City fragmentes drifting from Baltic to Black Sea and beyond

1. ISLANDS INTO THE STREAM
City Fragments drifting from Baltic to Black Sea and beyond
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Giancola Edoardo//Gurioli Viola//And//Rondina Ilaria

2. WATERWAYS

3. BALTIC SEA
Gdansk
Brest
Warsaw
Kiev
Odessa
BLACK SEA
Istanbul

4. Pripyat River
Dnieper-Bug
Canal
BALTIC SEA
Dnieper River
BELARUS
VISTULA BUG DNIEPER-BUG PRIPYAT DNIEPER
CANAL
Poland, Poland, Belarus Ukraine, Russia, POLAND
Ukraine, Belarus, Belarus Belarus,
Belarus, Ukraine Ukraine
Slovakia
UKRAINE
5,8
158 169 [m3/s] 33 Vistula River
[m3/s] [Km] [m3/s]
Bug River
71O BLACK SEA
772 [Km]
[Km]
1O47
[Km]
1O8O
[m3/s]
TOTAL LENGHT: 2O2O Km
2285 167O
[Km] [m3/s]

5. 16th - 17th cent.
Grand Duchy of Lithuania
KINGDOM OF POLAND
under the Polish-Lithuanian
Commonwealth
“GOLDEN AGE” OF VISTULA AND
DNIEPER
Kingdom of Poland

6. 1772
1st PARTITION goes to Russian Empire
OF THE COMMONWEALTH
POLAND LOST CONTROL OF BALTIC
SHORES goes to Prussia
>> CONSTRUCTION OF A CANAL TO
REACH THE BLACK SEA FOR TRADING
goes to Austrian Empire

7. CLASS I
CLASS II
NOWADAYS
CLASS III
CLASS IV
CLASS Va
CLASS Vb
POLAND Dnieper-Bug Canal, Pripyat River
CLASS IV OF NAVIGATION
RE-GAINED CONTROL OF BALTIC COASTS, NEGLECTING THE
MANTEINANCE OF RIVERS. DEPTH: 1,6O m
NOWADAYS IT’S INVESTING MOSTLY IN RAILWAYS AND
HIGHWAYS.
Va
Gdansk II
Dnieper River
BELARUS I IV I
I II Brest IV CLASS Vb OF NAVIGATION
IS STRONGLY INTERESTED IN CONNECTING TO BOTH SEAS, Warsaw DEPTH:3,65 m
SO THEY ARE INVESTING IN THE RENEWAL AND MAINTEIN- Vistula River Kiev
ANCE OF THE DNIEPER-BUG CANAL CLASS betw, I & Va OF NAVIGATION Vb
DEPTH: 1,OO/1,5O m
UKRAINE
OPTIMIZED THE NAVIGABILITY OF THE DNIEPER BY CON-
STRUCTING A SEQUENCE OF DAMS, INCREASING THE RIVER
Bug River Odessa
NON-NAVIGABLE TRAIT
DEPTH AND FLOODING THE RAPIDS DEPTH: O,8O m
FOR A BETTER NAVIGATION
[BIG BOATS]

8. Capital: Warsaw
POLAND Official language: Polish
GDANSK
46O.OOO inh. Total area: 312.700 Km2
GRUDZIADZ Population 38.500.000
96.1OO inh. Parliamentary Republic
BYDGOSZCZ Currency: zloty
363.5OO inh.
TORUN
2O5.9OO inh.
PLOCK
126.7OO inh.
WARSAW
1.72O.OOO inhab.

9. Capital: Minsk
Official languages:
Belarusian and Russian
Total area: 207.500 Km2
Population 9.500.000
Presidential Republic
Currency: Belarusian ruble
BELARUS
BREST
31O.OOO inh.
KOBRIN
51.OOO inh.
PINSK
13O.OOO inh.
MAZYR
112.OOO inh.

10. Capital: Kiev
Official language: Ukrainian
Total area: 603.600 Km2
Population 45.888.000
Unitary Semi-Presidential Republic
Currency: Hryvnia
UKRAINE
KIEV
2.7OO.OO inh.
CHERKASY
286.OOO inh.
KREMENCHUK
23O.OO inh.
DNIPRODZERZYNS'K
252.OOO inh.
ZAPORIZHIA
775.OO inh.
KHERSON
33O.OOO inh.
ODESSA
1.O8O.OOO inh.

11. POLAND
GDANSK
46O.OOO inh.
GRUDZIADZ
96.1OO inh.
BYDGOSZCZ
363.5OO inh.
TORUN
2O5.9OO inh.
PLOCK
126.7OO inh.
WARSAW
1.72O.OOO inhab. BELARUS
BREST
31O.OOO inh.
KOBRIN
51.OOO inh.
PINSK
13O.OOO inh.
MAZYR
UKRAINE 112.OOO inh.
KIEV
2.7OO.OO inh.
CHERKASY
286.OOO inh.
KREMENCHUK
23O.OO inh.
DNIPRODZERZYNS'K
252.OOO inh.
ZAPORIZHIA
775.OO inh.
KHERSON
33O.OOO inh.
ODESSA
1.O8O.OOO inh.

12. INTERSECTION Helsinki
9 St.Petersburg
OF EUROPEAN Moscow
CORRIDORS 2
HIGH-SPEED Berlin
Gdansk Minsk
RAILWAYS Brest
2
Dresden 3 Warsaw
Kiev
+ Prague
4
5
BALTIC-BLACK SEA Bratislava
Lviv
WATERWAY Budapest Odessa
9
Trieste
Lion
Milan Zagreb
Marseilles Genoa
Lisboa Madrid
Barcelona Sofia
5
4
Istanbul

13. STRATEGICAL
POSITION
OF KIEV
A BIG “HUB”
IN THE MIDDLE KIEV
Corridor n. 5
4

14. KIEV
KIEV

15. KIEV IS ...

17. KIEV
a city divided by a river

18. non-urbanized ISLANDS
on the river

19. RAILWAY
encircling the city center

20. INDUSTRIAL AREAS
sourrounding the railway ring

21. PUBLIC SERVICES
concentrated in the city center

22. WHICH FUTURE SCENARIO? ?

23. KIEV 2O12 KIEV 2O25
5OO.OOO
people more

24. WHAT THE ADMINISTRATION PROPOSES:
new railway junctions

25. WHAT THE ADMINISTRATION PROPOSES:
new centers

26. ARCHIPELAGO KIEV...

28. BEING THE ISLANDS THE POINT OF CONTACT
BETWEEN THE CITY AND THE RIVER FLOW,

29. WHY NOT TO INVOLVE THE WHOLE CITY

31. ...BY MAKING IT AN URBAN ARCHIPELAGO

32. ...IN WHICH
PROGRAMS CAN
CIRCULATE?

35. NOW:
A VERY COMPACT CITY CENTER

36. THEN:
A MULTIPLICITY OF CENTRALITIES

37. SERVICES
INDUSTRIAL
COMMERCIAL
RESIDENTIAL
GREEN AREAS
SELECTED AREAS
SW GR
ITC EA EE
H
N
ST
Y
supply
supply
supply
V
demand
demand
demand
AR
ILL
commerce commerce commerce
SID
D
E
public space public space public space
AGE
eco friendly eco friendly eco friendly
activity activity activity
culture culture culture
sport sport sport
istitutions istitutions istitutions
leisure leisure leisure
supply
supply
demand
demand
IS L
commerce commerce
AN
public space public space
DS
eco friendly eco friendly
activity activity
culture culture
sport sport
istitutions istitutions
leisure leisure
CEN
T
ER
OL
D
H
supply
supply
demand
demand
AR
commerce commerce
public space public space
BOU
R
eco friendly eco friendly
activity activity
culture culture
sport sport
istitutions istitutions
SUPER-
leisure leisure
IND
US
TR
Y

38. WHERE?
peripheral areas separated
from the center by a railway ring

39. WHAT?
a new canal following the trace
of the railway ring

40. Neighbourhoods facing the canal
let “drift away” some programs

41. By floating, programs can reach
new places

42. ...and combine themselves
in unexpected ways, enriching the quality
of neighbourhood’s life

43. in winter programs stop and the freezed
canal becomes a public space

44. sub-container
container
program diffuser
service sub-diffuser
sub-service

45. COMBINATIONS OF SUBCATEGORIES

46. ...CAN CREATE NEW MUTABLE PROGRAMS

47. 1 LOG/IN
on the
website
app
www.bargesharing.ukr
INVESTORS: HOW TO START AN ACTIVITY

48. 2 SELECT
the activity
you want to
propose
category: typology: activity:
CULTURE school/university ....................
SPORT museum
INSTITUTION theatre/concert hall
COMMERCE cinema
PUBLIC SPACE other
LEISURE
1 LOG/IN
on the
website
app
www.bargesharing.ukr
INVESTORS: HOW TO START AN ACTIVITY

49. 2 SELECT
the activity
you want to
propose
category: typology: activity:
CULTURE school/university ....................
SPORT museum
INSTITUTION theatre/concert hall
COMMERCE cinema
PUBLIC SPACE other
LEISURE
3 SELECT
the units
that you
need
n. typology:
2 CONTAINER
1 DIFFUSER
... SERVICE
1 LOG/IN
on the
website
app
www.bargesharing.ukr
INVESTORS: HOW TO START AN ACTIVITY

50. 2 SELECT 4 CHOOSE OLD HARBOUR ISLANDS
the activity where/when
you want to to locate
propose it
SWITCH YARD
category: typology: activity:
EAST SIDE
CULTURE school/university ....................
SPORT museum CENTER
INSTITUTION theatre/concert hall
COMMERCE cinema SUPER-INDUSTRY
PUBLIC SPACE other
LEISURE
3 SELECT area:
OLD HARBOUR
timetable:
O8.OO/1O.OO
the units ISLANDS 1O.OO/12.OO
that you EAST SIDE 12.OO/14.OO
need CENTER 14.OO/16.OO
SWITCH YARD 16.OO/18.OO
SUPER-INDUSTRY 18.OO/2O.OO
2O.OO/22.OO
n. typology: 22.OO/24.OO
24.OO/O2.OO
2 CONTAINER O2.OO/O4.OO
1 DIFFUSER
... SERVICE
1 LOG/IN
on the
website
app
www.bargesharing.ukr
INVESTORS: HOW TO START AN ACTIVITY

51. 2 SELECT 4 CHOOSE OLD HARBOUR ISLANDS
the activity where/when
you want to to locate
propose it
SWITCH YARD
category: typology: activity:
EAST SIDE
CULTURE school/university ....................
SPORT museum CENTER
INSTITUTION theatre/concert hall
COMMERCE cinema SUPER-INDUSTRY
PUBLIC SPACE other
LEISURE
3 SELECT area:
OLD HARBOUR
timetable:
O8.OO/1O.OO
the units ISLANDS 1O.OO/12.OO
that you EAST SIDE 12.OO/14.OO
need CENTER 14.OO/16.OO
SWITCH YARD 16.OO/18.OO
SUPER-INDUSTRY 18.OO/2O.OO
2O.OO/22.OO
n. typology: 22.OO/24.OO
24.OO/O2.OO
2 CONTAINER O2.OO/O4.OO
1 DIFFUSER
... SERVICE
5 CHOOSE
how you
1 LOG/IN
want to
interact
on the
website
main relationship: configuration:
app WATER ON-A-LINE
EARTH ISOLATED
www.bargesharing.ukr
FAMILIES
INVESTORS: HOW TO START AN ACTIVITY

52. 1 CONNECT
to the
website
app
www.bargesharing.ukr
USERS: HOW TO FIND AN ACTIVITY

53. 2A LOCALIZE are here!
you
your position
or choose
an area
Kiev
OR:
select an area:
OLD HARBOUR
ERS
ISLANDS
EAST SIDE
S CENTER
SWITCH YARD
1
SUPER-INDUSTRY
U
CONNECT
to the
website
app
www.bargesharing.ukr

54. 2A LOCALIZE are here! 3A
you DISCOVER
your position
what’s
or choose
happening
an area
around you click! PIC.NIC BARGE
12am/7pm
Kiev
ER
CENT
OR:
select an area:
OLD HARBOUR
ERS
ISLANDS
EAST SIDE
S CENTER click! BOOKSHOP
SWITCH YARD 8am/2pm
1
SUPER-INDUSTRY
U
RESTAURANT click!
11am/3pm
CONNECT
to the
website
app
www.bargesharing.ukr

55. 2A LOCALIZE are here! 3A
you DISCOVER
your position
what’s
or choose
happening
an area
around you click! PIC.NIC BARGE
12am/7pm
Kiev
ER
CENT
OR:
select an area:
OLD HARBOUR
ERS
ISLANDS
EAST SIDE
S CENTER click! BOOKSHOP
SWITCH YARD 8am/2pm
1
SUPER-INDUSTRY
U
RESTAURANT click!
11am/3pm
CONNECT
to the
website
app
www.bargesharing.ukr
2B SELECT
the service
you need
category:
LEISURE
RESTAURANT
BAR/COFFEE
DISCO
CINEMA
timetable:
M T W T F S S
8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 02 04
NOW

56. 2A LOCALIZE are here! 3A
you DISCOVER
your position
what’s
or choose
happening
an area
around you click! PIC.NIC BARGE
12am/7pm
Kiev
ER
CENT
OR:
select an area:
OLD HARBOUR
ERS
ISLANDS
EAST SIDE
S CENTER click! BOOKSHOP
SWITCH YARD 8am/2pm
1
SUPER-INDUSTRY
U
RESTAURANT click!
11am/3pm
CONNECT
to the
website
app
www.bargesharing.ukr
2B SELECT
the service 3B
FIND OUT
you need where it is
12am/7pm
located
and when
category:
LEISURE
RESTAURANT
BAR/COFFEE
DISCO
CINEMA
timetable:
M T W T F S S
Bakery
Bar Schevchenko sat 9am/2pm
8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 02 04 mo/fr 8am/8pm
NOW

57. FOCUS ON SWITCH YARD AND CENTER
SELECTED AREAS
INDUSTRIAL
RESIDENTIAL
SERVICES
COMMERCIAL
GREEN AREAS

58. State Tax Service in Kiev UKRAINE
Zoopark
Imeni O.S.Pushkina Park
National Electricity Commission National Pediatric Center of Ukraine
State Tax Inspectorate Ministry of Education
Kyiv Polytechnic University (NTU KPI)
National Opera of Ukraine
CSK zus stadium
Ministry of Defence of UKRAINE Botanical garden
Taras Shevchenko University
Kyiv-Pasazhyrs'kyi Train Station
Lokomotyv stadium
National University of Defense
Olympic Stadium
Solom'yans'ke cemetery Solom'yans'ke cemetery
National University of Architecture
Kyiv City Clinical Hospital
Kyiv National Linguistic University
5OOm

59. Kyiv National
Linguistic
University
National University
of service National University
Construction diffuser of
and Architecture container Defense UKRAINE
(KNUBiA) photocopying
room
translation
internet
diffuser conference
room
room
library
conference service diffuser service
room
container computer
container
room fitness
worckshop study room
conference
room room
internet room
magazines room photocopying room study photocopying
room materials room room internet room
library
room
culture
National Opera
cinema of
Ukraine
museum diffuser
container
diffuser stage
service service
diffuser orchestra set
worckshop
service design
place
screening
audience
room container waiting
room room
waiting
room bar place
exhibition bookshop
bar audience
space screening fitting
room room
deposit

60. library
fitness
study room
room
study
room library
stage
orchestra
place
audience
place
audience
fitting
room

61. institutions public
space
Ministry
State
of botanical
Tax Service park
Defence garden
in Kiev
of
UKRAINE
UKRAINE
service service
diffuser service
diffuser diffuser
diffuser container
container container
container
waiting playground
waiting worckshop gardeners
room
front front room room
greenhouse training plants
office office pic-nic
plants path seed
archive caveau area
seed
sport activity
gym water restaurant hostel
fitness sports
diffuser
container diffuser container service diffuser service service
diffuser
service container
dining
sports swimming room kitchen
sports
field equipment pool kitchen
sports fitness water bar laundry
sleeping
equipment room storage fitting food
training room
fitting facilities room pantry
classes
room

62. gardeners
greenhouse pic-nic
area
dining
swimming room kitchen
sports
field pool
fitness
room fitting
fitting room
room

63. study library fitting
room room
swimming
pool
kitchen dining
room
pic-nic
area
stage place
audience
fitness
room

64. sports
field
green-
house
study
room
stage
kitchen
pic-nic
area

65. library
pic-nic
area
place
audience
swimming
pool
stage
fitness
room
fitting
room

66. swimming place
pool audience
fitting
room
kitchen
orchestra
dining
room

67. swimming place
pool audience
fitting
room
kitchen
orchestra
dining
room

68. current situation

69. PROPOSAL
PUBLIC
SPACE
new
residential
areas
train
station
SWITCH YARD
interchange
train/barges

71. KIEV GOES DRIFTING...

72. ONCE THAT THE CITY FRAGMENTED ITS PROGRAMS...

73. ...THEY CAN CIRCULATE THANKS TO WATER

74. ...ASSEMBLING FREELY AND INTERACTING EACH
TIME WITH DIFFERENT ELEMENTS

75. ...AND THAN, THEY CAN GO DRIFTING

76. THE GREAT MIGRATION

77. Baltic Sea
GDANSK
BREST
WARSAW
KIEV
NOW: ODESSA
ACTIVITIES ARE CONCENTRATED
AROUND MAJOR CITIES Black Sea
100[km]

78. GDANSK
BREST
WARSAW
KIEV
THEN: ODESSA
A TRANS-NATIONAL NETWORK
OF DEVELOPMENT 100[km]

79. GDANSK
HUB #1
fast
BREST
HUB #3
Pan-European corridor 2 fast
BERLIN-MOSCOW WARSAW
HUB #2
fast
Pan-European corridor 3 KIEV
DRESDEN-KIEV HUB #4
HUB #5
ODESSA
...WITH SOME “HUB-CITIES”
Pan-European corridor 5
100[km]
LISBON-KIEV

80. CINEMA
The Canal
The City
...WITH SOME “HUB-CITIES”

81. CINEMA
The Canal
The City
nodal interchanges where barges can gather to “go drifting”

82. CINEMA
The Canal
nodal interchanges where barges can gathe... to “go drifting”

83. GDANSK
TCZEW
GRUDZIADZ MINSK
BYDGOSZCZ fast
TORUN BREST
PLOCK KOBRIN
fast TURAU
MAZYR
WARSAW
PINSK PIETRYKAU
DROHICZYN
PRIPYAT
CHERNOBYL
fast
fast
international airport KIEV
high-speed railway
KANIV
rail hub
CHERKASY
port
KREMENCHUK
business center
cultural center DNIPROPRODZERZYNS’K
music center
ZAPORIZHIA
industrial areas
touristic sites
universities
protected parks KHERSON
ODESSA
agricultural areas
nuclear power station
forests and national parks
contaminated areas

84. street Polish National
GDANSK & open-air Maritime Philarmonic
commercial
theatre Museum port
Theatre
festival
floating
historical orchestra
scenography
exhibition on water
/stage
festival
on water

85. Regional
Museum of abandoned GRUDZIADZ
Contemp. granaries
Art
temporary
exhibition
on barges
festivals
& exhibits

86. TORUN Copernicus’ strawberry
house fields
astronomic migrant
observatory fruit
barge market

87. Warsaw Copernicus
Trade scientific
Chopin
piano
WARSAW
Fair Museum sundays
Piano
Fairs and lectures
concerts
exhibitions & labs
on water

88. BREST Canoa
Olimpic
Center
itinerant
summer
camping

90. Kiev Theater Museum Memorial Kiev
Lab.
botanical of russian of rural Museum of Art KIEV
Combinat M. Bulgakov Gallery
garden drama life
itinerant floating tournée bales open-air factory
workshops gardens on water of hay readings painting

91. Museum
KANIV of literature agricultural
Schevchenko industries
migrant
floating agricultural
library market

92. ice
& sand CHERKASY
sculpture
festival
itinerant
lab

93. festivals
in the
port
floating floating
orchestra bazaar
commercial & opera
bazaar
ODESSA
passengers house
port

94. GDANSK
TCZEW
GRUDZIADZ
BYDGOSZCZ
TORUN BREST
PLOCK KOBRIN
TURAU
MAZYR
WARSAW
CANAL
PINSK PIETRYKAU
UG
DROHICZYN
-B
PRIPYAT
CHERNOBYL
ER KIEV
EP
DNI
KANIV
CHERKASY
KREMENCHUK
KOBRIN DNIPROPRODZERZYNS’K
BREST PINSK
ZAPORIZHIA
KHERSON
ODESSA

97. pic-nic area GATE n. 4
bike rental point
guesthouse
kajak school & rental
RURAL VILLAGE
bed & breakfast
horse riding excursions
bar
sport fields
GATES
nodal points where barges
can stop, gather and “plug” bike rental point
to on-shore programs pic-nic areas
foating floating foating
restaurant hotel facilities
GATE n. 3
camping
Bird- aquatic
fishing trekking
watching sports

98. sports stage
field
dining hotel
room
kitchen
fitness
room

99. hotel
hotel
stage
dining
room
fitness
kitchen room
sports
field

101. ...LIKE ISLANDS INTO THE STREAM

102. giaguaro.architetti @gmail.com
Giancola Edoardo//Gurioli Viola//And//Rondina Ilaria