In the early 1960s, when Bosnia and Herzegovina was renamed to Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo experienced an exponential growth and an economic and demographic boom that ...exceeded the availability of housing. To remedy this growth peripheral areas were occupied by newly built districts - “residential colonies”, which among other things reflected the gigantism of the socialist period, and proposed a system made up of blocks and super-blocks scattered in open territories. The architectural panorama was enriched by a series of new architectural editions, expressly inspired by the principles of functionalism and rationalism of the Bauhaus. All this has been created on the foundations made by a group of architects who returned to Sarajevo, and in Bosnia Herzegovina in general, after they had been trained in the most important European schools of architecture. Work of the new generations of Yugoslav architects marked a shift at the architectural scene in the 1960s who experimented with the “modernist” interpretations of authentic local architectural expression. The paper intends to retrace some of the main stages of “modernization” of Sarajevo and highlight the singularity of architectural production that is, internationally, still unknown.
All'inizio degli anni '60 Sarajevo conobbe una crescita esponenziale e un boom economico e demografico tali da non riuscire a soddisfare la domanda di alloggi. Per rimediare a questa crescita, le aree periferiche, furono occupate da quartieri di nuova costruzione che riflettevano il gigantismo del periodo socialista e proponevano un sistema fatto di isolati e super-isolati sparsi in territori aperti. Il panorama architettonico si arricchì di una serie di nuove espressioni architettoniche, inequivocabilmente ispirate ai principi del funzionalismo e del razionalismo del Bauhaus. Tutto questo è stato possibile grazie al contributo di un gruppo di architetti rientrati in Bosnia Erzegovina dopo essersi formati nelle più importanti scuole di architettura europee. Il lavoro della nuova generazione di architetti jugoslavi generò un significativo cambiamento nella scena architettonica degli anni '60. Il contributo intende ripercorrere alcune delle principali tappe del processo di “modernizzazione” di Sarajevo per sottolineare la singolarità di una produzione architettonica che, a livello internazionale, è ancora sconosciuta.
Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, is a unique setting for studying Olympic legacy, a city that hosted XIV Winter Olympic Games in 1984 and only eight years after was home to the ...longest siege of a capital city in the history of modern warfare. Aiming to contribute to the debate on mega-events from an urban studies perspective, this research reconstructs one segment of the shared history of the Winter Olympic Games through the Sarajevo 1984 Olympics experience, and as such strengthens respect and understanding through trans-national practices. The concept of Olympic urbanization is engaged to probe the ways in which divergent concepts of modernization and socialist regime in Yugoslavia conditioned Sarajevo Olympic urbanization, territorial transformation, and architecture. Special attention is given to evaluation and critical re-imaging of the Sarajevo Olympic Villages within context of local urban and architectural concepts and of their functioning under the new state of things which has arisen since the 1984. Accordingly, the work shifts attention to tracing the spirit of Olympism and provides a critical analysis perspective on the changing nature of Sarajevo Olympic legacy discourse in line with the current framework of Olympic Games.
•Mega-events as a point of reference in city transformation is analyzed.•Winter Olympic Games implies testimony of enduring legacy that must be studied in more detail.•Contested futures of the Sarajevo 1984 Olympic legacy is explored.•Olympic residences identified as one of the great Sarajevo's urban and architectural projects.•Sarajevo recognized as a space of authentic Olympic imagination.
This article discusses aesthetic singularity in present-day Sarajevo and shows how time generates a social response to the visual quality of space. Acknowledging the metamorphosis of the cityscape ...with regard to the identity reformulation of post-war Sarajevo, it examines the sensory engagement of people with the urban environment in relationship to the traumatic events and shifting realities imposed by globalisation. The hypothesis is that the environmental aesthetics of post-war cities are defined by the traumatic memory of physical and social destruction. This article offers insight within a broad range of theoretical discussions on the changes in the visual language and aesthetic quality of urban spaces in post-war Sarajevo. In particular, it presents the notion of urban memory and its role in shaping the aesthetic experience in post-war cities. Finally, the findings show that architectural remnants, or ruins in the urban fabric, instead of being unstable entities, have the potential to become drivers of a continuum. Ultimately, this article accepts the values of incompleteness and opens new perspectives towards playful experimentation, which potentially relieves the aesthetic experience of a rigid and monotonous urban image.
This paper is based on the premise that it is not the building as a structure
that truly matters, but the spaces within the structure. Consequently, this
paper takes into consideration usable space ...as its main substance and, by
analysis and description of dwelling unit concepts in Sarajevo, it evaluates
116 apartments in 16 multi-storey residential buildings built between 2008
and 2018. All the data related to the apartments in Sarajevo is primary
data, collected by means of observations and measurements, evaluated through
qualitative and quantitative analysis, and set in the frame of an
explanatory and comparative multiple case study. The results indicate that,
in terms of their functional configuration, the apartments are mostly
configured as atypical and unstandardized. The areas of use within the
apartments were planned to be interrelated without any clear intentions,
which has resulted in static plan types with no or only minor potential for
variation in the spatial adaptability or flexibility.
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This article discusses aesthetic singularity in present-day Sarajevo and shows how time generates a social response to the visual quality of space. Acknowledging the metamorphosis of the cityscape ...with regard to the identity reformulation of post-war Sarajevo, it examines the sensory engagement of people with the urban environment in relationship to the traumatic events and shifting realities imposed by globalisation. The hypothesis is that the environmental aesthetics of post-war cities are defined by the traumatic memory of physical and social destruction. This article offers insight within a broad range of theoretical discussions on the changes in the visual language and aesthetic quality of urban spaces in post-war Sarajevo. In particular, it presents the notion of urban memory and its role in shaping the aesthetic experience in postwar cities. Finally, the findings show that architectural remnants, or ruins in the urban fabric, instead of being unstable entities, have the potential to become drivers of a continuum. Ultimately, this article accepts the values of incompleteness and opens new perspectives towards playful experimentation, which potentially relieves the aesthetic experience of a rigid and monotonous urban image.
This paper discusses the complex processes and practices of global flows
within the dynamic nature of European cultural landscapes in a contemporary context. It examines the role of new technologies, ...recent demographic fluctuations and increasing interconnectedness in cultural landscape reconfiguration. This paper represents an attempt to encourage
a shift in thinking on existing environmental resources and sustainable
landscape practices, and to question alternative approaches that are sensitive to the cultural interchange process. Substantively, complex and contradictory nature of contemporary cultural identities is addressed in the city of Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Ovaj se rad bavi složenim procesima i aktivnostima globalnih tokova unutar dinamičke prirode europskih kulturnih pejsaža u suvremenom kontekstu. Istražuje se uloga novih tehnologija, recentne demografske fluktuacije i rastuća međupovezanost u novoj konfiguraciji kulturnih pejsaža. Rad ima za cilj potaknuti promjene u načinu razmišljanja o postojećim mogućnostima u okolišu i održivim aktivnostima u krajoliku te
preispitati drugačije pristupe osjetljive na procese kulturne razmjene.
Analizira se složena i kontradiktorna priroda suvremenih kulturnih identiteta u Sarajevu, glavnom gradu Bosne i Hercegovine.
V članku avtorici obravnavata estetsko posebnost zdajšnjega Sarajeva in pokažeta, kako čas ustvarja družbeni odziv na vizualno kakovost prostora. Ob upoštevanju preobrazbe mestne krajine z vidika ...preoblikovanja identitete povojnega Sarajeva proučujeta senzorični stik ljudi z mestnim okoljem v povezavi s travmatičnimi dogodki in spreminjajočo se realnostjo, ki jo vsiljuje globalizacija. Njuna hipoteza je, da okoljsko estetiko povojnih mest določa travmatični spomin na fizično in socialno uničenje. Raziskava daje vpogled v različne teoretične razprave o spremembah vizualnega jezika in estetske kakovosti mestnega prostora v povojnem Sarajevu ter predstavi pojem urbanega spomina in njegovo vlogo pri oblikovanju estetske izkušnje v povojnih mestih. Končne ugotovitve kažejo, da lahko arhitekturni ostanki ali razvaline v mestnem tkivu namesto nestabilnih enot postanejo gonilo kontinuitete. Avtorici na koncu sprejmeta nedokončanost v prostoru kot pozitivno vrednoto in odstira nov pogled na igrivo eksperimentiranje, ki lahko izboljša estetsko izkušnjo toge in monotone mestne podobe.
Imposed changes in social conduct and the dynamics of living in cities, during COVID-19 pandemic, triggered an increase in the demand, availability, and accessibility of open public spaces. This has ...put forward questions of the relationship between open public spaces and disease transmission, as well as how planning and design strategies might be used to improve resilience in the face of future pandemics. Within this academic framework, this study focuses on object detection and human movement prediction in open public spaces, using the city of Sarajevo as a case study. Video recordings of parks and squares in morning, afternoon and evening are utilized to detect humans and predict their movements. Frame differentiation method proved to be the best for object detection and their motion. Linear regression is used on a dataset collected using the space syntax observation technique gate method. The best R2 values, 0.97 and 0.61, are achieved for weekdays, for both parks and squares. Authors associated it with the dynamics of space use and frequency of space occupancy, which can be related to physical conditions and activity content of selected locations. The results of study provide an insight into analysis and prediction of direction, as well as density of pedestrian movement, which could be used in decision making directed towards more efficient and health oriented urban planning.
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