Koper Central Park, Slovenia Landscape Architecture, Competition Winners, Images
Koper Central Park in Slovenia
Slovenian Public Landscape Development – design by Enota, Architects
28 Mar 2018
Koper Central Park
Design: Enota
Loction: Koper, Slovenia
Construction underway on ENOTA´s winning Koper Central Park competition proposal

Construction has started on ENOTA Architects recent winning proposal for a Central park in Slovenian coastal town of Koper. The basic building blocks of the new city park are monolithic, undulating urban elements. Their controlled placement in the space in combination with a pronounced topography of the green surfaces softly divides the whole of the park’s surface into individual introverted programme isles.
This area needs an intervention which will bolster the free-time activities of Koper’s inhabitants and further connect the old part of the city with the suburbs of Semedela, Olmo and Markovec, which are strewn across the slopes of Markov Hill.

In line with the prognosis that the sea by the promenade is to grow increasingly cleaner, it is feasible that a new city beach may appear along the promenade. Successful similar examples show that a city beach is not only an area where people take a dip in the sea but that city beaches can become the most important free-time socialising space. Since the densely developed old town core does not allow for a sufficient number of large open spaces and constrains their size, and since we...