From Narratives To Strategies: Regeneration Through Urban Border Conditions In Skopje

Ognen Marina, Marija Mano Velevska, Slobodan Velevski

Faculty of Architecture, University Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Skopje, Macedonia

Bra�slava, 25 September 2015 Second International Conference

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The Crisis

The Start The End?

The Cities the places of collective provision

The Uncertainty

Challenged Paradigm

Epistemological trauma

Paradigm shift

stefano boeri

ZENITHAL MORPHOLOGY = the view from above

LATERAL THINKING = the view from within

INSIDE THE SPACE = detec�ve’s gaze

LATERAL THINKING = change of scale

INSIDE THE SPACE = ideal vs. real

LATERAL THINKING = looking at space while it is changing

Urbanisation!

Henri Lefebvre

territory

form

City between

neil brenner

Explosions&

Implosions

Neil Brenner

Inside! Outside!VS.

Cities as operative fields

the crisis of the faith in better future

Social order/spatial form

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Haussmann -Plan for Paris 1855-1872

Ebenizer Howard 1898“Garden Cities of Tommorow”

H.P. Berlage - 1915Plan Zuid Amsterdam

C. Stein & H. Right - Radborne

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Leon Krier

Kenzo TangeMetabolism

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City as fragments

The City / Non city?

Obsolete models

New patterns of behaviour

New approaches

New arrangements

New narratives

New spacesBorder conditions

Skopje

CITIES as fragmented spa�al reali�es

Reconfiguration

Urban cut-outs

Mapping the reality

Urban narratives

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Urban narratives

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Projects of the crisis

Urban wasteland: the territory of the collectiveHrom

Process

Projective narratives

Project

Collective reloaded: The fragile beauty of the voidRasadnik

Process

Projective narratives

Project

Collective monuments: Socialism re-invented into Capitalism

Aerodrom

Process

Project

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CONCLUSIONS

The Crisis

Urban border spaces

Urban cut-outs

Transsgresing the borders

continues to challenge the existing models of management and spatial practices in cities

that are result of sharp differences and inequalities urge for regenerationof urban structure

is a method for exploration of novel and unexpected interactions within border zones of fragments

is a process of intensifying the spatial and social experiance and beyond transgresing to the socially effective and spatially responsive urban environment

Urban narrativesare an alternative approach to creative relationship between the constructed and lived space

Acknowledging the fact that at least the crisis of urban development has also brought the disenchantment of the ideological capacity of architecture and its potential to construct ideal spaces, Tafuri in his seminal paper “Architecture and Utopia” considers the drama of architecture today, that is, to see architecture obliged to return to pure architecture, to form without utopia; in the best cases to sublime uselessness”.