V - European Urban Summer School

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    Regeneration and conservation : Świebodzki station area
    (AESOP, 2010) Bolhuis, Klaas Jan; Brajović, Tamara; Gendek, Izabela; Makhatay, Volha; Marchwicka, Barbara; Mohacsi, Katalin
    The Świebodzki Station, out of action since 1991, built in 1842 in classical style as a connection hub, is an attractive landmark. Located 800 metres from Rynek, 1,5 km from Wrocław Główny station and 9 km from the airport, the station houses a dance club. A market stretching over the tracks is mostly informal, self organising, well-known and well-visited. Hotly debated, the station and its surroundings have been subjected to numerous studies and strategies. Despite current uses, the area does not live up to its full potential of central location, vacant land, potential rail-airport interchange and valuable historic building. Wrocław’s development opportunities as EURO2012 host city and 2016 European Cultural Capital offers the possibility of developing this site into a unique integrated mixed use area which we conceive as the Golden Gateway to the city. The design of the ‘golden gateway to the city’ consists of three elements: a gateway, an icon, and a place, inspired respectively by Sheffield’s Gold Route, Wrocław’s Renoma department store and the CAT (City Airport Train) connection between Vienna and its airport. The place is already a multi-modal node and appropriate as a gateway for a quick and high quality rail connection between the airport to the city centre, reusing existing tracks to accommodate the 2.2 million passengers expected from 2014.
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    Ring road (WZ) : Designing a liveable place
    (AESOP, 2010) Bolhuis, Klaas Jan; Brajović, Tamara; Gendek, Izabela; Makhatay, Volha; Marchwicka, Barbara; Mohacs, Katalin
    ANALYSIS The analysis of the this road serves to establish its potential. It encompasses street typology, cultural place typology, and residential typology. In design terms it included the notions of points, lines, grids and direction leading to infinity. STREET TYPOLOGY The street typology focuses on the distinction between a street, a lane and a boulevard. Streets could lead to infinity, but in reality they are closely related to the surrounding fabric which contributes to their profile. Their use as origins and destinations interrupts the flows through the streets. It distinguishes between pedestrian streets, pedestrian priority streets, public transport streets and boulevards. While purely pedestrianised streets constitute gathering points for people, pedestrian priority street facilitate movements on foot. Public transport streets are heterogeneous, providing access and forming shared spaces between mass transit movements and pedestrians moving alongside and crossing into the surrounding areas. Boulevards have a more cultural recreational character. Their wide pavements with trees, greenery and street furniture encourage informal activities, walking, lingering and stopping. PLACE MAKING The place typology responds to the question of what constitutes a real place rather than a placedesign. The group agreed with ‘Project for Public Spaces Inc’ that design remains an important component but not the only factor of creating a place, while generating access, active uses economic opportunities and programmes were often more important than design.
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    Wrocław : Elaborating the Void
    (AESOP, 2010) Bolhuis, Klaas Jan; Brajović, Tamara; Gendek, Izabela; Makhatay, Volha; Marchwicka, Barbara; Mohacsi, Katalin
    Wrocław, like the other regional capitals of Poland, is expanding outwards onto green fields even beyond its boundaries, despite its aspiration to harness its physical, economic and human resources fully and efficiently. However, we noticed that expanding the physical fabric without constraints may lead to cracks within the urban fabric. Without a coherent citywide development strategy many areas may not realise their potential. Therefore, we decided not to study the existing city fabric but to focus on what it lacks. We made emptiness the subject of our study.