German Architects Bolles + Wilson has shared with us their winning proposal for in Albania Korca City Centre plan competition. More pictures and description of the architect after the break.
Surrounded by spectacular mountains and Valley wide arcadian Korça focuses an area of 360,000 inhabitants. His courteous morphology reflects the richness and the ambitions of emigrants to return. Many villas Novecento and Art Nouveau style are now restored.The purpose of the competition was to find a concept that integrates traffic and rational pedestrians with qualitative needs and the development of city - a commercial strategy providing for administrative installations and framework development résidentiel.Le short competition also stressed that the magnitude of the new Korça must be respectful and appropriate historic scale.
BOLLES + WILSON has identified five areas of revitalization of the downtown 197 000 m2. Each area having its own unique character, together they add up to a network of courteous public spaces. At one end of the center of the Cathedral of "Resurrection of Christ" anchors at the other end that a commercial anchor is added. "These are connected by Boulevard Shën Gjergji - a ' cultural promenade". Reduction of the widths of expansive Communist road allows an extension to the Cathedral square.This place is planned in three phases over the street and framed by coffee pergolas.Un large stage to the left of the Cathedral and a step more RIGHTWARDS facilitate events. Curved pavement stripes the echo of the geometry of the Cathedral and serve to stands of market discipline.
New figure on the horizon of Korça and counterpoint at the Cathedral, a "Vertical Mall" occupies and marshals parade-ground Theatre place globally.A new commercial band extends by the Bazaar via new shopping housing blocks and a new Bus Station roof - a platform for producers on the market - the second of the five areas - which creates a new trade platform in Korça downtown.
The third area is rescripted as a "cultural promenade', a connection between the Cathedral and the City Centre Mall semi-pedestrian."Here a number of important buildings such as the "Museum of education ' is extended to in the promenade lined with trees, shaded and filled with coffee as a carpet-like patterns pavement, a sequence of choreography by Chambers of urban life."
Fourth zone revitalizes a ramshackle villa zone carefully placed new développement.afin of seizing delicate historical scale of Korca is invented a "patchwork strategy" - new buildings are paired with restored villas existing form Islands ' development ' (shared economic advantage) and creating a network of passages of blocks-internal assets.
The final plan is central park (green heart) .Ici new triangular block frames Park peak and the sale of public lands private development finance the modernisation of the park itself one "Edge Active" mediates between Park and the surrounding city - Prismic pavilions on wooden bridges cafes and groups of users such as Kadaré, Club youth kindergarten literature club etc..
This wide spectrum of solutions filled in Visual thumbnails and sanctioned by the geometries of specific plan was selected by the jury that the model future Korcas.
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