Promises

In Between City

YAHIA DARDARI, CĂTĂLINA POPOVICI, MILJANA RADOVIC, DAVID BILOBRK, ALEKSANDAR SUHANOV, BOJANA BATAVELJIC, TATJANA LEMEGA, ANNE-LISA CROUCHE, KOULA IOANNIDOU

YAHIA DARDARI

CĂTĂLINA POPOVICI

MILJANA RADOVIC

DAVID BILOBRK

ALEKSANDAR SUHANOV BOJANA BATAVELJIC

TATJANA LEMEGA

ANNE-LISA CROUCHE KOULA IOANNIDOU

The objects of our team's participants were represented graphically in a form that spatially and temporally included the path of each object. This representation resulted in a mailbox, each slit of which offers the possibility for the viewer to discover the story of the objects, represented in a comic-like way. The algorithm created by our team brought together the partial plans for three cities - Bucharest, London and Belgrade - at different scales and times, taking into account the main river that crosses them (the Dâmbovița, the Thames and the Sava), the position of the museum where each object is exhibited and the main traffic arteries. The result was a new city made up of slices of the plans of the three supporting cities. Its simplified version served as a support for what would be built on the water. Our design, however, retained traces of land in the form of hills whose tops remained above the water.

The final project was represented in superimposed layers, each playing a role in generating the upper layer and symbolically supporting it. The natural blanket at the base, now covered by water, generated a layer of anthropized nature, an imitation of the nature that can, in fact, be found in any urban agglomeration, nature in its pure form unable to sustain urban development and the growing needs of modern man.

Read the full text in issue 3/2013 of Arhitectura magazine
Our team participants made a graphic representation of the spatial and temporal path of each object. It resulted a mailbox, every slot of the box allowing those who seek the objects story to discover it through a comics. By pulling out the threads, the story reveals itself in chronological order through the drawings of the main events.

The algorithm our team developed put together the partial plans of the three cities, London, Bucharest and Belgrade, at different scales and timelines. It also took into account the main stream of river which crosses each city (Thames, Dâmbovița and Sava), the position of the museums where each object is displayed and the main urban texture.

The new city so created, out of stripes put together, would serve as support for what will be built on water.

The final draft was represented in layers, each layer having a role in generating its superior one and sustaining its symbolism. The base, the natural blanket, now covered by water, generated a layer of anthropogenic nature, an imitation of nature that we can actually find in any urban congestion, nature in its pure form, unable to support the urban development and the growing need of modern man.

Read the full text in the print magazine.