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International Master of Landscape Architecture Alternative Futures for SARAJEVO POLJE PROJECT DOCUMENTATION International Master of Landscape Architecture View from Igman mountain over Sarajevo Field (Polje), the airport and the Dobrinja settlement in to the Sarajevo valley Image kindly provided by Nino Sarić ALTERNATIVE FUTURES FOR SARAJEVO POLJE PROJECT DOCUMENTATION University of Sarajevo – Faculty of Forestry International Burch University – Department of Architecture IMLA Programme: Nürtingen-Geislingen University (HfWU) and Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences (HSWT) Université Libre de Bruxelles (BE), Architecture Faculty La Chambre Horta University of Sarajevo, Faculty of Agriculture ALA BiH - Association of Landscape Architects in Bosnia and Herzegovina www.imla-campus.eu View from Igman mountain over Sarajevo Field (Polje), the airport and the Dobrinja settlement in to the Sarajevo valley Image kindly provided by Nino Sarić INTRODUCTION SKRIVENI POTENCIJAL PEJZAŽA SARAJEVSKOG POLJA Dr Erna Husukić Assistant Professor Department of Architecture Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies International Burch University Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina Suočavajući se sa novim početi razmišljati o Sarajevskom Sciences and Université Libre de razvojem, rastrgnutim između polju kao krucijalnoj komponenti Bruxelles, Architecture Faculty La prevrtljive stvarnosti brze u planiranju budućeg razvoja Chambre Horta) i kroz zajedničke urbanizacije i novonastalih elastičnog grada koji njeguje sve aktivnosti pokuša dati odgovor na prostornih odnosa u okvirima aspekte održivog razvoja. aktuelnu dilemu: Koje su buduće multikulturalnog i multireligijskog putanje razvoja Sarajevskog društva, budućnost Sarajevskog Ova publikacija se sastoji polja? polja je neizvjesna. Kao i u od studentskih radova na mnogim drugim dijelovima grada, temu alternativne budućnosti Internacionalni Burč univerzitet prostorna, sociološka i ekološka Sarajevskog polja sa posebnim - Odsjek za arhitekturu izražava struktura Sarajevskog polja je akcentom na studiju promišljanja zahvalnost svim članovima rezultat poslijeratne preobrazbe o elastičnom i produktivnom radionice koji su velikodušno identiteta nastale kroz ishitrene pejzažu sa multifunkcionalnim podijelili svoje stručno znanje i neplanske intervencije koje zonama a sve to kroz održivi i sa time osnažili vizionarske nameću novi sistem vrijednosti pristup planiranja – pristup ideje studenata o mogućim a koji je podržan od strane Sarajevskom polju kroz zelenu smjernicama budućeg razvoja nadležnih organa vlasti. Unatoč infrastrukturu. Sarajevskog polja. ovim promjenama, raznolik potencijal Sarajevskog polja Radionica je posmatrana kao čezne za obnovom i aktivnim izuzetna prilika za grad Sarajevo učešćem u svim tokovim i Internacionalni Burč univerzitet gradskog razvoja. - Odsjek za arhitekturu, da ugosti lokane i internacionalne Da bi se razumio skriveni institucije - učesnike (Univerzitet potencijal Sarajevskog polja, u Sarajevu - Šumarski fakultet, nužno je prihvatanje ključnih Asocijacija pejzažnih arhitekata karakteristika pejzaža koje u Bosni i Hercegovini, IMLA su vremenom evoluirale i Programme: Nürtingen-Geislingen predstavljaju današnju sliku University, Weihenstephan- pejzaža. Također, važno je Triesdorf University of Applied 4 A LANDSCAPE APPROACH FOR THE POLJE Dr Ellen Fetzer IMLA programme HfWU Nürtingen-Geislingen LE:NOTRE Institute Board Vice President of ECLAS European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools Here we are again in Sarajevo an area that was once the entire triggering this value chain. We with our great friends from various functional urban zone of an urban looked at Sarajevo Polje in the faculties and institutions. What region, including a rural hinterland first place as a landscape unit. It brings us together is a common which was supposed to provide is not just by chance that Neolithic aim: sustainable landscapes for essential recreational services for tribes settled in this wonderful Bosnia and Herzegovina. the urban dwellers. plain full of natural gifts as early as 5000 BC. They were followed Sarajevo is one of the very Regardless of this specific by Romans, Ottomans, Austrians, few cities in Europe where city Bosnian condition, the country Sarajeveans. What unites them and landscape are symbiotic. is of course not exempt from all is that every cultural group The mountains surrounding general European trends. Across sought for recreation, health and this densely urbanised valley Europe we observe internal nature experience in the Polje. are omnipresent. They have migration to urbanized areas What a great gift for a capital city determined the cities’ morphology and parallel rural abandonment. is it to have such a rich landscape over centuries. However, the With our series of planning in front of its doors. relationship of the urban core and design studios we aim to to its surroundings has been raise awareness for Sarajevo’s The Polje and its numerous challenged in various ways during landscape as a natural, cultural natural and cultural values the past decades. The loss of and economic resource for the are highly under threat. This state-controlled planning after the common good. landscape needs an overall fall of communism gave room for vision, a vision with objectives accelerated urban sprawl. The Infrastructure and capital (both that are shared by all residents Dayton Agreement left a politically in social and monetary terms) and stakeholders. fragmented country with Sarajevo are needed to turn this resource being only one of many places into tangible and intangible We hope that this brochure will where the former administrative values for the local community. inspire the local community to structure has been broken up. Values are essentially needed for work towards this aim. reactivating Bosnia’s devastated Today, the city is split between the socio-economic basis. A green two entities. Both are governing infrastructure approach could help 5 LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE! Dr.sci. Mersad Omanovic dipl.ing.hort. President ALA BiH Association of Landscape Architects in Bosnia and Hercegovina Isa Bey Ishaković - the founder of Yes: desert. Because there is a engineering). There are multiple Sarajevo - could not know how big huge water problem in Sarajevo other questions: spontaneous this city would ever grow. Maybe Polje. Groundwater consumption settlements, consumption of fertile he was aware that the Roman is so high that the plane trees of soil, fragementation, transport, colony of Aquae Sulphurae existed the Great Alley are dying. Their environmental quality, to name only on top of present-day Ilidža at the roots are literally hanging in the a few. Our answer is: landscape west side. But he transformed air because the ground water architecture! Any sustainable whatever cluster of villages there level is running low. What to development is based on an was in the east of Sarajevo Polje do? There is a solution given by interdisciplinary approach. This into a city. Nowadays Sarajevo experts and it will be solved in the brochure is an attempt to introduce extends between those two points. near future but still, this is only landscape thinking in Bosnia and Twelve kilometers of urban desert! a sectoral solution (hydrology Herzegovina. Let‘s go for it! CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 8 CONTEXT 14 STUDIO TEAM 20 LINKING POTENTIALS 22 GREEN CILIM 28 IS BACK TOWN 36 THE ILIDZA TRAIL THE ILIDZA 40 ECORRIDOR 46 AGRICULTURE 52 SHAPE IRREGULAR AND GREEN BLUE ILIDZA AS ILICA ILIDZA 58 RE-USE & CONNECT 64 70 76 IMPRINT 82 WHERE IS THE POLJE? View from 8 This wonderful interpretative-analytical map was developed by all students of the 2016 MicroMegasLab - ULB studio of architecture. Université Libre de Bruxelles Thanks for sharing! 9 CONTEXTUAL NOTES Walking along Željeznica river in the South of Sarajevo Polje ThE uRbAN fRINGE The specific emphasis of this action is required for assuring Landscape is understood in study project will be on the the sustainable development of this project as the everyday integration of urban planning, urban fringe zones. Urban and environment of people which is environmental protection peri-urban areas are Europe’s the basis of their livelihood. It and landscape architecture key to economic growth, social is the landscape scale at which for building a sustainable wealth and political stability. competing territorial interests development perspective But at the same time this urban need to be negotiated. However, for the urban periphery of productivity is highly threatened people’s site-specific perspectives Sarajevo. It is expected that this if its ecological foundation is and possibilities are the key interdisciplinary cooperation will destroyed. Therefore, sustainable to sustainability, which is why produce innovative solutions growth has become the principal community involvement is crucial. to the planning, design and goal of the Europe 2020 strategy. The landscape perspective should management of dispersed and help building a cross-sectoral fragmented areas in urban The urban fringe is thus an and community-based vision for fringe zones. These areas are excellent laboratory for exploring Sarajevo Polje. characterised by competing the possibilities of integrated interests and land use demands land management leading to of housing, agriculture, tourism, smart integration of different industry, education, traffic, nature demands for example in the protection, water management, form of multifunctional areas that recreation and various other