Boathouse Zaka

Boathouse Zaka – Jury Report

The renovation of the boathouse on Lake Bled preserves the continuity of the architectural heritage through its thoughtful reinterpretation within a contemporary spatial and social context. By retaining the original architecture, conducting an almost forensic analysis of it, and innovatively reusing its formal elements, the authors have created a distinctly restrained yet atmospherically rich architectural solution. The jury recognizes the project’s highest quality precisely in what remains unbuilt – in the deliberate absence of the made, as well as in a series of small, carefully considered interventions whose cumulative effect establishes a new approach to understanding the relationship between the past and the present.