Author: SuperSpatial For the station square of Podgorica, Montenegro, the Milanese studio SuperSpatial has imagined a conceptual space, but also in a strong relationship with the city A blank canvas for public life. This is how the Milanese studio SuperSpatial describes its project for the renovation of the unpronounceable Golootočkih žrtava square in front of the Podgorica station (Montenegro). The purpose of the intervention, awarded in competition, is to restore the square's vocation as a public space, a link between the infrastructure and the city . For this reason the architects have imagined the area as a large continuous surface that lends itself to the most diverse uses. The relationship with the context takes place in two different and antithetical ways: in some points the pavement folds and covers the buildings it encounters, generating scenographic and monumental urban scenes; elsewhere it dematerialises by connecting to the neighborhood through the system of green spaces. The neutral surface is punctuated by a regular mesh, an echo of radical Italian architecture, which helps measure the extent of the completely pedestrian space. Vehicle traffic is in fact managed on the lower level, where there is also a commercial area. «The challenge is to design a space capable of giving a vision of the future for Podgorica», say Andrea Govi ​​and Antonio La Marca, founders of the studio. «The project we have created represents the first transformation scenario». In fact, the proposal does not only concern design, but a strategy for the development and expansion of public space which sees the area gradually transform into a business district with an international vocation.