Alpski kontrapost – Medprostor
ALPINE CONTRAPPOSTO – MEDPROSTOR
Book promotion and round table on the renovation for life
Participants: Rok Žnidaršič, Kengo Kuma, Carlos Martínez de Albornoz, Maruša Zorec, Maroje Mrduljaš
About the book: The renovation of the Vrlovčnik Homestead by Medprostor, located in the isolation of the mountains, valleys and forests of Slovenia, is an architectural collage of materials, time and meanings through a radical surgical operation on the traditional farm structures. It exemplifies architecture that arises from the juxtaposition of old and new, conventional and radical, nameless and specific, enigmatic and clear, intellectual and emotional, useful and useless. The aesthetics of conflict and contrast resurrect the abandoned farm buildings doomed to anonymity, decay and oblivion. This patient and refined architectural surgery gives the three ordinary farm structures an entirely new life and narrative content through vital dialogical transformations. The project exemplifies the fundamental mediating capacity of architecture, as opposed to the commonly totalizing and autistic approach of forcefully aestheticized contemporary architectural imagery. – Juhani Pallasmaa, from the book Alpine Contrapposto. – Juhani Pallasmaa, from the book Alpine Contrapposto
Authors of the essays: Juhani Pallasmaa, Petra Čeferin, Miloš Kosec, Maroje Mrduljaš
Foto essey: Damir Fabijanić