MITarh Architecture Studio shared with us their proposal in the Competition for a preliminary architectural and urban design for a housing complex in New Belgrade, Serbia. Before the process of defining the architectural concept and some usual analysis of urban parameters, their team debated about a given specific environment. Awareness of character of ’certain place’, as a fine sample of New Belgrade – intact, as it looked in 1948, made enthusiasm and opportunity to find their own interpretation of a model ’housing complex’. More images and architects’ description after the break.
Burdened with the previous opinions of architects, urban planners and critics of New Belgrade, as an example of a functional urbanism, authors attempted to treat the specific situation in the continuity and in relation: man – house – activities. Unambiguously, our aim was to avoid a treatment of a city, and a house, as its unit of measure like an object, that only can be multiplied. As Soe (Francoise Choay) wrote, ’the city must be perceived as a process…’. Actually, this attitude toward the city, and therefore its customers, made the main direction in defining a set of housing units.
