The editorial discusses the contemporary approaches to landscape protection, which tend not to protect what is valuable in the landscape, but rather the influence and social power of the institutions and professions. This is not only prohibitive for the development but also for human creativity, while at the same time not successfully protecting landscape. More creativity is proposed as an alternative approach, which is only appropriate to protect the dynamic and complex features of landscape. “Creative conservation” means searching for new solutions, responding to our needs while at the same time least harmful for nature and other users.
C.05 Editorial board of a national magazine
COBISS.SI-ID: 7796601Text presents the rurality of the Slovenian territory, which is no longer only rural, since the agriculture engages only a few percents of the people. More and more, the rural areas are polluted with the continuum of unpretty houses, commercial billboards, grotesque roundabouts, technological parks, shopping centres, colourful facades and hedges of cypresses. Therefore, the text brings forward the problem of systematic lack of the spatial culture and the space as the public value. The factors which influence degradation of the Slovenian cultural landscape are listed, such as the conflict between the countryside and the notions about it as present in the everyday engineers’ practice.
B.02 Presiding over the programming board of a conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 7551865Text speaks about dilemmas with the renovation of the historical parks and gardens, which are met by the spatial planners/developers of the renovation processes. It integrates the actual cases from the practice; not only presenting the dilemmas connected to the conservatory programmes but also looking for the artistic relationship between the old and the new. Author researches the structural and artistic relation between the park, mansion and the neighbourhood environment and also looks into creation of the relationships between the old and the new. At the same time author tries to address the question of generating the form from the existing data (of the space) and by looking into »the spirit« of the previous conception. These findings resolve into the new design language. Article presents the following examples from the current practice: renovation of the park of the mansion Novo Celje, programme and spatial study for the protection and the development of the park of Brdo pri Kranji etc. Finally, the potential of the mansion and the park Dornava for the comprehensive renovation process is presented.
F.27 Contribution to preserving/protecting natural and cultural heritage
COBISS.SI-ID: 7850361Competition proposal focuses on the improvement and design of the landscape in the area of ski jumps in Planica that also fully dictates the architectural outlook of the buildings. The new development is mainly influenced by the ski jumps dispersed in the fan shape which creates the spatial order and tranquillity. The suggested design contradicts the neighbouring mountain landscape, succumbed to the natural dynamics. That is by the engineering and programme logic which inspired the orderly, functional and technologically perfected landscape. Terraced design of the sport field follows the natural ascent of the terrain; this demarcates the space and arranges it according to the programme. Development upgrades the existing topography and joints it into the unified item by the refined design of the relief. This brings forwards the hidden poetics of the space, in which the human dream of flying comes true for a brief moment.
F.29 Contribution to the development of national cultural identity
COBISS.SI-ID: 7854201The symposium was intended to enhance linkages between the professions dealing with spatial design and health. The presented contribution deals with the quality of living in new housing developments in Ljubljana, which have limited and poorly furnished open space. The aim of the research was to investigate how this may influence life style of the inhabitants, especially its health related aspects. Lack of adequate open space means that people, especially elderly and children, spend less time outside, physically and socially active. The differences between pilot areas, discovered by inventory of urban parameters, were confirmed by the findings of behavior observation and mapping, and results of survey among inhabitants. Lack of quantity and quality of open space leads to less time spent outside and limits the activities to transit and toddler play.
D.04 Initiative to set up a new research area in Slovenia
COBISS.SI-ID: 7923065