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service: setting up and leading the process of an interdisciplinary group of domestic and foreign experts in order to define the vision and principles of the new quarter development, publication editor
January 2019 - September 2019
Client: Imagine Development, Bratislava

Mayer Malacky is a project of a new, multifunctional district that reflects aspects of everyday life in the future. It reflects on sensitive social, technical and environmental integration of isolated greenfield 'beyond the highway' into Malacky, a small city in the metropolitan area of Slovak capital, Bratislava. It outlines strategies for its integration but also develops its own autonomy. It considers impacts of climate crisis. In its essence it builds on principles of circular economy, efficient management of resources including waste in and nearby territory. It outlines strategies for coexistence of different people, trying to mitigate inequalities given by gender, age, economic and ethnic status. It complements functions of original city and invites not only residents but also new visitors. It fights against isolation determined by its geographical conditions.

In 2016 international architecture and urban planning competition was launched for the site to create a neighborhood for app 5000 new residents in Malacky, the city located app 30 kilometers north from Bratislava, capital city of Slovakia. As the capital has been significantly and rapidly growing, villages and small cities in the metropolitan region have been facing strong, yet rather unplanned development pressures. After series of socially, infrastructurally deprived and desintegrated mainstream real-estate developments that proved to be failures, the need for more qualitative approach was felt.

In spite of the international competition, owners and developers did not have enough of qualitative data about the site to verify the winning proposal and yet emerging, fundamental questions of demography, architecture, mobility, social sustainability and climate adaptation had to be opened.

The goal of the project was to develop a set of values and principles of the new district built on the greenfield site (29 ha).

The publication and plan summarized strategies that modified winning design and completed assignment for the new master plan of the zone, which is an important pre-project phase.

The process consisted of series of transdisciplinary design thinking and planning workshops of prominent local and foreign experts from the fields of climatology, urban geography, social integration, community development, gender sensitive planning, intergenerational living, architecture and urban planning, circular economy, mobility and landscape architecture along with stakeholders and representatives of civil, business and public society of Malacky.

BROWSE STUDY

Principles and recommendations go far beyond requirements that are commonly needed in urban design assignments. However, we considered it important to question complex functioning of the district and everyday lives of their future residents during early stages of the project. The resulting plan and principles are built on a strong direction into the future, so that the new city district is adapted to climate change, operates on multi-modal mobility, with walking and cycling being primary mode inside the district, also providing a balanced mix of social and public infrastructure for integration and community development. We have incorporated innovative methods of gender-sensitive planning into the principles of urban planning, taking into account the needs of users of all ages and gender groups.

The process produced plan and publication that is becoming a cornerstone, philosophical manual for all the future projects in different phases and scales.

In Slovakia, this is the first pilot project with such an transdisciplinary process and approach of thinking about everyday life in a future district.

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team
Milota Sidorova, Zuzana Zuziova Cupova, Barbara Zavarska, Illah van Oijen, Michal Bugan, Frederika Husarova, Boris Hrban, Drahan Petrovic, Cany Ash, Robert Sakula, Ivana Rapos Bozic, Ivana Males, Pavel Suska, Lubica Volanska, Hana Brhohova-Foltynova, Josef Filip, Braňo Škopek, Jozef Pecho and Eva Sušková

graphic design
Branislav Matis

thanks to Vladimir Tedl, Alfred Kaiser, Pavel Laktis, Otto Hornáček, Štefan Koluš, Erik Treuer, Milan Ondrovič, Martin Balog, Gunther Keutmeier, Viktor Neumann, Pavel Launch, Adam Janík, Martin Mráz, Kristýna Stará, Stanislav Belan, Lucie Vidanova, Jane Zetkova, Alena Kmecova, Lucie Durcova and all residents and representatives of the Malacky municipality, private sector and civil society, who contributed with their opinions and observations to this plan.

editor

Milota Sidorová

Imagine Development organizes development of Mayer Malacky project for landowners - GK Team and HORIMA (joint venture of Hornex and Imagine groups)

September 2019 Bratislava

Mayer Malacky: Vision and Development Principles for New Quarter Adapted to Climate Crisis

The goal of the project was to develop a set of values and principles of the new district built on the greenfield site (29 ha).

In Slovakia, this is the first pilot project with such an transdisciplinary process and approach of thinking about everyday life in a future district.