Architecture of Mass Dwelling in Russia and the Necessity for Structuring by Types of Property

The housing policy carried out in Russia in the 90s of the XX century led to the emergence of a new type of apartment building (multiple dwelling), which is essentially a kind of conglomerate of a municipal building with privatized flats. This practice of combining forms of ownership continues to this day, but if the old nine and five-story residential buildings despite their typical monotony nevertheless created a cozy and in many ways human environment, modern apartment buildings are faceless panel, very denselypopulated “catalogue boxes” with the same faceless forms of ownership, when the owners of flats and social and commercial tenants coexist in the same residential building. Such super-dense construction ensures a quick payback of investments to the builders, investors and developers, while simultaneously imposing on the consumer a close proximity of absolute strangers, including anonymous-aggressive activities of the management companies. The current situation of the construction of multi-storey and high-rise multiple dwellings leads to inefficient use of land, generating a truly depressed architecture of mass utilitarian consciousness. The dominance of large-scale apartment buildings must be stopped, while the forms of ownership and management must be disaggregated and differentiated. Mass development can and should be represented by more diverse volume-spatial solutions of build up with different heights and various types of filling (townhouses, blocked buildings, suburbias, etc.) taking into account new effective forms of private rental entrepreneurship and management.