P1 Presentation

Returning River to Belgrade Strategic Design for revitalizing and reviving of brownfields, non-places and outdated areas

Bouwkunde - Urbanism Graduation Studio Complex Cities_P1

Student_Tanja Grubic_4118928 Mentor_Verena Balz

Research Questions Phasing

Proposals Historical development

Administrative Location Geographic Location

Current situation

Facts and Figures

Problem Statement

Legal Background

Introduction

Existing Plans

Framework

Methodology

Administrative Location

Geographic Location

Introduction

Facts and Figures

Administrative Location

Scale: Europe

Introduction

Area: SouthEastern Europe

Administrative Location

Scale: SouthEastern Europe

Introduction

Belgrade is capital of Serbia

Geographic Location

In geographic terms, Belgrade is placed on the very edge/border of Balkan Peninsula

Belgrade

Introduction

Balkan Peninsula

Geographic Location

Belgrade is located on confluence of two rivers : Sava and Danube 150 km

In this way, Belgrade is part of a network of Danube cities

100 mi

Vienna Bratislava Budapest

Ljubljana Zagreb

Belgrade Danube River

Introduction

Sava River

Trough Danube Belgrade becomes part of a bigger system: Rhine-Main-Danube Canal This context places the city on the waterroute from North Sea to Black Sea, on a water diagonal of Europe

Facts/Figures

50 km

Belgrade is the biggest city in Serbia with:

30 mi

1.6 million inhabitants - 21% of Serbia population

Introduction

360 km2 of surface - 3.6% of Serbian territory

Facts/Figures

Belgrade is the biggest city in Serbia with: 1.6 million inhabitants - 21% of Serbia population 360 km2 of surface - 3.6% of Serbian territory

Introduction

City has 17 municipalities

Historical development

Proposals

Problem Statement

Current situation

Historical development

City with its river used to be always on the border between two different empires.

Problem Statement

This marked its river as a defense line and a mount ...

Problem Statement

BORDER CITY

1918

Serbia

Yugoslavia

Nazi Germany

KSCS

Austra

Ottoman Empire

Ottoman Empire

Ottoman Empire

Ottoman Empire

Ottoman Empire

Hungary/Ottoman

Serbia

Serbia

Byzantine Empire

Byzantine Empire/Hungary

Bulgarians

Hungarians

Slavs/Serbs

Byzantine Empire

Byzantine Empire

441

Huns

2011

1999

1944

1944

1941

1929

1918

1918

1914

1815

1813

1806

1791

1789

1739

1717

1690

1688

1521

1456

1440

1427

1403

1386

1284

1232

1154

1127

1096

1018

976

971

896

827

630

VII AD

592

584

470

470

364

I - V AD

269 BC

Roman Empire Splits

Celts Rule

4800 BC

Yugoslavia

Nazi Germany/Allies

Kingdom of Yugoslavia

Serbia

Serbia

Serbia

Austrian Empire

Habsburg Monarchy

Bavaria

Hungary/Ottoman

Hungary

Hungary

Hungary

Hungary

Byzantine Empire

Byzantine Empire

Bulgarians

Avars

Avars

Ostrogoths

Roman Rule

Vincha Culture

Historical development

CENTER CITY

River Development Analyses

Historical development

BORDER CITY

Urban Tissue Changes according to Empires that

Problem Statement

ruled it

CENTER CITY

River Development according to trends and political climate

Historical development

Bordering Condition of the river marked city development where belt of the wetlands between Belgrade and Zemun was never formed.

The Neolitic

15th century

16-17th century

1850

4-7th : Great Migrations

18th century

1884

Problem Statement

1830

3rd century BC

1920

1934

After 2nd World War

Problem Statement

Historical development

Historical development

Problem Statement

“Tabula Rasa� wetlands inbetween Belgrade and Zemun

Historical development

Problem Statement

“Tabula Rasa� wetlands inbetween Belgrade and Zemun

Proposals

Problem Statement

Kovaljevski’s plan for Belgrade based on principles of beaux art and traditional values

Proposals

Problem Statement

Brasovan’s plan for Belgrade based on Third Reich principles of monumental architecture

Proposals

Problem Statement

Urban Institute of Serbia : Plan based on Soviet Architecture

Proposals

Problem Statement

Nikola Dobrovic: Modern City Plan based on Le Corbusier’s “Le ville Radious”

Proposals

Problem Statement

Petricic’s Plan based on Le Corbusier’s “Le ville Radious”

Proposals

Problem Statement

Petricic’s Plan based on Le Corbusier’s “Le ville Radious”

Proposals

Problem Statement

Petricic’s Plan based on Le Corbusier’s “Le ville Radious”

Proposals

Problem Statement

Modernist City image as a result of a competition (group of authors)

Proposals

Problem Statement

Building types and structures combined in mega blocks

Proposals

Palace of Yugoslavia

Problem Statement

1961 The Very first meeting of “Non-Aligned movement“ took place in this building

1941 Problem Statement

1939 1947

Current situation

Problem Statement

Green Spaces of the City

Current situation

Problem Statement

Industrial Areas of the City

Current situation

Problem Statement

Green and Industrial around the river

Existing Plan

Research Questions

Legal Background

Methodology

Framework

Phasing

Existing Plan

The only study on Belgrade Riverfront as a whole was done by Belgrade Urban Institute and it stayed on PHASE 1 level.

Framework

Provide General framework in order to make a project coherent with main city aims

Existing Plan

Area recognized as “Coastal“ by Belgrade Urban Institute

DANUBE AMPHITHEATER

SAVA AMPHITHEATER

Framework

RECOGNIZING TWO BACKBONES WHERE RIVER CAN BE OBSERVED AS A CONNECTOR

Existing Plan

Framework

SAVA AMPHITHEATRE

Existing Plan

Framework

DANUBE AMPHITHEATRE

Existing Plan

“GUP“ - GENERALNI URBANISTICKI PLAN MasterPlan made by municipality of Belgrade as a most general and broadest plan for the city

Framework

Plan has textual and graphic part

Existing Plan

“GUP“ - GENERALNI URBANISTICKI PLAN MasterPlan made by municipality of Belgrade as a most general and broadest plan for the city

Plan has textual and graphic part

Framework

Map showing commercial centralities and industrial zones of the city

Existing Plan

“GUP“ - GENERALNI URBANISTICKI PLAN MasterPlan made by municipality of Belgrade as a most general and broadest plan for the city

Plan has textual and graphic part

Framework

Map showing land-use

1. General Research Questions Research Questions

• When we say Belgrade Riverside, what area we have in mind in terms of borders, surfaces and land-use?

- What is the criteria that can classify closer and wider zones of the plan?

- What are existing plans for this area and what status certain zones have in existing plans of the city?

• What is current state of the Riverside in sense of natural/man-made structures, functions, waterline-land relation, built/ unbuilt areas, existing plans?

• What are limited/inhibited/degraded/critical zones in this area?

- How those zones classify according to economics, ecology and socio-historical significance?

2. Specific Research Questions • What is seen as “non-place“ and under which criteria?

- What are types of non-places recognized on Belgrade Riverside?

- What are layers that give value to those typologies and what are the values expected from typological approach?

Framework

• What is municipal division of the riverside and what are terms of jurisdiction for municipal units?

• How we can see river as a connector rather than a separator in both spatial and contextual way?

Legal Background

Framework

Municipal Jurisdiction

Legal Background

Framework

Law about land-use, planning and building

Methodology

Step 1

Defining term

of non-place, wastelands, brownfields etc in Belgrade context

Identifying locations

according to criteria for : non-places, brownfields, outdated locations, wastelands or industrial areas

EXAMPLE:

Framework

OLD BELGRADE FAIR First project built on the former de-

Methodology

Step 2

Undertsnding historical/cultural and spatial value of the space by: -Positioning it in

“time line graph“ -Understanding its

current conditions and values

German Pavilion in 1938

Framework

German Pavilion today

Methodology

Central Motive Today

Framework

Central Motive 1938

Methodology

Step 3

Positioning locations in layering typological approach and discovering values of place trough different layer Imagined as layers for types: -landscape -social dimension -centrality level -topography This approach could provide insight to potentials of place

Framework

RESULT: Typology toolbox that would provide insight into value, current possition and future vision

Framework

Phasing

Questions??

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