Kamza - Profile

Urban Development Plan of Kamza under:

www.logincee.org/file/18620/library

Stand 26/05

As we were able to see in our city analysis, the city of Tirana has reached the physical Limits of its growth due to the nature of the surrounding terain.
However, the density of tirana has alreasy reached a state close to that of an indian Megacity. Thus the usefulness of further densification to recieve continued growth is questionable.

If we take a look at the cities, towns, and important infrastructural nodes of the region, we can see that these are arrayed along the River of Tirana.

If we look at the nature of the surrounding terrain we can quickly see the cause of this. All important devolopments so far have taken place in the river basin of the Tirana River. Especially the situation of Kamza comes to mind, where we have a population soon reaching 100,000 being per se the 5. largest city in Albania, but not having any own Infrastructure.


Since we want to avoid a blanket coverage of buildings across the whole river area.....

We propose to utilize the system of Stripes developed during the workshop in Tirana, to create a system for Tirana to grow, and to decentralize along the axis of the Tirana River.

If we leave off the stripes for a second we get a series of varying spaces along the river axis. These spaces will develope into green belts, housing areas, agricultural/industrial activities, and sub centres, decentralising the Tirana City Centre.




An early allocation of these spaces in necessary to ensure a sustainable development of the Metropolitan area. They can be "reserved" as agricultural usage, then recieving their allocated use when the necessity to grow arises.

City Analysis

Workshop - Phase 3

We then looked at ways in which the river spaces could be used.


















We then analized the infrastructure and land usages on site.
















We then investigated the differrent distances that these usages might need to another , thus creating a series of "White" spaces of different sizes which could then be filled by the river and riverbanks defining a new border









Stripe Concept: We first used the theme of our collages to create a rough conzept of stripes, representing different usages, to join the areas on either side of the River. Thus bridging the gap, and lessening the break in the cityscape which the river currently poses.

Workshop - Phase 2

In the second Phase of the Workshop a chosen theme was investigated by producing 3 Collages, based on the 3 Polaroids taken earlier.

Workshop - Phase 1

The first phase of the Project consisted of a trip to the sites, choosing the site we want to work on, and again producing 3 Polaroids typical for the situation:

Roadtrip