Anton’s proposal: Park with a water mirror

Location of the public territory: The place is a parking lot on Studentska Street, opposite of the entrance of the primary school “Chernorizets Hrabar”.

Current status: The terrain is a makeshift parking lot, serving the needs of residents in the adjacent residential building. It borders a newly built sports complex, and to the north there’s the entrance to the “Chernorizets Hrabar” primary school.

Project-idea: To renovate the terrain in a park with a chapel and a water mirror, which does not exist in the Levski neighborhood. To beautify the landscape, to plant new trees, shrubs and flowers. To have new benches and gazebos. To build an underground parking lot on several levels, which will solve the problem of parking, at least in the neighboring block of flats.

About the author: Anton Bogdev is an engineer – designer. He graduated from the University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy in Sofia and the National High School of Humanities and Arts “Konstantin Preslavski” in Varna. His competencies include: production of specialized maps, creation of digital terrain models, vertical planning, calculation of volumes and quantities, geographic information systems. Contact: anton_bogdev@abv.bg.

We are also waiting for your suggestions for the initiative “What does EcoVarna look like” at e-mail: ecovarna.info@gmail.com.

Projects must:

– to ensure a balance between natural and anthropogenic factors and to create preconditions for sustainable development of Varna;

– to contain a short explanatory part about the location of the public territory, its current state and vision for its future development;

– to be accompanied by a visualization – a photo of the current state of the place and a color sketch, a diagram of the future;

– be accompanied by a short CV of the author;

The projects will be published in the cause “Urban Development” on the site ecovarna.info. After the completion of the initiative (until the collection of 12 project ideas) they will be submitted to the Union of Architects – Varna. All 12 ideas of “What EcoVarna looks like” will be presented in an official exhibition during the civic forum “Conference on Democracy 2021”, which is held annually on the last Saturday of February.

What EcoVarna Looks Like is part of the Active for Public Spaces initiative.

Translator: Valentina Vagge