O:TVORENO

context:

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"The wider site of the competition is the contact zone along the eastern edge of the park,  the sports complex of the Tatra Football Club. The narrower site, which is the subject of the competition, is the space at the main entrance to the park, east of the walkway leading to the summer stage. Within this space it is necessary to propose the arrangement of a zone for gathering of citizens (sitting), exhibiting of products (in the form of a small market) with the accompanying elements of an urban furniture. The solution should define the greening of the area , the lighting appropriate to the park and proposal of paving, which can also be used as a model matrix for paving other paths in the park. Within the narrower scope of the site, there is a public restroom whose remodeling and moving within this space is advisable." *

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* Description of locations for the New Places Competition - 46 urban pockets

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concept:

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"Survey participants emphasize that the mentality of the residents of Kisač is that the locals generally spend time at home - children on social networks, and adults following a television program."

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SOCIAL NETWORK​

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Forest Park in Kisač Local Community is defined as a gathering place for citizens of all ages. However, at the border between the forest and the landscaped park, this site is "in transition" as an undefined public space, for which citizens' need for socialization and new contents is recognized. It is this need that transforms the problem into potential, so the solution is conceptualized as an open-air social network. The social network, as an online space for meeting, content exchange and leisure, is becoming a new place, materialized in the physical space of the park. The social network, as a regenerative remix of various contents, implies a transformable spatial programming scheme and the possibility of updating it, available to different users in a continuous timeline.

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The forest park, on which the proposed site is located, is seen as an open network whose basic units of structure are tree trunks, between which the flow and connection of natural and social contents take place. Cut, copy and paste digital tools are interpreted as principles of design methodology.

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spatial scheme:

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The spatial concept of the project is conceived as a modular network of variable raster of the basic unit of structure - the trunk, i.e. its variable height and disposition (density), depending on the potential content - program zones.

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Trunks, as nodes of a spatial scheme, are connected by content elements that, as links, mutually form spatial ambiences - program zones. Within the transformable network, trunks are positioned and programmed to support and combine different sets of pre-determined content elements (project-defined), as well as to embrace new, unpredictable elements (by addition and improvisation in the future). In this way, the social network, as an open spatial-program system, enables different variations depending on the actors, number and type of basic units of the structure and content elements, ie size, layout and combinatorics of the program zones, as well as the existing situation on the site (layout of the park greenery, trail, etc).

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At the proposed site, the intervention zone  contents  concentrate and overlap along the existing dirt path which remains undisturbed by designed elements whose network tends to extend inland to the park forest. Initially, it is generated as the program optimum version of the contents the participants cited. In order to achieve a unique spatial composition of the park greenery and the designed structure, it is envisaged to plant additional low and high vegetation on the perimeter of the park.

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technical description:

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For the intervention at the site, for the basic units of the structure - trunk, a module of 300 cm was initially taken, which represents the width of the dirt path connecting the access to the location at the vehicle entrance of FC "Tatra" to the motor club "Kisač Crows". The module width, as a common denominator, is convenient for supporting various smaller modules: 50/75/150 cm and / or 30/60 cm for content element positions within the network. The trunks, as nodes of the modules they create, are made of 15 cm thick wooden poles with vertical modularity: 25/50/100/150/200/250/350/450. The disposition and combinatorics of trunks, as well as the content elements between them, leads to the development of the concept and the variability of programming zones.

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In addition to greenery, a stone cube has been proposed for the flooring, which, with its technical and aesthetic characteristics, is suitable as a paving in the natural ambience of the park. Its formation and occupation within the modular network is initially free, depending on the layout of ambient zones. In addition to the program contents, it is used for the access path and can also be considered as an element of paving throughout the park.

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Content elements, ie program zones, are concentrated within the field of intervention at the site, but some, which are general, can be extended further into the park: lighting columns along the path, bins, benches, tables, etc. In addition to the design elements, the project also envisages additional greening of the perimeter of the park, between the driveway and the adjacent parcel of the football field.

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spatial installation:

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The  structure of installation consists of three trunks, interconnected by three content elements:

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1) swing (E8.1) - O:TVORENO concept-project leitmotif, segment of playground zone (Z3)

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2) bench (E5.1.1) - segment of rest and recreation zone  (Z2)
 

3) birdhouse (E3.1) - segment of all zones, intended for park residents

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In art and aesthetic terms, the installation is mostly left in the natural texture of the wood, while certain accents of the content elements and their spots of links (connections) are painted in the colors of the competition graphics, that is, the colors of programmatically pre-determined and unpredictable sets.

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process chronicle:

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For the third year in a row, in September 2019, the "Novi Sad 2021" Foundation and the Association of Novi Sad Architects (DANS) are hold the "Nova Mesta (New Places)" , the urban-design call for improvement of small public spaces in the territory of the city of Novi Sad, when Stefan takes part in a series of these competitions for the second time. However, unlike the standard design approach to the competition assignment, this time Stefan is experimenting with both the concept of the competition work and its content, introducing active site involvement into the product of his competition material. Like the action on the bob and sled track on Trebević, a practical approach to the competition is self-initiated as a personal condition for participation in the competition, making AΔA and its members the first ones in this area to act in architecture in this way. Prior to intervening in the park forest perimeter of the Kisač local community, Stefan is playing with the concept, designing an "outdoor social network".

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By setting the project optimum of the wide variability solution, Stefan and Majda fill the trunk with prepared materials and tools and go to Kisač. Along the perimeter of the park, in the central part of the competition site, Stefan sets up a segment of the spatial-program concept, the so-called 3D model in a 1:1 ratio, as an object of use, an urban furniture.

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By refining the park's neglected space, AΔA manages to surpass its own goal of participating in this competition, forming another (ad hoc) NEW PLACE on its o:pen journey, which will in a few days lead to a Jury Award in the form of Honorable Mention...

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