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Sustainable Urban Dynamics | Autumn 2021

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Sustainable Urban Design Master’s Program

School of Architecture Lund University Autumn 2021

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Sustainable Urban Design Master’s Program

School of Architecture Lunds Tekniska Högskola Lund University P.O. Box 124, 221 00 Lund, Sweden +46 46 222 00 00 www.stadsbyggnad.lth.se

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Ax:son Johnson Institute for Sustainable Urban Design Lund University

Book Editor

Teresa Arana Aristi

Cover Graphics

Ása Katrín Bjarnadóttir

Photo Credits

Rozalie Kašparová

Contents Introduction 4

People

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Course Outline

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Design Site

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Workshop Week

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Projects by Areas of Transformation Prague 11 District

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Fill in the Blank

by Zacharias Malmberg

Chodov Area 30

Change now!

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Octoprague 11

by Kateřina Rybínová

by Philipp Westhauser

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Opatov Metro Station & Central Park Area

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TOD Opatov

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From Place-To Place, Stories Between Buildings

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Densification in Prague, district 11

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P11 5S - Step, Stair, Street, Square, Station

by Chia-Yu Chang

by Niloufar Amirsoleimani

by Ruben Epping

by Vinicius Ferreira de Oliveira

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Lesní Osa Haje

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Feather the nest

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Háje Dance

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Háje: Unlost in the Woods

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A healthy Prague 11

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Urban Embroidery

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Re-Shaping the Spine

by Andrew Ryle

by Ása Katrín Bjarnadóttir

by Ghada Shaaban

by Hugo Settergren

by Katharina Deisting

by Momoko Kotani

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by Wendy Hernandez

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Introduction

People SUDes Team:

Guest Lecturers:

Lars-Henrik Ståhl PhD, Professor Director of SUDes Master’s Program School of Architecture, LTH Lund University.

David Hořák, Charles University David Stránský, FS CVUT Jiří Deyl, Architect/Urban Planner, IPR Prague Jonna Ekholm, Architect /Urban Designer, Gehl Judita Eisenberger, Urban Planner, IPR Prague Lucie Pára, Head of Strategy and Development Office, IPR Prague Martin Špičák, Architect, IPR Prague Michal Lehečka, Anthropictures Michaela Janečková, Architect / Architectural Theorist, Paneláci Niels Björn, Urbanist Ph.D. Peter Siöström, Associate Professor, LTH, Lund University Rozalie Kašparová, Architect/Urban Designer, IPR Prague Simon Sjökvist, Architect, COBE Vojtěch Benedikt, Sustainable Mobility Specialist, IPR Prague Wouter Verleure, Landscape Architect/Urban Designer, IPR Prague

Peter Siöström Associate Professor, Architect SAR / MSA Chairman of Ax: son Johnson Institute for Sustainable Urban Design Lund University Andreas Olsson Architect SAR/MSA Course Leader, SUDes School of Architecture, Lund University Teresa Arana Aristi Architect SAR/MSA - Urban Designer Lecturer, SUDes School of Architecture, Lund University

Guest Critics: Katerina Vondra, Architect/Urban Designer Mandaworks Rozalie Kašparová, Architect /Urban Designer, IPR Prague Simon Sjökvist, Architect, COBE

Atelier Salzmann - Bečvářová & Atelier Rehwaldt team: Klára Salzmann Ing. PhD. Atelier Salzmann / Bečvářová FA ČVUT Zuzana Bečvářová Ing. Atelier Salzmann / Bečvářová FA ČVUT Till Rehwaldt Dpl. Ing. / Associate Professor Atelier Rehwaldt FA ČVUT

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Klára Concepcion Ing. Arch.

Atelier Rehwaldt FA ČVUT

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GROUP DURING FINAL PRESENTATIONS

Students:

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Andrew Ryle, Australia Ása Katrín Bjarnadóttir, Iceland Chia-Yu Chang, Taiwan Ghada Shaaban, Egypt Hugo Settergren, Sweden Kateřina Rybínová, Czech Republic Katharina Deisting, Austria Momoko Kotani, Japan Niloufar Amirsoleimani, Iran Philipp Westhauser, Austria Ruben Epping, Germany Vinicius Ferreira de Oliveira, Brazil Wendy Hernandez, Mexico Zacharias Malmberg, Sweden

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Introduction

Course Outline Sustainable Urban Dynamics During the autumn term of 2021, the students at Lund University, School of Architecture participated in the advanced course ‘Sustainable Urban Dynamics’ (ASBN31) and its complementary theory course ‘Sustainable Urban Dynamics - Theory and Tendencies (ASBN41), focusing on creating a sustainable vision for the Prague 11 District. The aim of the design course was to challenge the misconceptions about large housing estates built in the Modernist era, especially when comparing the conditions of these areas within Western Europe and Central Eastern Europe.

Students focused on questions for the development of the city’s fringe, Prague 11 district’s borders – both mental and physical- and strategies to revitalize housing estates as part of an urban transformation for the post-socialist cities, while paying attention to the site’s unique characteristics and adapting to the needs of the community. These themes were explored throughout the whole semester in various seminars, guest lectures, and project tutorials with the goal that each student explores and presents a ‘context sensitive’ urban design proposal for the transformation of the assigned district. The design process was separated into several parts - analysis, strategy, and individual design - combing both the group and individual work of the students.

Due to the on-going COVID-19 pandemic, the study trip was replaced with a four-day intensive online workshop, in collaboration with students and faculty members of the Atelier Salzmann - Bečvářová and Atelier Rehwaldt, from the Department of Landscape Architecture at the Faculty of Architecture in the Czech Technical Univer¬sity in Prague (FA CVUT), as well as Rozalie Kašparová, from the Prague Institute of Planning and Development (IPR). Upon finalizing the workshop, the students spent eight weeks developing their individual design proposals.

The student projects were presented in person to the international guest jury, on the 9th of December 2021. This course booklet presents a summary of the design site, workshop and

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introduces a brief presentation of 14 unique individual design proposals as result of this

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semester’s design studio.

For further information on the course and the International Master’s Program please visit our website at www.stadsbyggnad.lth.se.

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VIEW FROM CENTRAL PARK TOWARDS HÁJE STATION

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GREEN SPACE IN BETWEEEN PREFABRICATED PANEL BUILDINGS OR “PANELÁK”

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Design Site Praha 11 District and Jižní Město - Prague, Czech Republic It’s the second year that the Urban Dynamics course’s focus was the city of Prague, in the Czech Republic. The students were tasked with the urban regeneration and renewal of the Jižní Město or “South City” area, Prague’s largest housing estate, in the Prague 11 District.

Around 80,000 people live in this area, which highlights how different the large housing estates are perceived in the Easter European countries compared to the West. Even though it is considered to be a suburb located in the city’s fringe, the district has a very strategic location, surrounded by great landscape features – forests, lakes and streams- and excellent accessibility to public transportation, which makes it a great place to live.

This municipal district is located eight kilometers south-east from the city center, with the D1 highway running through the area and dividing it in two, with few underpasses and tunnels for pedestrians and cyclist. The road network and infrastructure has caused the different neighborhoods to be disconnected, thus forming individual islands that encourage the use of private cars. The same can be said of the built form, with big, prefabricated panel buildings “panelák” – like the large housing estates Jižní Město 1 & 2- placed in the middle of vast under-utilized green areas which do not mix with the single-family housing areas, creating very homogenous islands. Prague 11 is served by Roztyly, Chodov, Opatov and Háje stations, the final four stops on the southern end of Line C of the Prague Metro and the areas around these stations have been identified by the Prague Institute of Planning and Development (IPR), in their Metropolitan Plan, as areas of transformation.

The Central Park located, as its name suggest, in the middle of the district, is an important asset that can become an important generator for the area. The students were encouraged to use the existing qualities of the area, to enhance and improve the quality of life for the

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existing and future residents.

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LOCAL MEETING PLACES

GREEN AREAS AND ENTRANCES

TOPOGRAPHY CHANGE OUTSIDE OPATOV METRO STATION

VIEW LOOKING TOWARDS OPATOVSKÁ AVENUE

VIEW FROM CENTRAL PARK

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PARKING LOTS AND GREEN AREAS

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Introduction

PRAGUE CITY CENTRE

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LOOKING TOWARDS SECOND ENTRNACE OF OPATOV METRO STATION

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Workshop Week Reaching the landscape From an overall perspective to embracing Prague 11’s fringe

The aim of the four-day online workshop, REACHING THE LANDSCAPE, was to give the students the opportunity to use the knowledge they have acquired on the Prague 11 district in the first weeks of the course, into a specific design focusing on wayfinding, public spaces and landscape systems from the Opatov Metro Station towards the Milíčov forest in the southern fringe of the district; thus shifting from a large-scale perspective of the district into a zoom-in area before jumping into their urban design site, in the next phases.

The group was divided in four teams, with a mix of students from the SUDes program and students from both the Atelier Salzmann - Bečvářová and Atelier Rehwaldt, joining as specialists in the area. The assignment was carried out as a competition format, with the proposals being presented to Rozalie Kašparová, a guest jury from the Prague Institute of Planning and Development (IPR), who selected a winner and a runner-up at the end of the workshop.

DESIGN SITE FOR WORKSHOP - THE TASK WAS TO IMPROVE THE WAY RESIDENTS AND VISITORS MOVE TOWARDS THE SOUTHERN FRIDGE

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Milíčov FOREST

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THE RUN - GROUP 3

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PERSPECTIVE - GROUP 1

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SECTION INTERVENTION 2 AND PLAN INTERVENTION 1 - GROUP 2

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PERSPECTIVE - GROUP 4

COLLAGE - GROUP

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VIEW FROM BRIDGE - GROUP 4

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Projects

Projects by Areas of Transformation

The semester schedule was broken down into 5 parts, each ending in student presentations.

The 6th and final part concluded the semester and provided the students a chance to improve and reflect upon their work. This structure allowed for the students to focus on specific components of their projects and design process as well as get feedback on a consistent basis.

In general, the structure worked from the large over-arching scale of globalization towards the development of design details within the final project. Each 3-week period required the students to go one step further in the development of their projects, while at the same time bringing with them knowledge from their previous explorations. Through the guest critics comments and weekly individual tutorials, each student work grew in depth and detail in an attempt to tackle the challenges posed by the site and the course requirements.

For the first time in their studies, each student had the opportunity to choose their own design site within the Prague 11 District. After doing an in-depth research and mapping of the district and its context within the city - first in groups and after individually - they framed the key issues to be addressed and the opportunities for the future development of the area, according to their personal reflections.

As the students were one step closer to doing their thesis semester, in which they have complete freedom when it comes to deciding a design site, they were asked to draw out the area that interested them the most, based on their own conclusions after Phase 02.

The end product is wide range of solutions to transform this post-socialist district into a more sustainable and livable place within three overall transformation areas, the northern Chodov area, the Opatov metro station area with the Central Park and the Háje metro station area.

Therefore, the student projects presented in this booklet have been organized in the same way, stating with the Chodov area and ending with Háje area. It is our hope that all the

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hard work and energy from the students can be translated in the next pages and you can be

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inspired by their designs.

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Introduction

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Prague 11 District - Design Site

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Fill in the Blank Zacharias Malmberg, Sweden

Detailed plan of a new development area focused on green growth

“The goal was to bridge the gap between what people want and what exists today.

To utilize the empty spaces that today go to waste.

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To fill in the Blank”

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‘Fill in the Blank’ examines the inbetween spaces of an area that mostly deals in binaries.

The blank in this project both refers to an abstract gap, that of the space between the varied desires of an ever more diverse population and the limiting realities of the urban environment. But it also refers to a physical blank, that of open and often under-utilized spaces in the urban fabric. Open spaces such as parking lots and empty lawns that are spread throughout the area and which create great inhuman spaces.

The vision at the core of the project is based on stringing together a series of these open spaces throughout the area and utilizing them create new structures and threads in the urban fabric. New spaces within the area that not only support a wider variety of lifestyles, but that also gives way for new opportunities to the existing population. Focusing on strategies

of a social expansion in the public realm, green growth and structural diversification throughout the area.

Making a new way of living available to people throughout all the area, and hopefully filling in the blank.

Diverse housing

Vision: Fill in the Blank Calm spaces

Active spaces

Creative spaces

Strategy: Green growth

Strategy:

Structural diversity

Greener buildings

Strategy: Social expansion

Green connections

Section trough ‘Opatovská’ with a new tramline

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Masterplan with three visualisations

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Change now!

Kateřina Rybínová, Czech Republic

PICTURE DESCRIPTION

Solutions that can be applied immediately to the whole district. Making it accessible, focused on pedestrians and cyclists, more attractive and

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climate resilient.

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The district 11 of Prague had developed very quickly back in the seventies, whereas since then it remained without any changes. So it is time to CHANGE NOW! Streetscape, car parking and pedestrian connections is revised. Car access is reduced only to some streets and then reorganized into parking houses.

Most of the streets are for walking and cycling, only with emergency and deliveries car access.

The green-blue network tries to break the strong transition between the built area and the neighbouring forest.

It connects surrounding natural corridors, increases biodiversity and overall quality of the green areas. It implements active recreation and increases environmental resilience.

Water management is improved due to additional water streams restoration.

Metro stations and schooling amenities

are connected within the activity network. Sport, community, culture, urban farming will be activating the area all along. Its purpose is to make people walk rather than take a car, since there is always something happening out there.

New typology reacts on the existing one, aiming to create smaller-scale living units and in-between spaces, forming small settlements connected either with green or with activity network.

Composition of these design principles makes sure that everyone can participate in outside activities and that nature is invited back again into the area. The accessibility towards public transport stations is strengthened and creates a well-connected network of public spaces.

Getting inspired in the big scale of existing typology...

.. dividing the volumes of buildings and outdoor spaces...

... to human-scale sustainable settlements.

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TYPOLOGY SECTION

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A new small-scale residential linked with the green and active network

A green and blue infrastructure.

An activity path connecting activities and schools in the area

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Parking houses with activated groundfloor and a special function on the roof

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Masterplan

VISION

DISTRICT FOR PEOPLE, NOT FOR CARS

REVISION OF MOBILITY AND STREETSCAPE

S T R AT E G Y

revision of mobility

From car-dominated streets and big amount of parking lots...

From car-dominated streets and big amount of parking lots...

...to safer streetscape for pedestrians and cyclists and ...to safer streetscape for pedestrians and cyclists; cars organized multifunctional parking houses. cars in organized in multifunctional parking houses.

LIVING WITH AND CLOSE TO NATURE

SUSTAINABLE LIFESTYLE AND CLIMATE RESILIENCE

and streetscape

From a strong division between natural and built...

From a strong division between natural and built...

sustainable lifestyle

...to connected biodiverse green spaces, improved water management and sustainable settlements. ...to connected biodiverse green spaces, improved water management and sustainable settlements.

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ENJOYABLE PLACES FOR EVERYONE

NETWORK OF SCHOOLS AND ACTIVITIES

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and climate resilience From a partly resolved water management..

From long distances between activity generators in the area...

...to a blue infrastructure connecting area to the forest.

...to a compact network connecting schools and activities while leading people towards metro stations.

network of schools VISION AND STRATEGIES

and activities From long distances between activity generators in the G area...

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...to a compact network connecting schools and activities while leading people towards metro stations.

VISION

ENJOYABLE PLACES FOR EVERYONE

...to safer streetscape for pedestrians and cyclists; cars organized in multifunctional parking houses.

From a strong division between natural and built...

...to connected biodiverse green spaces, improved water management and sustainable settlements.

From long distances between activity generators in the area...

...to a compact network connecting schools and activities while leading people towards metro stations.

SUSTAINABLE LIFESTYLE AND CLIMATE RESILIENCE

LIVING WITH AND CLOSE TO NATURE

From car-dominated streets and big amount of parking lots...

NETWORK OF SCHOOLS AND ACTIVITIES

DISTRICT FOR PEOPLE, NOT FOR CARS

REVISION OF MOBILITY AND STREETSCAPE

S T R AT E G Y

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improved water management connected to the existing streams connecting all the metro stations in the area (Roztyly - Chodov - Opatov -Háje)

water streams restored based on historical context creating various habitats as parts of the green corridor

natural areas accessible for recreational purposes

paths motivating people to walk and cycle

the campus and accommodation of universities bringing lot of students in the area

DISTRICT PLAN

adjusted hierarchy of the street system to reduce the access of cars

new squares and plazas to generate urban life

promoting cycling with a local shared bikes network

all schools in the area connected to promote safer walking in the area

connecting all the surrounding green areas

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shopping mall as the biggest attractor in the area as a part of the activity network

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Octoprague 11 Philipp Westhauser, Austria

Masterplan

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Our site lays in South- East of Prague, it is close to the boarder to the central bohemian region. The district Jizne Mesto was built at the time of the Communist regime on a almost flat platform. But as well as other Projects of that time, the city where never finished.

After they built the housing (paneláks), the money and resources run out, so the district didn´t get its center, instead it became a satellite town for the middle class. In our district Prague 11 I took the most northern part, because of its disconnectedness to public transport, never ending parking lots and lack of public spaces.

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My vision is a district that is well connected by non-fossil transportation.

Octoprague will also offer affordable housing, a variety of recreational activities and a good community to show young people that living on the outskirts of the city has more advantages than moving into a family home in the countryside. The only slightly sloping

area offers ideal conditions for bicycle traffic. Distances are ideal for biking from the doorstep to the subway or the forest. The possibility of direct routes is given by wide unbuilt areas.

Once these facilities are in place, residents will realize how much faster it is to commute in the city. The parking spaces will be located in the community buildings to allow more space for different activities for the residents between the buildings on the one hand and to counteract sealing on the other hand.

In order to better connect residents with each other, programs will be set up to these community places in the neighborhood. Residents will have the opportunity to design the places themselves. Spaces for different goals, interests and groups will be created in self-construction with the residents.

old and new buildings with community facilities

bicycle path with bike sharing

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TOD Opatov Chia-Yu Chang, Taiwan

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“Create a diverse, mixed-use environment with pedestrian space and connectivity to triv-

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After doing analysis and site visit, I think the Key challenges are: 1. How can we reduce the dependence on cars and bring more people to public transport which already has very good condition and quality?

2. How can we reorganize the open spaces to make them parts of the green network and road network that let people enjoy the healthy, convenient, attractive public life?

Therefore, I think the site has opportunities to 1. Shift the mobility pattern 2. Densify the Opatov area 3. Promote public spaces 4. Create places to live, work, gather, linger on and have fun The vision is to transform the site from the old impression of being empty, boring, fragmented, non-human scaled, car-dominated, into a livable, green, attractive community where people can enjoy affordable housing, accessible

public transport, and a healthy convenient life.

In this case, I think TOD (transit-oriented development) can act as a driving force to promote the development of whole area, bringing more people to public transport as well as creating a vibrant urban life with environmental and social sustainability.

Base on TOD, I propose 6 strategies: 1. create a dense network of walking and cycling routes 2. create welcoming and human-scale gathering places 3. get to public transport within a comfortable 5 minute walk 4. access to goods, services, and public transport 5. provide a horizontal and vertical mix of uses 6. locate development near high quality public transport

apartment

shops

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restaurant

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cafe

hotel

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bar shops

bike garage

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metro station

restaurant

tram station

platform

metro station

water wall

fountain

elevator

department store cinema

open air theater

public service community center

restaurant

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gym

office

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DETAILED PLAN cafe

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green house

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3.5m sidewalk

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1.5m bike

3m car

3.5m tram

4m tram stop

3.5m tram

3m car

1.5m bike

20m square

12m building

25m court yard

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office

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From Place-To Place, Stories Between Buildings Niloufar Amirsoleimani, Iran

PICTURE DESCRIPTION

“strengthen the social life in Prague 11 and enhance interaction between inhabitants in

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outdoor areas. !”

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Prague 11 is an area in south of Prague which is surrounded by agricultural lands and forests. The location could make this area a connection between forests and urban life, but its atmosphere cannot provide a good transition from nature to urban. Lack of public life and social interaction is obvious among vast abounded fields.

belonging from the inhabitants.

Although it has good accessibility by cars, metro line, and a tram line proposed in future, lack of bicycle lanes and organized pedestrian paths damage connection inside Prague 11. In addition, car domination in the area limited pedestrian spaces. There is a coincidence of lacking organized parking areas and existing many parking areas as people can park everywhere.

Regarding the lack of social life, enhancing social interaction and public life is the main concept of the design process. By meeting different interests, we can gather people with the same desire in little communities that leads to more social interaction. Also organizing parking areas and giving more space to people to walk or bike through, we can strengthen the connection and safety.

Framing the public places and making hierarchy increase the sense of belonging and responsibility among inhabitants. At the end, all these principles increase public life and motivate people to linger on the public spaces instead of just passing through them which strengthen social sustainability.

Also, most public places are unframed vast grass fields between buildings without specific character and activities which cannot enhance the public life and social interaction.

Moreover scarcity of semi-public and semiprivate spaces destroys the sense of transition between places and takes away the sense of

Finally, most buildings are separated. Tall and long apartments inherited from the communist era do not frame and define the spaces between themselves. Human un-scale spaces, uniform elevation damage the sense of safety among people.

Active Edges

Activity & programing

Common Area in Courtyards

New Buildings

Bicycle & Pedestrian Network

Integration of different social activities Healing Social Life

Zoom In Plan 1:500

Section A-A 1:200

Section B-B 1:200

Section D-D 1:200 Tool Box

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Densification in Prague, district 11 section through the commercial zone. [scale 1:500]

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“Even though the area has a strong character, it is hardly perceived as identity because this character is spread over a vast, uniform area and is shared with many other modernist housing areas worldSustainable Urban Dynamics

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The modernist idea of separating living and working is clearly visible in the housing estates in Prague, district 11.

The estates are dominated by residential buildings and complemented with educational and community functions.

Commercial uses exist in form of necessary shops or gastronomy but workspaces are almost completely missing. For the residents, this creates a strong dependency on commutes to distant workplaces or the city center.

Contrary to the modernist idea of separating living and working, the proposal will provide housing, workspaces and recreational spaces in close proximity. By establishing a mixed-use environment with small distances we can shift the main form of transportation to alternative forms of mobility.

The exposed public space will be split into several small scaled spaces for different uses and user groups as well

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as creating transitional semi-private spaces between public and private space. Yet, the public accessibility of all spaces will be maintained to respect the character of the park alike, modernist housing area.

This project aims for attracting people of different ages and incomes and in different life situations. To counteract the demographic change the focus will lie on the young, future oriented generation that demands a sustainable, yet comfortable lifestyle. The area should attract young professionals and families and be able to sustain them throughout changes in their lives.

To create a mixed city, the area will be divided into neighborhoods with their own centers. These will be located around existing amenities and local suppliers. By creating a dense neighborhood with community centers, a stronger sense of belonging and identity can be generated.

PERSPECTIVE SKETCH ALONG A SECONDARY BIKE STREET

SECTION THROUGH THE MAIN STREET FOR BUS AND BIKES

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CONCEPT DIAGRAMS: 1. COMMERCIAL AREA 2. FOUR NEIGHBOURHOODS 3. SEMI-PUBLIC COURTYARDS

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URBAN PLAN, ORIGINAL SCALE 1:2000

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Step, Stair, Street, Square, Station Vinícius Ferreira de Oliveira, Brazil

VIEW OF THE MAIN STREET AND TRAM STOP

“The goal is to promote a pleasant and attractive way from the apartment’s doorstep to the

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This proposal aims to downscale the existing urban spaces in Prague 11 and promote a new urban hierarchy, uses and sense of belonging by the residents.

New urban blocks, squares of different sizes and pathways framed by existing and new buildings are proposed to increase population density around public transportation and make the way more attractive for those already living on site. The goal is to guide people through the area and foster a walkable thriving neighborhood. I am envisioning a neighborhood where not only the apartment is the comfortable and useful space, but the entire district is welcoming, readable, and human scale oriented, from the doorstep to the station. The public equipment, urban spaces, forests, and pathways will be part of a single network, allowing people to move, find and use the equipment of the city.

Through design strategies the transition from private to public will be softened to reinforce the use green areas and provide attractive walkways. After the implementation of the tram line a new district boulevard will connect various clusters and facilitate the connection between different areas within Prague 11. Reducing the need of long-distance commutes and consequently the need of car. Switching from the automobile scale to the pedestrian scale, from the step to the station.

PROPOSED MASTERPLAN 1:2000

AERIAL VIEW OF THE PROPOSAL

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Lesní Osa Haje Andrew Ryle, Australia

Perspective

“A vision for a Haje that is centred to the level of the individual and their

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Prague 11 demonstrates a dormitory condition and an overwhelming presence of car infrastructure, directly in juxtaposition with the strong reliance and usage of the Prague public transport system. The walkable radius of the metro stations doesn’t cover a sufficient percentage of the population in Prague 11, and this could be improved through alternative modes of transport.

Soft mobility infrastructure is severely lacking. The tram line will form a crucial extension of the existing network.

My vision is to rescale the area to the level of the individual, meeting their needs and their place within a community. This is achieved through four linked strategies.

The first is framing the spaces. This is achieved through establishing a more courtyard-esque enclosure, without reducing permeability. This is in order to help define a space as ‘belonging’ to people in the adjacent buildings. This will pave the way for Reconfiguring

the Ground. It is intended that this will help promote a sense of community and enhanced local identity for the area.

Softening Mobility is about minimising the presence of car infrastructure within the site and replacing it with more sustainable modes of transport.

This will connect people to the new tram and metro stations, and improve connection to the rest of Prague.

Linking the Green is focused on utilising the car-free spaces between buildings as a way of connecting the forests and central park in a continuous green corridor, as a way of improving amenity and climate resilience.

Finally, Reconfiguring the Ground will focus on activating building edges and new courtyards throughout the area into spaces for work, recreation and community, and transforming Opatovska into a green and activated boulevard.

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Soften the Mobility

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Feather the nest Ása Katrín Bjarnadóttir, Iceland

Mind Wellness Center, Detail plan 1:500

Prague 11 will become a liveable and safe area for different bird species where humans can enjoy their company and cohabitate with surrounding

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The number of birds has been decreasing for the last 40 years in the Czech Republic and it is predicted that over 40 million birds will disappear in the next 40. Worldwide insects have declined by 75% in the past 50 years and CO2 in the atmosphere keeps rising, leading to a global catastrophe.

Studies have shown that there are remarkable mental and physical health benefits of living within 800m of green space, including reduction of diabetes, chronic pain and even migraines. In addition to that, bird sounds can decrease heart rate, improve mood, faster stress recovery and lower blood pressure.

Birds are our desire for light, stars, rainbows and jubilant song. They sing in the morning, and we associate the sound with alertness and safety, a day when all is right in the world. This is how we’ve heard birdsongs throughout our evolution and why they should be important to us to this day.

By adjusting the existing buildings for a more bird friendly architecture, enhancing the

landscape and public spaces to foster their habitual needs and providing food and water sources throughout the seasons the presence of birds will increase and so will the mental and physical health of the human residents.

Prague 11 is already a dense area with vast, but passive, public spaces between buildings creating an opportunity to strengthen the connection to nature and inhabit a biodiversity that suits more species than just humans.

Modern lifestyle may have distracted us from all the fascinating ways nature replenishes us therefore my design is bird led and focuses on creating a bird friendly environment in an urban setting. A city should not be a barrier for wildlife and often the solution for more diversity also serves humans. By creating a green path into the city with bird friendly infrastructure we can foster different species as well as making safe and walkable connections into the Milíčov forest from Háje station.

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Typologies for different greenspaces

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Háje Dance Ghada Shaaban, Egypt

Visualization of “Piano| Mezzo | Forte”

“Háje dance articulate a vision for a sustainable, legible, and dynamic work-dance environ-

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Successful landscapes provide a rich assortment of experiences that stimulate the body, senses, and emotions. in order to bring back the identity of Prague 11, increase engagement and activate space; my vision is to develop a sequence of senses which I divide them from piano to Mezzo to Forte, from the Háje Station -urban- to Milíčovské rybníky -nature-. With a methodology to enhance “experiential diversity” to create outdoor public spaces that offer opportunities for people to meet, rest or host various sorts of activities. Imagining a dancer in mind. After studying the existing literature on greenway design and adding to this the principles of dance choreography; I’ve developed the below equation: Dance in landscape = Movement ( Ground/ Space/ Elevation) + Music (Atmosphere/ Plants/ Sounds ) Choreographic dance elements:

1- Time 2- Movement 3- Energy Those qualities can be provided by using the right compositional principles with the right materials.

Starting with Opatovská St, where previously there was an urban highway, now there is a healthy street full of life and green! where there was a traffic intersection, now there are lowemission transportation (Tramway / Cycle lanes ) and, permeable and kinetic energy pavements. Along with a nearby liveable green and cultural space. Car noise has been replaced by the sound of children flying kites and cheerful music. The transformation continues together with this flexible landscape towards Ke cvičišti where people can enjoy the seasonal landscaping with the sound of birds. Furthermore, accent plants are striking in shape, color, size with an enhancement of productivity and biodiversity!

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Háje: Unlost in the Woods Hugo Settergren, Sweden

VIEW: SUDES RE-VISITS HÁJE (2035)

“Háje means ‘grove’ or ‘collection of fruit and nut trees’

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Háje: Unlost in the Woods is a proposal of a community-driven urban renewal process, which aims to find the way to the things we’ve lost.

1) Modernist housing estates, Háje included, has huge ’in-between spaces’, high buildings, high population density and cars parked everywhere.

2) The landscape and vegetation largely consists of monotone sequences of mowed lawns accompanied by trees with raised canopies.

3) Social isolation is becoming an increasing issue, affecting human wellbeing in the times of the pandemic and social media. All these factors contributes to feeling lost.

How do Háje get ‘unlost’ then? This can be achieved by involving the local community in a massive relandscaping. Vegetation can be used to mimic different native biotopes such as wetlands, meadows and the Czech hornbeam forests. Varied landscape types gives distinct identities,

assisting the ability to orient oneself while potentially aiding biodiversity by habitat creation. Along with this, a new urban center is proposed at Háje Metro and along the planned tram-line.

The existing streets and entrances are reconfigured to be more safe and welcoming for people of all ages.

Food forests are planted, community agriculture & re-use workshops blossoms in the revitalized center – and in time, the seeds of Háje will grow.

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FOOD FOREST

URBAN FARMING

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A healthy Prague 11 Katharina Deisting, Austria

MASTERPLAN 1:2000

“Meet, Move and Grow in

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Prague 11 will represent a space where people enjoy the various existing recreational areas that surround the district. The residents will appreciate the proximity of both green areas but also being connected to the city center by the metro. As the walkability is drastically increased by implementing the project, people will not only move more, but also meet more. In order to strengthen the places for meeting even more, little squares open up throughout the area where people can chat with their neighbors.

The existing buildings are preserved for the most part and new buildings are added to scale down the existing streetscapes. By designing active facades along Opatovská, the link between the in- and outside is improved. Furthermore, urban farming will be integrated to allow the residents to reconnect with nature, food and through this common activity also with other people.

Creating small public squares throughout the area is crucial to allow for more meetings for the citizens and to counteract the feeling of isolation and depression that occurs more and more, especially since the pandemic.

The planned tram is a crucial step towards a healthy Prague 11. Even before it operates, new buildings can be added along Opatovská to scale down the streetscape. While the infrastructure for the planned tram is being built, the metro station of Háje will be redesigned.

Parts of the entrance will be removed and a new bicycle stand will be added so that people can take the bike until Háje and then hop on the metro.

Solar Energy

Rooftop Farm

Bike Parking

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New Tram Stop

Metro Háje Pocket Park

BIRD’S EYE VIEW

Varying heights

Community gardening

Solar panels towards south

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Min. 4m

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Main urban axis III: Urban Flow

High permeability

Green roofs for improved microclimate

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Urban Embroidery Momoko Kotani, Japan

CONTINUOUS ROUTE

“Create the local identity and a sense of community by Urban Embroidery”

The main challenges in this project’s site are the lack of local identities and the sense of community, especially due to the uniform buildings, uniform and scattered greenery, and the lack of meeting points or places for social activities in in-between spaces of the residential blocks.

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People belonging to the city by the local identity and the sense of community are essential for sustainable cities to be active, attractive, and maintained.

Embroidery is an artwork making a piece of a blank canvas into a special characteristic cloth with various elements which sometimes identify its culture or history. Also, the process of embroidery is slow progress over time, which makes the outcomes more special to the ones who make them.

“Urban Embroidery” I mean here, is the

slow process of the urban revitalization by people in the underused areas.

In the project site, there are many underused areas such as large green open spaces, parking lots, and inbetween spaces of panelaks. The first strategy to revitalize them by people is to downscale these areas, to build on the existing built structures and landscape, and to leave a margin for people to work on over time. By creating and maintaining the spaces by themselves, people would feel a sense of belonging to the local community.

Furthermore, the second strategy is to create a flow of people through the chosen site around Háje metro station.

The continuous route through the area will connect five areas with different characters, and the project aims that people will be proud that they are from Háje!

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Re-Shaping the Spine Wendy Hernandez, Mexico.

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“Mix use and infill development that are well connected can reduce sprawl, car trips, underutilized green areas, unsafe areas and desolate streetscape. ”

Prague 11 is a district that is well connected to the rest of the city, but its urban landscape is designed more for cars than pedestrians, which contributes to noise pollution and poor air quality. Also, the parking lot situation is part of today’s landscape, giving it plenty of space and contributing to sealed surfaces.

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Although the neighborhood is characterized by its natural green area around it, there is a large number of green areas, which are scattered, underused and underdeveloped.

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Therefore, the area of intervention that I want to focus are Opatovska street.

Here the main road will redevelopment as green corridor that provide the transportation, environmental, recreation and social amenities needed to ensure a high quality of life.

As part of the planning and design process, the existing infrastructure system and the land uses were analyzing in order to find the primary areas of changes (key places and design opportunities).

The center of my design strategy is based on the public realm that is the physical and symbolic connection between people and meeting and these require taking those spaces that are shared in somehow communally to transform into distinctive and unique places that invite use and activity, spaces that belong to and are accessible by everyone. The strategy consists in 4 frameworks: mix-used, street and edges, infill and connections.

PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION

Multi-fuctional building -parking -office -playground -green roof

GREEN AREAS

Housing block 2 -active ground floor

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Ax:son Johnson Institute for Sustainable Urban Design Lund University

Sustainable Urban Design Master’s Program School of Architecture Lunds Tekniska Högskola P.O. Box 124, 221 00 Lund, Sweden +46 46 222 00 00 www.stadsbyggnad.lth.se

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Lund University P.O. Box 117, 221 00 Lund, Sweden +46 46 222 00 00 www.lunduniversity.lu.se

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Prague Institute of Planning and Development (IPR) http://en.iprpraha.cz/

Published April 2022

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