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      • 2018 - EUROMÉDITERRANÉE (Marseille, F)
      • 2017 - CRUISE ISLAND (Madeira, PT)
      • 2016 - REPORTING FROM THE FRONT: WELCOME TO LAMPEDUSA (Venice, Lampedusa, IT)
      • 2016 - FUTURE ISLANDS (Mallorca, ESP / Schiermonnikoog, NL)
      • 2015 - REFUGEE CITY (Rijeka, HR)
      • 2015 - CREATIVE DOCKLANDS (Rijeka, HR)
      • 2015 - TIROL CITY (Innsbruck, AUT)
      • 2014 - BURNING FIELDS (Campi Flegrei, IT)
      • 2014 - NORDHAVNEN (Copenhagen, DK)
      • 2013 - HAMAM - THE NEXT GENERATION (Istanbul, TUR)
      • 2013 - WATERFRONT NAPOLI (Naples, IT)
      • 2012 - WATERFRONT IZOLA (Izola, SVN)
      • 2012 - TROLLEY CAR SHED NR 6 (Wroclaw, PL)
      • 2011 - PLAYING AND BALANCE, DESIGNING WITH LANDSCAPE (Goriška Brda, SVN)
      • 2011 - PUBLIC PLACES IN HYBRID TERRITORIES (Viana do Castelo, PT)
      • 2010 - ECOCITY BRENNERO 2030 (Trento, IT)
    • Track >
      • 2018 - FLOATING CITIES (Venice, IT)
      • 2017 - PIRAEUS: HIPPODAMUS HARBOUR (GR)
      • 2016 - FLOATING CITIES (Venice, IT)
      • 2016 - WADDEN SEA (Schiermonnikoog, NL)
      • 2016 - RETHINKING EUROPEAN MODERNISM (Amsterdam, NL / La Grande Motte, F)
      • 2016 - COSMOPOLITAN DREAMS (Barcelona, ESP)
      • 2015 - M4H (Rotterdam, NL)
      • 2015 - POLDER PIONEERS PART 2 (Noordoostpolder, NL)
      • 2015 - A SKYSCAPER FOR JULIA, PAUL AND LISELOTTE (Frankfurt, D)
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      • Workshop - 2018 CAMPI: THE OUTDOOR LIVING ROOMS OF VENICE
      • Workshop - 2016 WELCOME TO LAMPEDUSA
      • Workshop - 2016 CAMPI: THE OUTDOOR LIVING ROOMS OF VENICE
      • Workshop - 2016 TIDELANDS ISLANDS
      • Workshop - 2015 STADSHAVENS ROTTERDAM 2035
      • Workshop - 2015 CREATIVE DOCKLANDS
      • Workshop - 2015 CAMPI: THE OUTDOOR LIVING ROOMS OF VENICE
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    • Excursion - 2018 EUROMÉDITERRANÉE MARSEILLE
    • Excursion - 2018 WATERFRONT VENICE
    • Conference 08 - 12 nov ISLAND CITIESs 2017
    • Excursion - 2016 WATERFRONT VENICE
    • Symposium 24 April - 26 April COASTAL CITIES 2017
    • Symposium 18 May - 20 May 2015 GLOBAL CITIES AND COSMOPOLITAN DREAMS
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CREATIVE DOCKLANDS  (Rijeka, Croatia)

The port of Rijeka is located between the city and the sea, and its quays are long, but they lack storage and handling areas. In the physical sense, the port grew along the coast. The economic prosperity of the city of Rijeka in the past and in the present is directly related to the functioning of the port. Nowadays people of Rijeka face migration of young people for economic, social and societal reasons. Young people are leaving Rijeka due to stagnation in the development of the city. The latter also significantly affect changes in the city life and the city beat. In this project we want to develop a urban design plan to redefine the relationship between the port and the city of Rijeka in the border areas between the two urban structures from the perspective of young people. Interconnected areas—or the borders between the city and the port, or the port and the surrounding landscape—are becoming a key point in
implementing modern town-planning concepts.

The history of the port
The first milestone in the urban development of Rijeka is in 1719, when Rijeka became a free port and the population increased fourfold in subsequent years.
Another milestone was the establishment of the dual monarchy of Austria–Hungary in 1868, which gave Hungary the opportunity to fulfill its aspirations of building its own port in the Adriatic.

In the second half of the nineteenth century, the port of Rijeka developed urban industrial port structures, a railway nexus was formed, and new city quarters developed. In this context, the mouth of the Rječina River was shifted eastward, infilling of the sea in the southern part of the city began, and construction started on the first part of the port breakwater.
After the First World War, the port of Rijeka, which became an important European seaport through development supported by Hungary, was divided into two separate ports (the ports of Rijeka and Sušak) corresponding to the city’s division into Rijeka (Ital. Fiume) in Italy and Sušak in Yugoslavia.
The period after the Second World War saw the most dynamic development of the port of Rijeka. In the 1980s, the port of Rijeka accounted for 50% of the traffic of all Yugoslav ports and it was the most important Yugoslav port.
The port of Rijeka became the main national port after Croatia proclaimed its independence. However, although the overall port traffic exceeded 20 million tons in 1980, it only amounted to 4.6 million tons four years ago.

The assignment
You are requested to make an urban design plan which transforms the port area and its boarders  into a hub of the further development for Rijeka. You start with analyses of reference projects of reconstructed harbor areas in the Netherlands. You chose a concept of one of these areas and you will apply this to the Rijeka docklands.  This concept you will work out into an urban design plan and a characteristic area which you will design more detailed.
Picture
Rijeka’s old city center port and hinterland

Schedule

Concept schedule winter term (September – January)
                     September              October                    November                  December                January
week 1      
introduction                                                 design                         designportfolio assessment portfolio assessment              
week 2      portfolio                     concept                    design                         design                      portfolio ass.
week 3      research                                                        design week 2          
final presentation
week 4     
design week 1           design                       design                       

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Period:
2015 winter term

Work load:
40 hours per week

Costs
€ 4800.-
full - view expedition 2019
Foto
design week / coast of Rijeka

Design weeks

The first design week ( 20 September – 26 September) is on the project site in the Rijeka.  You will get lectures by professionals on site and you develop a vision and a strategic approach in a workshop. In the workshop you will work in interdisciplinary mixed groups.
In the second design week we will research reference developments in the Netherlands. We will visit transformed harbor areas in Rotterdam and Amsterdam. You will analyze and work on the Stadshavens 2035 project locations in Rotterdam. This research you could use to develop a design strategy for the Rijeka harbor area.

Partners

Saxion University of Applied Sciences, department of urban design
University of Ljubljana Faculty of Architecture
Prof. Dr. Lucija Ažman Momirski, architect, Ljubljana
University of Zagreb, Faculty of Architecture
Prof. Dr. Sanja Filep, architect, Zagreb
DAR Association of architects Rijeka
Picture
Port of Rijeka before the First World War

Course contents

Competences:
In this Urban Nomads program you will develop  6 professional competences: Concept, Urban Design, Analysis, Urban Research, Urban Strategy, Being aware of surroundings.
During 1 semester you will work continuously and integrally on these competences. You work individual and you will get weekly feedback in classes on your products. This project includes 2 design weeks and a final presentation.

Feedback on products:
Once a week (see schedule) you get individual feedback on the design products in the studio of Urban Nomads in Deventer.

Final presentation:
At the end of the course you will present your project to professionals.

Portfolio:
After the final presentation your portfolio will be accessed by certificated assessors on the 6 competences. You will receive a certificate

Results

The results of the project will be used in the future activities planned by the city of Rijeka when applying for European Capital of Culture in 2020. It is similarly expected that the results of the design week 1 will be used in projects that are acquired by Luka Rijeka to improve the integration of ports in the northern Adriatic, their infrastructure and other links.

Final presentation:
Analyze of a reference project of a transformed harbor area in the Netherlands. Deduce the concept of the reference project and apply it to the Rijeka docklands.
Use this applied concept to develop a strategic design which enables to use  transformation of port and its boarders to improve the further development of the city.(site plan 1:2000, sections, perspectives, scenario’s)


Use the applied concept to make an urban design plan more detailed.
(a site plan in 1:1000 or 1:500, public spaces and buildings in 1:500 or 1:200 perspectives and a model

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