The study outlines the methodological foundations of the architectural and landscape organization of coastal and water areas. A new object of landscape and urban planning - "water areas" has been introduced and scientifically substantiated. The study formulates the direction of "water urbanism", reveals the stages of urban development of water territories and lays the foundations of their architectural and landscape development.
The study develops the author's conceptual approach to the architectural and landscape organization of coastal and water areas, considering their planning integration, derived from the paradigm of their modern, current coexistence and interaction, the developed model of systemic relationships between aquatic and anthropogenic environments and theoretically substantiated influence of the water component on humans habitable environment at 5 levels of problem’s investigation hierarchy (planetary, continental, state, local and individual).
Developed: - the method of interdependent transition arrays (matrices) of data, relating to coastal and water areas and which takes into account the "multidimensionality" of the territorial levels of the objects of study and the "transition" of physical states of water (solid, liquid, gaseous); - conceptual models: a) "systemic relations between aquatic and anthropogenic environments" at 5 levels (planetary, continental, state, local and individual); b) "planning organization of coastal water bodies" (coastal, river, lake and natural-complex); c) "structural and logical relationships" of coastal and water areas; the "process of adaptation" of these areas to climate changes (melting glaciers, rising ocean levels, etc.); d) "blue-green" infrastructure of coastal-water areas in the conditions of river settlements ("water basins", "blue streets", etc.).
Improved the "methodology of architectural and landscape organization" of coastal areas (consisting of functional-planning, landscape-spatial and historical-cultural blocks), urban aspects of which are enhanced with new blocks: engineering-hydrotechnological, information-digital control and management of territories. A special method of “natural and hydrological protection” of coastal areas has been developed, the essence of which is the possibility of adapting design solutions to climate changes and the challenges of environmental vulnerability of territories; proposed a method of “determining of water bodies of historical and cultural heritage”, which provides a more comprehensive basis for unlocking the historical and cultural potential of coastal areas; laid the foundations of the development of integrated specialization for smart infrastructure for coastal areas, both in the international strategy of the "Smart City" and in their specific architectural and landscape organization.
The main scientific principles of architectural and landscape organization of coastal and water areas are formulated in their planning integration ("hierarchical planning organization", "territorial continuity", "compliance of planning with natural processes in aquatic ecosystems", "accessibility and human contact with the water component"); improved the typology of the constituent elements of the system "coastal area - natural reservoir" (coastal, riparian and lakeshore) and the typology of natural water bodies of the UNESCO World Heritage (lagoon, bay, reef, delta, waterfall, etc.); improved classifications of "urban formations" at water areas, "structures" located on the water, "structures" associated with the conditions of solid water; studied the architectural and landscape development of water areas depending on the type of water body (sea, river, lake), the physical state of the water element (liquid, solid, gaseous) and their territorial (scale) level (planning of settlements, individual structures; structural element); compositional methods of architectural and landscape organization of coastal-water areas, as well as decorative means of landscape architecture depending on the physical condition of water components are revealed.
