Returning River to Belgrade Strategic Design for revitalizing and reviving of brownfields, non-places and outdated areas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