A survey of Kharkiv residents — conducted while the city was still under conflict — asked how they envisioned rebuilding. Their answers pointed not to monuments or landmarks, but to the rhythms of everyday life: routes, routines, the familiar fabric of the city. This became the design's departure point.
The proposal's morphology consists of three elements — each independent, each capable of standing alone, yet designed to combine. Depending on which is built or how they are assembled, Freedom Square takes on a different urban character and civic meaning.
In contrast to the strong, solemn presence of the surrounding architecture, the three elements embody a loose, prosaic essence — extending the civic life of the Regional Administrative Building and offering Freedom Square a forward-looking identity rooted in the lives of those who inhabit it.