Izola is a culturally rich town. With its charm, it attracts people from all over the world and offers them a place to create. Once known as a fishing town, with strongly developed fish processing industry. In 1881, a cannery was built on the location we are dealing with. After the breakup of Yugoslavia, the lack of materials on the market and the slow introduction of innovations led to the collapse of the industry. Today, the location is abandoned, and the only evidence of the former existence of the factory are the existing entrance buildings, the wall next to the main street and the building of the boiler room with a chimney.
The task deals with the possible revitalization of the degraded area. In the first part, the assignment investigates the degree of degradation of the space and checks the potential of the location. The aim of the task is to revitalize the area of the Argo factory, by re-establishing a place for knowledge transfer, a place for innovation and development, which will be accessible to everyone, both permanent residents and occasional visitors, which will be a tourist attraction and a support for the economic development of the city.
The proposal touches on the wider location and offers a possible revitalization of the area with a conceptual design that places a mixed program in the space - green areas, cultural spaces, an outdoor public bath and the spaces of a craft and creative center. The new facility of the craft and creative center is designed as a hybrid that can change both spatially or/and with content changes - according to the needs of space and time.
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