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Design of a new pedestrian bridge on the River Vardar in the centre of the city is a result of an open system approach of form finding process, emerging from interaction of functional, engineering and social aspects of the context of this development and is in contrast with the fixed and predetermined imagery of socially and culturally conflicted plan proposed by government. Its geometry and structure is a result of formal and functional concept generated through continuous spatial manipulation of discrete formal element as an opposition to predetermined and fixed typologies. The metaphor and basic idea of this bridge is the analogy with the constant change of shape of the water and the society as a dynamic system. Its form is a frozen fragment of time in which a wave is formed and then disappears the next moment. The moment is fixed in the materialisation through which its constantly changing geometry stands as a reflection of the continuous process of creation and disappearance of the form, fluidity of the materialisation and its reflection in the water creating unique spatial experience of the city.

4.1. Spatial analysis of context

The spatial analysis is based on several aspects of the context, location and site (Fig. 1). The communication distance of the main intersections and therefore the attractiveness of the new bridge as a way of crossing the river has been analysed.

The second level of analysis is determining the primary pedestrian corridors that exist and the new ones which would appear as a result of the new intervention. The establishment of these corridors, and the analysis of the position of the existing public spaces (and the form and context they are in) in the central city area, enables us to state that pedestrian paths, besides their main function to link public spaces, connecting squares and public spaces, according to their size and activities that happen on them, they themselves become new public spaces. Thus, the Quay 13 November, the internal streets of the City Trade Centre and paths in the park opposite the Parliament building as well as the plateau in front of the Macedonian Opera and Ballet building is linking the existing public spaces such as the Republic Cultural Centre and the Square Macedonia to the new governmental and cultural institutions on the other bank of the river Vardar. These links are the new urban space that offers new vistas, new activities and functions, but above all, through the new urban topography – a new experience of the city.

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