CENTRAL RIVIERA SPATIAL VISION

Feasibility Study, Development Strategies, Urban Design, Central Riviera of Albania 2021

Program: Tourism, Infrastructure, Public Space

Client: KfW Development Bank

Credits: XDGA (Belgium) & iRI (Albania)

Role: 2020 - 2021 Local Project Lead , iRI team

Versatile Projects Augmented Landscape Infrastructural Projects

Augmented Landscape:

To reverse the fragile equilibrium between development and nature, the creation of The Augmented Landscape is proposed, a place for an “over-valuation” of the pristine natural landscape and historical monuments.

Localisation & Related Projects

A floating platform to house leisure and slow tourism activities. A light public pavilion added along the beach.

The main access to the beach, near the back of this pristine locality. To complete the access, the new platform will include a water taxi stop.

An inviting space for an all-day stay, a programmed park with a children’s playground created inside on the back hilly side.

To preserve the qualities of the beach, no new construction will be allowed in the restrictive perimeter. Existing buildings have the opportunity for extension and refurbishment.

Art Park Park Revitalization And Cultural Center

Urban Study, Masterplan, Public Space Design, Albania, 2020

Program: Recreational Park, Public Space and Cultural Center, 2021-2023

Client: Ministry Of Culture

Site area: 15 300 m2

Design Credits: iRI

Role: 2020 - 2021, Project Lead

The redevelopment the former Kinostudios, the former film production site, is a great opportunity to target mutliple benefits: requalify the cultural heritage but also make it a motor for contemporary cultural production; open culture up to younger and broader public, but also requalify the area as a whole. The site is imagined as a combination of a park with cultural infrastructures and its urban surroundings, carefully integrating new and old uses, ecology, and accessibility. Park is activated through pavillions: a greenhouse, a guinguette, an art hangar, various installations and adaptive-reuse ofthe rear wing of the building into a ultural center.

Zogu I Boulevard Connecting The Dots

Boulevard, Public plazzas and Facade Renovation, Tirana, Albania, 2018

Program: Public Infrastructure, Plazas and Public Space

Status: Completed o. tirana city center

Skanderbeg Square e. pyramid of tirana a. boulevard Zogu I

University Square

Fortuzi Square

Village Square

Pocket Square b. new Northern Boulevard c. northern lake (Paskuqan) d. southern lake (artificial)

The boulevard is envisioned as a large public space consisting of a series of public squares. The “Zogu I” boulevard, acts not only as a main vertebra that connects the edges of the city but also as an axis that joins spaces with different public qualities, with a group of open/public spaces, positioned on the side, in the middle or next to it creating public spaces, gardens and city parks: Fortuzi, University, Village and Pocket square. The road axis “Bulevardi Zogu I-re” Tirane is about 630 ml with a width of 35m in the existing situation. Sidewalk extends from 4m in the former condition to 8m in the new design transforming it into a pedestrian friendly boulevard.