The production of the city: Post-industrial phase of Danube Street

Activating the existing identity of the unstable ground by using a wall as an element which has a clear architectural form and by multiplication of this element, its positions and mutual relations it forms a space of communication between itself and the surrounding area.

The objective of this project was to form a process of stabilizing the ground, in order to activate individual identities of this location. Usually this considered using an infrastructural grid which is then infiltrated into a specific area and forms a fertile ground for the dissemination of capital and its influences. A grid as infrastructure that integrates fields of endless repetitive blocks and buildings within which the line between the private and public is less and less existent. The objective was not to give way to capital to control the city, but to use adequate spatial politics and form architectural and urban decisions that would be of benefit to the general public, individuals and social groups that reside in the city. For the new process of stabilization of this heterotopia the concept of archipelago was applied. The concept implies differentiation and the forming of borders. The borders can be interpreted as spaces of confrontation with the city. Islands are units that form the archipelago and stabilize it with their individual differences that separate them from one another. These differences are reached through differences in form. The form of an island represents its border and its confrontation with the context. With this in mind, for the architecture of these individual identities not to be just the reflection of their direct urban surrounding, but a criticism and influential factor. For this reason the wall has been used as the most simple architectural form which with its appearance and position gives a clear stance towards its surroundings. The number of these elements and their mutual relations and relations with the city affects the distribution of programs as well as the layered activation of the immediate surrounding.