Our vision focuses on creating a new city park for the city of Banja Luka, one that provides opportunities for all residents and visitors, a tranquilizer to the unsteady and uncertain transformation, a counterweight to residential and business blocks from the surrounding environment, a multi-functional community hub, a resilient design, and a tourists attraction. 

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The approach to and connection with surrounding environment is embedded in the thinking from the outset, from the existing grassland to the Vrbas River, the story, the experience, and the space continues to extend and spread. The idea also has been designed to connect with future developments and considerations to the east and west, with footbridge or cycling bridge options, it establishes an integrated and cohesive public realm for the broader Banja Luka community in accordance with the local government strategic planning.

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The proposed idea aims to collect the contaiminated and damaged soil and rehab its condition locally, to return the pedological condition back to a better status where people can enjoy the air, space and nature. The proposed programs also consider the park environment and has been designed to ensure that all local standards are achieved, through innovative landscape design solution, it creates a world class resilient parkland with effective pedestrian links throughout the landscaped areas.

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The design is inspired by the irregular shape, uneven relief characteristics of the site, the surrounding natural contextual factor, and the history of the city of Banja Luka, which creates a multi-functional social landscape hub, it is generally comprised of a series of open social spaces with a main focus in a pivot point, seamlessly connected to each zones and boundaries. The design capitalizes on the opportunity to link the water with the land to the east, and the surrounding community with this cultural icon. 

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Hence, the design acknowledges the traditional custodians of the lands and waters where people live and work, pays the respects to the elders, past and present and emerging, by providing series of resilient, buoyant, flexible and practical landscape design solutions. It is representing both old and the new, it is indicating the continuation of the story of Banja Luka, it is the cycle of life.