New urban contexts for architecture. Infrastructure zone as platform for new kind of public space

Abstract

Due to city fragmentation, urban growth and simultaneous demand for flexible and multifunctionally programmed buildings- there is new kind of context the architecture nowadays has to deal with in modern cities. Architecture territory spreads on sites which have never been considered before: infrastructure nodes, postindustrial brownfields, highways surroundings, underground garages and passages, bridges and viaducts, roofs and of existing buildings, rail tracks, etc. In this paper- basing on chosen realized projects and design concepts- were analyzed relations between architecture and such uncommon “aggressive” context.