Fedoruk signs a memorandum on modular housing for Bucha in Warsaw. Who else wants to build [photos]

Bucha Mayor Anatolii Fedoruk has signed a memorandum in Warsaw with the Dutch company Nami Studio on the possible construction of social housing for the Bucha community using rapid-assembly modular technology.

This was reported by Anatolii Fedoruk after the ReBuild Ukraine international exhibition and conference.

The exhibition was held in Warsaw for the sixth time on 12–13 November. According to the Ministry of Economy, this year it brought together more than 800 exhibitors from 33 countries, 27 national pavilions and over 150 Ukrainian communities.

Photo: Anatolii Fedoruk / Facebook

For the Bucha community this is a chance to attract new partners and move specific recovery projects forward. It is from meetings and agreements like these that new projects begin, which we later bring to life in the Bucha community.

Anatolii FedorukMayor of Bucha

Housing that is assembled, not built

Social housing was the subject of two conversations at once. Besides the memorandum with Nami Studio, the community is in talks with the Japanese construction company Daiwa House.

Daiwa House was founded in Osaka in 1955, and its first hit was the Midget House. Its founder Nobuo Ishibashi overheard children who were still playing on a dry riverbed after sunset saying: “I want my own room.”

That is how an inexpensive separate study room for the garden came about: it went up in three hours and from 1959 was even sold in 27 department stores across Japan. Later buyers asked for a toilet and a kitchen, and the room grew into a full prefabricated house.

Photo: Anatolii Fedoruk / Facebook

The community really does need housing. On 1 February 2026 the Bucha community had 69,524 residents, more than seven thousand more than in October 2021. And 452 displaced people still live in the modular towns of Bucha and Vorzel.

A clinic from a printer

Another meeting was with UNIDO, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization. It is funding the construction of a clinic in the Tarasivskyi neighbourhood, whose walls are being printed by a 3D printer. According to Fedoruk, work is already under way.

The technology comes from the Japanese company Serendix. In 2022 it built the Sphere, a small spherical house of about 10 square metres, in 23 hours and 12 minutes: the 20-tonne frame was printed in pieces and assembled in three hours.

Two family doctors and a nurse will see patients at the Tarasivskyi clinic, and a Japanese-style garden will be laid out next to it. Until now residents of the neighbourhood have had to travel to another part of town to see a doctor.

Photo: Anatolii Fedoruk / Facebook

Solar panels from Babyntsi

With the French industrial group TAP Group, the talks were about possibly manufacturing solar panels in the future municipal industrial park in Babyntsi. The park itself is now being designed.

TAP Group, by its own description, brings together 20 companies and nine production plants and already has the RV Metal plant in Rivne, Ukraine. Solar power is familiar ground for the community: Bucha’s solar stations already produce an average of 18.3 MWh a month.

Taiwan, a helper since 2022

Separately, Fedoruk met representatives of the Taipei Representative Office in Poland, thanked them for supporting the community and discussed further cooperation.

Taiwan has been helping Bucha since the first days of the invasion: it bought generators for the community, rebuilt the youth sports school together with it and allocated more than 12 million hryvnias for the overhaul of the consultative and diagnostic centre on Polova Street.

Photo: Anatolii Fedoruk / Facebook

Not the first trip this autumn

Warsaw is not the first venue this autumn where Bucha has gone looking for partners. In September Fedoruk sat down with Samsung and K-water in Seoul, and at the end of the month the community showed international partners its project for a new hospital on Polova Street.

Warsaw was also where the winners of the Rebuild Green hackathon were due to be announced on 12 November; an international team there worked on a barrier-free recreation project for the community’s Myrotske lakes.

As a reminder, in spring the Japanese specialist Mariko Ukiyo came to Bucha to study the local mental health system.

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