Reading of the Ground of the Contemporary City

Idea by

Snezana Zlatkovic

Klare Cetkin 2, Belgrade, Serbia

Snezana Zlatkovic graduated from the Faculty of Architecture, University of Belgrade, in 2012. She continued her studies as a PhD student at the Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade, Serbia. From the beginning of her studies she has been combining art with architecture through research by design. She has actively been involved in architectural projects and realizations since 2014, and took part in various architectural competitions and exhibitions.

Call for ideas 2016

... one element that could be extracted from the rest, for its ability to speak on behalf of all?

# Social

The aim of this project is to explore the phenomenon of transparency regarding the phenomenological meaning of the city, i.e. the heterogeneous urban structure which the city has become. The importance of this issue arises from the fact that the city, as the most complex artifact, has permanently changed the ground on which it had grown - its structure can be regarded as the most representative example of a heterogeneous structure. The transformations of this heterogeneous urban structure shift the city into a new phase of interpretation of its phenomenological values, and increase the number of new elements for architectural communication. Leveling the transparency, the process will explain the impact of transparency through fragments of the city, trying to develop and identify new architectural typologies which can be introduced as a new element of communication, i.e. the active energy for becoming spaces.

I LEVEL: READING OF GROUND OF THE CONTEMPORARY CITY
TOWARDS THE PHENOMENON OF TRANSPARENCY
1,2,3_Fragmented images of New Belgrade, Belgrade, 2015
4_Ground of one city - night view, 2015
5_Snezana Zlatkovic, Phenomenon of Transparency: Active Energy for Becoming Spaces of the City New Belgrade, Block 30, The Layering of Six Fragments, 2015

II LEVEL: THE BOUNDARY AS A PLACE OF PHENOMENOLOGICAL REDUCTION
EXTRACTING THE ELEMENT OF COMMUNICATION
6_Night view of fragments of Belgrade, 2015
7_Snezana Zlatkovic, Reading of the ground of a fragment of reality, New Belgrade, Block 23, Research by design, 2013-2014

III LEVEL: PHENOMENOLOGICAL REDUCTION OF THE TRANSIENT IMAGE OF SPACE
ARCHITECTURAL IMAGE - BODY - TRANSPARENCY
8_ Snezana Zlatkovic, Reading of the ground of a fragment of reality, New Belgrade, Block 23, Research by design, 2013-2014
9_Preview of fragments of block 30 in New Belgrade and their transformations via reflections, 2015
10_Snezana Zlatkovic, Interrelations of literal and phenomenal transparency: New Belgrade, Block 23, Research by design, 2013-2014

IV LEVEL: THE OTHER VIEW
SELECTED ARTISTIC PRACTICES
11,12,13_Snezana Zlatkovic, Phenomenon of Transparency: Active Energy for Becoming Spaces of the City New Belgrade, Block 30, The Layering of Fragments and decomposition of third fragment, 2015

V LEVEL: THE ESSENCE OF THE ELEMENT OF COMMUNICATION
THE ACTIVE ENERGY FOR BECOMING SPACES
14_Preview of the various influences of reflection through transparency in architecture - fragments of objects (mirror effect)
15_Rear Window, Alfred Hitchcock - the allusion to the essence of the element of communication
16_Snezana Zlatkovic, Phenomenon of Transparency: Active Energy for Becoming Spaces of the City New Belgrade, Block 30, 2015