The Union of the First and the Second Nature

The importance of the problem under investigation results from the growth of Russia’s towns and cities and related destructive expansion of architecture in urban and natural environmental systems. Unavoidably, there appear a great number of problems caused by haphazard construction, uncontrolled activities of development companies and their aggressive reclamation of suburban territories resulting in crisis phenomena, such as spontaneous trash dumps, oil and water pollution, and green belt destruction. The ways of solving these problems are complicated and costly. The objective of this article is to form a new principle of designing urban and suburban areas where the basis of the project, its chief idea is a fragment of living nature (the first nature) organically implanted in a new architectural context (the second nature). The result of this approach can be a new area where it will be possible not only to combine architecture and nature but also to create conditions for their synchronous development. A way of solving this actual problem of preserving the first nature is to analyze contemporary Russia’s and worldwide experience of designing new residential areas, complexes and architectural clusters. Objectives of combining new technologies. The ideas of the article items can become a foundation for elaborating a method of design for an essentially new urban environment. Primarily, these methods are intended for inspiring young designers’ creative search, forming their artistic and project thinking based on new imagery. The first nature as a source of inspiration and a factor of form creation and style. A new attitude to the living environment as an integral organism will help to create a new living environment, really beautiful and comfortable – one of sustainable development.