corridors

A system of regular green corridors segmenting the city (or at least between paskuqan and the airport), thus creating points of orientation, and relieving the pressure on the current centers.
Ecological aspects include providing clean air corridors letting the cold night air flow down from the hillsides into the city centres, minimizing the amount of sealed ground, thus preventing the occurance of floods along the river, and providing various spaces/habitats throughout the city.

Current land use along the river: agriculture and disused industry.

Reference: CPUL Botanic Spine, Dublin.

series of green corridors conected by the river...

in relevance to the sorrounding buildings.


These stripes can then be developed as CPUL's (continious productive urban landscape).
A series of layers are imposed over the open areas representing different usages; such as recreational, agricultural (community gardens), public parks, and privat greens. Connecting these usages will be a green footpath. Old industrial buildings can be reused for recreational purposes.
Thus there will be a strand connecting the different usages and features, alowing for the various widths, shapes and forms that the green stripes presently have. The connecting element between the various green corridors will be the river, and the axis of public transport alongside it.

Identity

When analyzing the transport axis along the river, we see that the road transport comprises 2 levels, one being the "mainroad" which follows the shape of the river, being set back roughly 100-200m from it. the second level are the main roads, which are set back considerably from the river, and run straight do durres, and northern tirana respectivly.
The third layer which is to be created is an axis of public transport which will connect tirana, kamza, and the airport. As the only area still having an amount of free space is the river side it would mak sense to let this transport axis run along the river connecting the different river places. this would work complementary to the system of stipes, as the axis of the river, and thus the public transport will present the connection between the different uses.

Inverted Paskuqan - appliance

To apply the conzept of the "life cycle house" on a larger scale, we coul develop hubs servicing entire quarters, reusing, and recycling waste, and providing all neccessary infrastructure (Clean water, electricity, heating, wate water reuse and collection) to at least a part of this neighbourhood. This conzept could be taken one step further, to incorporate the cleaning of the river, and the disposal and reuse of the garbage along the river.

The abundance of disused industrial buildings along the river could provide an optimal location for these reuse-centers. They could become new hubs for their respective quarters providing electricity, clean water, and recycled building materials. The ("skellet?) structure left ovr in some industrial buildings could be used as the framework to build further flats using the recycled materials - thus continueing the Idea of the self feeding, self-growing building.

looking at cpul's

http://www.indymedia.ie/attachments/feb2007/botanic_spine.pdf

09/06 Continuing...

Next step would be to look at the borders between the stripes...

Create rules for maximum, and minimum widths...

Create rules for the min and max Impact... So the minimum intervention needed to realize the idea, and the maximum possible should be determined.

Look at possible zones along the river to intervene at a detailed scale...

including the new centre for kamza and adjacent green belt...

suburban area of paskuqan

and exploring the possibilities of flood planes above the river.

If we look at the road system of the area we can see that there are 2 roads runing at a distance to the river, but following the river flow. These could be developed into the main roads for the ares, as is already the case in Paskuqan...

Creating a kind of back yard atmosphere along the river, with only pedestrian, and public traffic.


As most available space lies along the river, it would make sense to provide public transport along the river axis, be it rail, or water or a combination, linking Tirana, Pasquchan, the agricultural university, Kamza, and the airport.

Monorail, Wuppertal: As the town lies in a narrow valley the only space left to creat public transport was along the river.

Cable Ferry, Canada.

Stand 02/06