Novosibirsk in southern Siberia is Russia’s third largest city and the largest city in Asiatic Russia. The city also boasts the highest concentration of post-secondary educational institutions in the country. Novosibirsk suffers from similar infrastructural constraints to growth experienced throughout Russia. The city’s dense fabric and outmoded transportation infrastructure limit the ability of existing institutions to grow in-situ and restrict the development of appropriate new housing stock to meet the needs of both the student and general populations.

SvN was retained by a private consortium of developers to prepare a master plan for a 5,000 hectare “new town” at the urban periphery that will accommodate up to 250,000 residents, a new consolidated higher-education campus, a major commercial centre, amusement park, and a series of transit-oriented mixed-use neighbourhoods surrounding a new civic core. The new town will provide the required housing infrastructure both for the City’s burgeoning middle-class, an effective affordable housing (and affordable ownership) strategy to meet the needs of the City’s working population, and a student housing program that will allow the new (and existing) post secondary institutions to thrive and attract new students. The master plan also includes preliminary design and engineering for new investments in transit infrastructure (regional

Light Rail Transit and local streetcar transit), water and sewer infrastructure, and community facilities including local and regional sports and community recreation facilities.

The master plan for New Novosibirsk is designed to meet LEED ND requirements- meeting water supply, waste-water, energy-use, transportation access, and building performance standards while utilizing the best locally-available technology and globally recognized best practices in sustainable community planning and design.