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🌍 Aranchii Projects at Phoenix Rising: Visions for Rebuilding Ukraine in London

December 9, 2025

Aranchii Workshop took part in the exhibition Phoenix Rising: Visions for Rebuilding Ukraine, held at The Building Centre in London. The exhibition brought together Ukrainian and international architects, planners, and researchers to explore architectural responses to post-war recovery, focusing on resilience, sustainability, and long-term spatial transformation.

Curated by Lucy Bullivant and Arthur Kay, Phoenix Rising presented architectural projects not as final answers, but as open frameworks for rebuilding — addressing cultural continuity, civic identity, and the social role of architecture in times of crisis. The exhibition positioned architecture as a strategic tool for imagining a renewed Ukraine beyond immediate reconstruction.

Three projects by Aranchii Workshop were featured in the exhibition:

• PROSTIR Business Hub (Zymna Voda, Lviv) — a modular business and logistics complex that rethinks industrial typologies through architectural identity, adaptability, and sustainable design. The project demonstrates how functional infrastructure can contribute to the formation of recognisable and human-oriented environments.

• Holy Trinity Church (Obolon, Kyiv) — represented through a white 3D-printed architectural model, revealing both the exterior form and the internal spatial organisation of the church. The model allowed visitors to engage with the project as a holistic architectural system, where structure, light, and spatial hierarchy are integral to the spiritual and communal experience. By combining exterior articulation with an exposed internal layout, the model emphasised the project’s clarity, tectonic logic, and inclusive spatial planning.

• Formatsiia Lviv — a cultural and educational project focused on adaptive reuse and urban regeneration, proposing architecture as a platform for community interaction, learning, and creative exchange.

The exhibition context highlighted how these projects address different scales — from sacred and civic spaces to logistics and cultural infrastructure — while sharing a common architectural approach grounded in clarity, adaptability, and social responsibility. Participation in Phoenix Rising placed Aranchii Workshop’s work within an international dialogue on Ukraine’s architectural future and its role in shaping resilient post-war environments.

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