Naslov
Faces of an island

Autori
Šepić, Ljiljana

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, stručni

Izvornik
12th Congress of the International Union of Women Architects / Matsukawa-Tuschida Junko - Tokyo, 1998, 100-101

Skup
People, Architecture and Cities in an Age of Harmony with the Environment

Mjesto i datum
Tokyo, Japan, 01.09.1998. - 07.09.1998

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Pozvano predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
natural landscape; dry-stone walls (gromače); gradine; environmental conscience
(natural landscape; dry-stone walls; environmental conscience)

Sažetak
What are the messages of the man's intervention on the natural landscape of the Adriatic biggest island Krk that are reaching us through ages?. We can decipher these messages in three faces of the visual, spatial and ecological impact of man's activities. 1. The first face is represented in an intricate net of dry-stone walls ("gromače") formed from stones cleared to make soil arreable and then used in walls to keep in the fertile soil. The "gromače" formations from the bird's eye view have an almost calligraphic quality and could be likened to the old Croatian alphabet type Glagolitsa. They talk the language of the first island's ploughmen, of the first traces of men's hand and men's thought, of the complete co-existence with nature. 2. The second face is represented in the human settlements. "Gromače" walls began to rise and form, first, pre-historic "gradine" and then medieval cities of irregular plan, organically incorporated in the hillside landscape, their streets following the slopes, becoming in this way a part of the natural landscape, part of island's alphabet of "gromače" formations, their exclamation marks. 3. The third, most recent face is represented in the big industrial complexes of chemical plants located in the closest vicinity of "gromače" and the medieval cities, forming a completely foreign element in the island's landscape. The blot-marks of the huge reservoirs are obliterating all the previous messages of the coexistence. 4. What is going to be the 21st century message? Is the newly established environmental conscience going to bring back the lost harmony, to reestablish the magnificent symbiosis lost in this century?

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Arhitektura i urbanizam

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