Our projects

It is the Ukraine’s very first structure made of compressed earth blocks (CEB)! It is now standing in Lviv as a memorial to Rafał Lemkin, the lawyer who coined the term genocide. Materiality is the central symbol of the pavilion: built from local soil, it evokes a direct link to the city’s history and its tragedies. All materials were sourced within a 20-kilometer radius of Lviv, Ukraine.

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Material research: Earth is an elective course at Kharkiv School of Architecture. The main topic of the course is the soil-based materials and their potential for widespread use in construction, as well as the topic of contaminated soils and their potential use as building materials.

“Grunt” investigates war-related soil pollution in Ukraine—while rethinking earth as a local material for climate-conscious reconstruction, Grunt bridges two critical concerns arising from post-war zones: the environmental consequences of warfare and the urgent need for reconstruction aligned with climate goals. Hence amplifying the critical question of benchmarks for harm and thus health—soil and human—in our built environments.

Sustainable Materials and Structures is an elective course at Kharkiv School of Architecture. The main topic of the course is a full cycle of the building materials production - from the extraction and processing of raw materials to the final product with all intermediate stages.