Restoring Traditional Buildings in Croatia (Tihana Stepinac Fabijanic)

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European Conference: Heritage Care through Active Citizenship Mechelen, Belgium, March 23-24, 2009. T.S.Fabijanic: Restoring Traditional Buildings in Croatia Tihana Stepinac Fabijanic ECOVAST, Croatia RESTORING TRADITIONAL BUILDINGS IN CROATIA

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ECOVAST (European Council for the Village and Small Town) is a pan-european NGO supporting local initiatives of heritage conservation and sustainable rural development in villages and small towns.Croatian Section of ECOVAST , in cooperation with other similar national organizations and with involvement of local citizens (local governments, volunteers) developed a project of revitalization of villages through restoring traditional buildings in Croatia.The presentation (power-point) will focus on two examples of restoration activity undertaken for different types of houses in two different areas: a traditional East Slavonia sun-dried brick house in Erdut and Dalj vine-growing area, with collaboration of volunteers from a regional organization and a local Society of Hungarian Minority – thus promoting intercultural dialogue; the other is a wooden type of house with thatched roof in a hilly Zagorje area of North-West Croatia, where we support the local community of Bednja and their voluntary heritage initiatives.The aim of this project is also to establish a network of people and organizations involved in heritage conservation and management, as well as producing a practical publication/video for the local population interested in restoration process of their traditional architecture.

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European Conference: Heritage Care through Active Citizenship Mechelen, Belgium, March 23-24, 2009.

T.S.Fabijanic: Restoring Traditional Buildings in Croatia

Tihana Stepinac Fabijanic

ECOVAST, Croatia

RESTORING TRADITIONAL BUILDINGS IN CROATIA

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Croatian section of ECOVAST: (European Council for the Village and Small Town)

activities on heritage & landscape protection, rural development

more than 15 years of collaboration with local communities, national organizations and institutions

from 2008 – cooperation on local projects of restoring traditional buildings in two regions: Bednja in Zagorje region

Dalj /Erdut in Slavonia

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- regions of Zagorje (Bednja) & Slavonija (Dalj/Erdut)

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Zagorje region – landscape around Bednja

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Problems in Bednja area:- small number of inhabitants/ old

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Problems: remote area,

abandoned houses, hamlets

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Traditional architecture - types

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Traditional architecture - types

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Traditional architecture - types

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Zagorje house & barn

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Care & repair of houses

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Old & new houses

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New use of old houses

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Local community in action – restoration project ‘Hiza’

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Local volonters at work

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Future collaboration with ECOVAST: restoring buildigs

land use/patterns

landscape

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Landscape of the Danube area (Dalj)

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Dalj – Traditional architecture

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Erdut – traditional architecture

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Vineyard restoring project

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Restoring dry-brick house

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Restoring dry-brick house: workshop

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Restoring dry-brick house: workshop

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Thank you for attention

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