Urbani izziv Volume 35, No. 2, December 2024
: 113-126
(Articles)
UDK: 728.1:7.036: 005.934.4(497.6Sarajevo)
doi: 10.5379/urbani-izziv-en-2024-35-02-03
Author
Aida Idrizbegović Zgonić
Faculty of Architecture, University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
aida.iz@af.unsa.ba
Nermina Zagora
Faculty of Architecture, University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
nermina.zagora@af.unsa.ba
Mladen Burazor
Faculty of Architecture, University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
mladen.burazor@af.unsa.ba
Senka Ibrišimbegović
Faculty of Architecture, University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
senka.ibrisimbegovic@af.unsa.ba
Title
Learning, unlearning, and relearning from the past:
Reassessing socialist modernist collective housing
for sustainable urban regeneration in Sarajevo
Abstract
This article addresses a sustainable approach to urban
regeneration in post-communist residential neighbourhoods
in Sarajevo. The area explored is located in the
municipality of Novo Sarajevo (literally, New Sarajevo),
featuring well-known but somewhat controversial apartment
buildings built after the Second World War, from
the 1950s to the 1970s. At the time, this area epitomized
the social and economic progress and expansion of the
city from east to west, and it expressed the ideals of socialist
modernist urban planning and architecture. More
than seventy years later, following social, economic, and
cultural transition after the war in the 1990s and new
urban developments, this area and the city face multiple
challenges, from decay to social bias. One key challenge is
to adapt the residential architecture from socialist modernism
to meet contemporary requirements of functionality
and sustainability. This research proposes the “new
urban protocol” as a collaborative model combining tools
and procedures for sustainable urban regeneration while
focusing on reevaluating, retrofitting, and reprograming
the architectural legacy of socialist modernism.
Key Words
new urban protocol, socialist modernism, collective housing, sustainability, Sarajevo