Over 900 castles, manors and manor houses have been built in Slovenia throughout history. Some have no traces left behind, others continue to live a different story, and still others are waiting for their new chapter. After World War II, many surviving manor houses were inhabited by temporary programs that urgently needed space. Due to the high cost of maintenance, over time, however, the manors remained empty. Since there was no investment, they lost their meaning for society and in many cases, urban degradation of the surroundings and associated parks began, and the identity of the space was lost.
The problem of revitalization is not only in the economics of maintenance, but also in the strategy of how to at she same time change a space that needs to be strictly protected enough to make it suitable for the needs of modern society. The preservation and reuse of buildings today does not only represent respect for cultural heritage, but also a sustainable way of urban development.
The work presented deals with the revitalization of the wider area of the Novo Celje manor and the surrounding park, its wider accessibility, and the valorisation and conversion of the existing built environment with a goal to establish an inclusive public and semi-public space.
The existing site situation is a conglomerate of programs, identities and architectural expressions. The issue of regulating the degraded surroundings of the mansion with its large-scale existing warehouses must be resolved in the context of sustainable use - by preserving the buildings and examining the potential offered by such an approach.
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