The duality of the mountain world as an idealized and at the same time disappearing space is becoming a stalemate in discourse about the Alps. With the loss of agricultural use, the alpine pastures become overgrown, the building fabric collapses, and the knowledge of construction and restoration disappears.
On the example of an abandoned mountain pasture "Planina pod Mišelj vrhom" and the still standing alpine huts there, I explore the (possibility) of architectural intervention in preserving these objects, the meaning of the empty world, and how and above all why to restore in a world that is collapsing.
I approach the research problem through a hybrid methodology,
including phenomenological research into the construct of alpine paradise, a comparative analysis of the state of alpine huts on the mountains, qualitative and quantitative methodologies, including interviews, a review of
literature and observations. While also visiting the mountains for many years, to understand the historical context of the mountains, and mapping both the spatial, social, and structural aspects of the mountains in modern times.
By establishing new frames of understanding the location, where the experience of an untouchable paradise is intertwined with confrontations with the ends of the world, I present the architectural ability to act as an emanation of the new reality of the alpine pastures, which once again respond to existential problems, this time of modern man.
By identifying a new program, anchored in the modern crisis of loneliness, I identify the possibility of the existence of post-pasture alpine pastures. With simultaneous attention to the specific biotic sensitivity of the location in the heart of the Triglav National Park, I design a cyclical strategy for the restoration of objects, where through use I establish the need and interest in maintaining the objects and the material integrity of the space, and preserving the intangible cultural heritage of the knowledge of building and restoring the Bohinj herdsmen's hut. Through the redefinition of the alpine pastures, I answer the question of what a mountain paradise can represent today. In the practical part of the task, through the design process, drawings, making models and experimentation I examine how we coexist with decay and transience.
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