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At a glance
- Project by: JA Joubert Architecture
- Location: Tirana, Albania
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River © JA Joubert Architecture View project image |
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Passage © JA Joubert Architecture View project image |
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Pool © JA Joubert Architecture View project image |
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Entrance © JA Joubert Architecture View project image |
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Model © JA Joubert Architecture View project image |
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Architect's statement
2010 - Invited competition, 1st prize.
How can we create a new community on the southern edge of ever-expanding Tirana? Tirana, which is beginning to fill in its new urban development strategy, changing from a remaining focus on a congested center, to a radial development along the main axes and the new ring road. This project could and maybe should be a model for this development.
This is in actuality a suburban location, but with quite a high density. So what kind of urbanistic model is appropriate? Can this be a location for experimentation, not in architectural form but in social cohesion? Maybe a place where family, children, outdoor living, health and sports can meet?
A new area where various groups and ages live together? Where facilities such as a school, medical services, sports, restaurant are made available. In a way a utopia made true?
JA Joubert Architecture decided to break with standard sub-urban development by proposing an integral solution for building and parking, directly linking them to the terrain conditions, thus creating a new community for different (age) groups, with sports and health facilities, set within a continuous green park with beautiful views to the city and Tirana lake.
Details/Credits
- Client: Eurocol
- Location: Tirana, Albania
- Assignment: Masterplan
- Competition: Invited competition, 1st prize
- Size: 51.300 sqm + 14.000 sqm parking garage
- Principal architect: Marc Joubert
- Project team: Jeroen de Loor, Marian Dusinsky, Alessandro Guida, Kim Byungchan
- Project start: 2010
- Completion: 2012 (estimated)
















