Soft scape – the language of the park with greenery, tall trees and wood.

Hardscape – the language of the city with hard surfaces, stones and asphalt.

Through Inventive and innovative interpretations of the two more classic typologies the new public threshold contains a great potential to develop its own unique language physically expressing the future public life of Tirana.

The buildings that are placed in this threshold contribute with their volumes to create squares and volumetric rhythm along the edge of the threshold. The sequence of those buildings is carefully related to the needed functions in a way that the building contributes to the public life being themselves an active part of the threshold.

On both sides of the existing university, enhancing the axiality of the beautiful existing building, the new university administration office and facilities will be placed as totally integrated in the landscape. The mediateque offers a new program and a new functionality both for the university and the public life.

The new volume of the mediateque is mirroring the front volume of the existing university and thereby introducing the entrance to the public threshold.