SUPERMAHALLA丨乌兹别克斯坦

SUPERMAHALLA

Type: Residential premises / Architecture

Location: Uzbekistan

Timeline: 2025

Project Team: Katerina Kovaliova, Hanna Budnikava, Tatsiana Palkhouskaya, Elizaveta Lavrinovich, Yuri Korolev, Pavel Astapenia, Aliaksei Zanouski, Veranika Zanouskaya (LEVEL80 | architects)

The location of our new project is a city in Uzbekistan with a rich centuries-old history: part of the Great Silk Road, a center of artistic crafts, and a former capital of a khanate where magnificent palaces, mosques, and mausoleums have been preserved.

A mahalla consists of several houses gradually built by different generations of the same family. The houses are arranged so that they form a courtyard inside – a space for gathering close ones. All the windows face the courtyard as well. The perimeter walls of one such block have no windows and adjoin the walls of neighboring families’ houses. Together, they form a whole patchwork quilt of roofs.

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