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Lesson 6 in Traditional Serbian Rural Architecture - Odt - NeoOffice Writer PDF
Lesson 6 in Traditional Serbian Rural Architecture - Odt - NeoOffice Writer PDF
That's what people would probably expect: a crazy Migrant-worker-Villa. Unfortunately, often when somebody
renovates or build a house in a village, he wants to show off and impress with a huge dimension and with expensive
looking stuff. The only thing we knew was: we do not want that! (picture from skyscrapercity)
So I collected my thoughts about traditional Serbian rural architecture:
Rural Buildings and architecture is related to lifestyle, mentality, social
structure of the people of the surroundings.
If in the past houses were built with just what the area offered, today we have
a waste choice of materials and products. If in the past, several generations
were living in form of a “zadruga” (clan) in the same building, now there is
rather one generation with occasionally a parent or so in the house. If in the
past several men organized the outdoor and several women were organizing
the household, now it's rather one couple doing the whole. Even if the
mentality stayed, the lifestyle and social structures changed from the past, the
architecture can not be exactly the same today as it used to be.
It's important not to erase the history from an existing house. History has
influenced Serbian tradition a few times, often in a violent way. So it its
national style should be preserved. It would be wrong to create a neutral style
(a globalized style) or to build a new house that could stand anywhere in the
world (sometimes this neutral style can be the greatest threat of identity of
people).
What's always been there blends better with the surrounding than a complete
new language of forms and patterns.
Keeping those ideas in mind I started to jot down sketches for the house
transformation........