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URBAN REVITALIZATION "TOMIS SQUARE AND PORT TOMIS SQUARE"

CONSTANTA, ROMANIA

World Bank study, 2019

Tomis Square
Tomis Square is located in the central area of Constanţa Municipality and is part of the traditional historical fabric determined by the arrangement of closed urban islands bordered by the following streets: Tomis Boulevard to the Northeast, Sulmona Street to the East, Traian Street to the Southwest and Doinei Street in the North-West.
The shape in the plan is determined by the route of the streets mentioned above, currently, the whole area being divided into 2 sectors with different particularities. A sector with spontaneously developed high and medium mature vegetation and a sector without high vegetation which is currently used as an undeveloped ad hoc parking lot. The destructured image of the studied space is further altered by the presence of building shields, randomly stored debris, etc.
The proposal aims to restore this public square to the citizens of Constanta by highlighting the positive features of the space and eliminating the negative features identified through the urban analysis of the space. The development concept aims to create a quality urban space with a pleasant environment, to which several essential elements contribute: the preserved and the proposed vegetation, and the treatment of the public space from a positive perspective related to the new structures and identities given to the designed public space.

Port Tomis Square
The area proposed for development is currently presented in the form of a discontinuity segment of the urban fabric, being occupied by a large parking lot that surrounds a poorly equipped and undersized children’s playground. Although it is located near the shore of the Black Sea, due to the topography of the land and the maritime protection constructions, this major element for the identity of the area and the municipality is ignored and absent.
The intended intervention proposes to remedy these shortcomings by treating the whole area as an element of articulation between several major identity elements of the area, listed in order of their importance: the Black Sea, the tourist route that includes a series of landmark elements at national level (Constanța Casino, Constanța Aquarium, Fleet Command etc.), Marinei Street along which are lined a series of restaurants overlooking the port, and Lebedei Street as an intermediate connecting element with the tourist route of the old center of Constanța that crosses Ovidiu Square.

Authors
arch. Octav Silviu Olănescu
arch. Vlad Sebastian Rusu
arch. Anamaria Olănescu
arch. Andrada Pinte 
arch. Petrică Maier-Drăgan

W.B. Coordinator
Marcel Ionescu-Heroiu