Parki-Tsikhe by Dea Trapaidze

Parki-Tsikhe Project by Dea Trapaidze VAADS / re–city

2020–2021

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Green zones play an important role in an urban environment and they are an integral part of our social lives. Particularly Georgian people experience lack of such spaces and they desire more. To look at Tbilisi, the city actually has quite many so called “green areas” but they cannot function properly, either they are not well managed.

Diagram of green zones in Tbilisi, 2020

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Parks, gardens and other public spaces can be identified by specific type of aesthetics, most of the parks in Tbilisi are over managed and controlled by city planners. Park infrastructures as lightings, benches, trees, bushes, fountains are overpopulated and sometimes not contextual. For instance, in such managed Parks we see pavilions, so called “Besetkas”, gym equipment, lightings in just every two meters, rows of benches, drinking fountains, litter bins and last but not least, some inscriptions that warn us to stay away from the grass.

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Icons of park infrastructure in Tbilisi

Prototype - park of Tbilisi

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Infrastructural icons anywhere Adding benches, litter bins and lightings can turn an ordinary road into a ‘park’

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No more grass ‘Parks’ can function properly without grass, people are not allowed on the grass

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Fake-grass park in the middle of nowhere, Gori

Infrastructure in the middle of nowhere, Gardabani

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Greenery with borders, Tbilisi

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Gym at the edge of cemetery, Tbilisi

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Central Park New York 340 Hectares

Hyde Park London 142 Hectares

Hyde Park London 142 Hectares 10

Regent’s Park London 166 Hectares

Hippodrome Tbilisi 28 Hectares

Hippodrome Tbilisi 28 Hectares 11

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Entrance

Picnic Area

Old Tribune

Ruins of old buildings

Informal Worko

People can use underground passage, which connects the Hippodrome and Tsintsadze St.

As hippodrome has a big flat space with no infrastructure, people usually use it as a picnic area. There are few trees, underneath they can find shadow

People can also see the ruins of old Tribune. It’s quite damaged but people still use it as a seating area

On the south side of Hippodrome there are ruins of old building that were functioning during while here was held some events, but nowadays there are only some footprints of it

People use this ar place to workout, a little workout spa is made by people come here. There objects made of ti ropes, plastic, etc.

Informal Entrance As hippodrome is surrounded by the road, there is one little entrance from the sidewalk

Sports Activities Hippodrome is usually used as a space for sports activities. People mostly come here to play sports that are not very popular in Georgia, so they don’t have their own fields. Sports like cricket, baseball, american foot-

Plant Nursery Hippodrome has a plant nursery that covers quite a big territory

Tunnel The mountain behind the Hippodrome area is cut by tunnel

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Running Path

The main entrance of Hippodrome is from the underground passage which leads us to Tamarashvili St.

Nowadays people mostly come here to workout, run, walk. For runners it’s very comfortable space as it is flat, long and well-covered

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Dog walking field

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Building

Poeple also can enter this area from Tamarashvili St. There is an old staircase which is not very comfortable and people rarely use it

This building stands in the west part of Hippodrome. This space is sometimes used for concerts and other similar events

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Hippodrome is an informal space, which is located in the district of Saburtalo, it is surrounded by a mountain and a highway. nowadays it is one of the only public spaces left in the city center. It is totally unmanaged

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Hippodrome full of infrastructure The emptiness of Hippodrome gives people the opportunity to invent their activities. Some people go to play cricket, baseball, rugby, martial arts, etc. It is a place, where nothing, not a single infrastructure, encourages any kind of activity. Imagine hippodrome full of infrastructure, would it still be as attractive?! 15

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The main reason why green spaces sometimes do not work is that they are being treated as an autonomous objects, without an adequate assessment of their surrounding urban context. City municipality have offered us the future of the Hippodrome area, full of infrastructure, full of managed spaces. This project contains mediatheque, area for senior citizens, japanese and french gardens, fountain, calisthenics, rope park, parking, amphitheater, pont, etc.

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The ‘Parki-Tsikhe’ project aims to oppose managed spaces, where the nature is dominating over the infrastructure and where user decides own functional needs

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Highway Hippodrome is surrounded by highway, which not only divides it from the other parts of the city, but, in addition, creates needless sound and pollution

Entrances Entering Hippodrome is a massive problem because nothing, not a single icon can direct

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Mountain From the south side Hippodrome is surrounded by a mountain that divides it from another highway

Buildings The Hippodrome area is surrounded mostly by massive concrete buildings

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The city grows day by day, soviet blocks, 2-3 storey buildings and developers housing are dominating the surrounding area of the Hippodrome

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Tbilisi is topographically-rich zone, Hippodrome is the only flat area in the whole city 25

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The aim of the project ‘Parki-Tsikhe’ is to create a green oasis in a city and most importantly, define an edge to stop city growth 27

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Artificial Terrain + Wall Using artificial terrain to lock the Hippodrome area and create a wall that follows the road and acts as a barrier and support for the new landscape

Artificial terrain that stays in the borders Creating a new landscape inside the Hippodrome borders can offer a mountain feeling, reduce car sound and act as a barrier between highway and the Hippodrome area

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Artificial terrain that covers the road A new landscape should act as new possibilities, not just the oasis protector. Hippodrome area can communicate with the city better with extended landscape. We get rid of car noise and pollution, connect the city and the green zone and maintain the inner form, as well as the historic importance of this place 29

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Artificial terrain + Wall New landscape that covers the road and is supported by a massive wall

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The flatness, the emptiness offes an opportunity of creating, inventing new possibilities. Green space for various, different people 31

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Green space that offers much more with its emptiness and evenness 33

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Tunnel from Givi Kartozia St

Artificial green landscape that covers the roads

Tunnel from Kakutsa Cholokashvili Hwy

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Tunnel from Bakhtrioni St

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Tunnel from Sulkhan Tsintsadze St

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Kakutsa Cholokashvili Hwy

Chabua Amirejibi Hwy

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Sulkhan Tsintsadze St

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Chabua Amirejibi Hwy

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Around the Hippodrome, there are different conditions and it is important to adjust the new landscape to each of them. Sections show that elevations are different, besides, housing types and heights of buildings are unalike too. Developers housing, 2-3 storey building, soviet blocks surround the Hippodrome area.

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The ‘Parki-Tsikhe’ project aims to create an artificial landscape that acts as an edge, a border between housing and the open green space. Beyond this edge the city can grow, but inside no infrastructure is allowed 41

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