This study supplements the function-topological model of analysis of city organization and development with a sectoral model of administrative-territorial division. The function-topological model allows revealing unique features of objects of the same profile, located in different space sectors. Besides, significant objects are usually placed in strictly defined sectors. Identification of general principles of spatial arrangement at all levels from geopolitics to the structure of private farmsteads on the cases of various cities, metropolitan areas and architectural ensembles is of great general scientific significance. It deals with the principles described in regional traditions: the Indian Vastu Vidya and the Chinese Feng Shui. The analysis shows that, on an intuitive level, the same principles are implemented in the activities of specialists, designers, who make decisions about the location of industries, residential areas and architectural complexes. Recognition and study of these principles are hindered by the materialistic attitudes of twentieth-century science. The results of the study lead to a radical step in recognizing many spatial elements of the mythological picture of the world as reliable ones.

The sector model of functional zoning was identified in 2016 on the basis of an analysis of the distribution of facilities in St. Petersburg, Samara (Russia) and refined on the basis of a sectoral administrative-territorial division scheme adopted in Minsk (Belarus) and Moscow (Russia) (2020). This study explains the mechanism of differentiated distribution of objects that is found in different cities and at different scales from the estate planning to the level of geopolitics. This step is necessary to integrate the sector model of functional zoning into the theoretical apparatus of modern architecture. In animals, this mechanism is defined as magnetic sensation. The implementation of the "magnetic feeling" in human activities for the development of the space of a large city has its own specifics, taking into account both natural-scientific factors, and issues of perception and cognitive processes. In world practice, this description is undertaken for the first time. As the first factor of the "structuring effect" of a certain central object (area, green zone, water body) on the surrounding buildings, the authors accept the natural-scientific factor of gravity. The authors adhere to the point of view that a certain symbolic meaning, which is somehow fixed in culture, arises with respect to the degree of illumination, position in the sky, and the direction of movement of the Sun. These values arise on the basis of the relative positions of the analyzed territory, planet Earth and the Sun. The second factor is the person's ability to perceive these influences and the intuitive ability to correlate them, as well as the purpose of the placed objects with the types of activities identified in philosophy and determined by the daily cycle. The result of the joint action of these two abilities is the assignment of certain objects with a greater degree of probability to certain sectors. The need to take into account two additional administrativeterritorial units (central, as well as placed outside the sector model) determines the transition from a purely sector model to an integer ten-element functional topological model. In this regard, the development of a sector model of functional zoning is accompanied by an appeal to ten-element models of a generalized description of extremely complex processes that are found in antiquity similarly to the sources of the sector model of functional zoning.

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The main purpose of this research is to prove the efficiency of glulam to meet various architectural needs. The three features of glulam such as: plasticity and aesthetic value, functional efficiency, supporting properties and resistance to extreme conditions, are compared with the same features of concrete and steel, the most widely used materials nowadays. The methods are based upon actual test results and practical experience in creating glulam constructions. The research shows that plasticity of glulam allows to create complex curved surfaces and its surface and texture clearly demonstrate the unique aesthetic features of the elements made of this material. Glulam can also be efficiently used to create various space morphotypes such as compact rooms, linear vertical and horizontal space, hall space, space with a complex spatial configuration. It is also proved that glulam strength expressed in Constructive Quality Ratio (CQR) surpasses steel and concrete in supporting ability and its durability also exceeds steel structures durability and is comparable to concrete.