Karlovac (HR)

We will upload the concept design of Luščić street (which touches the perimeter of project site) from 2016 for which a location permit has been obtained.

The design of this street project is in progress, but we can provide a conceptual design that is the basis for the elaboration of the project in question. The ultimate goal of this process is to acquire construction documents and in the near future to build the street, which should take over the transit traffic that is now passing through the historic core (Zvijezda). We consider that, for consideration of the strategic area, the possible route of the street in question is sufficient information.

It was not intended that the competitors design the strategic area in detail, including the historic core, as the Detailed plan is a result of a long-term interdisciplinary work and has been certified by the competent conservation institute. However, the proposals of smaller, clearly argumented amendments are possible as a result of the analysis of the broader scope / urbanistic axis, its rethinking and consideration of land use at the strategic level, but interventions in the conceptual design of UDMP (Urban Development Master Plan) and Zvijezda Urban Development Plan (UDP).

In the study site, suggestions for modifications are possible, without any intervention in the UDMP conceptual layout, and in line with the expectations set out in the competition brief related to the study site. The Gaza neighborhood, in the northeastern part of the urban axis, should be considered strategically in the context of areas that, like Luščić, once had a military purpose, and nowadays is unused and state-owned.

For now there is no existing development project for the location in Nazorova Street (residential/public space at the crossroads of Tomislavova and Nazorova streets and Prilaz Vjećeslava Holjevca), but there is an idea and initiative from a private real estate owner to change UDMP at the mentioned site. Suggestions in the context of questioning the urban axis, possible uses, roles and networks of public spaces, etc. are possible but not binding as the final result of this competition should be the basis for the future UDP Luščić Center.

Suggestions in the context of rethinking the urban axis, possible uses, roles and networks of public spaces, etc. are possible but not binding as the final result of this competition should be the basis for the future UDP Luščić Center. It is possible to propose changes in the perimeter of all plans beyond the scope of the project area, but should remain within the framework of the UDMP provisions.

In the immediate surroundings of the former barracks Luščić detailed plans Luščić1, Luščić2 and Novi centar are in effect (can be viewed through GIS on the official website of the City of Karlovac: https://gis.karlovac.hr/gis).

Within the scope of all these plans it is possible to propose changes that should remain within the framework of the conceptual layout of the UDMP. The marginal parts of the detailed plans Luščić1 and Luščić2 are intentionally included in the project area, given that the included parts are planned for public use (2 kindergartens and sports hall). The task of the competitors, in the area of the former barracks, is to plan mostly public and social uses, and the city's view is that it is necessary to reconsider the purpose and role of the surrounding space, so that the planned social infrastructure can be properly dimensioned and deployed in the competition entries. Such suggestions may in the future provide a useful basis for changing of the existing plans.

At this point, the City of Karlovac carries out maintenance work of the barracks area - now property of the City of Karlovac (cp no. 2185 /1) - with the intent that through temporary measures (in the period of implementation of the Europan 15 competition and later during drafting of UDP Luščić, after competition results) safety is ensured so the barracks are open to the public for walking and temporary use. With the final goal of introducing the use planned in UDMP, it is planned to temporarily retain a few buildings and to remove the others (13) according to the expert assessment and removal project. The competition solution can provide for the removal of all buildings without restriction, but may also foresee keeping of some of the structures according to the prize-winning design.
We will provide the plan with the markings of the removed trees and buildings foreseen for removal in the first stage.

We do not currently have rights with the Geodetic Administration regarding the use of cadastral bases for the entire cadastral municipality of Karlovac II. Since this is a wider area that is anticipated to be processed at a strategic level, we consider the attached maps (HOK) to be sufficient.

The competition entry can review the rules on the height of the building, but the competitors should make sure that it does not deviate from the basic conception planned by the UDMP, in which the high buildings are not a rule but accents in the space emphasizing the urban axis.