Design territory is the district of the sludge bank (dirt collector) in the city of Kazan (Russia) in the riverside territories in the Volga river basin (~85 hectares).
The tasks of the project are: to analyse current urban situation, to determine perspective development of the design territory, to work out a design proposal for the perspective land use of sludge bank (dirt collector), to change the ecology of the design and adjoining territories.
The mission of the project is to determine the concept of the urban revitalization and development of the design territory. An important step towards the town-planning reorganization of the Volga territories is the Master Plan of Kazan approved in 2007 which prospectively suggests that a part of freight infrastructure and a number of industrial facilities should be moved away from this district including the sludge bank. The dirt collector does not work efficiently. It is impossible to regulate activated sludge and there is a constant risk of pollution of the environment and the Volga river because of the overflow sludge banks. Only 34 hectares are the active sludge banks, another banks are dry, brake, field of grass. The is a necessity to delete that area within the next few years (till 2013). To this effect a high-technology factory incinerating the consistent sludge will save a situation. The transformation of former industrial areas in green and recreational areas will have a positive impact on the ecology of the city in general.