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Borovets Golden Triangle

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Team: Irgen Salianji, Marina Kounavi, Karolina Szóstkiewicz, Tatiana Zoumpoulaki, Harris Vamvakas Location: Borovets, Bulgaria Total Area: 6700 m2 Budget: 30 mln Euro Parking Spots: 200 Borovets is the oldest Bulgarian mountain resort and the one with the brightest potentials for future development. However, the Golden Triangle - the center of the village and its most precious property – suffers from the informal developments that have been scattered in the forest since the early 1990s and lacks a unified and characteristic identity. We propose a new clear zoning of development on the north-eastern edge of the Triangle that will define and frame the forest, while a set of activities and outdoors uses will make it attractive to the residents and visitors. Боровец е най-старият български планински курорт и този с най-голям потенциал за бъдещо развитие .  Въпреки това, Златният триъгълник – центърът на селото и негова най-ценна собственост  –  страда от неофициално...

OSSA '17 - The Great Beauty

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Tutors: Architects for Urbanity (Karolina Szóstkiewicz, Irgen S a l ian j i ) Participants: Gabriela Bratkowska, Karolina Krzyżanowska, Marcin Osak, Natalia Pośnik, Martyna Słowińska, Alicja Szyszkowska, Aleksandra Wróbel, Attendant: Michał Czeszejko AfU tutored one of the student teams of OSSA workshop in Poland last October. Under the topic of the Great Beauty, the students researched the notions of beauty and ugliness in art, fashion, architecture and politics and came up with a series of counter statements, research material, models and a final performance that provoke and extend our understanding of the Great Beauty in the contemporary society! From the students: Our work started with a search of the definition of beauty itself. It turned out that understanding it as an opposition of ugly is the most straightforward way. Yet swiftly we moved towards examples which connect those two contrary aspects. It is the juxtaposition, contrast and controversy in which we find the greatest...