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Item type:Publication, The Architecture of The Post-Earthquake Renewal of Skopje(Hellenic Institute of Architecture, 2019); Deskov, VladimirOn July 26th Skopje suffered a catastrophic earthquake; more than 1.000 victims were identified, over 3.300 people were injured, while approximately 70-80% of the total built stock was either destroyed or damaged beyond repair. The city was literally reduced to rubble. Vastly devastated, the city of Skopje was built anew under the patronage of the United Nations and with the support from more than 80 countries worldwide. As Yugoslavia was one of the leaders on the non-aligned movement, help started to “pour” into Skopje both from the East and the West. In the middle of the Cold War, at a time when the polarization between the two conflicting political blocks was at its peak, Skopje’s post-earthquake renewal process defined solidarity and cooperation as its leading principal. Soon after the earthquake, the federal government asked the United Nations for assistance; on the one hand, it was obvious that the scope and complexity of the whole endeavor was far beyond the capacities of the local planers and architects. On the other hand, it was a huge opportunity to bring together international experts (both from the East and the West) and envision a new “city for the future”. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Structure as a Symbol: Modernist High Rises in Skopje(MASE - Macedonian Association of Structural Engineers, 2019); Deskov, VladimirThere are often periods in the development of the cities, which carry certain energy released in the space in form of waves. Over time, the traces of these cycles slowly fall into oblivion until another wave brings some of them to the surface again. The aim of this paper is to contribute to the renewed visibility of one of the forgotten and thematically least examined architectural layers of Skopje - the buildings that develop in height (high-rises, towers) – product of one of the dominant models of urbanization and development of the European cities in the second half of the 20th century. Focusing on the period of highest intensity of building, from the origins in the 1950s, all the way to the late 1980s, this work aims to perform a comprehensive study of the architecture of the “vertical city”, the conditions under which it was created, the main defining features, the qualities and values it possesses. The investigation relies upon a large research sample, encompassing more than 50 high-rise buildings dispersed on the territory of Skopje. In terms of urban layout, they form various configurations, showing different relationship of the building(s) and the immediate surrounding. In terms of use – housing, collective housing, administrative and industrial buildings were taken into consideration. In terms of architectural expression, they represent a rich selection regarding the simplicity/complexity of their spatial and volumetric structure, the architectural typology, the disaggregation of the plan, the materiality and the details applied. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Challenging Disregard: The Case of the Telecommunication Center in Skopje("Ion Mincu" University Press, Bucharest, 2019) - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, OLD LOCATIONS FOR NEW ECONOMIES: CASE STUDY OF CITY OF SKOPJE(STRAND - Sustainable Urban Society Association Belgrade, Serbia, 2019); ; Mano Velevska, MarijaRapid urbanization and forced industrialization during socialism, lead to enormous extension of urban territory and unrestricted and irrational utilization of locations for industrial production. The end of socialist system caused multiple processes of transformation in the city, where one of the most expressed was the deindustrialization. It produced vast areas and numerous locations to be permanently abandoned or insufficiently utilized. This paper examines and presents the opportunities for reuse of abandoned or unused industrial locations and buildings within the urban territory of the city of Skopje. The industrial locations and buildings had became valuable and attractive urban assets with potential for reuse. In addition, both represent important part of city history, where the process of industrialization contributed tremendously to social, economic and cultural development of Skopje. Their prospect use shall create link with social-economic background, culture and architecture of certain era and continuity with the past. We represent the standing that abandoned industrial locations and buildings in Skopje should be used by creative and non-material production industries. The creative economy as generator of growth can be treated as crucial sector for innovation, knowledge transfer, economic diversification, pool of highly skilled educated employees necessary to achieve sustainable development goals for the city of future. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, DOMESTICATING GARDENS. Excavating New Patterns of Growth for the City(STRAND - Sustainable Urban Society Association Belgrade, Serbia, 2019); ; Urban growth is a generic condition inherited in contemporary metropolitan reality, embracing various programmatic constraints: from housing and the very idea of domestic space to the public realm and urbanity as a practice of collective experience. In the prevailing ongoing discussions around urban growth, space is generally perceived through its built structure, whereas the empty (un-built) space is rather neglected or misused as mere building asset. Acknowledging the urban consequences and the spatial effects that urbanization and globalization have on the public space and life in the contemporary city, we call for a critical reassessment of city’s unbuilt resources and potential. Therefore the task of this paper is to reveal the hidden dimension and potential of gardens as resource for urbanity, juxtaposing the notion of architecture and dwelling with cultivated landscapes, both being seen as interwoven experiences that create the beauty of living. In order to challenge the perpetually accelerated building activity on the territory of the city of Skopje, we examine the relationship between the built and the un-built space by exploring new narratives that emerge in re-appropriation of the concept of a garden as urban entity and the potential of the productive landscape as a collective endeavour. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, SUSTAINABLE DESIGN FOR IMPROVEMENT OF HEALTHY BUILT ENVIRONMENT(Places and Technologies 2015, 2015-06-18)Dimkov, Gjorgji; Papasterevski, Dimitar; Petrovski, Aleksandar; Marina, OgnenBuildings as main consumers of energy and resources are responsible for waste and greenhouse gasses creation for which they have caused serious implications to the environmental and human health. Sustainable architecture considers reasonable resource exploitation and improvement of the built environment, human wellbeing and health. Its implementation in a building’s design is a demanding task due to multitude of aspects it grasps. This paper proposes a design process, tested on a case-study, which integrates the projects participants and determines common indicators on the buildings environmental, social and economic performance. The chosen indicators are of various importance for the buildings design. Thus, for each of them respective weights are determined by the project team. During the design process three alternatives of the case-study are proposed and analysed. The results have shown that supporting the design process with tools for decision making enables choosing the most sustainable design alternative for creation of a healthy built environment. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, The cantilever in the Macedonian national architecture-aspects of the function, construction and materials for its application(TTEM, 2015)Gjorgji Dimkov, Dimitar Papasterevski, Aleksandar PetrovskiThe usage of the cantilever expanding of masses, upper floors, from functional, particularly architectural reasons, represents an element in the Macedonian autochthon ethno architecture which is very characteristic and important, as well as the need for its complete research and examination. Throughout history the Balkan Peninsula has constantly been a battlefield of wars and conquering. This part of Europe has been conquered by many soldiers’ legs and many civilizations have come and gone. If we remind ourselves of Greeks, Romans, Byzantium, Turkish, Serbs, Bulgarians, then, establishing this on historic facts and truths, we can claim that every civilization has left a sign during its ruling. The influence of each one is inevitable on the different aspects of life, as well as on the architecture, and also on the formation of the Macedonian national architecture and culture in general. This study will also cover the Macedonian national architecture from another angle i.e. the impact of the multinational structure of the population and the consequences of the historic immigration and migrations. Both are extremely obvious. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Transportation Hub-Kumanovo(2017-08)Zinoski, M., Medarski, I., & Solarska, S.The modern way of life is conditioned by fast transportation. This in turn requires integration of many additional contents that opens the opportunity to the passengers for quick access to their target-food, accommodation, entertainment, communication. The distance of the existing railway station (3.7 km from the city centre) makes it hardly accessible to the population, therefore it is neglected and the rail traffic in the city of Kumanovo is minimized. On the other hand the bus station has a good location, but the building is in poor condition, which impedes the functioning of the city and intercity bus service. Adjacent to the existing bus station, a segment of the railroad from the proposed "Corridor 8" transits, which opens the question of the importance of rail transport and its impact in the further development of the city. These considerations clearly indicate the need to establish an integrated transport hub, whose proposed location touches the downtown area, but is still in the zone between the city and the suburbia, which includes adjoining contents such as: retail, hospitality and culture, which will help achieve the goal of the transportation hub as a starting point of development of a new city nucleus, a new point in the city. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, RE_Configured Reality(University of Belgrade – Faculty of Architecture Society for Aesthetics of Architecture and Visual Arts Serbia (DEAVUS), 2015-06)One of the major issues of the capital of Macedonia, Skopje, nowadays has been the definition of the public space phenomenon and the recognition of the autopoietic discourse of new public buildings. We are facing the construction of “neoclassical” buildings as well as façade reconstructions of the existing buildings originating from the socialist era in Macedonia. An assumption can be made that this change of the objective social reality derives from decade long political, territorial and cultural influence of neighbouring countries that has caused a disappearance of the national identity in the public architecture in the city of Skopje. This type of influence has contributed to the dominant presence of modern architecture in the city of Skopje. The historical architectural elements that have been implemented in the construction of the new public buildings represent timeless fragments of past styles that do not exist any longer. The elements that have been taken and adapted lead to the possibility of their explicit relation to the language of the constructed buildings that has been reinterpreted in the new objective reality. Analyzing the phenomenology of the new architectural form/space, we make an effort to establish a correlation between the signification and the meaning from recipient’s point of view, who observes the world as a symbol where the distinction between reality and truth is by itself unreal. A conclusion will be proposed that the neoclassical architecture in the city of Skopje is a media projection, an attempt to re-establish the long lost identity where the building has no need of ideological content of the national identification. It has to represent a piece of work with incorporated historical meaning. The historical evolution of the terms mimesis and simulacrum will display that architecture in plural societies today is a medium of mass culture and populism. The consequent analysis is expected to show that in the communication process the architectural work as a medium represents a symbol in which the connoted has an a priori meaning i.e. the architectural work hasn’t got a phenomenon interaction with the recipient, it only means information instead. The final considerations are expected to realize that the phenomenon transformation of the new architectural space/building of “Skopje 2014“ Project does not have a dialectic relation with actual reality. Instead of representing the reality architectural work is a simulation rooted in history. It is immanent to the reproduction layers where one cannot find its beginning, not until the moment when the difference between the truth and the lie disappears. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Transcription of Former Architecture(University of Pécs Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, 2019)Zinoski, M., Dimitrievski, T.Nowadays architectural practice deals with compromising the creation of new forms striving for self-sustainability, energy efficiency etc. and respecting the existing historical monuments that carry on the spirit that users identify with. The case study of this paper is a direct consequence of the physical appearance, through the objective reality that is being stimulated by the contemporary needs, articulating the demands of the new users. Those necessities transform the original architectural concept beyond recognition. This problem of sustainable preservation emphasizes the significance of architectural identity and develops new spatial needs of the actual users. The modernistic ideology lead by its strict apriority has no impact over forming social cohesion. Considering architecture is a communication medium, the method of transcription tends to strengthen the connection between the newly ingrained program and the community's requirements on a local scale. Generating architectural methods that complete the task of both constant sustainability and social cohesion sets the fundamentals for creating synergies as a collective awareness in a world of constant changes.