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Bringing nature indoors: Design and development of indoor living spaces in harmony with nature for active and healthy ageing in urban environments
Get PDFThe focus of this research is improving the well-being and happiness of the elderly in terms of the design and development of their indoor living spaces in harmony with nature. Multiple scientific
studies have pointed out the benefits and importance of nature for people, especially
for children and older populations. These benefits (increased participation in physical activities, improved mental health and cognitive function and an increase in social interaction)
found through access to nature are key ingredients to well-being during ageing. As our population ages rapidly, and at the same time, the majority of people live in cities since urbanisation is continuing worldwide, it is important to provide and foster reconnection with nature for the senior members of our communities. Today’s cities suffer from many health and
environmental problems. In recent years, the growing awareness of sustainability and climate
change issues has made it even more apparent that bringing nature into our homes is essential.
Bringing nature indoors causes people to feel happier, healthier, calmer, and, at the same time
more energetic and optimistic about their lives. Natural environments also help to improve
sleeping patterns, reduce pain, speed up recovery and even increase longevity.
This research deals with different design strategies, principles, scales, concepts and patterns of
biophilic design for elderly people, as well as their different benefits for health and well-being, with the aim of improving the design of dwelling environments in urban areas. The research also stimulates further discussions about the question of how bringing nature indoors through design (of interior/ architectural spaces, furniture) can improve the well-being of
the elderly and how these can enable them to undertake activities that contribute to their well-being. It means creating a sensitive and responsive design that highlights a) a visual connection to nature, b) pulpability and soundness of nature and c) nurturing a sense of place, a
community in which the role of aesthetics is crucial for behavioural change
Connecting the Centre of Belgrade with the Danube and Sava Riverfronts to Increase Attractiveness
Get PDFAlthough Belgrade is set on the confluence of two rivers, its riverfronts have never been an integral part of the city, due to the barriers between its historical urban core and the waterfronts. Over the last decade, these areas have come into focus because of their potential for becoming one of the most attractive and important ambient urban environments. In this research, a method for the inclusion of the Sava riverfronts into the urban life of its users was established through an analysis of the quality and intensity of open public spaces and the possibility for improving the pedestrian networks. The area known as Kosančićev Venac has been chosen as a case study, being an important connection between these two sites with its cultural values, tradition and identity. The methods used were observation and content analysis of existing literature, strategies and planning documents. In accordance with a participatory approach, direct surveying of selected stakeholders was developed through interviews and questionnaires and a method of mapping users on social maps. Two main groups of users were included in this research: citizens and tourists. Furthermore, the results were presented in the form of a SWOT analysis showing the main obstacles and barriers, but also the strengths and of open public spaces and a pedestrian network. In conclusion, this paper could serve as a knowledge base for developing future strategies containing specific guidelines for revival and inclusion of riverfront areas, in order for city waterfronts to live up to their full potential
Energy refurbishment of a public building in Belgrade
Get PDFStatistics show that about 8% of overall EU building sector belongs to Sports and Recreation
Building Stock, that represents about one and a half million of these kinds of buildings. It’s been
estimated that out of whole building sector these public buildings are accounting up to 10% of
total annual energy consumption. Considering that in 2008 overall energy use was about 1,768
[Mtoe], there is the potential to reduce energy consumption of about 21 [Mtoe] on a yearly base
in the EU Sport Facility Building Stock which is far away of insignificant (SportE2, 2018).
Most of the buildings of this kind were built from 1960 to 1980. At the time of construction,
energy efficiency was not taken into consideration, and even if it was taken into account, the
equipment and fabrics installed at that time are not efficient now as at the time of installation.
Energy sources are mostly traditional, fossil fuel based. Since regulations on energy efficiency
are more stringent, these facilities must be renovated and then well maintained in terms of
energy consumption. Sport buildings are mostly very well postured to adopt RES technologies,
as active features, having in mind large open spaces and large outdoor surfaces. However, this
paper investigates use of Passive House technologies in these manmade structures that may
be productive in energy saving. The case study includes sport centre built in 1974 in Belgrade,
Serbia. Different Passive House measures applied on the building structure and benefits in the
sense of reducing total annual energy consumption for space heating, as well as conditions
related to the comfort of the indoor environment were simulated in software package Integrated
Environmental Solutions Virtual Environment, IES VE 2016, that is approved by USGBC,
ASHRAE, CIBSE and U.S. Department of Energy
diagramma: [datascapes] design intelligence strategy
No full text'Diagrammatic documentality and inscription' has been proposed as a specific model of architectural design research. By tracing thinking processes, knowledge production, and spatial action diagrammatically, considering the opposition between propositional (linguistic) and diagrammatic logic, reasoning, and representation, 'diagrammatic mode of inference' has been claimed, developed, and confirmed to be a relevant system of proof and thinking. ’Research diagrammatology’, as an instrument of mapping and recording, adds to the status of 'design intelligence research strategy'. It enables new knowledge to emerge out of the established concepts, historical data systems, and categories ('metahistorical archives/strata') through their reassessment and deconstruction within the created metalevel data-field, thereby unravelling hidden relational patterns ('microhistorical connectivities') or anticipating new ones through a specific design strategy.Video Material and Pitch Cocktails Presentation at the Future Architecture Fair 2018, within the Future Architecture 2018, 15-16 February 2018, MAO, Ljubljana, SL ; Platform Leader: Matevž Čelik Vidmar ; Project Manager: Milan Dinevski (Future Architecture Fair Director/Moderator) ; Future Architecture Fair Participants: Dudok Architectuur Centrum Hilversum, Amsterdam ; Malta Design Week, Valetta ; DVARP, Kotor APSS, Kotor ; Architectuul, Berlin ; Tbilisi Architecture Biennial ; TORINOSTRATOSFERICA, Torino ; CIRCOLO-A, Genova ; Eventually Made, Rotterdam ; Royal Academy of Arts - Architecture programme, London ; CAMP – Center for architecture and urban planning, Prague ; MakeCity, Berlin ; Faculty of Architecture Brno University of Technology ; Istanbul Walkabouts ; Dragana Ciric, Belgrad
Teaching sustainability: concept of Smederevo as a healthy city
Get PDFSustainability as a broad concept has developed into a numerous new approaches both in theory and practice. One of the concepts that emerged from the ecological aspects of sustainability is the healthy city concept. Indubitably, its importance is emphasized in a new universal set of global goals – the Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs (UN, 2015), which represent a platform of the sustainable development by 2030. Namely, the Goal no. 3: Good health and wellbeing refers to the health-for-all concept, universal health safety and the access to quality health facilities (UN, 2015; Mitrovic, 2017). Nowadays, the healthy city concept refers to a wider frame – healthy environment and good quality of life in urban areas.
Meeting the contemporary trends in sustainable planning, as well as in high education for sustainability, the Master class in 2018 at the Master course Integral urbanism, Faculty of Architecture, University of Belgrade embraced the diversity of topics within an umbrella-topic ‘Strengthening the cultural identity in Danube basin: case study of Smederevo’, under the DANUrB international project and through INTERREG Danube EU program. It was released with the support of the city of Smederevo. Master class program was conducted in two parts: master thesis and master project.
One of the approaches to the assignment was to examine the possibilities of implementing of the health city concept to the city of Smederevo and its tributary areas. While the master thesis examined the theoretical background of the healthy city concept and in situ conditions of Smederevo, the master project offered a future network for diverse healthy places and activities, from the city centre to the surrounding green areas. The focus of this paper is to present the educational process and pedagogical methodology which resulted in the quality, realistic and implementable solutions
The Local Perception of Urban Safety in Open Public Spaces as a Parameter for Tourist Attractiveness in Historic Core of Smederevo, Serbia
Get PDFThe concept of urban safety has been developed on the contemporary/broad feeling of human safety in open urban space, connected with the fear of crime and crime perception by ordinary people. In this constellation, the lack of urban safety is directly confronted with the always desired aspirations to make open urban spaces liveable, daily attractive and socially mixed. Indirectly, it can negatively influence on the other socio-economic conditions, which consequently downgrade extended urban areas. Therefore, urban safety is a demanding task for qualitative open public spaces in modern cities.
In the case of the cities that are rich in cultural heritage, these aspirations are not just related to local residents, but to prospective visitors from cultural tourism sector, too. Therefore, urban places with abundant cultural heritage and the high level of safety have better prospects to boost cultural tourism.
The aim of this paper is check the personal perception of urban safety in open public spaces in Smederevo, Serbia, and its role to upgrade the city attractiveness in cultural tourism. This sector is underdeveloped in the city today despite abundant cultural heritage in the historic core, with exceptionally valuable medieval Smederevo Fortress, and position of the city at the Danube, a major tourist route in Europe. It is preliminary assumed that the lack of urban safety in the open public spaces located close to cultural-heritage sites in Smederevo historic core contributes to their underuse by local people, which further minimise their tourist attractiveness. Hence, a survey based on the actions of crime prevention through urban design and planning is formed to examine the personal feeling of a safety in open public spaces among local people from Smederevo. The results of this survey imply how these spaces should be redesigned to be safe and more attractive for tourists thereof
Maintenance and condominium living– reciprocal learning from Serbia, Israel and Australia
Get PDFAll condominium buildings require maintenance as they age. Good maintenance is a rational choice as it helps to retain the value of a building and makes it more enjoyable to live in. Poor maintenance or neglect can lead to serious damage and safety hazards. It
may also trigger municipalities, in their attempt to prevent neighbourhood blight to pursue planning enforcement or building rectification work orders against the homeowners association or even against all lot owners. This paper explores and compares building maintenance law and governance requirements in three jurisdictions: Israel, Serbia and the state of Victoria (Australia). It canvasses the requirements (or not) for forward planning and the role (if any) played by maintenance plans and sinking funds to ensure that common areas, facades and roofs are kept in good condition. Such asset management includes planning for major capital items for repair and replacement, estimating the cost of the repair and replacement of those items or components, and
the expected life of those items or components once repaired or replaced. This area of law touches on the realm of community living and the obligations placed on all unit owners, from the time they become registered proprietors, to maintain, repair and plan
ahead for the common areas in the condominium development. Specifically, this paper compares the laws and governance in a particular area of property law in three distinct jurisdictions, and examines the way in which apartment owners vote, organize, and
decide on short term and long term maintenance, refurbishment, and upgrades. It is important and timely to do so as condominium living is on the rise as city populations in most countries are increasing and housing is in high demand. Quality of life for condominium communities, as well as for neighbourhoods is at stake here, as is the value of the property in question, and the neighbourhood more generally
Serbian and Bulgarian village on Balkan Mountains as a tourist development potential
Get PDFTourism based on cultural values, under the auspices of ecotourism is a concept of tourist
offer that will get a real momentum and discover its incredible potential in the future,
considering each rural landscape abounds in unique natural and cultural characteristics. In the
case of Serbia, marked the difference level of development, and therefore tourism in its eastern
and western part. The premises of Eastern Serbia, in this regard are lagging behind compared
to its western part. On the other hand, in terms of quality of natural and created number of
significant values, said two parts of Serbia are no different to that extent. The reasons for this
apparent lower level of standards in Eastern Serbia can be sought and found in her peripheral
position in relation to the main traffic routes from the north to the south of the country, but also
in the Border historically disadvantaged position with respect to Bulgaria.
Balkan mountain at the border of two countries is geographically, but also politically, has
been long period an iron curtain and the limiting factor of development east of the country. In
recent decades, the turn of the century, political boundaries give way, and with the right to be
thinking about a global view of the development of certain areas in every sense, even in the field
of rural tourism, at local, wider - regional, as well as on international level. Interestingly, when it
comes to the possible development of rural areas, to explore the characteristics of the villages in
Balkan mountain, or compare them with the experience and qualities of the Bulgarian space,
since the Balkan mountain to be regarded as a whole, as a region of outstanding natural value
and potential.
Tourism as a generator of development, would on the other hand, improve the modern
socio - economic status of the population living in this area. Certain estimates of the economic
aspects of development of different forms of tourism on Balkan mountain indicate huge
capacities that this region possesses. The development of tourism in this area would contribute
to a more comprehensive integration of rural settlements in modern trends of society, which
would have a positive impact on improving the economic situation of individual households.
Development of cultural tourism would mean investing in cultural resources,
primarily in the people who live there and who are the bearers of development, its
human infrastructure. People and the local population, the main brand of a room
because the bearers of spiritual culture embodied in the culture of everyday life.
Spontaneity, mutual cooperation, and unencumbered by borders and interweaving of
different forms of tourism, creating an overall picture of a striking landscape,
acceptable and attractive for visitors.РЕШЕНИЯ ОТ РЕДОВНО ЗАСЕДАНИЕ НА НАУЧНИЯ СЪВЕТ (НС),
Протокол № 27/07.11.2017 г.
Решение: НС препоръчва публикуване на сборника „Иновации, развитие и
устойчивост в селските райони в България и в Европа” в електронното
издателство „ОМДА” след отчитане бележките на рецензентите
Economic Evaluation of the Energy Efficiency Improvement Projects
Get PDFThe process of adaptation of the buildings in architectural projects is codified by a set of energy efficiency regulations that are mandatory and which affect designers. To fulfil these requirements certain investments are necessary, which influence the economic performance of the project in construction phase, as well as in the long run over the building’s exploitation period. Therefore, an analysis of the economic effectiveness of the project is needed, which would also take into consideration the operation phase of the project, to include the whole life cycle. The methodology of the life cycle costs and savings analysis is presented in the following sections, which would be adjusted to the specific preconditions of the energy efficiency improvement projects, availability and possibility to gather relevant input data, as well as the perspective and understanding of architects as prospective analysis practitioners. The format of the proposed study is created to comprise several steps or phases, and their contents would be further elaborated. The methods that are applied include analytical procedure, comparisons, deduction and elaboration of the existing tools, and techniques and methods in the field of economic analyses in architecture and building construction. The resulting procedure allows for practical and theoretical implementation in actual projects. It is simple and straightforward to conduct, easy to understand, and open for expansion
The defining of the models for the infrautructural installation planning in Belgrade through the use of the integrated underground utility tunnels
No full textWithout the development of the underground planning and construction it is not possible to reach the urban compactness and avoid the horizontal spreading of the cities. Maybe the biggest obstacle in achieving the sustainability of the urban areanowdays, is the shallow placing of the singular infrastructural installations, which are, on top of everything, inadequately planned. The analysis of the existing infrastructural networks and the legislative regarding the placing of the underground installations show the inefficient use of the unrenewable underground medium in Belgarde (Republic of Serbia). By using the differently defined types of the utility tunnels in urban planning, we can find new possibilities for integrating the installations and contribute to their sustainability and to the rational use of the underground space. The purpose of this paper is to, in two adopted Detailed Urban Plans, which depict the characteristic polarity in approach to the planning in Belgrade over a significant time period, implement a new model and scope of planning of the infrastructural installations, based on the systematic use of the different UUTs. The systematic planning of the undergorund infrastructural installations, with the new recommended model, will result in reduction of the occupation of the undeground medium percentwise. Consequently, the new legal frame in the domain of the underground infrastructural planning in Serbia will have to be established, by using the integrated UUTs. Also, because of the universal quality of the new model, it is applicable in other urban areas that have similar or identical concept of the urban planning