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© Visualisation: Milan Dinevski, Damjan Kokalevski
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Building (M6)
Since 1991, when the Yugoslavian army evacuated from the military barracks at Metelkova Street in Ljubljana, it became one of the prime examples of re-appropriating and re-vitalizing architectural heritage in Slovenia and abroad. The buildings today host various cultural activities, both formal and informal, while the whole area became developed and lively quarter of the city. It is neither representational nor ideological, or purely architectural space, but rather a performative and open-ended cultural ensemble.
This change materialized after the public competition in 1995-96 was completed, when the old military barracks, which were built for the Austro-Hungarian army between 1883 and 1895, were entirely dedicated to culture. The “Complex Metelkova” was split between northern part with multicultural program, and southern part dedicated to a museum activities. These two constituent parts would form cultural centre as one integral whole. However, this division between north and south became intensified in the coming years when the project was realised. On one hand, the “Museum quarter” became representational space of national culture and was a subject of comprehensive architectural renovation, on the other, “Metelkova mesto” became informal, progressive, and subversive centre with rich underground arts and music scene. Between the formal and informal part of Complex Metelkova, and right in the centre, is located a building which is the subject of this thesis. The building is legally a part of the formal and representational southern part but since it is neglected and filled with progressive content, it is programmatically much closer to the informal, northern part of the complex. This master thesis takes the rethinking of this building as its central theme and elaborates strategies for renovation and intervening. The aim is to turn it into a mediator that would integrate formal and informal activities into one whole, while keeping its heterogeneous character. It proposes physical link between the northern and the southern part and at the same time introduces a complex public program between the two parts which is missing at the moment. Author: Milan Dinevski
Mentorship: Tadej Glažar, Vid de Gleira and David Koren University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Architecture Ljubljana, Slovenia 2016 |
