In the exhibition hall of the SPbGASU Faculty of Architecture, the Department of Landscape Architecture opened an exhibition of projects for the territories of schools and kindergartens.

To recall, the Department of Landscape Architecture was formed in the current academic year. It is attended by students who transferred from the Department of Architectural Environment Design and first-year students. Therefore, the exhibition was the first in the history of the new department.

As Ekaterina Vozniak, Dean of the SPbGASU Faculty of Architecture, noted, on the one hand, the Department of Landscape Architecture is young, on the other hand, it is developing most dynamically. In terms of the number of students, it is the largest in the Faculty of Architecture.

"Over the years, we have developed our own system and our own school of teaching landscape design: if the similar department of the St Petersburg State Forestry University focuses on plantings, then we work with the architecture of space. In the presented projects, we managed to combine both architectural and landscape directions. All the works are impressive in their high level of execution," Ekaterina Voznшak emphasized.

Acting Head of the Department of Landscape Architecture Aleksandr Demin explained that part of the exhibition is made up of course projects by second-year students, and part is made up of completed projects by department staff.

"The exhibition presents the first steps and first experience of students in designing public spaces. The sites of existing schools and kindergartens are used as a basis, where real problems of organizing adjacent territories and public spaces need solving. You can also see the completed projects under the program of the Ministry of Construction and Housing and Communal Services of the Russian Federation "Small Towns and Historical Settlements", completed by the department's employees. This selection of projects is not accidental: it symbolizes the construction of a single content line in continuity between professionals and students. In addition, public space projects in the cities of Kommunar and Pikalyovo in the Leningrad Region, completed within the framework of the Russian competition "Small Towns and Historical Settlements" of the Ministry of Construction of Russia, are presented. They were completed by the employees of the Department of Landscape Architecture together with students, the Kremlin studio, the Competence Center of the Leningrad Region and district administrations," said Aleksandr Demin.

Svetlana Bochkareva, the director of a design studio, SPbGASU chief architect noted the unique design of the exhibition in a single style, which speaks of the personal participation of the head of the department.

"For all of us, such a cheerful exhibition is a great gift and a bright, colorful event. For second-year students, participation in it is a kind of bonus, motivation for further professional activity," Svetlana Bochkareva summarized.

Among the first visitors to the exhibition on 10 April were students from Secondary School No. 564 of the Admiralty District of St Petersburg, with which our university has been cooperating since 1988. As Director Nina Korsakova noted, yesterday's schoolchildren enter SPbGASU and then successfully work in their profession.

"What is presented at the exhibition today is great! I hope that the traditions of cooperation established 37 years ago will continue. It is gratifying to see how the works of our graduates, and now your students, are being implemented here. Thus, in the two new buildings of the school, a large number of unique interiors were made according to the design projects of our students," said Nina Korsakova.

Second-year student of the Department of Landscape Architecture Yulia Rozhkova admits that it is nice to see her project at the exhibition.

"This is my first time participating in an exhibition and my first time developing a project for the functional zoning of a kindergarten territory. I wanted to make modern playgrounds that children would like. Landscaping was also taken into account, new plants were added. Bright accents of the territory are color and paving. I believe that such a first experience will be a good step towards the profession," said Yulia.

Ariadna Bobokova, a tenth-grader at School No. 564, is not yet familiar with landscape design and believes that an exhibition is the best way to get acquainted with it.

"I plan to enroll in your university, but I am more interested in architectural design. Just the other day, a teacher at SPbGASU and I discussed that landscape design is not only flowers and plants, but also architecture. After looking at the works, I was convinced that this is indeed the case: the projects present complex master plans," Ariadna said.