REVITALIZATION OF THE AREA ALONG THE BASTION OF ST. ROCH

How to approach the historical centres of today's cities? The project addresses the problems of treating urban areas as one-sided tourist spots leaving little room for accessible public space. It emanates from the predominant significance of the genius loci but also following the phenomenon of constant destruction and renewal recorded in its history.

Throughout the location the existing structures are either built in the ramparts or lean onto them from the street line in front. For the purpose of a better connection between the spaces on all floors certain parts of the structure were recognized as an excess and their removal and extraction was the process that preceded the design of a new regime of use and the creation of new urban space. Apart from removing existing buildings, the project also includes repairing already existing "false masonry" parts and paving on the inside of the ramparts and removing the reinforced concrete support wall of the upper one-way road on the ramps with regard to the process of abolishing the current traffic making it a pedestrian zone. The area obtained by repairing unused or inadequate prospects is now seen as a field of possibilities for activating and reaffirming new or existing public surfaces and their linkage and thus creating flows and retention points. The process of linking newly created gaps in space is illustrated diagrammatically. The first intervention was creating a ramp inside the atomic shelter as an instrument of connecting all three obtained floors. At the same time connecting the ground floor to the resulting polyvalent outdoor hall at the ex-warehouse site, it opens the way to the public plaza with a new park on top of the ramparts. The path over the medieval ramparts stretching from the fish market to the gap was extended to the edge as an esplanade connecting two boundaries. At its ends, the elements used here, a staircase with stands at the north end and a panoramic elevator and staircase in the southern corner of the fish market. By removing the supporting wall of the road and thus by pulling the ramparts to the city the unused green plateau of the medieval ramparts is used as a place of retention, forming a city loggia embedded in the basin. The new longitudinal square in front has access to the original medieval floor level, which is presented by recesses and their activation in the form of sitting and gathering groups. The open-air hall’s cover in the upstairs park dominates the upper plateu with its mirror surface.