1. “SOCHI – PESHKOM”
2013
Summer School in
Architecture
& Urban Design

2. What is not a purpose of this summer school: competition
among you for the best public space project ever ….
What is a purpose of this summer school : an collaborative
attempt to understand better dimensions of public space, the
way it influence people lifestyle….
attempt to get beyond conventional architectural
approach to design……
to invent new tools for assessing and analyze space… to
deliver workable proposal to improve public spaces in this
beautiful city….
and to enjoy while doing all this…

3. From City to Bench

4. 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.

5. Dimensions of Public Space

6. Political dimension

7. Eocnomica dimension

8. Environmental dimension

9. Social dimension

10. Social dimension

11. Public space is a system unit

12. System of public spaces

13. Connections

14. Connections

15. Connections

16. Connections

18. 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.
The role of public space

19. 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 it’s political role as well.

20. 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)
Types of public space

21. internal 'public' space or public institutions such as libraries, museums, town
halls, train or bus stations, etc.
Carmona, Heath, Oc and Tiesdell (2003)

22. 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)

23. Challenges of public space prominently are shifting focus from political to
economic.

24. Markers of public space:
ownership and accessibility

25. Public space consists of collection of buildings or it exist as inseparable part
of built environment and therefore creates and delimits common.

26. Splintering of public space is more a matter of accessibility than ownership.
Therefore accessibility is the key factor for successful public space

27. There are three basic forms of accessibility:
visual, physical and symbolic.

28. Built space is socially constructed

29. Example

30. Obrenoviceva and Kopitareva Streets

31. Shopping mall ‘Kalča’ and underground shopping street.
Privatization of ~13000m2 of public land.

33. Even visual comfort is privatized

34. Street cafes as dominant urban setting.

35. In that way scope of optional activities decreased!
Only possible activates left are related to consumption behavior.

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

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

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

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

40. Thank you