SUMMARY An obvious characteristic feature of current architectural projects should be their energetic economy and sophistication. Such trend is in the long term run required the European Union. The architectural point of view will certainly not be sufficient to accomplish the targets of the 20-20-20 strategy envisioned for the year 2020. It will be inevitable […]

Premises of the dynamite Nobel factory in Bratislava Ing. arch. Nina Bartošová, PhD. Since its establishment, the premises of a large-scale chemical works in Bratislava — Nové Mesto, has gone through an intricate development. They grew upon foundations of an explosives factory, founded by the eminent Swedish scientist Alfred Nobel in 1873. During the World War […]

Architectural utopia Ing. arch. Katarína Porázik, PhD. Ever since the beginnings of humanity, the men have been determined to change their living environment, which due to climatic, socio-political and economic conditions has not always been ideal. The ideas of better future and Utopia visions of ideal society have showed humans the path through the labyrinth […]

SUMMARY Specific elements in a landscape are significant characteristic features of landscape with a strong effect on local identity and they are a part of historical and existing landscape structure. Despite an insufficient present research they are related to the actual trends in landscape protection and management. This paper deals with characterisation and categorisation of […]

SUMMARY Cities originate from more simple settlements. Before the city, there was a hamlet and a shrine and a village; before the village, a camp, a cache, a cave. As the food producer, the village is closely linked with the city. However, the city concentrates more complex energy-exploitative human activities such as industry, transport, but […]

Houses need slaves

Stanislav Števo

SUMMARY The article deals with the energy aspect of modern houses – housing in the context of the overall life cycle assessment. It describes many misconceptions of energy and environmental assessments of buildings, which lead together with cheap fossil fuels – “energy slaves” to current unsustainable standard of living. In many examples the senseless spiral […]

ZHRNUTIE The main objective of the article is to closer disclose the process of designing the solution for the new Park Site on the place of the former cycling stadium. The first part deals with the broader relationships. The history of the former stadium area is mentioned, the functional use of the surrounding areas, connection […]