Project details
LOCATION
Vlore, Saranda, Himara, Konispol, Albania
CLIENT
Ministry of Urban Development / AKPT
YEAR
2016 - 2017
STATUS
Completed
PROGRAM
Urban Plans & Regulations
CREDITS /COLLABORATORS
TERRITORY PLANNING & DESIGN NETWORK,
DEA Studio Thymio Papayannis & Associates
DEA Studio Thymio Papayannis & Associates
TEAM
Thanos Pagonis, Mirlinda Rusi Ivy Nanopoulou, Nikos Karadimitriou, Eirini Tsakiropoulou, Michalis Zekkos, Dimitris Poulios, Marios Danakos, Albana Zotaj, Genti Qirjazi, Belina Belortaja, Ela Tolkuci.
Building on its formative experience and reputation TP & D was thrusted with the work of the implementation of an ambitious project launched by the Albanian Government which involved the preparation of Local Plans for four neighbouring municipalities of Vlore, Himara, Saranda and Konispol which jointly form the touristical area of the Southern Coast, so called Albanian Riviera.
The project was launched in 2015 by the newly founded Ministry of Urban Development and the National Territorial Planning Agency which prepared the ToR and was awarded in 2016 to the Greek Albanian Consortium of Dea Studio and Thymio Papayannis and Associates of Greece.
TP&D was engaged as a subcontractor with the main responsibility to implement the project covering the positions of Team Leader, Project Manager, responsibility to submit project deliverables and preparation of the GIS Database according to the requirements set by the Client.
The project was launched in 2015 by the newly founded Ministry of Urban Development and the National Territorial Planning Agency which prepared the ToR and was awarded in 2016 to the Greek Albanian Consortium of Dea Studio and Thymio Papayannis and Associates of Greece.
TP&D was engaged as a subcontractor with the main responsibility to implement the project covering the positions of Team Leader, Project Manager, responsibility to submit project deliverables and preparation of the GIS Database according to the requirements set by the Client.
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The project formed part of a national scale planning operation that aimed to grant the new administrative units that emerged out of the territorial reform with the appropriate strategy and instruments to respond to the challenges of their territorial development and to enhance planning capacities at the local level. The territory of Albania was grouped in Lots and projects were assigned with uniform criteria.
The project will achieve the following outputs / products:
- Development of road and pedestrian network
- Re-qualification of abandoned structures for urban use
- Improve accessibility to cultural and natural heritage monuments
- Development of cultural facilities
- Cleaning and afforestation of the hilly area of the city of Saranda
- Improving services to citizens
- Integration and regulation of informal areas
- Arrangement of public green areas, recreational spaces
- Re-qualification of abandoned structures for urban use
- Improve accessibility to cultural and natural heritage monuments
- Development of cultural facilities
- Cleaning and afforestation of the hilly area of the city of Saranda
- Improving services to citizens
- Integration and regulation of informal areas
- Arrangement of public green areas, recreational spaces
