Publicomos

Réf.

42991

Type

chapter

Titre

Vision and Reality: Evolution of the Winning Competition Entry for the New Town Hall Complex in Ljubljana

Langues

English

Auteurs

Čerpes, Ilka

Éditeurs

Stokin, Marko / Ifko, Sonja

Lieu de publication

Ljubljana

Pays de publication

Slovenia

Maison d'édition

ICOMOS Slovenia

Date

2014

Pages

p. 59-65

Collection

Monographic publications of ICOMOS Slovenia

Titre de la source

International Legal Standards for Heritage Protection in a Period of Economic Recession and Tools for Safeguarding Protection Standards

Vol. & n°

v. 1 n. 1

ISBN

978-961-281-627-8

Mots-clés

architectural competitions / architectural projects / brownfields / re-use / conversion of sites / town planning / architectural heritage / public and civic architecture / town halls / architectural design / financial aspects / investments / funding / legal framework / administration / town and country planning / economic aspects / social aspects / legal protection / legislation / land use plans

Pays mentionnés

Slovenia

Monuments et sites

City of Ljubljana

Personnalités

Plečnik, Jože

Résumé en anglais

The urban and architectural design competition for a new town hall was executed in 2009 bythe Municipality of Ljubljana. The main question of the competition was if the new complex of public activities and public buildings could reinforce the urban development of the easternedge of the existing city centre where extensive brownfield areas and abandoned industrial zones had been stopping the urban growth for years.The intervention site comprises an area of 3 hectares (30.000 square metres) and currently no active public functions or buildings are situated there. However, all around thereare many important fragments of architectural heritage from different historical eras (a protected old sugar factory from the first half of the 18th century, a small Baroque palace from the 18th century, a river barrier on the Ljubljanica from the 20th century by the famous Slovenian architect Plečnik and an excellent example of the 20th century modernist architecture in the form of a double round parking garage); however all of these structures are shrinking in terms of physical and functional conditions. A huge effort from the winning architectural team and the competition jury was made to preserve the heritage by the integration of all existing protected and unprotected historical building fragments into the building complex of a new municipal town hall in the sense of design and function. But further development of the project shows that they had underestimated the obstacles related to high investment costs and legal procedures that are not defined well enough. Currently, the development of the project has been halted and, in fact, a very small possibility of realisation exists.The scope of this paper is to discuss the main reasons for the project failure, which lie in legal obstacles and unsuccessfully provided public investment strategies, and to propose the possible follow-up activities for a more proactive safeguarding of the cultural heritage in the fields of architecture and urban design.

URL

http://www.icomos.si/files/2015/06/monographic-publication-1.pdf

Document joint

ICOMOS-SI- monographic-publication-Cerpes.pdf

Licence

Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (BY-NC-ND)