Is there another way of building? Concept design of a hempcrete factory in Šmatevž pri Gomilskem
Author: Lenart Piano Data: Is there another way of building? Concept design of a hempcrete factory in Šmatevž pri Gomilskem Category: Plečnik Fund Grant Authors: Lenart Piano Collaborators: / Year of realisation: 2022 Mentor: prof. mag. Tomaž Krušec, co-mentor asist. Miha Munda
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Is there another way of building? Concept design of a hempcrete factory in Šmatevž pri Gomilskem - Jury's report Lenart Piano's master thesis transcends a mere architectural design. It shares more with a start-up company's business plan: beside the architectural project, it proposes an audacious business model which the author develops in a realistic context on a specific site with a comprehensive description of the industrial production of an original building product. The author presents a fully realisable revitalisation project of the former industrial area of a very intensively cultivated cultural landscape of hop yards in Savinjska Valley. In place of the abandoned industry, a new one is established: agronomic culture, which perfectly integrates with the space spatially as well as in terms of form and programme, revitalises said space, and augments it. The project also includes an abandoned manor, Štrovsenek, for which an entirely feasible model of the restoration of our cultural heritage of castles is envisaged. The thesis is at the same time realistic, practicable, current, and complex. The production of hempcrete blocks is developed in great detail and showcased using the example of a dedicated factory. The project affords equal attention to architecture, industrial production, work processes, economics and market research. cultural heritage, landscape, the countryside, and ecology, including recycling. The thesis is accomplished and an exemplary case of complex, mature consideration of an architect who critically addresses numerous problems of our time both regionally, in Savinjska Valley, as well as on a much broader scale.
