Some Aspects of Forming a Comfortable Environment in High-Rise Developments
TThe article reviews several scenarios of high-rise residential housing construction in big cities and offers a comparative analysis of some high-rise residential developments in Singapore and Moscow. The authors propose the method of shaping aboveground public space in the delivery of an investment-construction project and consider ways of increasing the useful space due to multilevel layout of near-house infrastructural facilities, on the example of Singapore. The shortage of housing in big cities precipitates the search of new models in the architectural and urban development practice of raising high-rise residential developments. Singapore - the nation with advanced high-rise construction - overstepped the set pattern of residential skyscraper as a standalone tower and realized high-rise projects in new architectural-spatial compositions. This unique concept has fair chances to become a common solution for big densely populated cities, thanks to the build-up of the housing function due to multilevel spatial layout of public spaces. Since Russia lacks the standards regulating the design and construction of high-rise projects, it would be great to tap into the experience of other nations, adapting it to the climatic conditions of Russian cities.