Green Line complex planned in New Belgrade – Space for 13,500 residents with 160-m tower

The Detailed Regulation Plan of the area between Jurija Gagarina Street and Zemunska Street (now Egipatska Street), phase II, in New Belgrade, the space in which the former IMT factory is located, is available for public inspection. This is where the Green Line complex, whose investor is ABL Solvent, whereas the Zap studio was in charge of the architectural and urban planning project, will be raised.

The space is divided into: traffic routes, areas for infrastructural facilities and complexes, green areas, areas for facilities and complexes of public services, mixed city centers and areas for commercial features. Six blocks are planned.

As reported by Gradnja, the architects have decided to set the narrow, but tall (up to 64 m), facilities along the borders and along the internal zone of the blocks. The longer, but lower (up to 32 m) facilities are positioned so at form internal yards, which have the role of park microunits and are mutually connected by smaller passageways.

Block 3 has three smaller business towers, with heights between 112 and 120 meters, and Block 4, which faces Jurija Gagarina Street, features the main business tower, up to 160 meters tall.

The landmark of the space is the green corridor, which stretches for 800 meters from Egipatska Street to Jurija Gagarina Street.

According to the documentation, the total area covered by the plan amounts to around 36 ha. The space is planned for the construction of 5,000 apartments for 13,500 tenants. A total of 3,500 employees are planned. The residential GLA is 587,000 m2, and that of the commercial features 45,000 m2.

Mixed city centers

Mixed city centers entail a combination of commercial features with residence. Residence is not allowed on the ground floors of the planned facilities.

On each building parcel, the construction of one facility with several units is allowed. The height of the crown amounts to 16 m to 64 m.

By its position on the building parcel (BP), the facility is: free standing on BP-8, leaning on one side on BP-1, BP-2, BP-4, BP-5, BP-6 and BP-7 and leaning on two sides on BP-3.

Within the compatible purposes, three locations of the annex of a preschool institution are planned.

Commercial features

Commercial features are business complexes, retail (department stores, supermarkets, food, non-food, specialized and mixed goods stores, shopping centers, discount centers), business operations (business and financial institutions, branch offices, companies and agencies for the provision of business, intellectual, informatics and other services, hospitality and tourism (motels, hotels, bed-and-breakfast facilities, hostels, restaurants, cafes, tourism agencies), commercial forms of sports and recreation activities, entertainment, showrooms (car salons, sale of furniture).

On each building parcel, the construction of one facility is allowed.

The maximum height of the crown ranges between 16 m and 160 m.

By its position on the building parcel (BP), the facility is: free standing on BP-12, leaning on one side on BP-9 and BP-11 and leaning on two sides on BP-10.

Public services

For the total number of residents of around 13,500 in the territory of the Plan, around 992 children of preschool age are expected.

Two locations for preschool institution facilities are planned, with a maximum capacity of 270 users in the blocks 2 and 4, as well as three annexes of preschool institutions in the blocks 3 and 4.

The total planned capacity of the preschool institutions within the area covered by the Plan is 780 children, whereas the remaining children of preschool age will be put in the preschool institution facilities envisaged by the Detailed Regulation Plan of the area between Jurija Gagarina Street and Zemunska Street (IMT), city municipality of New Belgrade – phase I, in which spare capacities for 155 children of preschool age are envisaged.

Around 1,234 children of school age are expected. One location for elementary school facilities with a capacity of 1,200 pupils is planned in the block 3, for one shift (40 classes).

Within the borders of the Plan in the block 1, an institution is planned in which activities of the social protection institution – City Center for Social Work – New Belgrade department and a club for adults and the elderly will be organized.

Cultural institution

A cultural institution is also planned in this space – a polyfunctional cultural-education center consisting of a library with a reading room (with a minimum area of 300 m2, a minimum number of spaces of 40 and a minimum number of spaces for the internet reading room of 20); a multipurpose hall with a stage that can be adapted for various events (music, dance, film, theater, etc.); spaces for thematically different workshops and classrooms (visual and applied arts, galleries, classrooms – language and computer courses, studios, depots, storage rooms for technical devices and equipment) and a space for a café-gallery.

To the end of economic sustainability, a part of the facility can be used for commercial purposes, compatible with the main purpose: hospitality features, sales galleries, bookstores, antiques shops, stores selling artworks, painting and other art materials and so on.

Traffic routes

The Plan encompasses Egipatska Street and Jurija Gagarina Street, both in the category of main roads. The other traffic routes within the border of the Plan are part of the secondary street network and serve for access to the planned features. New traffic routes are planned.

The existing bicycle lanes in Omladinskih Brigada, Tosin Bunar, Egipatska and Jurija Gagarina streets are to be kept and adapted to the planned design.

The plan is the keep the current routes of bus and tram lines in Egipatska and Jurija Gagarina streets and to introduce bus lines in the following streets: Japanska, Evropska, Nova 1 and Nova 2.

The subway line 3 goes through the area covered by this plan.

Within the borders of the Plan, parking is planned within the areas of the following traffic routes: Egipatska Street - 19 PS, Nova 1 - 153 PS, Japanska - 19 PS, Nova 2 - 72 PS, Nova 3 – 46 PS and Nova 4 – 44 PS. Parking is also planned in the facilities’ garages.

Green areas

Linear greenery elements are to be formed in the zone of the planned traffic routes – tree lanes and small grass gardens which have the role of local green infrastructure corridors.

The parking spaces are planned to be protected from sunlight by tree lanes.

A park, with an estimated area of 7,020 m2, is planned in the block 6, as is a green area in a part of the open residential block 64, which is bordered by Gandijeva, Japanska and Nova 1 streets, with an area of around 4,000 m2.

The public inspection lasts until July 3, and the DRP was prepared by the Urban Planning Institute of Belgrade.

The planned purpose of the areas can be seen in the document below the article.

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