Classification of damaged buildings as part of residential urban entities

The classification of destroyed buildings in the structure of residential urban entities is a necessary and integral research stage that precedes the detection of an appropriate option for a certain territory restoration. A housing development as a structural and planning element of a city is a territory that is not divided by streets, in the structure of which residential buildings and objects of daily maintenance are placed. The purpose of the article is to classify the destroyed buildings as a part of residential formations of Ukrainian cities. Research methods. The classification of damaged buildings as a part of residential entities requires the generalization of the building type-making experience in the study and analysis of bibliographic sources, regulatory and legal documents. While formulating the periodization and classification of buildings, comparative and analytical research methods of modern theoretical and practical developments were used. The results. Damaged buildings are classified according to their features, such as the functional purpose, historical and cultural value, period of construction, construction technology and kind of damage. Conclusions. The proposed classification of destroyed buildings in the structure of residential urban entities aims to systematize the research base of damaged buildings, which will allow to further outline a list of certain actions for the restoration of particular building elements.