Offener Wettbewerb | 09/2014
Klekovaca Competition 2014
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Preisgeld: 5.000 EUR
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The concept
The principal concept that lays behind the project for Klekovaka is the project for a new city, in other words the idea that the resort in itself is a city and thus that the core of the project is not how to design a new resort or a tourist centre but how to design a city.
This conceptual choice is based on different aspects: first of all on the physical features of future Klekovaka, the overall dimension and the population that will live in Klekovaka – around 20.000 inhabitants in its maximum capacity – are in fact similar to the ones of any European small town.
But also it is based on the role of the public sphere and of the public space of Klekovaka, that, following the competition program, will have to be similar to the ones which characterize any urban context and its atmosphere: open, common, social, dense and various.
Finally, building cities is the single most important act of production within any society - from the antiquity to the contemporary time – and so treating Klekovaka as a new city and not only as tourist centre will certainly give to the entire operation a stronger role toward the local and global community.
City model and Roman Operating System
Starting from this concept – designing a new city – the question then becomes: how can we do it? Following this question we have chosen a model for the foundation of Klekovaka and, together with the model, an Operating System.
What we were looking for was in fact not a closed model, defined once forever, but an operating system able to guide the growth and the transformation of Klekovaka over time, through the different construction phases but also much after that.
The model we have chosen is the Roman model. The Roman model is in a sense the unique real universal prototype for the foundation of a new city. It acquired over time a kind of universal meaning and a universal role. Why this happened is because the Roman model was not only about a formal geometric principle – the famous grid - but was a proper operating system able to drive the foundation at the beginning but also all the transformation occurring over time, to keep together all the complex relationship which occur in a city, to support the life and the flows occurring in the city, to define the system of open space, etc.
A specific type of operating system the Roman System with all its rule and its criteria - cardo, decumano, centuratio, foro, limites, monuments, etc. – was the first real urban Open System. The Roman model is in fact able to interact with the physical and social environment, with the geography, with the population, with the local habits and economy. And all was possible through to the definition of a geometric urban structure, as generic as possible.
The formal grid structure was thus a mean and not a purpose, a mean to create a real Operating System, which was the real aim of the Romans and the key of its success.
The Roman model is spread through centuries and all over the world (also much after the Roman Imperial period).
The principal concept that lays behind the project for Klekovaka is the project for a new city, in other words the idea that the resort in itself is a city and thus that the core of the project is not how to design a new resort or a tourist centre but how to design a city.
This conceptual choice is based on different aspects: first of all on the physical features of future Klekovaka, the overall dimension and the population that will live in Klekovaka – around 20.000 inhabitants in its maximum capacity – are in fact similar to the ones of any European small town.
But also it is based on the role of the public sphere and of the public space of Klekovaka, that, following the competition program, will have to be similar to the ones which characterize any urban context and its atmosphere: open, common, social, dense and various.
Finally, building cities is the single most important act of production within any society - from the antiquity to the contemporary time – and so treating Klekovaka as a new city and not only as tourist centre will certainly give to the entire operation a stronger role toward the local and global community.
City model and Roman Operating System
Starting from this concept – designing a new city – the question then becomes: how can we do it? Following this question we have chosen a model for the foundation of Klekovaka and, together with the model, an Operating System.
What we were looking for was in fact not a closed model, defined once forever, but an operating system able to guide the growth and the transformation of Klekovaka over time, through the different construction phases but also much after that.
The model we have chosen is the Roman model. The Roman model is in a sense the unique real universal prototype for the foundation of a new city. It acquired over time a kind of universal meaning and a universal role. Why this happened is because the Roman model was not only about a formal geometric principle – the famous grid - but was a proper operating system able to drive the foundation at the beginning but also all the transformation occurring over time, to keep together all the complex relationship which occur in a city, to support the life and the flows occurring in the city, to define the system of open space, etc.
A specific type of operating system the Roman System with all its rule and its criteria - cardo, decumano, centuratio, foro, limites, monuments, etc. – was the first real urban Open System. The Roman model is in fact able to interact with the physical and social environment, with the geography, with the population, with the local habits and economy. And all was possible through to the definition of a geometric urban structure, as generic as possible.
The formal grid structure was thus a mean and not a purpose, a mean to create a real Operating System, which was the real aim of the Romans and the key of its success.
The Roman model is spread through centuries and all over the world (also much after the Roman Imperial period).
Beurteilung durch das Preisgericht
Superposing a rigid, geometrically structured masterplan to a fluid landscape topography can obviously create a lot of interesting tensions, especially in terms of an open and adaptable framework for different architectural interventions. This is the potential for which amajority of the jury appreciated the submitted proposal. Likewise, the idea to continue and include the ‘emptiness’ of the valley throughout the basic raster of the settlement was seen as a great potential of the project, as well as avery precise and concise overall presentation of the project.
On the other hand, there is notable lack of typo-morphological coherence in the tailoring and positioning of the built volumes within the grid. Some of the building types seem to be too schematically developed - the central problem of such an approach being the fact that only a very precise definition of the relationship between grid, urban spaces and buildings including all connections can make the project truly tangible.
On the other hand, there is notable lack of typo-morphological coherence in the tailoring and positioning of the built volumes within the grid. Some of the building types seem to be too schematically developed - the central problem of such an approach being the fact that only a very precise definition of the relationship between grid, urban spaces and buildings including all connections can make the project truly tangible.
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