Design Studio 04

The Cinematic Revival of Belgrade

Aimee Higgs

Left abandoned for 23 years as a result of financial collapse, corruption and politics, the Vozdovac Cinema is revived by local people. Using salvaged materials and low-tech methods, it becomes a community space to gather, debate, protest, and enjoy film.

RE-INCARNATING BELGRADE: THE TREE OF LIFE

Narrating Life and Death at Belgrade Fortress

Zhonglin Yap (Alyssa)

Inspired by the love, life and death from the Myth of Orpheus, the project renews a mythological Belgrade Fortress through spiritual procession (wedding and funeral ritual) in the notion of: 

i. Tree of Life (Roman Well at Belgrade Fortress)

ii. Sun path in relation to Spiritual Horizon (Sunset - The End of Life)

Re-imagining Belgrade – Refuge space for Children 

Amalin Mahadon

Concerned with the ongoing issues of increasing numbers of unaccompanied refugee children in Belgrade, Serbia, who are deprived from suitable accommodation, nurture and care, suffering from mental health issue and post war trauma, architects act as an active agent to propose an opportunity to tackle each issue individually through a ‘Playful’ architectural approach. The project is introducing 5 different articles/fragments that present the state of object, programme and space to transform the existing site land use from public to refuge. Refuge children park aim to become a ‘safe’ destination for unaccompanied refugee children who choses to temporarily stay in Belgrade, while it also welcoming any other children (local and tourist) under the age of 16. 

Ruins Interpretation Centre at lower town of Belgrade Fortress

Ameya Barbadikar

The aim is always in situ recovery and the greatest possible contextualisation of heritage resources. It establishes a link between visitors and what they can discover at heritage sites such as a nature reserve, a historic site or a museum.

The Lifeline Project 

Charlotte Brookhouse

The community-based hub centred on textile recycling is a response to the segregation of refugees in UN camps in Serbia. The Project aspires to provide visibility and recognition of the refugee crisis within Belgrade city centre, facilitate information exchange to aid integration and formalisation of the already established refugee 

New New Belgrade: The Reformed Yugoslavia Utopia

Desmond Ho Man Chow

As a new Yugoslavia Utopia in 2050, this is a plan not only to create social reform and revive the local industrial sector with a city scale factory, but also to promote an image of future and export a new domestic lifestyle and technology to the West and East.

We Are Human

Rethinking Refugee Support: Responding to the Crisis in Belgrade, Serbia.

Enes Osmani

The scheme sets out a series of five interventions spread across the city that attempt to develop spaces to assist refugees and help break 

A funeral for the Zgrada Generalstaba

Isabel Gomez 

 The project has been designed to allow the Former Yugoslav Ministry of Defence Building to experience a death through a controlled demolition that consists of 7 seasonal events. The death of the building is therefore portrayed as an architectural performance

Transforming Blok 29: Grounds for Reconfiguration.

Katlin Kugiyska

The project is based in New Belgrade - part of the city dominated by post-war concrete residential construction. Blok 29 was built using over 130 prefabricated components. The proposal reimagines future reconfiguration which reuses the old building fabric and incorporates it into the existing landscape as benches, market stalls, walls, playgrounds and a monument. A new panel system also allows occupants to make their own design decisions for the appropriation of their apartment, thus replacing the monochrome with a vibrant materiality. It addresses their social needs for expansion or contraction and alternative uses of the concrete particles in order to reduce the building waste.

Expanding Magacin: The Commoning of Belgrade

Leslie Oloo

The expansion of Magacin Cultural Centre proposes ordinary Belgradians reclaim their Savamala Cultural District and Belgrade Waterfront against corrupt speculative redevelopment. Each reclaimed phase converts existing space into a cultural event.

New community ground for BLOK 21

Nur Binti Zainal Abidin

This project is based in New Belgrade, Serbia. It was inspired by Juraj Neidhardt, who commented on how socialist building should be; “nothing extraordinary, but something to suit a man”. Therefore, one decided to engage with the community and solve issues (such as colourless building, lack of community engagement, effect of social condense etc.) and integrate it with the serbian entity, pattern and the vibrant colours coming from the culture there (e.g: foods, crafts and etc.). In addition, this project is focusing on the communal area especially on the ground floor for everyone to engage with each other, selling on the ground floor, learning something new with their own neighborhood and giving back to their own community.

Axonometric Sectional Perspective - New community ground for BLOK 21 - Nur Binti Zainal Abidin

Verdict 99 

Patryk Kubica

The Former Yugoslav Ministry of Defence building is transformed into circulation space for users such as locals, tourists and military, and provides interpretation centre that provides exhibitions on the Kosovo War and NATO Bombing. 

Welcome to the Future

Zoh Shaikh

Belgrade pride 2020 marks the 50-year celebration of the first step taken towards equality in Serbia. It is a celebration of self, them and us!