The innovation park Unit.City – the first such project in Kiev – is being built on the territory of the former automotive factory, a 20 minutes’ drive away from the city center. This place is meant to become something like an ecosystem, in which the community of fellow colleagues works and lives, aided by special infrastructure. One venue unites companies that specialize, for example, in augmented reality, or in cyber safety, or in eco technologies, and these companies have at their disposal various schools and accelerators, laboratories, and conference halls, where you can organize professional events on a regular basis.

The master plan for Unit.City was prepared by the Polish company APA: the cluster is divided into zones called “business”, “innovation”, “education”, and “life”, which allows people to work and get involved in recreational activities without having to leave its confines. Currently, an IT school and three office buildings have been built, with 108 residents already working in them. More than half of them have already launched joint projects – the system has proven its feasibility.

By 2025, nearly half of the territory will be occupied by the residential blocks of Unit.Home complex: these are designed by Archimatika, a company that is very close in spirit to this location – parametric design, focus on energy supplies, and synergy are all part of everyday working process for it. For the housing sector, the same principles were applied as for the entire innovation park, yet the task was made slightly more complex by a seemingly different criterion: the housing had to be cozy above all.