Students of the Faculty of Architecture, at the International Green Design Biennial in Mostar and the International Summer School

From 30 September, 2019 to 5 October 2019, selected students of the Faculty of Architecture, University of Sarajevo attended the manifestation of the International Green Design Biennial in Mostar and participated in the International Summer School.
The Green Design Biennale this year included the opening of an exhibition on green cities, facilities and design, as well as lectures that presented successful examples of sustainable planning and design implementation in the United Kingdom, Belgium, the Netherlands, Sweden, Turkey, Israel, France, Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Green Design Biennale organizer is the Sarajevo Green Design Foundation (SGDF), its founder and president Prof. Dr. Elma Durmišević, in collaboration with the City of Mostar, the Džemal Bijedić University in Mostar and the University of Mostar. During the Biennial, SGDF presented the works on the first phase of the construction of the Green Design Center and the South East Europe Innovation Park in Mostar, initiated and designed by Prof. Dr. Elma Durmišević on the principles of reversible construction and circular economy in architecture.
Green Design Center is also an EU pilot project and part of the Horizon 2020 Buildings as Material Banks project and demonstrates innovative EU BAMB approaches in architecture and construction to eliminate waste, CO2 emissions and other negative environmental impacts.
Faculty of Architecture in Sarajevo students who attended the workshops were: Beus Erna, Emic Alić, Delić Tarik, Elma Begić, Adina Šahinović and Lejla Čolaković.
The Future Green Neighborhoods Mostar coordination workshop was conducted by Assistant Aleksandar Grujičić, grad. eng. from the Faculty of Architecture, University of Belgrade. The coordination of the workshop “Design of Mostar's Green River Walk and Cultural (Time Travel) Transversals” was performed by Senada Demirovic, grad. eng. in front of the Mostar City Administration.
The workshops resulted in extremely innovative and interesting solutions, the success of which is mainly reflected in the improvement of knowledge of students and present teaching staff on the principles of sustainable construction and Green Design, which was adopted by regular visits to lectures by numerous European architects and researchers, and through direct exchange of experience and work ethics with students from other Universities during thematic workshops.
Emphasis on the realization of design for reuse products of the workshop in collaboration with professional contractors and workshop coordinators resulted in the realization of three unique mobile products, which were made on the principles of the Green Design Center as flexible and reversible products using materials left over from the first phase of Green Design Center. Also, the very interesting concepts of urban solutions and integrated indicators in design, green settlements represent additional confirmation of the success of these workshops and such events.