Welcome to Petrzalka!
Chorvátske Rameno is a man-made canal axis of the residential part of Bratislava - Petržalka. Petržalka has been suffering from many urban problems, as a result of unfinished planning, postponing and cancelling the metro construction or lack of amenities and gathering spaces. This led to turning Petržalka into a place that most people are afraid to enter.
The rumours about the high crime rate and many other urban myths are lately not even true, but the bad reputation stays. Our goal was to turn Petržalka into an attractive place, where not only do current residents love to live but it also attracts people from the other parts of the city.
As a starting point, we took existing research done on the area and gathered information about places of fear and safety from the perception of current inhabitants. Some statements were contradictory, but we narrowed the information into pre-development and pre-vitalizing strategic steps.
There are big development plans for the area already in progress, and our idea was to prepare people and the place for this change with smaller interventions. We analysed what makes scary places so scary and how to change that.
The steps were to make the places eligible, easy to define then give them a purpose, a specific attraction to bring people into the area, the last step is the already planned construction around the new tram rail along this axis.
The goal is to make Petrzalka a welcoming place to be!