Belgrade Meeting its Riverfront: A strategic spatial plan that articulates and consolidates the city of Belgrade and its Riverfront through a typological design based on a theory of levels and elements of existential space

The following graduation report represents the project ‘Belgrade Meeting its Riverfront’ developed as part of graduation project of the master-track in Urbanism of the MSc in Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences programme of Delft University of Technology. This graduation project was developed within the last year of the programme (2012) with the collaboration of the Complex Cities graduation studio, which deals with understanding the spatial organization of cities today through the integration and comprehension of different approaches towards the built environment. Two centers, Zemun and Old Belgrade, used to develop separately until the XX century when those two places became united within the new capital of Yugoslavia. This set up effected the riverfront that started developing actively only at the beginning of the XX century with the accent on the period after the WW2. It is quite clear that the riverfront couldn’t follow and compete to the highly developed and spatially pronounced identity and vitality of two historical cities. In this way the river had a signifi cant predisposition to develop an urban asymmetry in comparison to historical centers. This asymmetry refl ects not only in terms of identity and vitality but also in terms that the city never evolved into a city on the water. Sometimes it seems like the city of Belgrade was too long in retreat from its waterline to develop as the city on the water. This project aims to understand this relation and try to evoke it through learning from both city and its rivers.Spatial Planning and Strategy - Complex Cities StudioUrbanismArchitectur