SOCHI

PESHKOM
2013

Summer School in
Architecture
& Urban Design

not a purpose of this summer school:

competition among you for the best public space project
What is

ever .

is a purpose of this summer school : an

collaborative attempt to understand better
What

dimensions of public space, the way it influence people lifestyle.

get beyond conventional

architectural approach to design
to invent new tools for assessing and analyze
space to deliver workable proposal to improve
attempt to

public spaces in this beautiful city.

and

to enjoy

while doing all this

From City to Bench

Program
Week #1
Understanding city / space as a process
Objective: to develop better understanding of
complex and multi-layered fabric of chosen
public space and the system of forces that
continuously reconfigure it.

Week #2
Design city / space as a process
Objective: to develop urban design scenario
for development of public space/network of
spaces, which will include possible
stakeholders, phases of implementation,
maintenance plan of particular project etc.

Dimensions of Public Space

Political dimension

Eocnomica dimension

Environmental dimension

Social dimension

Social dimension

Public space is a system unit

System of public spaces

Connections

Connections

Connections

Connections

The role of public space

Public space play different roles for different sets of citizens and their
publicness.
Serving as medium for performance of public life, public space has always
been live value analysis of structural changes of public domain.

From collective and public towards individualized and private.

Accordingly public spaces become more limited in the scope of their
activities. In that sense the role of public space is prominently shrinking in
domain of public sphere and which affects its political role as well.

Types of public space

external public space as pieces of land that lie between private

landholdings such as public squares, streets, parks, stretches of coastline,
rivers, etc.
Carmona, Heath, Oc and Tiesdell (2003)

internal 'public' space or public institutions such as libraries, museums,

town halls, train or bus stations, etc.
Carmona, Heath, Oc and Tiesdell (2003)

external and internal quasi-public' space :

Places such as university campuses, sports grounds, restaurants also form
part of the public realm, if only nominally, because their owners and
operators retain rights to regulate access and behavior there.

Carmona, Heath, Oc and Tiesdell (2003)

Challenges of public space prominently are shifting focus from political to

economic.

Markers of public space:

ownership and accessibility

Public space consists of collection of buildings or it exist as inseparable

part of built environment and therefore creates and delimits common.

Splintering of public space is more a matter of accessibility than

ownership.
Therefore accessibility is the key factor for successful public space

There are three basic forms of accessibility:

visual, physical and symbolic.

Built space is socially constructed

Example

Obrenoviceva and Kopitareva Streets

Shopping mall Kala and underground shopping street.

Privatization of ~13000m2 of public land.

Even visual comfort is privatized

Street cafes as dominant urban setting.

In that way scope of optional activities decreased!

Only possible activates left are related to consumption behavior.

Obrenoviceva Street
There is one public seat for nine private seats (111:985).

Kopitareva Street
There is one public seat for fourty five private seats (15:682)

From open linear public space to access path for retail shops and cafes.

Task 1:
Identify and analyze/compare/discuss
quantitative/qualitative indicators that exemplify
relation/tension between public/private,
cultural/economic, political/environmental
realm

Thank you