For many of us, our hometown is a place where our best and our worst memories are formed. It is a place where when we’re there, we long to leave, to explore the world, but once we leave, we wish to be back, to be in a place where it feels familiar and comfortable.
Sarajevo is a city with very much a bittersweet feeling. It is a city full of life, culture and history. But it is also a city full of transportation issues. The low quality of public transportation led people to rely on their personal vehicles, which eventually resulted in constant traffic jams, heavy air pollution, and loss of natural, public spaces as they get converted into parking lots.
This first part analyzes an existing outdoor space that was converted into a car park in the center of Sarajevo, an area already populated with many parking options. It looks into existing references of spaces being reclaimed for pedestrian, how sustainability can play a role in the design, and explores potential ideas that can be implemented into the site.
