a building, linked to an immense database that parameterises all the implemented construction materials, Technologies and building services of a building. The virtual design can be linked to climate parameters of a specific geographic location on the one hand, as well as occupancy parameters for each room on the other.

• SMART BUILDING – Energy efficiency requirements are radically increasing across the entire construction sector. This is meant to lead to achieving the „near-zero energy building” standard in the next few years. Buildings that feature such a high energy effectiveness will have to include an entire array of innovative architectural, structural and building services solutions that significantly differ from the typical ones in use today.

This article is an attempt to relate the latest solutions in the field of technology and art presented at the Ars Electronica festiwal - which in the author’s opinion are worth presenting to a wider audience. In addition, the event was presented on a global scale, which was organized exemplary and for which the important buildings in city center was adapted.

Researchers have made a vision of the depletion of coal and oil deposits, which has resulted in the rapid development of research into a new generation of building materials and alternative energy. Unfortunately, every technical solution Rusing recycled materials has as many supporters as hard-core opponents. Fortunately, it has long been found that the processing of „garbage” is the only salvation for a dynamically developing civilization. Treating the global technological transformation of humanity on a global scale, as a specific type of production, creating waste and pollution, the use of renewable materials on an industrial scale should be considered. Architecture creates and at the same time limits human space, energy is necessary for creative activities, that is, without architecture there would be no need for energy. Unreasonable human activities in the aspect of ecology lead to significant, global changes to our planet. Protection of air, water, nature is possible despite adversity.

This article concerns the description of the SMART CITY EXPO WORLD CONGRESS event in Barcelona. The author presents the latest trends, ideas and fashions accompanying the inhabitants of modern cities. In addition, a set of selected good practices relating to the development, policy or management of urbanized structures is included here. The concept of smart cities today applies to almost every area of life and functioning of these structures.

The article is devoted to the specific character of the formation of art-clusters as a new type of buildings. Today, the theme of redevelopment of unprofitable industrial enterprises for art objects is extremely relevant for Ukraine and Poland (where a powerful experience of such complexes is accumulated). A feature of such modern establishments is that this is a space of a fundamentally new type, based on fundamentally new principles, where the preserved in its original form, facade and the modern functional content are combined. Since such industrial buildings are often architectural monuments, a complex of the restoration and renovation measures becomes important.

The article analyses the modern city of Dubai in the context of the assumptions of the idea of the SMART CITY, as an ex ample of introducing a model idea of the sustainable development of a city in practice. Dubai is a modern agglomeration that is excellently managed and employs available technological novelties to the greatest possible extent. It is a relatively new city – that has been built in a desert, in greatly unfavourable conditions – one that aspires to be a city of the future. Dubai is a progressive, cosmopolitan, open city, but it is mainly ahead of our times through being the most innovative and advanced.

The current term SMART CITY – the hallmark of the sustainable development of urban tissue – is a key element that identifies progress in the modern world. SMART CITY DUBAI appears to be an example that perfectly illustrates the idea of the intelligent city. A good example of this idea is SMART CITY DUBAI.

Tourism has been one of the most dynamically developing branches of the economy in recent years. One example of this development is the region of Podhale, and the town of Zakopane in particular, in the area of which this is especially apparent. Podhale is one of the few regions in Poland in which, over the course of history, a distinct and unique architectural style Has developed, which particularly manifests itself in folk art and architecture. In this region we can observe examples of attempts aimed at developing modern architectural forms that are to respect the distinct climate of this region on the one hand, Chile introducing modern forms and new technologies on the other, as something that is meant to characterise the buildings of this region equally to regional architecture. The article presents the problems that modern designers and builders must face while constructing modern commercial buildings associated with tourism.

Territories of former large industrial plants constitute an equally large problem for cities where they are located. A fall of a factory entails not only the occurrence of the phenomenon of unemployment, but also the reduction of the tax receipts to the municipal budget. Cases which are particularly difficult to deal with are declining steelworks, as due to their sizes and specificity of the production technology they had a strong impact on the planning form of the city and its socioeconomic structure. The question of the future of post-steelworks areas is an issue of strategic importance for municipal authorities as well as for central administration. This paper describes the case of the steelworks in Belval. After its closure, authorities of Luxembourg along with private entities undertook a series of measures allowing to transform this brownfield site into a dynamically developing urban centre. The revitalisation process, conducted since the end of the 20th century, led to the occurrence of one of the most interesting transformations of post-industrial areas in Europe, the new growth axis of which is the knowledge-based development. The decision of the central administration to transfer the University of Luxembourg from the capital to the degraded areas of the former steelworks constitutes an answer to the demographic and economic problems of the entire country, recognising diversification of important services and public structures as a factor which may contribute to more sustainable development of the country by means of activation of local centres.
 

The goal of this paper is a confrontation of a study-based and idealistic design approach with the strategy of pragmatic / professional designing for a specific investor. It has the form of a comparative narration of a diploma dissertation with the current design-related activities, soon to be investment activities, referring to the Modlin Fortress. This allows to juxtapose hierarchies of values adopted in both cases and verify the legitimacy of premises underlying the decisions taken in the planning and designing process, and in the context of works of a design team, of mutual proportions in the contribution of pe ople influencing the design, and the order of performance of individual investment tasks.
 

Cities, authorities thereof, communities should pursue the high quality of urban public space which constitute a counterbalance for ‘a multi-stage fake’1 – private space, disguised as public space inside typical2 large-format retail facilities. It is the most effective pressure for the concept of large-format retail facilities to take into account the principles of sustainable development.

This paper constitutes a compilation of the results of a research topic focusing on the integrated energy design. It discusses the process of design preparation at the stage of the architectural concept, initial power-related assumptions, getting familiar with basic construction materials and technologies, forms of education in the field, and project completion. The research was conducted on the basis of periodical international students’ workshops, the first stage of which takes place in Cracow, AT the Faculty of Architecture of the Cracow University of Technology. The workshops are then continued in Strasbourg. At this stage they comprise theoretical classes at the campus of Lycée le Corbusier, as well as visits to construction sites of housing estates, and design works. The publication demonstrates benefits stemming from combining theory with practice in teaching students within the scope of the Smart Project assumptions, as well as students’ designs as the effects of the cooperation.