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Ivan Vazov St

Location Sofia, Bulgaria
Year 2018
Client Sofia Municipality
Status Conceptual design
Team Silvia Chakarova, Despina Kaneva, Nurhan Redzheb, Pavel Yanchev, Galina Aleksova, Magdalena Bogdanova

 

In the process of working on the Action Plan for Implementation of the ‘Public Life and Public Space 2017‘ Report Sofia Municipality invited our team to develop a conceptual design for Ivan Vazov St as a shared space.

Ivan Vazov St is a narrow and charming street in Sofia’s centre, connecting important places and landmarks like the Ivan Vazov National Theater, the City Garden, the Ivan Vazov Museum-House, and the Knyazheska Garden.

The condition of the street at the moment of project development was very poor with bad quality pavement on the sidewalks that pose a serious challenge for pedestrians walking the street. The narrow sidewalks couldn’t accommodate the high number of pedestrians passing by daily.

The priorities that our team defined in developing the conceptual study were as follows:

  • increasing the urban environment quality
  • improving the walking and cycling conditions
  • creating a people and human-scale oriented street
  • providing high quality public spaces
  • decreasing the car traffic
  • decreasing environmental and air pollution

In developing the concept, we focused on the potential of turning Ivan Vazov St into a shared street with more space for pedestrians, public buildings, and retail users, with traffic calming measures and designating small recreation and greenery pockets.