TY - JOUR AU - Bevk, Tadej PY - 2018/01/01 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Small matters: Explaining the city through a medieval wall JF - SPOOL JA - SPOOL VL - 5 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - 10.7480/spool.2018.1.1943 UR - https://spool.ac/index.php/spool/article/view/110 SP - 95-106 AB - <p>In the city of Kranj, Slovenia, three former medieval defence towers were redesigned as public spaces. The three interventions are positioned and discussed within the frame of small-scale interventions, specifically as urban acupuncture. First, small-scale interventions are looked at as an approach to designing open space, and parallels with landscape approach are presented. Second, the Three Towers project is discussed, focussing on the relationship it establishes between the city and its context. As the city is built on top of a conglomerate canyon, the interventions open up the slopes and offer distinct views of the surrounding landscape. In this way, they rediscover and emphasise the relationships between the existing contextual amenities and the city itself. The experience of the site grounds the visitor in a physical and historical context and thus fulfils the mental map one might create of Kranj. In this way, the three small interventions influence the perception of the whole city.</p> ER -