Author: Aigerim Fazyl
Mentor: Oksana Akulova
Maintaining large administrative buildings in Astana costs the state budget hundreds of millions of tenge each year. Yet many of these well-known properties stand idle most of the time and remain inaccessible to ordinary citizens. In Almaty, the problem is different: there are numerous abandoned buildings owned by state or quasi-state companies that have simply been forgotten.All these facilities generate neither financial nor social value, even though they could be turned into vibrant community spaces for city residents.
Project resident Aigerim Fazyl explored how much financial loss idle square metres could cause the budget and whether these spaces could find a useful purpose.
*The original article is written in Russian
You can read the full article, prepared by a resident of the project, at the following link: https://toppress.kz/article/desyatki-tisyach-pustuyush-ih-kvadratnih-metrov-mogut-li-bit-poleznimi-administrativnie-zdaniya-v-megapolisah-kazahstana