The Municipality of Plovdiv has launched a public procurement procedure for the design and author supervision of the public areas of the Tobacco City.
The future designer will have 50 000 BGN excluding VAT to give concrete solutions to the vision of the urban area, a key element of the programme for Plovdiv European Capital of Culture 2019.
The sucessful candidate will have to fully comply with the technical assignment as prepared by the Plovdiv Municipality. The Municipality registered two suggestions for how the Tobacco City could look to the National Institute for Intengible Cultural Heritage. The Institute has not yet announced which of the two should be implemented.
In the project submitted to the National Institute for Intengible Cultural Heritage, the area is divided into zones. The first one covers Ivan Vazov Street, which is a busy traffic area for both cars and pedestrians. It is planned that during the repair works the trees will be surrounded by benches, and the buildings - monuments of culture - will have signs with information about their history. New lighting is planned with massive 9-meter pillars and additional low-level lights for pedestrians. The municipality has developed two options for shaping the street and sidewalks. Option 1 provides for merging street levels and lifting the street lane with the drainage slopes provided for. Replacement of new pavement on the sidewalks is planned. The proposed in NINCN Option 2 provides for the maintenance of existing levels of sidewalks and street lanes. The pavement on the street are rearranged after the construction and replacement of the technical infrastructure, the granite curbs are preserved, and the pavement on the sidewalks replaced by concrete vibrating tiles of size and pattern harmonizing with the vision of the whole building and street ensemble. The sidewalks are formed in the standard way, subject to established rules and regulations, with sections of the sidewalk that require chamfering and accessibility for pedestrians - at crossroads and cars - at the car park and garage approaches. Sailboat 2х6 m and sidewalks 2х6 m.
Zone 2 covers the section of "G. M. Dimitrov ","Edirne" Str.,"Kiril Hristov" Str.,"Ekzarh Yosif " Str. and "Kapitan Andreev" Str., and is the heart of the Tobacco City.
The draft proposal for this section is to develop the idea to become a pedestrian area, since anyway there is no much traffic there. For this purpose it is necessary to lift the street lanes at the sidewalks level. The use of syenite paving, after leveling the levels throughout the area of intervention, would harmonize the vision and aesthetics of the neighborhood in this area. The leveling of the granite curbs will allow the installation of a flat-line drainage. Only Ekarko Yosif Street has specific rectangular pavers on the roadway, which after dismantling, underground infrastructure and elevation will be restored as road pavement on the street, while other streets will use square Syennite Plovdiv Pavers. The purpose of this design assignment is to improve the road infrastructure in the neighborhood, which will give impetus to conducting events aimed at revitalizing the neighborhood. The idea of the municipality is to adapt the streets in the Tobacco City for art and culture.
The artical is from Plovdiv Times media