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Tales of the River | E13

Europan 13, Zagreb (HR)


Does the contemporary city still need for public spaces? Can we still think the city as the place of coexistence between the binomial public/private considering its new meaning? Is the emerging and increasing demand of public space a realistic issue, already able to assume the gap compared to the past? Or is this demand only a simplistic way to find a slogan for urban spaces which transformation is no longer convenient, no longer monetized?

We believe the city doesn’t need for public spaces, but still need for collective places. The collective is the category we have to consider (due to the fact that public has lost its original meaning) and the places are what we have to project (due to the fact that space is a concept referring to a Neo-Illuministic echo).


Zagreb and its relationship with the Sava river represent the ideal condition to test reflections and ideas on this issue.

We believe that conceiving the project as a series of punctual and isolated interventions in areas far away each other is not the right answer to the problem.

We believe instead that our task is the project of the whole river. The Sava river can become a great linear collective place, a moving and changing whole made of spaces for collective rituals.

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