23 March 2010

urban rule no.3 - concsient use of symbolic value of heights


Question on heights, who is the most prominent - dominant - important  in a town once it was  an easy guess, now in our gloomy world  is it a TV, power plant

it all started with modern movement religion: nocolors are in vogue, new scale is no scale  - everything Modern is ruthlessly bigger or higher

 
city centre is surrounded by white voluminous crystals aiming to siege  its core

21 March 2010

natural peculiarities: spring of river Kupa

a set piece for urban culture

vrelo Kupe al voda nije vrela već +6C
what about hot wells in Zagreb, thermal water everywhere
INA MOL CRO
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17 March 2010

urban rule no.2 - pay tribute to public space



Precept no1. Prescribe strict correlation between the height of the building and the width of the public space needed  in front of it
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urban tactic: bottom up approach



incremental small changes

like public walks, like beeng in green zagreb

flowers in the parks
flowers on the street
flower square
flowers in frontgardens 



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