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SCALES — L – Urban / Architectural LOCATION — Šibenik POPULATION — 46,332 inhab. STRATEGIC SITE — 173 ha PROJECT SITE — 33 ha SITE PROPOSED BY — City of Šibenik (municipality) OWNER OF THE SITE — City of Šibenik (municipality) POST-COMPETITION PHASE — Urban study, masterplan

Neda Lučev — Department of Physical Planning and Environment, City of Šibenik

1. WHAT ARE THE GOALS OF THE SITE MUTATION? The development of Šibenik is based on three main topics: encouragement of entrepreneurship with the focus on creative and advanced technologies, development of higher education, especially innovative study programs, and connecting the city with its hinterland and islands by traffic infrastructure and tourism.

2. HOW CAN THE SITE BE INTEGRATED IN THE ISSUES OF PRODUCTIVE CITIES? HOW DO YOU CONSIDER THE PRODUCTIVITY ISSUE? Using a proactive approach to stimulate the growth and development of small and medium sized businesses, the city has developed a number of projects with the shared aim of creating a critical mass of educated people who will bring the 21st century technology to Šibenik. Among those, the project for establishment of the “Trokut (Triangle)” New Technologies and Entrepreneurship Centre is developing. It will represent a modern incubator for IT and digital technologies aims at linking local self-governments, youth, science and the economy. Entrepreneurs from the fields of creative industries and advanced technologies can develop their businesses in the Urban Incubator and the Urban Centre in the city centre. We help innovative young people to set up their own businesses. The goal of the City of Šibenik is to continue with this proactive approach through transformation of the competition site that will lead to development of productive activities. The history of Šibenik is imprinted on the former Electrodes and Feralloys Factory (TEF) area. It is a project of strategic importance for the City of Šibenik. In the end, we want the TEF area to become an active zone bringing together the economic and public sector.

3. HAVE YOU ALREADY DEFINED A SPECIFIC PROCESS FOR THE URBAN AND/OR ARCHITECTURAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE SITE AFTER EUROPAN? After solving the property issues on the site, the city of Šibenik will begin to work for the inclusion of developers. Proposals resulting from the detailed analysis of the possibilities of this area, obtained through the Europan 14 competition, gave us the opportunity to consider new uses and structures (and their scope) that should be included in this new multifunctional urban area. These will surely be important in the next stages of development of the city, and will also define the possibilities of further development and implementation of the prize-winning entry.

Place

ŠIBENIK (HR) — WINNER

AUTHOR(S) — Ewa Odyjas (PL), Agnieszka Morga (PL), Architects

CONTACT — BOMP T. +48 513394505, contact@bomp.eu, www.bomp.eu

TEAM POINT OF VIEW — The key idea of the project is to redevelop and bring the waterfront back to the common public space. The issue is to make self-organizing and self-sufficient parts of the city, with some of its spatial features, ready to be remodelled to follow changing conditions. The general tactic is to divide and share the plots among variable stakeholders, including so called engines of change as well as regular local craftsmen and entrepreneurs. It is significant to provide them with a set of relevant rules along with simple urban underlay to develop and maintain their activity on their own. Spatial-functional disposition avoids flat zoning. The proposal includes hybrid functions with potential physical fields set and ready to be developed by the user.

JURY POINT OF VIEW — The entry proposes recultivation of the project area by applying a relatively generic grid, which allows a dual occupation of the land: building or cultivating landscapes. An adaptable matrix based on simple and clear rules creates a new environment in interaction between agricultural use and urbanization. Agricultural productivity is directly linked to urbanization: through productivity, the “empty” fields of grid are gradually transformed into “full” ones. The project thus opens the opportunity for participation of the inhabitants in the new and environmentally conscious formation and occupation of space.

AUTHOR(S) — Iván Samaniego Piquero (ES), José Miguel Sánchez Moreno (ES), Eugenia Concha Gimenez-Coral (ES), Architects CONTACT — Madrid (ES) T. +34 636331635 info@intenso.studio, www.intenso.studio

Give me Five!

ŠIBENIK (HR) — RUNNER-UP

TEAM POINT OF VIEW — Šibenik, as a Mediterranean city, has a particular medieval urban fabric. What makes this kind of city liveable and attractive is the fact that it was historically developed at the human scale. The urban design proposal starts from social interaction. A 5x5m module is chosen as the smallest piece for this interaction. It can be a room for one person or an open space for a small group of people. The designed city prototype searches for a flexible and diverse density. It can always grow and the public spaces will do to proportionally. The project approach is to get a predictable spontaneity, where the city is the result of users’ desires and the dynamic cooperation among individuals, involving dialectic harmony between inhabitants and architecture, enhancing social sustainability.

JURY POINT OF VIEW — The entry is based on the observation of the city from a pedestrian perspective. Thus the establishment of the human scale of new urban development was set up as the dominant criterion to form design decisions. The project’s advantages are the flexibility of its further development, made possible by the proposed planning rules, and integration of economic activities into the area. A clearly formed traffic network structured in interrelation with the existing traffic system forms an urban framework that enables the development of different programmatic needs.

Productourism

AUTHOR(S) — Ante Sušić (HR), Architect CONTACT — Zagreb (HR) T. +385 915953757, antesusic.af@gmail.com

TEAM POINT OF VIEW — In the socio-economic context of the city of Šibenik, whose industrial legacy has failed to accommodate the 21st century’s request for knowledge based productivity, the only production plausible is the (re)production of tourists. Since the city and its region have all the natural, cultural and historic qualities for visitors to consume, architecture can be purely quantitative. The site is completely exploited as it proposes a city with a tourist every 20 sqm. Various attractions on the site are organized as an archipelago of simulacra, reproducing historical, natural and cultural heritage. Delirious “Technology of the Fantastic” becomes sedative “Technology of the Authentic” blurring the distinction between the artificial and the ‘real’.

AUTHOR(S) — Roy Nash (IT), Luca Astorri (IT), Architects CONTRIBUTOR(S) — Valeriia Aksenfeld (RU), Elena Georgievska (MK), Giulia Tosarello (IT), Matilde Villa (IT), Students in architecture

ŠIBENIK (HR) — SPECIAL MENTION

CONTACT — P-U-R-A Platform for Urban Research and Architecture, Milan (IT) T. +39 3929617999, info.it@p-u-r-a.com, www.p-u-r-a.com

TEAM POINT OF VIEW — How can we achieve a sustainable tourism? How can we bring production back into the city? Our goal is to establish a new relationship between tourists, local inhabitants and production: the collaborative work with local people is the new productourism. The tourist is looking for the experience of a different reality. He is wondering “what can I feel that I have not felt yet?”, rather than “what can I buy that I still do not own”, the memory of a place will be directly connected to the experience of each single productive activity. The creation of this new bond brings the tourist to discover the territory through the production cycle, lets the producer transmits his knowledge, creating a real connection with the environment.