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Item type:Publication, THE IMPORTANCE OF VARIABILITY (FLEXIBILITY) IN MULTI-FAMILY APARTMENT BUILDINGS(TTEM_JOURNAL OF SOCIETY FOR DEVELOPMENT OF TEACHING AND BUSINESS PROCESSES IN NEW NET ENVIRONMENT IN B&H, 2021) - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Restoration of the Elementary School "Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi"-Skopje(cientific Foundation SPIROSKI, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia South East European Journal of Architecture and Design, 2021-10-29); Radevski, AleksandarThe post-earthquake rebuilding of Skopje provided valuable examples of modernist architecture that deserve to be included in the category of a protected building heritage. A prominent instance is the elementary school named after the famous Swiss educator and pedagogue "Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi", the first example in this area that introduces the practical application of deeply thought-out methods of integral education promoted by him in the early 19th century. Many contemporary architects have incorporated the efficient use of this educational concept, including the renowned Swiss architect Alfred Roth, creating a unique sample of a school that includes specific geographic and regional features (climatic, seismic, cultural - aesthetic). In terms of properties, the building contains originality, rarity, and aesthetic-artistic value. With reference to other criteria, it also includes the value of authentic preservation, which is in crisis without adoption of adequate and prompt protection and restoration measures. In respect of protecting the school from further destruction, the Swiss Embassy in Skopje made an official request for a study and design documents for the school reconstruction by detecting all critical issues, developed and executed by the expert team from the Faculty of Architecture in Skopje. This paper, which is based on the results of the research, conducted by us as a part of the group, aims to elaborate the methodological approach of the analyses contained in the study, which, as a pre-design procedure, provided a solid base for developing design documents. A significant component of the study that needs to be emphasized was the use of computer technology throughout the work process, using parametric insertion of structural and other elements of the building's architecture into a 3D model. This approach allowed the generation of architectural details across any part of the facility in an exact form, which proved extremely useful through the process of constructing the design documents. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, SUSTAINABLE DESIGN FOR IMPROVEMENT OF HEALTHY BUILT ENVIRONMENT(Narodna in univerzitetna knjižnica, Ljubljana, 2015-02); - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Skopje – European City of tomorrow(2014-05)Minas Bakalchev, Mitko Hadzi Pulja, Saša TasićThe 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. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, From Collective Form to Collective Housing. Case study of Skopje Housing Pockets(Roma Tre University, Department of Architecture, 2014-10)Minas Bakalchev, Sasha TasicBetween 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. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, 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 TasićWe 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. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, 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 BakalchevThe 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. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, 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 BakalcevIt 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. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Lines(University of Ljubljana Faculty of Architecture and Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering Ljubljana, 2015)Bakalchev, M., Tasic, S., Bakalchev, V., Hadzi PuljaThe 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. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Lines and Frames, Architecture in the Period of Migration(University American College, Skopje, 2017-05)Bakalchev, V., Tasic, S., Bakalchev, M.The current state of growing uncertainty, instability and change in the current world has rendered our spatial perceptions blurred, fragmented and contradictory. In a period of substantial geopolitical crisis, uneven economic distribution, and climate change, with a growing number of people in a state of transit from poor and war-torn countries to more prosperous parts of the world, we can hardly talk about stable forms in a social and physical sense. But what are the forms and spatial patterns of the world during a period of continuous change? Could a certain depth structure be recognized in the contemporary dynamic of social and spatial transformation? Starting from the basic structure of human perception, and the basic spatial patterns such as center, line and domain, we shall attempt to derive the defined forms, not just as a form of representation but also as a form of action in the contemporary world. The aim of this chapter is to explore the connection between physical and social change; firstly through the elicitation of the defined forms of representation; and, secondly through an ability to act through them. Through a series of examples of hybrid spatial and social situations, we shall map the effectiveness of the defined spatial forms as strategies of transformation in different contexts in the world. As such, the line and the frame as opposing forms, act as the representation of the condition of change, but additionally as an opportunity for a new formal structure in the period of migration.