Marios Tsangaris: Zagreb’s Fun Club

Marios Tsangaris’ “Zagreb’s Fun Club” explores a compelling border condition in Zagreb—the railway corridor void. This void functions as a connection to the European network and as a barrier that isolates the city’s core from its outskirts. Within this context, the railway void is viewed as a threshold shaping our interactions and experiences with the city environment. This threshold exhibits a diverse range of physical attributes, including variations in height, materials, adjacent roadways, pedestrian pathways, buffer zones, visual openness, and architectural configurations.

A crossing point emerges by mapping a continuous parallel path along the border and directing our focus toward it. This crossing point transcends mere functions related to production and consumption; it holds profound significance. Not only does it carry historical importance by aligning with an existing city route, but it also draws inspiration from the temporary existence of a movable passage over the railway at that location (see: https://blog.dnevnik.hr/nepoznatizagreb/oznaka/nathodnici).

To challenge the status quo of the area, the conceptual framework for reenacting this passage is inspired by Cedric Price’s Fun Palace project (see: https://www.cca.qc.ca/en/articles/issues/2/what-the-future-looked-like/32737/1964-fun).