Aleksandar Kekovic

Analysis of Compatibility of Contemporary Residential Housing in Nis with Current Standards in the Republic of Serbia

Contemporary housing in the Republic of Serbia is significantly influenced by political and social changes, at the end of XX and the beginning of XXI century. Drastic increase of poverty, as a consequence of these changes, reflected on housing market. Reduction of apartment size, and lower construction quality were primary methods of reducing apartment cost. These cost reduction strategies induced numerous problems in the exploitation of apartments. In the last few years the attempts were made to regulate housing market by new legislation. This paper analyses compatibility of existing housing units, constructed in this period, with new Standard. The objective of the paper is to determine the extent of deviation of from new legislative in order to evaluate the need for the reconstruction as well as for potential correction of the Standard.

Adaptive reuse of industrial heritage-case of the textile factory “Kosta Stamenkovic” in Serbia

In order to enhance preservation practice of industrial heritage buildings, this paper attempts to investigate and to present applicable patterns of conversion of old factory buildings. Main focus is put on the conversion of the former textile industry complex „Kosta Stamenkovic“, situated in the city of Leskovac, in Serbia. With the intention to return the former architectural glory and to activate new function, it has been necessary to implement set of urbarchitectural intervention in accordance with the current legislation in the field of protection of cultural heritage. The general intention of this paper is to explore the opportunities and importance of adaptive reuse of industrial heritage in order to enable the sustainability of the urban centres culture, history and economy, and to form the reputable patterns.

Contemporary moment of residential architecture at the global level: HOUSING 15

„Да су архитектонске изложбе незаобилазни и значајни део у развоју архитектуре уверавају нас изложбе чија пракса датира још из првих деценија ХХ века Париске изложбе (Salon d’Automne), на којима су изложена и три манифестна изложбена пројекта Ле Корбизијеа, затим Берлинске изложбе у другој половини ХХ века (Interbau 1957, IBA 1987), на којима је промовисана постмодерна кроз обимни подухват урбане обнове, до друге деценије ХХI века и Венецијанског бијенала 2014 (La Biennale di Venezia) са темом Сто година ,модернитета” (проф. арх. Дарко Марушић, цитат из увода каталога HOUSING 15).

Most significant buildings of the moderne style multi-family housing in Nis 1920-1941

The paper presents the buildings of multi-family housing which were designed and constructed in the spirit of the Moderne movement, in the period between two world wars, that is 1920 - 1941 in Nis. The Moderne movement which was dominant architectonic movement in Europe after the world war I, quickly gained followers in Serbia, and thus in Nis, both the architects and investors, because of its functionality and building cost-efficiency. The representative housing buildings in Nis, which were designed in the spirit of the Moderne, exhibit some aspects of development of these structures, that is, influences of the preceding styles and an inherited building model on the formation of Serbian, that is, Nis Moderne and its significance for the development of the city of Nis in the later period. .