We would like to propose and act in an environment that meets the basic requirements for functionality and quality of urban surfaces – The basic standard. We all pay taxes for this standard. Political parties and independent candidates use the the taxes and their own resources to fund their campaign before election, in which they want to stand closer to citizens  and promise to…

Each metropolitan town has its tower, which is seen by many people. Bratislava is no exception. Kamzík TV tower by J. Tomasak is the identification and benchmark of all parts of the city of Bratislava and its adjacent region. Even after 40 years since its construction, unlike all other metropolitan towers, it has not been illuminated until now. Urban intervention motion highlights the…

Post-socialist cities suffer from poor quality of public and semi-public spaces, of which. often, there is no one (and limited finance) to take care of. They also have an excess of unused space, which hangs in limbo because of bureaucracy, property settlement, speculative investments, or is the product of frozen real estate market.

Thereare many ‘spaces’ in Bratislava. They can be plots, buildings,…

Bridging the Staromestská Street is an old topic in Bratislava. An important route for the city radically divides the territory of the historic centre, and although the conservationists appreciate the significantly exposed city walls and the existing footprint of the original moat, the division is one of the traumas of our city. After several attempts to build up this area at the level…

The appearance of Obchodna Street has been changing over the last few years  with each new banner moving from bad to worse. Its development is uncoordinatead, marked with “aesthetics” of early capitalism, global fastfood restaurants and uncompleted plans of alternating regimes of the 20^th century. The street is saturated with unnecessary information. Unregulated advertising space directly degrades the visual culture of one of…

It is nice to see the number of cycling paths in Bratislava increasing. However, in some locations, they overlap with the sidewalks. The sidewalks are most often merged with the cycling paths at intersections and pedestrian crossings. The traffic lights apply to both pedestrians and cyclists, which can cause dangerous situations at the crossings.

Implementing traffic lights for cyclists could increase the safety…

The Most SNP bridge is one of the most prominent attractions of Bratislava. The sightseeing tower, in the form of the UFO restaurant, serves residents as well as city visitors as a quality restaurant and bar, offering an amazing view of the city. One more feature, potentially beneficial to the general public, could be added.

We propose to light the restaurant (the flying-saucer-like…

In order to provide better orientation in crisis situations to citizens calling the integrated emergency system, it would be helpful to equip the street lights with number labels for city lighting breakdown reporting.

A person calling the 112 emergency number is often unable to provide information on their exact location, which makes the job of the emergency forces more complicated. Since the mobile…

The thermal insulation of residential  buildings is an issue that affects many people. The most visible is the actual appearance of “new” façades, which gradually change the character of compact neighbourhoods into uncontrollable colourful chaos. The intention of residents who try to “humanize” the impersonality of prefabricated houses in this way now come to the opposite extreme and hypertrophied polychrome settlements are significant…

The objective of the intervention is to create an open map of Bratislava including the different types of data the city collects, such as places of firefighters’ interventions, maps of car-tow areas in case of legal offences, maps of various types of road accident locations. Such open data and maps could be used by anybody to analyze and find out, for instance, the…