Vid Savić
DANUBE MUSEUM
The main goal of the task is to investigate the possibilities, ways, and measures of architectural action on the river banks in the city bank zone or natural landscape next to the riverbed, as well as to examine the relationship of architecture to the ecosystem, microclimate, river dynamics, and its flow. The general aims of the study are to initiate analytical thinking during the design process and develop the ability to notice the problems and potential of the proposed topic in relation to the current moment. A particular goal is to develop skills for researching spatial interventions that can respond to the identified problems and upgrade the recognized potentials of the topic and the specific location. The topic of the Danube Museum includes research of the possibilities, ways, and measures of architectural activity in the zone of the riverbank of the city or natural landscape, as well as an examination of the relationship of architecture to the ecosystem, microclimate, river dynamics, and its flow. The Danube, the flow of the river, the line of contact between land and water, the change of the water level, the flora and fauna of the ecosystem represent both the immediate context of the project task and its program generator. The studio is a continuation of the successfully realized semester during the school year 2019/2020, aimed at further opening the spectrum of topics that deal with the natural, geographical, cultural, and spatial potentials of the Danube River in the future. The studio will follow a series of talks on the topic of the Danube in cooperation with the Danube Competence Center and the Tourist Organization of Serbia. Students are expected to take an individual research approach to the topic, on the basis of which everyone will determine the exact location and type of their intervention along the course of the Danube River in Serbia. The task is open to creative upgrading and re-examining the typology of museums and exhibition spaces in general in the contemporary moment.