Dmytro Legeyda

Dmytro Legeyda is Professor of Architecture and Fluid Mechanics at Kharkiv National University of Civil Engineering and Architecture and a visiting researcher at the Hub for Biotechnology in the Built Environment (HBBE, www.bbe.ac.uk) and the School of Architecture, Planning & Landscape at Newcastle University. Dmytro’s supervisor and mentor is Ben Bridgens - Professor of Regenerative Architecture and Co-Director of HBBE. The main focus of Dmytro's research is to create sustainable cities that would not take space away from the nature. Dmytro's work is driven by the question "How to give nature a chance to survive with the developing urbanisation and population growth? How to change the structure and the architecture of the city so that it would not be a black spot on the body of the nature?" The alternative to this would be a totally artificial human habitat. Having both engineering and architectural educational expertise Dmytro aims at combining architectural and engineering efforts to achieve the ultimate goal: the artificial environment of the city should not violate the natural environment of wildlife, but rather coexist with it and, if possible, co-operate on mutually beneficial terms. The above architectural approach was applied and realized in Dmytro's MA paper in Architecture at Kharkiv National University of Civil Engineering and Architecture in 2022. Dmytro took an active part in the workshop Cherkasy Zoo 27.01-01.02.2020. During the event several teams shared their perspectives on re-thinking the future of the Cherkasy Zoo and created a concept for its public space development.