From ideas to process-projects
Europan 13 - Zagreb (HR)
« Swap on the River »
Project strategy family:
- Ecological connections
- Inclusive morphologies
- Inventive typologies
- Reinterpreted heritage
- Urban articulations
Process category:
- Direct order processes
- Competitive processes
- Co-creative processes
- Collaborative processes
- Participative processes
- Participation of the Living processes
- Adaptative legal framework processes
Authors: openact
Client(s): City of Zagreb
Dates: 2015-2019
Driving forces: Team + Client
Site
Zagreb (HR)
SCALE S SIZE 7.8 ha +4.1 ha +4.7 ha +19ha
The City of Zagreb proposed four sites positioned along the Sava river, derelict and unused at the moment, yet with a potential to provide good and dynamic public space. How to propose modalities of use and urban furniture / temporary buildings that can enable variety of public uses before the sites are developed according to long-term plans?
Awarded Idea
Project - Ideas
Swap on the River
TEMPORARY INTERVENTIONS
The winning project focused on the question of how interventions on four separate underused, yet critical sites could have holistic effect to change movements and relationships of the entire river with the city. Based on adaptability, the project stands as an exploration of opportunities to experiment the effect of relatively small, soft and temporary interventions in various scales.
Project Strategy
Family: Ecological connections
TOWARDS A NEW RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE CITY AND ITS RIVER
The first phase of the project focuses on a stretch of river approximately 7 km long. The study incorporates principles of flexibility and adaptability of the installations on a small and medium scale, including pavilions made of metal tubing for various purposes and a grouping of several pavilions to host various events. The aim is to establish this site as a clear meeting place.
The Swap on the River project team moved to Zagreb for two months to follow the construction of the first phase of the project in situ: nine pavilions (which hosted leisure activities), landscape interventions and sports areas, showing and enabling new ways of occupying the previously forgotten riverbanks of the Sava.
Process
Category(ies): Direct order processes, Collaborative processes
Direct order processes
Following the competition, the city directly commissioned the Europan winning team to move on to the project implementation phase (general design and execution).
Collaborative processes
The team worked in collaboration with several city departments and with Croatian Waters to decide on the budget, annual financing, phasing, conditions for obtaining building permits, schedule and legal structure.
