Patterns of fluidity: mostar interchange in Belgrade

Abstract

The main idea of this paper is to research the patterns of fluidity in the relationship between contemporary urban perceptual experiences and architectural elements of Mostar Interchange in Belgrade. Fluidity is positioned as the main conceptual phenomenon, simultaneously causing and manifesting in contemporary transformations of perceptual and spatial conditions into a constant process of dynamic interactions and flows. This research is contextualized by reading the new sense of perceptive, sensory and experiential values of this city area through the analysis of the architectural patterns of fluid experience. Accordingly, this research is focused on the relations between the elements of form, tectonics and ambient in the Mostar Interchange architecture and dynamic perceptual experiences in the process of constant movement. The dynamic concept of flows is placed into the spatial perspective as a design method and architectural criterium for creation of the patterns of fluidity. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to put fluidity and notion of flow into the spatial perspective through the patterns of relations, continuity, dynamism, sequence and repetition of formal, tectonic and ambient elements.