SECTIONS

I have given my self a new task! Its to draw the sections shown in plan (until tomorrow) to understand the relation between spaces. The sections are selected on background of the "game-table". I have been working in plan for quite some time, the sections will (I hope) move me towards new direction.

Entrances today

NEW FIELDS OF game-table

a_NOTE

The sketch above is to remember my self in which direction my diploma is going and what i am working on. Its easy to think that that you are will solve all the "challenges" at the site, but that seems to be utopic. After confrontation yesterday it was good to know that i am moving in the right direction. Some of the issues my diploma is dealing with is situations inside/outside of my center. What will generate more action inside? Whats good qualities inside? I have decided to keep two existing building as landmark in Sarajevo (services are culture and sport/basket), I would call it nostalgic architecture because it have symbolic value for the area and the city . Sal=hall 1 and sal 2 on the sketch are offering sports. Sal 1 is also exhibition space. How to use one hall for sport and other for new program? (Break up old structure) New parking space or vertical mix use space?

mutation_space

After the last confrontation its been happening at lot. I have started to break up the old structure and define the program (new sketches will be shown soon). I am looking at space with different levels and services. I have a feeling that center Skenderija is now looking like a mutation of different spaces and qualities. How can I show that and create new structure?

OPPORTUNITIES & TYPOLOGIES

The strong sens of history in the surroundings of Skenderija center is deeply rooted in styles and sensibilities of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Since Sarajevo is under post war building and rebuilding, the sense of tradition is challenged by new and modern styles. Intention is to find approach where old characteristic are maintained, but supplemented by more current attributes. Looking towards the small spaces and voids where new situations can appear and town centers can adopt the village aesthetic along the MAHALA front enhance public utility. MAHALA fronts will also be developed more fully to encourage both private and public spaces.

MAKING A CONNECTION

Todays city situation is no longer a traditional single use of space. It´s a process happening on a global scale, were city is fading into multiple landscapes. New city spaces can be seen as urban paths and networks were city erupts in a heterogeneous land, a network of linked realities.

MAHALA (a way of connecting the realities)

Some aspects of Mahala:

- vertical space (only minaret on a mousque)

- local bakery

- lane with two rows of gates

The Mahaka is the street that leads from business part of the city to the residential area. The houses were arranged in zigzag patterns so that each of them commanded vista of the Mahala and the busines area.

Mahala = Neighbourhood Unit

As soon as 40/50 houses and a mousque were erected along the road, the settlement become a Mahala. History says that Sarajevo developed from 99 Mahalas and 99 Mosques.

VERTICAL SPACE

The models of investigation of the different layers, the movement between levels will be further investigation in the following steps.

Play 0f Structure_1

Last night tests were focused on existing structure. Or the extension of old structure to new.

IDEGRAM

After visiting my site in Sarajevo last three weeks, I´ve used some time to get the overview of gathered material. It´s time to clean up and create the hierarchy! Since this would be my only visit to the site, I was ready to collect as much knowledge and information as possible. The terrible complicity between the time and creativity was my main enemy during the visit. Who to ask for information? Where to seek for site plans? And how to select conditions of my visit. I was grateful for having my camera. Spontaneously it became natural to take pictures and use it as my tool for observation.

PIECE BY PIECE

I´ve been trying to get the approval from Skendrija administration to shoot some overview photos. After giving my identification,telephone number,street address,social status, social background and after saying that I´ am a friendly student working on my diploma, I finally got the green light: I´am king of the hill. At least for 79 minutes. I took 560 pictures all together. Now it´s time to put them together and start looking and seeing..

Here are first panorama shots. Skenderija, open air-public space and street circulation in front.

HIERARCHY OF MAPPING

While talking to my tutor 2 weeks ago, before my trip to the site, she sad; map everything!! See everything, sketch everything and note everything. Well i did that, at least kind of. To understand my analysis I made my mapping-structure.

(reason some technical challenges, here comes pictures of my sketch book)

City functions-What-Where??

CITY FUNCTIONS 1

The last days in Sarajevo have been interesting and exhausting. Some key-words for last days registrations: movement, city functions, landscape and overview.

The structure for further registrations/analyses:

Phase 1: Mapping

Phase 2: Sketching

Phase 3: Photography

Phase 4: One on One