Tirana new paradigm: From post-communist towards a sustainable city

This Graduation Project focuses on the urban regeneration of Tirana’s city centre. The chaotic transition from a communist regime towards a democratic system has generated several urban problems where the increasing informality predominates. This project works as a strategic vision which aims to create the spatial-economic conditions for a sustainable economic growing of Tirana and to make it a distinguished metropolitan city for the emerging democracy. Through this approach it involves many aspects of urban interventions: dealing with the monumentality, recycling of communist architecture, housing demands and cultural consumption issues. The design proposal focuses on five design interventions which are characterized by five different urban complexities. Seen together, they bring to the city a new approach of urban regeneration which lies in the legacies of the contextual urban fabric and touches all the scales of designing: From the level of the metropolis to the scale of public life.Architecture and The Built EnvironmentUrbanis