River Sava

fear or appreciation

evidently only fear

most attractive parks are next to river Sava

step no.1: go west 

step no.2: embrace east

focus on projects that include Sava river 

small is ok

investments in life:  

 pragmatic small scale improvements    =   make life easier  

upgrading with  an elevator for two

from outside

 or from inside; the smallest elevator ever seen but it is working well

Barracks urbanisation

  Menaces of Repetitive Barracks Urbanization 

old planned urbanisation was about playing with volumes and open spaces named as figure-ground interplay

but present urbanisation is about military style

entrepreneurs and starving experts despise playing grounds,  
free parking lots, public parks  even wide roads and trees.
so what 
are kids  not expected to live there 

old fashion urbanology vs. new urban designers bottom lined approach

new settlement Jarun III near Jarun lakes

detailed plan for settlement Malesnica vs. ad hoc new infills for settlement "Spansko north"

 POS project Army barracks Vrapce: converted into bigger barracks

Zagrebacka street  dotted with repetitive beauties

instant cure: back to healthy city urban principles
or greenish lore:
number of new flats got to equal nubmer of new planted trees 

social networks - design in action

talking about applicable design methods

it used to be like this
sound investments in public space denoting new ZG style

the architectural approach 

but recent shift of focus on bottom line approach
elusive echoes of the past

totemic  improvisations on the very main square 

neglected industrial heritage yet demolished
it was an intrinsic contextual play  

as of forgotten language of CIAM in the middle of nowhere

dealing with clandestine priorites

conceited skyscrapers denoting who was the boss at the time  -
Army JNA flats
won over prolongation of Sestinski dol street 

neocolonialism or urban-villa with no entree
barebobne buildings next to the rad , next to the rails 

sound contextual approach - an early portent of  Pliva on the run

juxtaposition of imported styles 

imported German style 

overbuild plot with no sympathy for the street to be 

hypo and hyper-used 

3.new standards for Trnje

all adore Amun Ra
reside on isolated sites
have communication plroblems with environments
don't care but for yourself

bring new measure, knowledge and bottom line logic

where are walk-able streets,
cozy squares, parks for childern to  play
even a tree

impose  continuation of  #lines of urbanization # 

that can re-establish sound urban social network

Siget void space 2014  prone for social infill or parking?

human scale

German order vs Croatian improvisations 

1977
Hi tech extravaganza ornated with return to nature mind set

human scale visible within human reach

embodiment if german spirit in Munich

the art of waiting 

Kaptol Zagreb Prislin  tower desperately left aside
still not present from Tkalciceva street

Zagreb Novakova street  as it used to be  pleading to be left  aside  but it was in vain
pergola is incorporated into new walls  a new floor was added 

noble Kaptol square treated as road, 
it might serve as new entrance to Salata but it is still waiting in the same cheapskate manner 

Meadows of Salata, waiting for Godot  for 60 years 
moral dilemma  to build or rearrange into public park