Matea Prokić
Interspace is interpreted as a place that hints at change. These are the last kilometers of driving before entering the city, measured in moments. That distinctly quiet zone, the distance between two loops, the sequence from the Nikola Tesla airport to the built-up part of the New Belgrade blocks, represents the focal point of the project, the field of action.
The presence of the airport, along with the highway, makes this “interspace” twofold gate of the city, between the monotony of what surrounds the path before entering the city and the built structure within it. The isolated sequence of the mentioned route speaks of another fact: it represents a thousandth of the total length of the E75 highway. It makes it uniform in a certain way, which gives it the possibility to become a type model, like a prototype for the entrance zone of any city along this route.
Since the borders of the city are not clearly determined, and the street is an extensible spatial concept, the exact sequence of the road is not known either, where it loses the general characteristics of the highway and takes on the identity of the city. There is no doubt, the city center is unusual surroundings of a highway, so the case of Belgrade can be seen as an exception.
The project tries to materialize the metaphor of the city gate at a certain interval of the road, just before entering the city. The project indicates a new interpretation of the interval of the highway that passes through Belgrade.
Committee members:
Jefto Terzović, PhD, assistant professor
Ivan Simić, PhD, assistant professor