Such blocks were the only form of collective housing construction of the country, created in similar or identical solutions.

65. The impact of changes in housing policy of the time can be observed in the fragmentation (of financing the project since its competition conception) - overall, there is large fragmentation in the financing of the socialist neighbourhoods; case studies lack clarity, especially in solidarity housing financing.

66. Luka Skansi and Matevž Čelik, Soseske in ulice: Vladimir Braco Mušič in arhitektura velikega merila (Ljubljana: MAO, 2016), 55-73.

67. Ibid, 55-73.

68. Mihelič, Urbanistični razvoj Ljubljane, 61. platforms and streets, arrangement of recreational areas, to the design of the urban equipment (playgrounds, benches, lights, stairs, fences, trash cans, kiosks etc.).

For the 1967 competition, 3100 flats for 11,000 people were planned. Then the ambitions first diminished (1969) due to abandoning the idea of settling beyond Titova street. The neighbourhood is defined by the second building plan from 1975, made for 2946 apartments and about 9900 inhabitants, within the floor plan dimensions from the previous phase, which caused the residential lamellas to increase by one or two floors in height. The construction process was hindered by conflicts with the construction company SGP Grosuplje (which changed technologies during the various phases) and changes in the way solidarity housing was financed.65 The architects also complained about the resistance towards building underground garages. Furthermore, the investor kept postponing and altering their arrangement and was thus the main cause of the impoverishment and vagueness of the set concept of the BS7 neighbourhood.

The clarity of the architectural features, clear boundaries and shapes of vacant space, reflect the reasonably completed stages in the construction of the neighbourhood, which depended primarily on the inflow of investment and on the strategies agreed with the contractors.66 Together with the coordination of designers on various criteria and topics such as density, standardised urban equipment, colour scales, parks and landscaping, visual relationships with the landscape - BS7 is one of the most exciting examples of total urbanism, not only in Slovenia but in Yugoslavia.67 To this day, the pedestrian “street” is a generator of activity and circulation in the neighbourhood.

In both neighbourhoods, ŠS6 and BS7, two morphological concepts were formed, which were later repeated several times in different variants: the linear concept of a city residential street, as realised in BS7 (the motif of several parallel residential streets was the basis of the BS3, Stožice), and the concept of building on the basis of a closed or semi-closed building block, which articulates the space of the settlement and creates a more intimate scale in it (well seen in ŠS6, Fužine).68 The use of new, more urban forms, such as the street and the articulated block, contributed to a higher quality of the residential environment and its attractiveness. Instead of the distinctly anonymous space typical of older housing estates, the new forms gave the settlements a greater identity. While especially the ground plans of residential neighbourhoods show a decisive shift towards higher quality, the density and the associated height dimension were

Opposite page: Figure 19: “Bratovševa ploščad”, scene from “Sreča na vrvici” 1977

The neighbourhood as a whole consists of three streets, namely: “Bratovševa ploščad”, “Glinškova ploščad” and “Mucherjeva ulica”.