Storyboard

with diferent composition of the system we want to create a square a nature square, a water swuare in a scale of a city. A big point in the river of tirana.






water experience on the facade and water square creation



model and diferent composition




water experience on the facade ( video )

continue...

continue the green axis idea

3 river sytem + existing roads



+proposal roads(new ring road) +axial nodes

Patern analisys



skanderbeg square patern and around + lana patern




both patern




mixed patern





early plan idea




import the mixed pater and create a new pater for the site

urban_place_form

In our project we fit the theme of wind and water cycles.

Our idea is that the high density areas to obtain some parts of the natural area and the river and to create green and water spaces.On the other side to give the river and the park, density. In the inhabited area we decided to have a residence typology that might work like base for residential complex. The basic point is the use of water that is accumulated by rain to turn it into water square, that being alternate with green spaces makes it the park square of the complex.

We think to use air ventilation by strategy with sloppy façade to create a microclimate for the area.

natural cooling-ventilation




rain water "drenage system" re-use




water square (park square)



concept of park square (water square)

concept

Tirana is not a city in transformation, it’s a metropolis in formation. The massive migration from countryside to the city of opportunities is comparable with the formation of 19^th century metropolises like Paris and London. The vision of ciy in formation addresses the civic nature of the city projected simultaneously toward its exterior, as a capital of Albania, and its interior, as locus oh inhabitation. We wont to actualize Tirana’s latent identity through structuring its formation, an identity to be appropriated and constructed by the citizen of Tirana in order to be touchable and understand the city.

The desire for private property that characterizes Albania in post communis era manifests itself most clearly in the massive migration to the city. After more than a decade of consumption and appropriation of land for private use, the necessy of public space and infrastructure is more present than ever.

The broader development north of tirana’s traditional center, extending to the north of the river Tirana and beyond into settlements such as Kamza, Koder-Kamza and Bathore, reveals that this development is primarly residential.we take this trajectory of growth like a task in our project.

The city’s three river system that flow east/west from mountain lakes through the urbanized valley onwards to the Adriatic play a vital role in defining the city’s public space armature. The sequence of rivers, when wxperienced along the axis moving from the city center to the north, become important transects of the armature of public and open space. They create a diverse sequence of variations in water and nature : the Lana as the urban canal, the river of Tirana as the city’s active and recreational riverfront and the Terkuze river as the natural river ecosystem and entry to the northern countryside.

We choose a site in that crash point of the middle of three river system and the civic axis and our project work is to continue the civic axis into the green axis, to make a piece o nature that connect three rivers of the city, so the rivers is not anymore a boundary, it’s a big strong connecting points.

We choose exactly the second bridge of river of Tirana and the area around it because we think it’s a stronger point and the most important area to be a area that connect not only the two side of the river but to help the normal growth of the city, because this site is exactly above of the city center, this is why we wont to continue the Brasini(Italian architect) axis, to convert into a green axis, and like a concept for all the territory, in the three rivers system with a three lakes in that axis.

Transect - Three river system

conection between paskuqan lake and artificial lake







Green axis - Zoom in ( our site - relation of open space and built )

zoom in zoom out - 2.scale_city of Tirana

This is the main concept we have for now.The city needs to extend, we all know this. I try to post step by step, starting with big scale to make clear.We talk a lot for the river, the main factor who stop city extend, so we make a question: In what case the river is not a boundery ? The river is not a boundery when it is in nature, it's part of nature, its not a seperator any more. We call green axis, the natural way for tirana to extend.

in the weekend we will work to go furthur with the idea and to see more close the site. We are preparing for a presentation this week in our class

green axis

natural and artificial territorial elements

boundary and pressure

geographical situation and territory problems

phase of growth of city

zoom in zoom out - 1.scale_country of albania

infrastructure- accessibility
communist - post communist era - prognosis

land use - agriculture
communist - post communist era - prognosis

density
communist - post communist era - prognosis

workshop - tirana week (Team : Vincent, Meike, Gjergji, Mariana)

presentation....

model... making applicable the concept



conecting roads of similar area between river sides

stripe concept...

collage...

polaroid...