A R CH IT E CT U R E A N D U R B A N DESIGN
a se le ction of projects 2009-2014
by A IDA B IS CEV IC
CONTENTS
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INSCRIBING A NEW CITY: ALTERNATIVE STRATEGIES FOR URBANIZING THE AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPE F SAIDA
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# RE-HABITATING THE VALLEY OF INFRASTRUCTURES
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# ALLEÉS CHARLEROI
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# DESIGN OF A NEW CENTER FOR ILIDZA
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# URBAN TRANSFORMATION OF A CITY SQUARE: ‘RAHAT SPACE’
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ARCHITECTURE PAVILION: INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION: 2 ND ANNUAL MAGAZINE ARHITEKTON AWARD
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# INTERIOR DESIGN: KITCHEN AND WALL STORAGE
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# SHOPPING CENTER
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# INTERIOR RE-DESIGN
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CURRICULUM VITAE
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INSCRIBING A NEW CITY: ALTERNATIVE STRATEGIES FOR URBANIZING THE AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPE F SAIDA
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_Major Lebanese cities
Saida/Lebanon Aida Biscevic & Mario Auricchio Prof. Bruno de Meulder & Ismael Sheikh Hassan Master Thesis spring/summer 2014
_Primary roads system
_Lebanese landscape structure
As a result of the civil wars, the political situation of Lebanon is extremely complicated, with minimized role of the government and the reign of religion and corruption taking place. Lebanon has a long story of sectarianism in all the public spheres, from social sectarianism to political sectarianism; religion and politics are intertwined, as the sectarian division represents an important factor shaping the political scene too. Urban design and planning do not escape from this situation; in the midst of political struggles and corruption, both disciplines have not been given enough attention in terms of providing research. space and means for their positioning and improvement within the country’s agenda.
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- academic project -
_Agricultrual activities
This results in urban design being almost absent, and planning regulating most of the new developments using one tool - the Land Pooling, which is limited only to a schematic/geometric division of plots according to the newly planned roads. The city of Saida has a long tradition as being THE agricultural center of South Lebanon. However, the land pooling process destroyed many of the characteristic orchard-gardens and resulted in urban sprawl and an unstructured city without identity. This project focuses on one of the last orchard areas - Wastani and alternative proposals for its future, based on the existing elements, landscape and history.
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ABRA BQOSTA MIEH-MIEH BRAMIYEH
Wastani
HARET SAIDA
HILALIYEH
SAIDA
AIN-EL-DILB
DARBESSIM
Dekerman
_urban tissue_large clusters and scattered urbanization
_the interplay_plain, valleys & hills
Sultaniye Road
East-West section of the highway
Eastern Boulevard Sea Boulevard
_unveiling the agricultural landscape
_the road hierarchy
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The issues discovered on site vary from traffic congestion problems and underused roads; landscape destruction by wreckless building (specially the use of sustaining walls on the steep hills); uncontrolled garbage disposal culminating in the shape of a garbage mountain on the sea; dying-off of the city’s production; lack of common spaces and endangered pedestrian mobility; to monotonous building-style, disregarding any site specificities, which creates the sprawled identity of the whole city, from the sea coast to the highest hills.
THE HISTORY OF AGRICULTURE LANDSCAPE AND URBAN GROWTH IN THE 20TH CENTURY 1994
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_Sea Boulevard
_Eastern Boulevard
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_The ‘Garbage Mountain’
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_Sewage exhaust to the sea
THE LOCKED PARK
CITY APPROPRIATIONS
KINAYAT THE RAILWAY THE PATHS
THE STADIUM
THE NEVER EXISTING PARK
THE BEACH
THE ABANDONED PARK
The relations between people and the open spaces in Saida became something to investigate – why is it that nobody seems to care about the appearance, function and sanitation of what is in common to all of them, the city. Was it like that traditionally, or were we witnessing the toll the urban sprawl took on the perception of the city? Through the fieldwork we discovered that the former is the case. People used to and still do find ways of appropriating the city’s (common) spaces for leisure, recreation and social activities. However, even though these practices reveal hope and potentialities, the context of the city’s issues make them anomalies, rather than rules.
CITY CENTER
THE LOCKED PARK THE ABANDONED PARK THE NEVER EXISTING PARK
THE SECRETS OF MEDINA
THE ‘HIDDEN’ STAIRCASES
KINAYAT
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CONSTRUCTING THE BASIS
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Constructing elements of the strategy for Wastani were chosen based on our valorization of elements found on site during fieldwork. We focused on revealing the historical layers of Wastani – reading the ‘DNA’, in order to understand the ‘forces’ that shaped the current situation. We concluded this reading with a realization that the richness of Wastani is found in its orchards, traces of the old irrigation system, historical buildings and individual ancient trees – all saturated with history. Surrounding areas provide the possibility of re-inventing the east-west connectivity, i.e. the sea-hill relation. 250 m
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Old railway track
Orchards
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Landmarks
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Valuable trees
TRACING THE WATERWAYS
ORCHARD DISTRIBUTION
MAKSAR - THE ‘SPRING’ COLLECTION POOLS
CANAL SYSTEM ALONG THE ROADS
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re-imagining the framework: OPEN SPACES AS A STRUCTURE
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AGRICULTURE PARK THE PRODUCTIVE STRIP
service/leisure railway route promenade
agriculture park
Preserving the agricultural character of the site – memory of the place, providing the basis for economical sustainability by introducing new kinds of agricultural
cultivation, possibly more oriented towards organic production, etc. Allows ‘chambers’ of small scale parks, playgrounds and squares
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EAST/WEST CORRIDORS OF COLLECTIVE SPACES The corridors are linear figures that follow the irrigation canals and collect different kinds of open spaces along. The main character is pedestrian, includes pedestrian pathways, platforms and bridges when crossing a ma-
jor infrastructure line. Positioned in a way that makes use of the previously defined valuable elements: corridors are incorporating the system of preserved orchards and empty plots found in Old Wastani.
orchard of the 7 pools ‘non existing park’ implemented
public space & facilities
railway promenade pedestrian crossing over the Eastern Boulevard
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RE-COMPOSING THE VALLEYS valleys are the spaces of previously mentioned ‘informal’ appropriation of nature – big figures that incorporate riverbeds, valuable orchards and public facilities along. They are also the places of new large scale services – schools, universities, hospital, etc. Character of each valley is different, according to the existing con-
ditions. Awali river is a historical destination (Kinayat, delta park) and we propose to restore these identities. Together with Bighayas valley, it reaches the sea, highlighting the space in between – the stadium with surrounding open spaces, which are rehabilitated and become a part of the figure: the park and the beach.
bighayas valley and the sultanye road promenades through the preserved orchards
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re-introducing the WATER
water as a backbone of production
water collection in urban clusters
water as a backbone of collective spaces
1) collecting the rain/stormwater from the roads in the restored canals; 2) leading the polluted water to the water treatment pools, 3) leading the treated water to agricultural fields and/or retaining pools.
Introducing the water element in open spaces is the first step of re-instating the value of both. Water collection pools related to the waterways are focal spaces of the squares, parks and promenades they are located on.
Rain water collection at the level of neighborhoods or clusters of buildings, from each of the new buildings, led to a common storage pool.
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FLEXIBLE ZONING REGULATIONS Instead of building on the entire plot, a land owner is offered a possibility to build higher, for example 20% more than the current zoning, in exchange for the open space – which he can decide what to do with, as long as it contributes to the ‘community’: improves the quality and functionality of the neighborhood create a common, semi-public space for the surroundings engage in agricultural production rent the land for a public service (kindergarten, shops, educational centers, sports activities etc.)
creating jobs contributing to the overall variety of uses
respecting the existing conditions on site TOPOGRAPHY
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According to the analysis and reading of Saida and Wastani, and the analysis of current trends and processes in the city development, it is our conclusion that visions for the future of Saida should be more sensitive to the city’s historical and social background. Authorities should allow architects and urbanists to participate more in the planning activities, in order to achieve more sensibility and variety of projects. Furthermore, active participation of citizens in the decision-making process should be made possible. In order for such a change to happen, they should be reminded of the values their city posseses. Municipality and/or citizens’ initiatives and non governmental organizations should work together on a campaign of promoting the hidden assets of Saida, in order to re-construct first the social and, consequentially, spatial identity.
Orchards Agriculture fields
Olive Valuable agriculture Orchards Paved open spaces Services
Instead of widely-spread buildings with huge retaining walls, we propose a more sensitive approach when it comes to urbanization of the hills. The east part of Wastani is already quite elevated (the difference in height from the railway to Sultanye road is cca. 30 m). This steepness is only perceivable in the areas along the Sultanye road, while the areas along the railway seem flat. AWALI RIVER AREA
AMLEH RIVER AREA
CENTRAL WASTANI - ORCHARD OF THE 7 POOLS
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Existing facilities Pedestrian paths Canals Cleaning pools Retaining pools
VISION FOR WASTANI - landscape as the guiding element -
NEW/OLD WATER NETWORK
WASTANI DEVELOPMENT
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zoom-in CENTRAL WASTANI
The buildings intended for the steep parts of the area should respect both the terrain conditions and existing buildings on the foothills. Instead of massive soil removal operations, we suggest working with, for example, terraced buildings. Apart from the variations in typologies, this results in more respectful relation between the existing and the new urban tissue, maintaining the distances and providing views. Another one of the existing logics to follow is the one of urban tissue. The buildings in New Wastani should be of various typologies, but respecting the existing urban tissues. For example, instead of random high-rise buildings in the proximity of exisut also architectural forms, to the existing situation. Buildings marked as architectural heritage should be restored, reconstructed and given a function – of significance to urban life of the neighborhood.uildings marked as architectural heritage should be restored, reconstructed and given a function – of significance to urban life of the neighborhood. Buildings marked as architectural heritage should be restored, reconstructed and given a function – of significance to urban life of the neighborhood.uildings marked as architectural heritage should be restored, reconstructed and given a function – of significance to urban life of the neighborhood. Old irrigation system has been one of the main focuses of our fieldwork. It carries a historical significance for what used to define Wastani – the orchards. Together with the Sultanye canal, therefore also the Sultanye road, the secondary and tertiary canals shaped the landscape of the territory for a long period. We see the canals and their reuse as essential to our story. The rain water is collected from each of the new buildings, and
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led to a common pool that stores the water. In this way, residents have access to another source of water during the dry periods, can choose to participate in the irrigation process of the agricultural park, valuable orchards or other individual plots. The pool is also the center of the common spaces of the clusters, intended to promote interaction, sense of community and care for one’s living environment. The flexible zoning regulations could make it possible for the Municipality to balance between their aspirations to develop Saida according to the needs of the citizens and the demands of different land owners and the housing market.
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The strategies correspond with the recommendations of Lil Madina for Saida, and if implemented, they could mark the beginning of a new approach to urban desing. The re-creation of the productive landscapes and introduction of new services could similarly be the starting point of a more sustainable local economy, that can help in reinforcing the role of Saida on the map of Lebanon. The open spaces framework could preserve the natural heritage and productividy of Wastani and surroundings and, with the creation of urban clusters, provide the small land owners the choice of environment of preference, whether it is a more ‘rural’ or ‘urban’ setting. The proposal leaves space for a variety of housing typologies, enriching the real estate market. The ‘big’ land owners get to build or continue their production. Our vision for Wastani (Saida) is based on the richness of its historical and natural heritage. Moreover, the use of a principle that allows flexibility of the existing rules of parcellization provides gives the possibility of a new approach -structuring the urbanization following a framework of open spaces. Working with such a framework would allow the phasing of the project: the creation of specific areas of urbanization can protect the elements of the landscape from the complete destruction. Such phasing could allow the site to live even in the economic terms, because different stakeholders could take part in different productive activities during and after the implementation.
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RE-HABITATING THE VALLEY OF INFRASTRUCTURES Vilvoorde/Belgium Aida Biscevic, Thomas Lenaerts & Stefano Aresti coordinator_ Erik Van Daele & Ivan Llach scope_ Urbanism studio date_ fall/winter 2013
The position of Vilvoorde, as the ‘last’ city on the plateau, is crucial for the future of Brussels’ growth. The project area is nowadays made up of brownfields in a ‘bottleneck’, formed by infrastructure and landscape. The built structure of Brussels and Vilvoorde is characterized by urban sprawl intersected with the dominant North-South oriented figures - public transport lines; the Senne valley made up of working industries and many drosscape remaining. The north of Brussels is an important traffic and business node (due to the Zaventem airport proximity). The natural landscape of the area is characterized by many scattered forests following Senne’s tributary rivers, which form a maze - contrasted to the volume of the Zonien Forest in the South. Many of these, including the aforementioned, are protected ecological areas of different hierarchies. The missing link between those is the interruption within the city of Brussels. The proposed strategy aims to create a structuring framework of open space for Brussels (North), through the design of three linear elements in the Zenne valley. These figures each have a distinct ambition and spatial quality; and meet one another in Brussels North, where they join forces to create a new centrality.
MISSING ECOLOGICAL LINK
PUBLIC TRANSPORT
FORESTS OF THE VALLEYS
DROSSCAPE VALLEY
INTERRUPTED GREEN ARCHIPELAGO
INDUSTRIALIZED VALLEY
CITIES OF THE VALLEYS CITIES ON THE HILLS
OFFICES/ BUSINESS PARKS
VOLUME VS. MAZE
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URBAN SPRAWL
BUILT STRUCTURE
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STRATEGY reinforced valley figures
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The Canal (1) becomes a new front, providing an alternative for the lack of green space in the post-industrial zone, with a focus on public space, soft mobility and residential projects, side-by-side with (local) entrepreneurs. The polluted water of the largely covered Zenne gets treated through multiple series of constructed wetlands, which double as public spaces for new development. Forest park
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The railway (2), brutally cutting through the valley on a talus with lots of residual space, becomes a green, crossable and accessible landscape element; with a mixture of housing, retail and public functions. Woluwe(laan) (3) becomes a parkway with a tram; lined with a mixture of centralities, ranging from a local, to a regional and even to an international scale. A detour away from the highway strings the remaining agricultural plots together.
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CANAL - ZENNE TODAY (post)industrial water’front’ brownfields causing pollution, (mostly local) entrepreneurs tgv
PROPOSAL esplanade carrying soft mobility, ater treatment and mixed use neighborhoods (including residential buildings)
railway talus
RAILWAY TALUS TODAY (post)industrial no-man’s land & dividing volume
accessible landscaped talus with mixed use contents, carrying soft mobility along PROPOSAL
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WOLUWE(LAAN) - PARKWAY TODAY
green ‘tunnel’ & left-ovebuffer zone with enterprises and public facilities tgv
green ‘tunnel’ & left-over buffer zone with forestry and water management PROPOSAL
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CANAL
ZENNE
CANAL
‘PARMENTIER’
‘CENTRAL PARK’ WITH PUBLIC FACILITIES AND TRAM
F. ROOSEVELTLAAN
SCHAARBEEKLEI
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KITO SCHOOL
WOLUWELAAN
HOUSING ON LANDSCAPED TALUD
RAILWAY
THE CONCEPT The three figures come together in a bottleneck in the valley north of Brussels, where their accumulation of social, ecological, residential and public ambitions creates a new centrality. A new forest, set within a regional series of valley forests, lands on this spot.
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This new forest will be inhabitated: by designing the grid of trees, varying in species and density, a variety of living conditions will be created. Between Vilvoorde, Machelen and the inhabitated forest; the Woluwe parkway enlarges into a central park with public facilities. An extensions of this parkway runs diagonally through the vast site, injecting public transport and facilities into the area. A sequence of storage canals slows down the storm water, to counter flooding issues, and adds another element to distinguish different housing conditions.
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WATER MANAGEMENT & TREATMENT
AVOIDING GOING-THROUGH TRAFFIC
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CENTRAL PARK & TRANSVERSAL TRAM & PEDESTRIAN CONNECTIONS
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MASTER PLAN reinforced valley figures and a new - inhabitated forest
PUBLIC
public facilities in the central park, along the tramway and on the railway talus fast and average-growing trees (common alder and common silver birch) provide a forest base for the development in a relatively short time
WATER
water treatment and management as public space and structure for new development
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trees with a distinct color characterize public/pedestrian areas and public facilites areas, mainly european bird cherry trees with colorful flowers
‘central park’ along Woluwelaan
canal promenade
the inhabitated forest details
“a room with a view”
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ALLEÉS CHARLEROI - academic project -
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location_ Charleroi/Belgium team_ Griet Juwet & Johanna Jacob coordinator_ prof. Bruno de Meulder & Wim Wambecq scope_ landscape urbanism studio date_ spring/summer 2013
s1_R3 east ring
s2_Chaussee de Philippeville s3,4&5_E420 central highway
s6_Sambre, Landelies
s7_path near rue Général de Gaulle, Courcelles
s8_old railway near rue Paul Pastur, Bouffioulx
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READING CHARLEROI a city of infrastructures
oversized highway
unfinished public transport
obsolete railway
underused waterfront
pockets of urban tissue
in between spaces
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RE-thinking the IN BETWEEN
The residual spaces of Charleroi’s infrastructures make up the core of the vision: the landscapes ‘in between’ are re-imagined as the main connectors of the city, crossing the fragmented mobility network, the valley and dispersed ‘villages in the city’. Therefore, the in between is what re-structures the city, deals with its disperesed urbanization and ‘frames’ the pockets of scattered tissues.
bikenetwork public transport public transport stop city public transport range
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In order for the vision to work, the moblity network has to make way for ‘new’ ways of moving through - public transport and bicycle networks should reduce the destructive role the car has played in Charleroi.
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THE VISION The problems of obsolete and/or underused lines of infrastrucuture are dealt with in the new mobility proposal: Fragments of the abandoned rail network, existing bike paths, and pieces of the highway and road network are re-combined into a continuous bike network that connects all the parts of
This new mobility system is part of a re- interpretation of both the infrastructures and the spaces along them.
the city’s territory, crossing the topography in the most optimal way. To the existing tram lines, additional public transport axes are added where busses or trams use their own lane and form an efficient way of crossing the city. These two systems complement the mobility of the railway stations, that connect the communities on a bigger scale.
landscape. Dealing with forest, water networks and ecology are important aspects of this vision that come back in a more specific project.
Connecting forests and railway stations, crossing front- and backsides, it forms part of a re-framing of the city’s in-between
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project: FOREST AS A STRUCTURE - FROM SOLEILMONT TO CHATELET -
Project area is located in the east part of Charleroi, more precisely around the east section of the ringroad - highway. The spaces along the highway here reveal the severeness of the ‘cut’ that it has made since implemented. Furthermore, this section depicts the city as a whole in a way, since the cut surrounding varies from a forest to industrial and business area. The patterns of urbanization around this section are therefore very different
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from north to south: from a street grid-led village that stretches over the highway and into the forest, through typically sprawled villages in the city, to the industrial and business node. All along the highway the buffer zones are intertwining with other residual and leftover spaces of Charleroi, creating an important ecosystem, which, in this case, begins and ends with a ‘massive’ natural figure - forest in the north and terril park in the south.
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the patterns
‘uncommon grid’
typical road structure
highway-bound ‘wild forest’
_urban context and natural conditions
highway-bound business park
pockets of urbanization within the ‘crossed forest’
_ecological structures and mobility concept
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The detailed project focuses on the northern part of the studied section along the highway. The main principle is derived from the observed patterns of urbanization around, which follows a grid-like pattern, but is still a typicall example of urban sprawl - with ribbon development and numerous un(der)used spaces. Starting from
these figures of the plots’ backsides, a new structure emerges: breaking the existing pattern, densifying the urban tissue and turning what used to be THE backside into a series of re-forested gardens, parks and public spaces and drawing the new urban tissue away from the roads and towards the new ‘forest’.
_system of backside plots turned into a new forest-park network
_the forest: existing & proposed
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The obsolete highway is turned into a major public transport and bicycle route - a parkway. On each major crossing there is an urban platform proposed, with public transport stops and exits for the bike routes. The reforestation of the area includes the highway, where the remains become taken over by nature and transformed into a parkway. This, together with the parks, gardens and orchards within the urbanized area, forms the new, extended forest figure.
_pedestrian and bike mobility, platforms, waterways & marshland structure
The proposal also includes re-instating the natural water system, by allowing the existing waterways to flow back on the surface, as well as using natural flood areas to create marshlands and water collection pools. Furthermore, a series of pedestrian platforms crosses this new landscape, from the parkway, through marshlands to the new forest system.
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DESIGN OF A NEW CENTER FOR ILIDZA - workshop/competition - 1st place -
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location_ Ilidza, Sarajevo/Bosnia and Herzegovina team_ Aida Biscevic & Emina Arapcic coordinator_ The Faculty of Architecture Sarajevo, Ilidza-Sarajevo Municipality & Ministry of Spatial Planning and Environmental Protection of Canton Sarajevo scope_ workshop/competition date_ September 2010
The area of the project is already an important transport node, as it hosts the last tram stop from Sarajevo to its suburb IlidĹža. The competition called for a new design which incorporates a new commercial center, within an area enclosed by existing blocklike structure, made of small shops and other services. Although the jury paid a lot of attention to the aesthetics and function of
the commercial center, this project dealt primarily with urban design issues. The idea was to create a new series of access to the site, incorporate the existing structures into the project to avoid demolition and work with the open groundfloor level, which leaves the opportunity for creating a flexible and multifunctional open space for a new centrality.
high concentration of pedestrians new access points tram line
The principles set for the function and appereance of the commercial center were multifunctionality, flexibility, visual domination in the existing surrounding and breaking with the block structure but using it as much as possible. Therefore, the proposal’s maing goals are reinventing the existing space and creating a new identity for the center of Ilidza.
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SITE PLAN
Partly open and partly roofed, the new square is crucial for the identity of Ilidza. The visual domination of the center is determined by the fact that the building is leaning on the existing structure, giving it a new accent. The chessboard pattern of the square is formed by rails, which contribute to the flexibility of the
space - urban furniture is movable along these rails, creating the opportunity for a changeable identity. The main access to the site is now provided directly from the bus&tram terminal, highlighting the connectivity and importance of the new square.
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COMMERCIAL CENTER PLANS - SCHEME
BASEMENT
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DESIGNED URBAN FURNITURE
COMMERCIAL CENTER FUNCTIONAL SCHEME
CINEMA
SANITARY FACILITIES VERTICAL COMM.
FITNESS & SPA
COMMERCIAL SERVICES
SANITARY FACILITIES VERTICAL COMM. SUPERMARKET
ENTRANCE HALL
GIFTSHOP
GALLERY BOOKSHOP
SANITARY FACILITIES
GAME SHOP
VERTICAL COMM. LANGUAGE CENTER BUSINESS SERVICES MEDIATHEQUE
SANITARY FACILITIES VERTICAL COMM.
GALLERY RESTAURANT
PLAYROOM BUSINESS SERVICES
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URBAN TRANSFORMATION OF A CITY SQUARE: ‘RAHAT* SPACE’ rahat* - Bosnian word (Turkish origin), carelessness, relief, restful
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location_ Old Town, Sarajevo/Bosnia and Herzegovina team_ Aida Biscevic & Emina Arapcic coordinator_ The Faculty of Architecture Sarajevo, Old Town-Sarajevo Municipality & Ministry of Spatial Planning and Environmental Protection of Canton Sarajevo scope_ workshop/competition date_ February 2010
THE SITE [2010]
EXISTING SECTION THROUGH THE MUSIC PAVILLION PARK [2010]
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- workshop/competition -
The site is located near the old hystorical center of Sarajevo. Main points of interest are the zone of musical pavilion and the zone of Austrian square. Importance of the site is accented with many of historically important buildings surrounding it, such as the Latin bridge (where the event that started the 1st World War took place). Also, the site is very important for the city of
Sarajevo as a great potential to revitalize the neglected river Miljacka’s left bank. At the moment, the zone of the Musical pavilion functions as a park, but without appealing services and the zone of Austrian square is entirely used as a parking place and turntable point for trolleybus.
PROPOSAL square as the main symbol integrated in the space space divided by the functions (music, exhibition, film), but conncected by the materialisation of surfaces. new identity of the square with urban furniture, cascades and water element. EXHIBITION
MUSIC
The zone of the musical pavilion is now active during the al four seasons - fairs, exhibitions, dances, music, cooked wine In this concept, the archeological site is booths etc. A connection with the promtreated as a potential exhibition space, enade and the river is established with with it’s own public square. docks over the water.
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FILM This is also a multifunctional space, which provides the possibility of film screenings. The screen is attached to the redesigned facade of an existing structure. Storage space is provided in the structure’s extension. Flexible and mobile urban furniture, such as “solar trees” and modular stands, is set up.
Austrian square becomes a central point in the wider area. New landscape architecture and space organisation make a real square of this space again. Main troleybus station is located here too. A “map” of the Sarajevo’s important points is set up iin the floor tiling with solar panels - they collect the energy during
PROPOSED SECTION THROUGH THE MUSIC PAVILLION PARK
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ARCHITECTURE PAVILION: INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION - 2 ND ANNUAL MAGAZINE ARHITEKTON AWARD
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location_ N/A team_ Aida Biscevic, Emina Arapcic & Irma Santic coordinator_ Akhitekton Magazine (Serbia) & Kingspan scope_ international competition date_ April 2012 web_
http://www.arhitekton.net/konkurs-nagrada-competition-award-2012-2/?lang=sr
The task was to design an architecture pavilion, as exhibition space. The idea was to call on young architects to design a new ‘timeless’ and ‘spaceless’ pavilion, that discusses the issues and aspirations of contemporary architecture. The prerequisites were: the use of Kingspan modular panels, to accentuate the form and function of the pavilion; the site is perfectly flat and accessible from all sides; respect given approximate dimensions (3,6 x 12 x 4,2 m); give special attention to the lighting, create an atmosphere suitable for the function.
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The concept of our proposal is based in the decision to reflect on the ‘timelessness’ and ‘spacelessness’ of architecture through a prism of timeless and spaceless social issues: transience and lasting, contrast and unison, equality and opposition, cyclicality of life and the constant battle between good and evil - light and darkness.
EVOLUTION OF IDEA flexibility: visual and functional
cyclical movements through space gradation vs. contrast: perception of diversity playing with the volume - adding and subtraction
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symbolism and perception
unison volume
expanded volume
contrasted volume
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Two different volumes (exterior) and distinct spaces (Interior) - symbolizing the struggles between good and bad, night and day, peace and turbulence; are brought together in architectural celebration of diversity through form, multiculturality through function and cyclicity of life through organization of space and materialization.
the cycle
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Interior of the pavilion mimics the cyclic movements in nature. Divided in two areas, it has the space of light - day, with large windows open to the exterior, and of darkness - night, enclosed from the outer world. The border between them is made of perforated aluminum
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the light and the darkness
Perforated panels that form the border between the two spaces can also rotate around their axes, providing different spatial dispositions of the pavilion, adjustable to the different purposes of exhibitions.
The border itself divides the space physically, but also creates a ‘metaphysical’ connection, by having keywords of the concept (time, contrast, unity, life, death, peace...) create the perforations. It also plays a crucial role in the change of ‘power ratio’ between opposing forces - ‘inversion’ of the pavilion in the night
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Playing with the lighting (full wall, perforated inner panels, big glass surface) results in changing borders of the building, depending on the time of the day. During the day(light) the glass facade opens the pavilion to the outside. During the night and thanks to inner lighting, the facade ‘moves’ to the back and panels messages come to the foreground.
The main function of the pavilion to host different exhibitions. However, the panels inside are imagined as a kind of permanent exhibiton themselves, backed up by the lighting and movement concepts. This, combined with the changes in the appereance during the day, transforms the exhibition space into an exhibit itself.
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INTERIOR DESIGN: KITCHEN AND WALL STORAGE - freelance project -
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Sarajevo/Bosnia and Herzegovina Aida Biscevic Ena Vukovic/Amar Vukovic Freelance project - design of the kitchen and living room wall storage in an apartment for two January 2012
This project was done as a freelance one. Friends needed a design for the furtniture in their new apartment for two in Sarajevo. The space of intervention was limited to the living room and kitchen area. Because of the disposition and size of the apartment, this space had to be an open one, meaning that the separation of the kitch-
en into another room was not an option, for both functional and hygienic reasons. Therefore the dining ‘isle’ is meant to visually separate the living and cooking spaces, while the repetative forms of the elements of water storage for the living area and the kitchen elements create a unified appereance.
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SHOPPING CENTER - academic project -
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An assignment within the class of Commercial buildings in the IXth (3rd)semester at the Faculty of Architecture in Sarajevo. The project was created in teams of two people on given sites and different types of commercial buildings, markets, etc. A list of obligatory services within each project was also given to each team, with the freedom of adding more services of their choice. besides the presented floors, the building has 3 underground levels containig supermarket, cinema and some services in the 1st underground level and parking in the other twe levels.
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INTERIOR RE-DESIGN
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existing apartment plan
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The project was an asignment within the class of Interior and Design 1, where the task was to redesign an existing interior of a living space (for example one’s own house, apartment). The furniture used in the design had to be designed by wellknown designers.
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In this project the redesigned interior is the living-room space, connected with dining-room and kitchen in a home which was originally predicted and organised for a family of four but can now be adjusted to the needs of only three people. Therefore the project proposes an expansion and redesign of the living room and creation of a hallway separating the bedrooms. The detailed project is focused on the living and kitchen area.
CHILD BEDROOM BATHROOM
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proposal Proposed disposition of the apartment
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appereance of wall surfaces -dnevni boravak + trpezarija: materijalizacija poda: parket / tamni orah materijalizacija zidova: grubi malter / bijela boja
traversing walls
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B&B Italia / Lautus Apta Collection / 6 - garnitura za sjedenje Antonio Criterio / 2003.
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curriculum vitae
CURRICULUM VITAE Aida Biscevic
April 12th 1987 in Banja Luka, BiH nationality: Bosnian Tale Licanina 2 77 000 Bihac Bosnia and Herzegovina +32 48 3190765 (be) +387 61 809 838 (bih) aida.bscvc@gmail.com
work
travel
EDUCATION
Master of Science in Urbanism and Strategic Planning
2012-2014
KU Leuven, Belgium Master thesis: Inscribing a new city: Alternative Strategies for Urbanizing the Agricultural Landscape of Saida (Lebanon) cum laude mention
Master of Architecture - Graduated Engineer of Architecture University of Sarajevo, BiH Master thesis: Events as Catalysts of Urban Transformations: The Case of Saint Denis, Paris
Bachelor of Architecture
2009-2011
2006-2009
University of Sarajevo, BiH Final project: Design of Primary School for 576 pupils in Grbavica, Sarajevo
SKILLS & COMPETENCES - natural affinity for learning foreign languages
Adobe Suite
Illustrator - Photoshop - InDesign
mother tongue bosnian (serbian/croatian)
english italian french
Autodesk AutoCad Sketchup Autodesk 3ds Max MsOffice
profficient I self-learned I TOEFL iBT score 115 basic user I self-learning beginner I self-learning via Rosetta Stone
Word - PowerPoint - Excel
Cross-scale Analysis, Conceptualization, Design, Visualization and Communication, in: urban design & planning architecture and interior design
I am...
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communicative, sociable, curious and open-minded motivated, persistant and systematic adaptable to new and multicultural environments analytical, creative and good in team work always keeping the bigger picture in mind
WORKSHOPS - COMPETITIONS SAIDA
Workshop: Brainstorming design strategies for the New Wastani
05/2014
Lil Madina Initiative (Saida, Lebanon)
SERBIA
International Competition: Desing of an Architecture Pavilion - 2nd Annual Magazine Arhitekton Award
04/2012
Magazine Arhitekton (Serbia) and Kingspan http://www.arhitekton.net/konkurs-nagrada-competition-award-2012-2/?lang=sr
SARAJEVO & PARIS
International Workshop: Metropolitan transitions - Urban Renewal in Dificult Urban Situations
10/2010
Faculty of Architecture Sarajevo – École nationale supérieure d’architecture de Paris-La Villette – ALBA Beirut
03/2011
BARCELONA 12/2010
International Exhibition: European Biennal Of Landscape Architecture Barcelona: Rosa Barba European Landscape Prize ETSAB - Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
SARAJEVO
International Workshop: The Dormitory City Transformation / Sarajevo-Boston
10/2010
Faculty of Architecture Sarajevo - Wentworth Institute of Technology Boston
SARAJEVO
Green Design Festival Workshop: Urban Transformations - Industrial zones and creative cities
09/2010
Sarajevo Green Design Festival http://www.sarajevogreendesign.com/sgd2010/index.html
SARAJEVO
Workshop/Competition: Center for Center - Concept Design of a new Center for Ilidza, Sarajevo
06-09/2010
Faculty of Architecture Sarajevo – Ministry of Zoning and Environmental Protection Sarajevo – Municipality of Ilidža-Sara-
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Workshop: Transformation of a City Square
06-09/2010
Faculty of Architecture – Canton Sarajevo – Municipality of Old Town Sarajevo
AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS JoinEUSEE Scholarship
Travel to Europe 2010
September 2012- September 2014
July/August 2010
Full two-year scholarship for master studies at KU Leuven. JoinEUSEE is a scholarship scheme for academic exchange between EU and Western Balkan countries. It is funded by European Commission within the Erasmus Mundus programme. (http://www.joineusee.eu/)
Call organized by OIA (Youth Information Agency), promoting mobility of youth in BiH. (http://www.hajmo.ba/)
OTHER RELEVANT SKILLS & INTERESTS Hand Drawing Written communication Travelling Reading Writing Socialization
PUBLICATIONS FINALE of student workshops “Transformation od a City Square” and “New Landscapes” - Colection of Student Projects / Faculty of Architecture Sarajevo, Ministry of Zoning and Environmental Protection of Canton Sarajevo, Municipality of Old Town - Sarajevo, KJKP Monuments of Nature - Sarajevo
FINALE of student workshops “Centerfor center” and “Green Forum” - Colection of Student Projects / Faculty of Architecture Sarajevo, Ministry of Zoning and Environmental Protection of Canton Sarajevo, Municipality of Ilidza
AGD - Magazine for Architecture, Buliding and Design no. 44/45, October/December 2010.