Mickovski, Goran

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The “Art Fortress” as a Responsible Approach Model for Regeneration of Skopje's Spatial Identity
(University of Belgrade, Faculty of Architecture, 2020-10)
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The City of Skopje, repeatedly fragmented throughout its history, is in constant need for redefinition and reconstruction of its spatial identity in relation to its cultural heritage. With recent developments that have rendered the urban fabric’s historical and memory layers completely unrecognizable, the question of Skopje’s spatial identity has reemerged in terms of responsible methodologies and approaches. One of the activities within the ROCK (Regeneration and Optimization of Cultural Heritage in Creative and Knowledgeable Cities) Project was called “Art Fortress”. It treated the urban and architectural development of the Kale Hill in Skopje, with an aim to transform it into an attractive and vibrant city part with all of its cultural, educational and recreational functions. Two important cultural monuments dominate the Kale Hill: the medieval fortress - Kale and the Museum of Contemporary Art. The exceptional historical and contemporary significance of these two imposing structures for the City of Skopje, their symbolic voltage juxtaposed to the natural morphology of the terrain and cultural diversity of the surrounding, have been largely diminished due to many years of neglect of the broader location of the Kale Hill. This paper elaborates the activity “Art Fortress” in detail and summarizes the conclusions that have the potential to create a responsible approach model for regeneration of Skopje’s spatial identity, concerning inter-institutional collaboration, academic and professional inclusion, public awareness, international competition and exhibition. Most of all, this paper elaborates the qualitative lessons learnt of how we should treat a valuable city fragment in spatial terms, through the medium of public space and a series of both “soft” and “hard” architectural procedures as a long term strategy and management plan for treatment of this national cultural site, an approach that we can surely rely upon confronted with our city’s spatial identity in crisis.
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DOMESTICATING GARDENS. Excavating New Patterns of Growth for the City
(STRAND - Sustainable Urban Society Association Belgrade, Serbia, 2019)
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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.
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OLD LOCATIONS FOR NEW ECONOMIES: CASE STUDY OF CITY OF SKOPJE
(STRAND - Sustainable Urban Society Association Belgrade, Serbia, 2019)
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Mano Velevska, Marija
Rapid 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.

Mickovski, Goran

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