This project is financed through the PARTNERSHIPS IN PRIORITY AREAS Program, Direction of research 3. Environment, PCSSA Type 1, Code PN-II-PT-PCCA-2011-3.1-0382, Contract no. 53/2012.
| Project name |
Urban blocks in central protected area in multiple hazard approach -
assessment, mapping and strategies for risk mitigation.
Case study: Bucharest destructured zone by razing occuring in the communist period
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| Acronym | URBASRISK |
| Contracting authority |
Executive Unit for Financing Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation (UEFISCDI)
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| Coordinating Organisation |
University of Architecture and Urbanism “Ion Mincu” Bucharest
Legal Representative: Rector prof.univ.dr.arch. Zeno Bogdănescu
Project Manager: Prof.univ.dr.arch. Cristina Olga Gociman |
| Consortium members |
Partner (P1): The National Institute of Research and
Development in Construction, Urbanism and Sustainable
Territorial Development “URBAN-INCERC”
Legal Representative: Director Vasile Meiţă
Person incharge from Partner 1: Emil Sever Georgescu |
| Project Duration | 36 months (August 2012 – June 2015) |
| Project Manager | Prof.dr.arch. Cristina Olga GOCIMAN — e-mail criba_proiectare@yahoo.com / tel. 0400 734591435 |
Executive summary
The habitat is a special-functional network where the home – as a basic structure coexists with the complementary public structures, commercial, educational, health and leisure facilities. The configuration of the habitat is an expression of the geoclimatic, social-politics and religious determinations of each community as a result of its organic development. The brutal destruction of the habitat as a result of communist demolition and multi-hazard exposure represents one of the major losses and threats to Romanian capital Bucharest. Urban blocks of the central protected area are exposed to multiple hazards and need strategies for risk mitigation. The case study area will be located in a central protected zone with a lot of patrimony habitat adjacent to the major axis E-W of Bucharest, in proximity of the Parliament Palace. Which was traumatized by earlier interventions during the dictatorship of Ceausescu and is therefore inhomogenous. Regarding the protection of architectural, urban, historic and natural environment values as a whole, a maximum level of protection was recommended. Diminishing multi-hazard risk through architectural, structural and urban planning in this area for: buildings, building proximities, urban sector, locality, region-territory area is a major task. Investigation and mapping of the characteristics specific for hazard of the location, the exposed risk elements, their vulnerability and the resulted risk (direct and indirect losses), as well as establishing the accepted risk and the identification of the secure habitat typology with patrimonial identity for urban development and post-disaster reconstruction. The research is proposing the scientific substantiation of some management operations for the reduction of disaster risk of the built space and the space under post-disaster reconstruction with keeping the continuity and specificity of the urban habitat, in order to preserve the feeling of civic affiliation.
Project objectives
Dimishing multihazard risk through spatial architecture and urban planning in this area for: buildings, building proximities, urban sector, locality, region-territory area.
Risk management was seen by the fundamental principle of sustainability like in Brundtland Report:
- To produce a comprehensive multi-hazard Architectural and Urban Risk Strategy,
- To establish an Architectural Urban Risk Information System,
- To develop the capacity for risk assessment at local level,
- To strengthen the urban disaster risk reduction system as a whole, planning, legislation technical normative – to modify the human and social relationship with the risk.
The project presents many elements of original thinking and novelty, because:
- as originality, it goes beyond the present state of the art by using a combination of easily availbale urban data and field survey data, according to visual and typological attributes;
- it is directly related to the present situation of built stock in protected areas;
- the approach, methods, techniques and investigation tools are especially developed, integrated and appropriate for the situation of areas where heritage si mixed with recently designed buildings and rules of interdiction are barely applicable;
- for each situation, some alternative approaches will be suggested and developed;