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DT Plateau

DT Plateau
© Ana Kostic

DT PLATEAU

4of7, Institute of Transportation CIP

ARCHITECTS
4of7, Institute of Transportation CIP

CATEGORY
Public Space, Park

PROJECT YEAR
2018

LOCATION
Belgrade, Serbia

PHOTOGRAPHS
Ana Kostic

MANUFACTURERS
Aco, Carl Stahl, ARLINE, Korali Kraljevo, RGM

AREA
2950 m²

CONCEPT DESIGN TEAM
Djordje Stojanovic, Milan Katic

DEVELOPED DESIGN
Institute of Transportation CIP

DEVELOPED DESIGN TEAM
Jelena Milosevic

MODELS AND VISUALS
Saran Antov, Jelena Markovic, Tamara Nesic and Milica Dukic

CONCEPT DESIGN
4of7

SUPERSEDED CONCEPT DESIGN
4of7, Djordje Stojanovic, Milutin Cerovic, Grozdana Sisovic, Dejan Milanovic

COMPETITION ENTRY
Djordje Stojanovic, Milutin Cerovic, Andjela Karabasevic, Milica Tasic, Bogdan Obradovic (4of7).

Text description provided by architect.

The plateau is established to house a monument to Dimitrije Tucovic, an important figure in the Serbian socialist movement at the turn of the twentieth century, and to become a new public space in the city of Belgrade.

DT Plateau
© Ana Kostic
DT Plateau
© Ana Kostic

It is designed as a sidewalk extension and a space capable to host events such as flower market, second-hand books sails or accommodate street food stands.

HARD EDGES

The plateau sits between the National Bank of Serbia building and a busy traffic roundabout at Slavija Square in Belgrade. Such ‘hard edges’, impermeable to pedestrian traffic, make this site highly visible but isolated segment of the urban fabric.

DT Plateau
© Ana Kostic
DT Plateau
© Ana Kostic

This is further reinforced with implementation of the new traffic plan, meant to help traffic congestion by repositioning pedestrian crossings away from the existing roundabout and thus making all pedestrian movement only tangential to the site. 

As a result, of both the built context and traffic regime, the site has become an island sitting on one of the busiest traffic routes in the inner city.

DT Plateau
© Ana Kostic

INDETERMINACY

Prior to the realization of the project, a makeshift car park and empty sheds occupied the lot.

The area was fenced off for decades and only improvised fast food stands were popping up through the fence to serve commuters. The architectural intervention focused on creating an accessible place, open and inviting to public.

We aimed to find a spatial solution for indeterminate scenarios of use, presuming that events currently unfolding in nearby public spaces could spill over to this one. The design is driven by the premise that flower market, second hand books stalls or street food stands could be introduced here.

DT Plateau
© Ana Kostic

CRUDE CONCRETE

The design intent was to create a new topography and an inward-oriented open space.

In an amphitheater-like setting, the monument is positioned at the central and lower datum of the new terrain, so that movement across the plateau provides different views of it.

The new topography consists of a series of platforms with differing inclinations of the floor surface. Zones with a slope, ranging from 2 to 8% inclination, define circulation routes while flat patches land themselves to seating areas.

Risers, occurring between flat and sloping facets of the surface are used to direct movement and to create seating places. 

In situ cast polymer concrete is the material chosen for the finishing layer, for its long-term durability with respect to freeze and thaw cycles and low permeability to water, while seating areas are clad in timber. In addition to floor surface treatment, the design includes planting of approximately 30 trees, and positioning of 20 lampposts.

DT Plateau
© Ana Kostic


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