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West 8 Presentation 2011 03 08 5045

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Municipality of Tirana

2012 / 03 / 08
Building Tirana’s GREEN Future
Tirana Northern Boulevard & River Project

Let the city breathe!


Le të marri frymë Tirana!
Team West 8
Team

Development strategy

Mobility
Federico Parolotto

Hydrology & recycling management


Marten van der Wijk

West 8
urban design &
landscape architecture b.v.
Edzo Bindels
Christoph Elsässer
Brief:

-Extension of the boulevard


-Creation of a human environment
-Immediate action and implementation
-Clean the river
-Create a new urban front
-Fullfill the nothern ringroad
-Create a connection to lake Paskuqan
Perspective

250.000 1.000.000 ?
1992 2012 2032
Exploding city
Serious environmental
problems
How to extend the
Central Boulevard ???
How do we see the
central Boulevard ??
vision

Representation of the nation in the capital


vision

The central boulevard makes the city breathe


vision

The central boulevard celebrates urban life


Choreography of the axis
- collection of fragments
Mother Theresa Square
& Boulevard of the national heroes
Skanderbeg Square

National historic museum


Opera
Flag monument

Bazar
National Bank
Mosque
Ministries Municipality
Cathedral
Boulevard of King Zog
?

How to extend the Central Boulevard ???


ENJOY THE DIFFERENCES

GUARD THE UNITY


What needs to be improved ??
Interventions on the axis: Greening, softening, creating shade
Interventions on the axis: Reclaimning space for pedestrians
Interventions on the axis: Reclaimning space for pedestrians
Interventions on the axis:
Sustainable transport
Highway for cyclists
Interventions on the axis: Highway for cyclists
Interventions on the axis: Highway for cyclists
Interventions on the axis: Highway for cyclists
Interventions on the axis: good acces by public transport
Interventions on the axis: good acces by public transport
Alternative transports

Branded bike rental

Tram – Light train


Interventions on the axis: public attractions
Square bridge over Lana River
Reconstructed Bazar: human scale city life
25th anniversary of democracy monument
Interventions on the axis: worldclass public space design
How to extend the
Central Boulevard ???
?

How to extend the Central Boulevard ???


What does the extension
of the central axis in the
democratic period look
like ??
extension of the Boulevard: BOULEVARD OF EUROPA
National library

Boulevard of Europe

City hall

Music hall

Palace of justice Super – regional convention centre

Modern art gallery


BOULEVARD OF EUROPE

AVOIDING STRAIGHT LINES


CURVED AND ELEGANT
PLACE TO BE
ADRESS TO LIVE OR WORK
Tirana River Park
Boulevard towards Paskuqan park

National library

Ecological river bed


Parkway instead of highway
Freiburg, Dreisam
Barcelona, Rio Besós
Paskuqan Lake Park
Connection of Tirana River and Paskuqan Park
ADRIAAN GEUZE EDZO BINDELS MARTIN BIEWENGA
Let the city breathe!
Le të marri frymë Tirana!
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