Osumi Island
This competition is based on a test site and is looking for ways of making places resilient. It is using design as a tool to search for best possible solutions of resilience in riverside conditions. It is also looking for ways of developing natural landscapes and defining ‘urban by nature’. Being a test site, it means that the findings of the process can be shared with many other similar context or sites that are at a flooding risk zone and lack features of being resilient. In this perspective, this exercise serves more than the city of Berat. The proposals might become an inspirational source for other sites in Albania or beyond its borders.
This competition is based on a test site and is looking for ways of making places resilient. It is using design as a tool to search for best possible solutions of resilience in riverside conditions. It is also looking for ways of developing natural landscapes and defining ‘urban by nature’. Being a test site, it means that the findings of the process can be shared with many other similar context or sites that are at a flooding risk zone and lack features of being resilient. In this perspective, this exercise serves more than the city of Berat. The proposals might become an inspirational source for other sites in Albania or beyond its borders.
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<strong>Osumi</strong> ISLAND<br />
The square<br />
Square in front of Mangalem<br />
A new square, paved with stone and including benches and green<br />
areas would emphasize the importance of the pedestrian axis that the<br />
municipality already created. This square would be obtained by demolishing<br />
the building of the Palace of Culture Margarita Tutulani and it would have<br />
the crucial function of creating a proper distance between Mangalem and<br />
the modern city, making the first perfectly visible. Following the directions<br />
that are already included in the city masterplan, automobile traffic would<br />
be kept but the roundabout would be moved towards the modern city.<br />
126<br />
DAR + Endaco + Gjergj Islami + Alfred Lako
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