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SUSTAINABLE DESIGN FOR IMPROVEMENT OF HEALTHY BUILT ENVIRONMENT
(Narodna in univerzitetna knjižnica, Ljubljana, 2015-02)
Petrovski, Aleksandar
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Dimkov, Gjeorgji
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Papapsterevski, Dimitar
Buildings 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.
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Skopje – European City of tomorrow
(2014-05)
Minas Bakalchev, Mitko Hadzi Pulja, Saša Tasić
The question concerning the future of the European city is an important issue in the light of the less certain, heterogeneous, incoherent urban formations of the modern city. We are confronted with changes to the European historic city as an exclusive entity, with changes not only to the territory of the city and its new regional disposition but even more to the questioning of the actual paradigm of the city itself, and its physical composition. The former homogeneous entities have become inconsistent landscapes, once distinctive urban elements are now hybrid spatial phenomena. This research questions the way in which the new inconsistent base of the city can now be projected into its future. To achieve this, we will first start with the progressive prototype model of the future city promoted in the controversial book ‐ manifesto “The City of Tomorrow” by Le Corbusier. Then we will explore the effects of modernization processes in the physical structure of Skopje. In the last part through a comparative review of selected European city‐icons we are going to try to draw the new spatial reality of the European city through which we can base a hypothesis on the new inclusive, creative and integrated city of tomorrow.
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From Collective Form to Collective Housing. Case study of Skopje Housing Pockets
(Roma Tre University, Department of Architecture, 2014-10)
Minas Bakalchev, Sasha Tasic
Between the traditional pattern of living and new postmodern society of individualization there are persistent housing pockets of transitional forms. Neither are they historic traditional models of living nor alien forms of contemporary lifestyles. They are pockets of once intense, socially connected communities from the city that vanishes. Exactly this transitional position gives possibility of upgrading an alternative form of collective housing. On the example of the city of Skopje, where the process of modernization produces different left-over’s, pockets of housing, once traditional form of living - today as hybrid informal assemblages, opportunity is created to develop different scenarios of re-working the collective form of the city. By connecting the idea of collective form from the 1960s, as linking the “objects that have a reason to get together”, with the idea of collective living with shared ways of living together, we will produce different tactics of transformation of the urban texture. Introduction of collective form as mega-form was strategy of post earthquake reconstruction of the city of Skopje (after the 1963). Our current reconsideration of the idea of collective form is connected with the tactic of transformation of urban fragments as persistent housing pockets. Both approaches use the same theoretical references but within different design paradigm, top down on the level of the city (1960s) and bottom up on the level of local housing contexts (2010s). Through selected projects we will examine different tactics of transformation of urban fragments (upgrading, sequential linking, incision, acupuncture) as active coexistence between the existing and proposed housing typologies and between private and common realm.
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Forgetting the City: Tactics of Transformation of the City in Motion
(Bentham Open: Open Urban Studies and Demography, 2015-03)
Minas Bakalchev, Violeta Bakalchev, Saša Tasić
We conceive the city not only as a material creation but also as a collective memory created in time and through time. While the material aspect is susceptible to continuous changes, the conceptual aspect is the one that permanently reconstructs the image of the city. But, what if the physical transformations of the city become too large, too deviant? What if the collective memory cannot reconstruct the images of the city in that continuously metastable context? What if the city loses its memory, what if it loses the ability for creating a new memory, partial or total inability to recall recent memory. Using the recent history of Skopje as an example, the dramatic history of forgetting the city will be presented. The entire twentieth century was marked by a series of innovative attempts toward reformulation of the city. The result of a century of modernization is a city composed from different cities, different sections, scales, figures these are the different traces of ideas about the city, witnessing a continuous forgetting of the city. Can forgetting be the model of perception and transformation of the city? Can forgetting as an expression of destruction become a model of reconstruction of the city? Can forgetting bring reading the city again? The subject of the present paper IS the forgotten urban pockets and the possible tactics of transformation. In absence of master procedures, through a series of everyday tactics, we shall explore the possibilities of forgetting as a motion toward essential images of space.
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Unfolding the Urban Fragments: Walking / Running the City
(University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Architecture, Zoisova 2, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2015-06)
Sasa Tasic, Mitko Hadzi Pulja, Minas Bakalchev
The city is a living process and a physical artefact. However, contemporary cities are increasingly conceived and imagined as variable programmatic compositions and decreasingly as material artefacts. The physical structure of the city is undergoing a crisis. But, it is exactly the physical texture of the city that contains records of different uses and represents not only a historic-cultural artefact, but also a tool that has the potential to make the city a healthy supportive environment. So, former parts of the city which are presently its marginal zones are not only worthless/obsolete museum pieces, but also potential traces for a new way of conceiving the city and acting in the city. The modern narration starts from the city as a contradiction to nature. This concept still holds today. We are living in the city texture, but we are relaxing ourselves (walking, running) along the periphery or in empty and “green zones” of the cit. Cities have become unsustainable hybrid polarized places: on one hand, we are increasing the development density; while on the other hand, we are widening the free zones. This paper will deal with the inner capacities of the city, its physical traces, and remaining fragments from the aspect of contemporary use in maintenance of the psychophysical condition of the contemporary citizens. The physical structure of the urban fragments is seen as a tool, entity, product of complex social and physical processes that brings numerous values particularly in respect to the most important strategic issues – public health. In the case of the urban fragments of the Skopje city, through morphological decomposition, we will explore the potentials of the different spatial systems of the city as healthy places.
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Between the Place and Non-Place: Architecture and Territory on the Example of Skopje
(Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015-07-01)
Sasa Tasic, Mitko Hadzi Pulja, Minas Bakalcev
It was told that the place is disappearing in the modern contexts. Crisis of modern architecture first started with the crisis of specific places and the essential relation between the architectural object, technology and its place. But has contemporary architecture find the real place, or even became more disconnected to the specific places? Has the contemporary conflict situation uncovered more dramatic relation between the architecture, technology and places? Evident crisis of the places in the modern era is only anticipation of the permanent state of conflict in the contemporary society. Cretan theories already define the relation of historical places and supermodern non-places as well as unique place and its reproduction. But the main aim is how to dial with dynamic status of place in contemporary situations beyond the proposed binary relation of place and non-place and the original and the copy. On the example of the city of Skopje which went through dramatic transformation during the process of modernization is possible to examine some aspect of contemporary places seen through the issue of everyday places. Through selected project we will examine possible approach to places and technologies, which goes beyond the dialectic of place, no-place towards the notion of the territory as principal medium of architectural modification.
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New Prototypes from an old Balkan Town, the Case of Skopje
(Koaceli University Foundation, 2015-10)
Minas Bakalchev, Violeta Bakalhev, Mitko Hadzi Pulja, Sasha Tasic
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Urban Fragments as a Base of Integrated Living
(Balkan Architectural Biennale, BAB, 2015)
Tasić, S., Bakalchev, M., Petanovski, A.
Integrated housing has its own long history presented through different types of forms of collective housing in reference to the historical, cultural and social context. To understand the human needs related to housing in present day or for the future, with the expansion of the heterogenic way of living, we have to understand the life style. “Urban fragments as a base of integrated living” is researching urban fragments from different eras of the history of the city of Skopje, and at the same time are the city’s expressions. The mutual differences of the urban fragments are perceived as a foundation for various forms of integrated living, as a type of generative base of a new housing picture of multitude. The purpose of this research is triple. First to present the process of change in the Skopje housing areas to be transformed or erased as a documentation plan. Second to show the typo-morphological plan of hypothetical possibilities of their transformations, through research of the projects. Third, to give specific methods of the research plan of the contemporary spatial phenomena. Local tactics of connecting contemporary and traditional patterns of housing are presented on the level of urban fragments, through selected scenarios of urban transformation, where architecture is infrastructure, architecture is territory, architecture is stratification. Through the local tactics of stratification, metamorphosis, cross-section, sequential connection and implantation, a new way of generating local collective form of integrated living is presented. This new way is not coming in the order up – down and is supporting and stimulating people’s everyday practices. In this sense, the promoted proto-typology is a form of defining new specific spatial and program housing configurations of integrated life styles.
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Lines
(University of Ljubljana Faculty of Architecture and Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering Ljubljana, 2015)
Bakalchev, M., Tasic, S., Bakalchev, V., Hadzi Pulja
The perception of elements in a system often creates their interdependence, interconditionality, and suppression. The lines from a basic geometrical element have become the model of a reductive world based on isolation according to certain criteria such as function, structure, and social organization. Their traces are experienced in the contemporary world as fragments or ruins of a system of domination of an assumed hierarchical unity. How can one release oneself from such dependence or determinism? How can the lines become less “systematic” and forms more autonomous, and less reductive? How is a form released from modernistic determinism on the new controversial ground? How can these elements or forms of representation become forms of action in the present complex world? In this paper, the meaning of lines through the ideas of Le Corbusier, Leonidov, Picasso, and Hitchcock is presented. Spatial research was made through a series of examples arising from the projects of the architectural studio “Residential Transformations”, which was a backbone for mapping the possibilities ranging from playfulness to exactness, as tactics of transformation in the different contexts of the contemporary world.
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Constructing places
(City of Skopje, 2015)
Bakalchev, V., Bakalchev, M., HadziPulja, M., Tasić, S.

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