Location: Silistra

Year: 2013

Team: Nurhan Redzheb, Silvia Chakarova, Stela Kaloyanova, Elena Ivanova, Marina Mateva

Partners: Urban Design Consortium (Ivo Petrov Architects and Fortis Facility)

Status: Competition entry – awarded second place

Silistra – Shared Urban Space

As a substantial part of the design work our team used Public Space Public Life Survey /PSPL/ as a tool to gather information and assess existing conditions. Тhat helped us to better understand current trends and imagine the environment which would accommodate the future public life.

Vision:

Simeon Veliki St. and Dobrudzha St. become livable urban spaces which stimulate active social interaction between people.

Goals:

• To create spatial conditions for pedestrian movement
• To decrease transit car traffic
• To increase stationary activities
• To encourage bike use
• To create network of public spaces along streets and public buildings

Design strategy:

• Defining different zones with specific characteristics and measures for each of them
• Redesigning street sections and creating bike lanes
• Creating shared public space
• Redesigning Albena Square as an active community park
• Improving internal courtyard spaces through parking reorganization, new greenery and playgrounds