re shaping the edges | the case of Bratislava

Abstract

The initial reason of the sheltering of a community, which is developed in what we nowadays call a city, was the proximity to the natural resources such as the water and the quality of soil and the geomorphological relief and etc. The contemporary city seems to lack of a positive relation between the urban context and the natural landscape in which urban areas and natural landscape interact giving importance and meaning to each other. The quiet new field of landscape architecture stands to the border line between them. The transition moment between the urban and the natural environment creates different edges in the city which construct the image of the whole city. This thesis questions how these edges of the city could be transformed as to create an urban narrative of the spirit of the places and a dialogue of the city and the natural resources. It would be a dialogue within the reshaping of the urban context and specifically the reshaping of the city edges. The spirit of the place, the historical context and the existent natural characteristics are the elements that are involved to this thesis in order to answer with a design approach, the research question of this thesis. The result is a project through scales at two edges of the city: the motorway D2 and the riverfront to Danube. The large scale of the intervention focuses in a focal point of the city where Danube, Carpathians, Medieval city and a motorway coexist.FlowscapesLandscape ArchitectureArchitecture and The Built Environmen