Innovative ProjectInnovative Project2500-3437Eco-Vector8120310.17673/IP.2020.5.11.3Research ArticleABANDONED OBJECTS. FROM UTOPIA TO REALITY: VIABILITY CRITERIAGelfondAnna Lazarevnagelfond@bk.ruNizhny Novgorod State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering28092021511324328092021Copyright © 2021, Gelfond A.L.2021<p>The article discusses the change in the architectural typology of abandoned objects over time. The influence of time on their town-planning position and typological components - function, design and form are analyzed. Abandoned object - a structure created by man, but not in use today. They went their way from reality to utopia. An attempt is made to figure out why this happened and whether the return path is possible - from utopia to reality. In conclusion, the concepts of general and environmental criteria for assessing the viability of abandoned objects are introduced, and on their basis the concept of the architectural and typological potential of a structure is formulated.</p>utopiarealityabandoned objectlife potentialутопияреальностьзаброшенный объектжизненный потенциал[Gelfond A L 2016 The evolution of architecture of public spaces of the historic center of Nizhny Novgorod / International Journal of Applied Engineering Research. Volume 11, Number 3, 1728-1738][International Architectural Competition «Architecture of the Abandoned» / https://www.architime.ru/activity/2020/competition080620big.htm][Voznyak E R 2018 The problem of abandoned buildings and objects // Modern problems of the history and theory of architecture: Proceedings of the IV All-Russian scientific conference. Ed. M.V. Zolotaryova. Publishing house: Saint-Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering (Saint-Petersburg), 40–45 (in Russ.)][Voronina A 2014 Nizhny Novgorod: on the issue of the “city – nature” paradigm in the post-industrial period / Dissertation for the PhD academic degree, National School of Architecture of Grenoble, Grenoble][Gelfond A L 2019 The concept of formation of potential spatial frameworks of historical settlements // Academia. Arkhitektura i stroitelstvo, 1, 12–20 (in Russ.)][Gelfond A L 2020 Contemporary architecture of the Baltic capitals: the global in the identical, the identical in the global / International conference on Civil, Architectural and Environmental Sciences and Technologies (CAEST 2019) 19 November 2019, Published online: 17 April 2020. IOP Conf. Ser.: Mater. Sci. Eng. 775][Koetter F and Rowe C 1979 Collage City / Hardcover Out of Print ISBN: 9780262180863 192 pp.][Augé M 2017 Non-places. Introduction to hypermodern anthropology /«NLO», 1992 — (Studia Urbanica) / translated A. Yu. Konnova. — M.: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 136 p.][Dutsev M V 2018 Modern urban environment: consumption, game and art / Series: Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research: Science, Experience, Education, 456–462.][Shabaga A 2016 Historical subject in time and space https://iarex.ru/articles/52572.html 28.04.2016 (in Russ.)][Gregotti V 2020 The territory of architecture https://archi.ru/world/85804/racionalnyi-akcent-na-prirode/16.03.2020][Giorgio de Chirico 2017 Metaphysical visions: State Tretyakov Gallery 20.04 – 23.07 2017 / A sense of architectonics in old painting, 1920 (Antiga Edizioni)]