BIG ARCHITECTURE FESTIVAL
May 22, 2020
City of Design Slovenia, Dunajska cesta 123, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

Big architecture is a leading business and educational event related to advanced architecture. It is intended to strengthen business success and attractiveness of South-Eastern Europe by researching, evaluating, and promoting architectural excellence. It serves as a catalyst of reflections about the crucial importance of architecture in the environment that takes into account and responds to the contemporary social challenges which are important for our existence, economy, and future.
The purpose of the festival is to familiarise architects and professional decision-makers with the new concepts of living, innovative technologies, building systems, services, and advanced solutions in forming and implementing a high-quality architectural envelope and interior. It is also an opportunity for the architects to present their work.

INSIGHT IN SITE
Globalisation crisis and critical regionalism
14.00-19.00
The conference is intended to discuss the concept of critical regionalism (Kenneth Frampton) in the third millennium and examine how shall that concept, which does not only represent a certain architectural theory, but also spatial practice, help us resolve crises which are becoming, at least in terms of space, increasingly global, be it urban, ecological, financial or health crises. By means of the phenomenology of senses (Juhani Pallasmaa) and by utilising spatial principles, it may be possible to steer architectural and urban development by joining the modern and the traditional, the scientific and the artistic, the technological and the natural. Such urban development shall no longer be only sustainable, but also a sustain for the future.
In a world where technology seems to be the driving force in our everyday living and working, maintaining the human touch and togetherness has never been more important. Working and creating together can benefits not just the design process and the work of the studio, but the growth of our own being as well.
Instead of different postmodern „virtual reality“ and even „reality shows“, where people are loosing themselves alike in ancients labyrinths; everyone need simply to reveal the real. We don’t need „overview“ only between objective and subjective, technical and human, outside and inside – we need The Insight in site, here and now!
Curators: Janko Rožič (Odprti krog) & Erik Jurišević, Mirjana Lozanovska, Silvija Shaleva (KONNTRA)

INTELLIGENT FAÇADES
Interlacing of demands and human-centered design
10.00-14.00
Intelligent façades no longer represent an added value, but an inevitable necessity, so that a building can function properly. Advances in building technology, tightened requirements of the legislative bodies resulting from environmental causes, and higher expectations of various building users, push the development of an outer building skin even further. Façades are becoming adaptive, interactive and intelligent in order to meet the demands of time. Its design shall determine the benefits a facade can have on its occupants, its impact on the surrounding environment or its effect on building energy efficiency. It can, among other things, improve the natural lighting conditions of the interior space, contribute to unisturbed views to the outside, enable fresh flow of air, and harvest water or energy from the sun, among other aspects. And yet, a façade is still the face of a building which is shown to the outside world. It represents an exterior of a building which can now, with the evolvement of a building skin, be freer in expression and can be more communicative with the outside world.
Curator: dr. Jernej Markelj

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