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A. Pilav
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Collective Documenting of Extreme Urban Transformations
Evidence of Urban Resilience During the War in Sarajevo (1992–1996)
Contributed
Storyscape Neretva
Rehabilitating the Riverscape of Neretva through Small Scale Intervention Strategies
Storyscape Neretva is an attempt to develop design strategies and apply them in the context of the post-war city of Mostar, BiH. Interweaving soft aspects of experience, narratives and memories together with hard facts of environmental neglect and degradation resulted in design s
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Enhancing The Survival Landscape
Spaces of Resilience as Social Catalyst
We are nowadays constantly being confronted with images of conflicts. It is a reality that seems far away from us, until we are not called to confront it closely. Throughout this research, I questioned the role of landscape architects in post-war cities and how we can interve
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The Open House / The Open Archive
Unfolding the domestic archive of Gojka Vukovića 11
The body is an unfolding archive, containing material layers, fossilized remnants of past memories, skin lesions of still visible trauma. The body is a daily carrying agent of intersections, between the outside-inside and inside-inside, in which there is a radicality in consideri
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Politics no longer works like the democratic ideal presumed it did. We need to find other ways of doing politics: not just representational and abstract, but situated and performative. Architecture can help us doing this. This project focuses on the situation of Reyeroord, IJssel
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Divided cities are generally linked with civil wars in which group identity is threatened. This type of war dominated the late twentieth century, leaving many cities vulnerable. According to J. Calame and E. Chalesworth(2009) in Divided Cities: Belfast, Beirut, Jerusalem, Mostar,
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Palimpsest Park
A commemoration park in Mostar
Through a masterplan of a design intervention, the proposal aims to expose, unearth and highlight the multi-layered histories of the site, and counteract the various techniques of obstruction of collective memory.
By informing the collective memory these interventions ...
By informing the collective memory these interventions ...
Re-connecting Mostar
Rethinking the East-West Axis by using the Neretva's water as natural catalyser
This graduation thesis aims to reactivate an old axis connecting two different parts of the city of Mostar. The choice of this particular corridor has been adopted not just because of its strategic location - it crosses the city from East to West, two sides that have been rebuilt
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Re-Razvitak
Spaces of encounter in a divisive city
Bosnia and Herzegovina is a country that has endured many wars, through many different rules. The Yugoslav wars from 1991-1996 still linger in Mostar today, as we find a ‘divided city’, which is mostly enforced through institutions that ethnically divide public buildings. At the
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The wild plant library
Approaching the urban wilderness
Mostar contains a multiplicity of ruined, abandoned and contested spaces, a consequence of the war in which it was involved between 1992 and 1996. But to define those spaces today we cannot think only of the violent changes that originated them. The fact that war ruins remained l
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The Living Library
Co-cultivation of a ruin space
Since the disturbance of the civil wars from 1991-1996 a multiplicity of ruined, abandoned and contested landscapes can be found in the city of Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Defining those spaces today implies not only thinking of the violent circumstances that shaped them, but
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Landscapes of Resistance
Documenting the frontline of Climate Change in Louisiana
Louisiana, USA, operates as an oilscape, sacrificing its landscape in pursuit of economic prosperity through the oil and gas industry. Combined with sea level rise, this has resulted in continuous land loss since the fifties, making the Louisiana coast one of the fastest declinin
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Shopping Typologies (Ex-) Yugoslavia
Their role and reciprocal relation by exemplary cases in Croatia
This body of research attempts to investigate the role of shopping typologies and their reciprocal relation with (ex-) Yugoslav Croatia, through (three) exemplary cases (the neighborhood department store, the city department store and the shopping center) by looking at three them
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Cross contamination
Architecture and theatre as contaminant agents
Scattering and mixing their roles, tools, space and knowledge, letting them interact with the environment, and translating it into a spatial intervention.
This graduation project is about merging together two of my interests and passions and making an architectural project ou ...
This graduation project is about merging together two of my interests and passions and making an architectural project ou ...
Mountainscapes
Towards another interpretation of design
The context in which (landscape) architects and urban designers work today poses new challenges for which conventional planning and design tools seem to be unfit. We have to recognise that every place is a complex and layered phenomenon, a physical platform of lived space. Comple
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We have changed the way to house our productive activities – actions that have to do with work, goods production, running the machineries of living, so called ‘services’.
We haven’t changed the way to house our non-productive activities, because instead, we have learnt not t ...
We haven’t changed the way to house our non-productive activities, because instead, we have learnt not t ...
Intermediate landscapes: public spaces of experimentation
UNSA University campus, Sarajevo
When planning a new intervention in the city with a complex and sometimes violent past, such as Sarajevo, the aspect of time is particularly important. The blooming of a landscape has not the same speed of the fast-changing urban conditions. There is an absence of synchronization
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The concept of war abolition introduced by Krzysztof Wodiczko has attracted the attention of different scholars, and generated various reactions. Despite the affirmation of anthropologists, such as Margaret Mead and Douglas P. Fry, the project has not met with widespread acclaim
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