Interlocking paving with a free
arrangement of grass-coloured tiles
is limited to the access points and
the sections of the park where a
more intensive use of the ground is
expected. In this way, the visitors
define their own path and their own
manner of using the space. In case
new content is added to the park, or if
obvious desire lines are formed, which
is very difficult to predict initially,
this manner of paving enables an
easy rearrangement of the compacted
surfaces at a later time.
The innovative layout of the city
park is a great new asset for the
citizens of Koper as it enables the
development of programmes which
the city presently cannot offer. The
The heterogeneous forms of The design of the individual urban
development which characterise elements consistently follows the
present-day Koper - the old town different programmes. In places, they
core, the residential suburbs, the are taller and act as a shelter from
commercial and service development views and the noisy surroundings;
belt in the former salt-pond area, elsewhere, they are lower and allow
and the inescapable presence of for an unimpeded contact between
all the infrastructure required by programme zones. The organically
a modern seaport call for a space designed urban elements form stands
with an inwardly oriented form for viewers, an obstacle course for
enabling a visual escape, but whose children, climbing walls, a backdrop
scale and outward expressiveness to a seaside bar, a concert venue,
would rise above the heterogeneity of a children’s playground, a reading
development around it and tie it all area, and more. Due to the proximity
together. of the sea, the programme zones
The area of the new city park covers
a sizeable portion of the wider site
and its design can thus serve as a
prototype for further interventions.
The new intervention offers a uniform
and attractive appearance, and with
its intensive hinterland greenery,
it drowns the heterogeneity of the
of the Slovene seacoast currently in a
state of decay.
towards the interior of the park.
strategically arranged tall growth
visitors to use the space in different complements the existing tree lanes
ways. on both edges of the park, gives shade
introverted programme isles.
attitudes in regard to other sections
and an expansion of the future beach
Mediterranean vegetation. The
of the park’s surface into individual
motivation for development-oriented
encourage active use of the space
encourages the area’s residents and
green surfaces softly divides the whole
designing of the wider area, as well as
with the variegated urban elements
design is laid out only with indigenous
with a pronounced topography of the
It represents a prototype for further
and a water platform in combination
beach and a contemporary city park
placement in the space in combination
merely functional park regulation.
geyser, parabolic water jets, cascades
The planted portion of the landscape
urban elements. Their controlled
spatial organisation, it transcends a
elements. A pond, ground sprinklers, a
fusing of the elements of a city
city park are monolithic, undulating
its unique form and the manner of
are appointed with numerous water
surrounding built structures. The
The basic building blocks of the new
new park is an attraction and with
to the individual programme zones,
and offers the park area additional
protection from the impacts of the
surroundings. In order to encourage as
much diversity in the use of its space,
the new city park doesn’t feature
traditionally designed footpaths.
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