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Square and street: Spatial and functional relations: The partisans' square in Užice (1961)
Partisans' Square in Užice is a significant architectural achievement of Yugoslavia and contains numerous high-quality urban and architectural solutions. Paper analyzes relations between two levels of the public space: the square and the streets: Partisans' Square is a significant architectural achievement of the second Yugoslavia. Paper analyzes relations between two levels of the public space: the square and the streets. Relations between the two levels of public space are analyzed in order to better understand and evaluate the architecture of the originated period, and to describe urban solutions contributed to the high quality of the design. The square and the street are very carefully brought into the mutual relations: the width of the street at the point of entry into the market, the height of the streets front, the emphasis on the contact location of the street and square, the volume of the buildings, the street entering angle in the market, the characteristic elements that emphasize the contact point, the composition of the vistas along the main pedestrian flows, breaks through the buildings at the level of parterre (to connect the sqare with the surrounding public spaces), the way of shaping the entrances into the buildings and the entrance motifs, the leveling of the square and the street at the contact point, the method of the facade designing in relation to the street and square, parterre touching point of the square and streets, the content of the point of view - the frame that appears in the eye of the beholder (from the direction of the main pedestrian flows), etc. All of these elements are based on the experience that can be found in the books about the urban design in Europe, in the public spaces of the Balkans, the great practical experience of the architect and his talent. The Partisans' Square was opened to the public in 1961 and, since then, is the most important public space in Užice. Although social values and norms have been changed over and over again, the market continues to provide the framework of public life in the best possible way and doesn't stop being the center of city life. The demolition of the Post Office building (1999), crack lack of maintanance from 2000 until today, calls into question his survival. Architectural competitions, called to repair or improve the situation, confirmed only the quality and value of the solutions applied in the urban and architectural design. On the basis of aforementioned values the Partisans' Square in Užice deserves to be declared as a part of European cultural heritage.
Square and street: Spatial and functional relations: The partisans' square in Užice (1961)
Partisans' Square in Užice is a significant architectural achievement of Yugoslavia and contains numerous high-quality urban and architectural solutions. Paper analyzes relations between two levels of the public space: the square and the streets: Partisans' Square is a significant architectural achievement of the second Yugoslavia. Paper analyzes relations between two levels of the public space: the square and the streets. Relations between the two levels of public space are analyzed in order to better understand and evaluate the architecture of the originated period, and to describe urban solutions contributed to the high quality of the design. The square and the street are very carefully brought into the mutual relations: the width of the street at the point of entry into the market, the height of the streets front, the emphasis on the contact location of the street and square, the volume of the buildings, the street entering angle in the market, the characteristic elements that emphasize the contact point, the composition of the vistas along the main pedestrian flows, breaks through the buildings at the level of parterre (to connect the sqare with the surrounding public spaces), the way of shaping the entrances into the buildings and the entrance motifs, the leveling of the square and the street at the contact point, the method of the facade designing in relation to the street and square, parterre touching point of the square and streets, the content of the point of view - the frame that appears in the eye of the beholder (from the direction of the main pedestrian flows), etc. All of these elements are based on the experience that can be found in the books about the urban design in Europe, in the public spaces of the Balkans, the great practical experience of the architect and his talent. The Partisans' Square was opened to the public in 1961 and, since then, is the most important public space in Užice. Although social values and norms have been changed over and over again, the market continues to provide the framework of public life in the best possible way and doesn't stop being the center of city life. The demolition of the Post Office building (1999), crack lack of maintanance from 2000 until today, calls into question his survival. Architectural competitions, called to repair or improve the situation, confirmed only the quality and value of the solutions applied in the urban and architectural design. On the basis of aforementioned values the Partisans' Square in Užice deserves to be declared as a part of European cultural heritage.
Square and street: Spatial and functional relations: The partisans' square in Užice (1961)
Kuzović Duško (author)
2018
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