IMPLEMENTATION OF KNOWLEDGE ON ARCHITECTURE, SPACE AND DESIGN WITH A CONTRIBUTION TO ARCHITECTURAL CULTURAL HERITAGE FOR VOCATIONAL WOODWORKING SCHOOLS For a long time, architectural and design professions have been noticing that the general level of awareness about good-quality architecture and design, along with their relationship to architectural cultural heritage, is very low. In this project, Center arhitekture Slovenije and its partners endeavour to overcome the transfer of knowledge about architecture and design through the involvement of students of vocational woodworking schools. The trend of using wood in the building industry is growing, and all three partner organisation countries support the development of wood industries – therefore our focus is vocational woodworking schools. The students of today will create the works of tomorrow – in architecture and interior design. Rather than from architectural and design offices, their commissions will come directly from the general public, making them of even better quality and their visual appearance at a higher level. The new knowledge will support them in the awareness about the significance of protecting architectural cultural heritage, which is being deteriorated precisely because of the lack of awareness thereof. These students will find a challenge in regenerating architecture in wood, as today we witness many cases of deterioration of high-quality but abandoned architecture. The project will be carried out as a pilot project where we will show, on the case of two classes of secondary woodworking schools, how to get students familiar with architectural topics, using an engaging and experiential approach. The experts from Center arhitekture Slovenije, Ljubljana, Slovenia, Arhitektonski fakultet (Faculty of Architecture), Zagreb, Croatia, and Bilding Kunst- und Architekturschule für Kinder und Jugendliche, Innsbruck, Austria, will prepare a program to empower the students from vocational woodworking schools, to learn about the world of architecture and design in wood from experts in the field, and at a level adapted to their understanding. It is important that future experts in wood profession are able to distinguish between good and poor quality architecture, interiors, and design, and gain confidence in communication with their clients as well as architects and designers. The project’s programme will consist of three field trips (excursions) where the students from Croatia and Slovenia will together visit examples of good practices in architecture and interiors in wood, accompanied by architects and designers – one field trip per each country (Austria, Croatia, and Slovenia). This will be followed by two more field trips – Croatian students will visit architectural landmarks in Croatia, and Slovenian students those in Slovenia. This will be followed by workshops, which the Austrian partners will hold for Slovenian students in Škofja Loka and for Croatian students in Karlovac, at their respective schools. The last activity will involve a visit of an architectural office (studio) that designed one of the architectural works visited, where the students will learn about the various aspects of design and implementation of wooden architecture. The field trip itineraries will be composed so that the students will learn about traditional architecture and interiors, the 1950s and 1960s architecture, but particularly contemporary architecture from the last decade. After the conclusion of the project, the programme, which will be held at both schools, will be adapted to other vocational woodworking schools in Slovenia and Croatia. We will prepare a manual that the teachers will be able to use and deliver the programme prepared in this project. The manual will be designed so that the teachers from other countries will be able to use the itineraries in Slovenia and Croatia, respectively, take a field trip and visit selected good practices. As the manual will be written in three languages, i.e. Slovenian, Croatian, and English, teachers from other European educational establishments concerned with woodworking will be able to adopt the entire concept of the project, including fields trips and workshops. The manual with itineraries, papers, and workshops will be updated annually, and available on websites and social media.

The aim of the project is to research and develop an innovative model for a green building (based on student housing) on the campus that could be certified as A+ by applying new materials and technologies, the climate sensitive design approach and testing the possible alternatives with the future users in alignment with the Living laboratory principles. Our research is an extension of the present green campus multidisciplinary research and development. It belongs in the architecture domain, but it also includes interdisciplinary participation from other professions. We refer to the university campus Borongaj in Zagreb as an explicit framework of our research. The plan is to build it as a green campus with the highest level of energy efficiency. In its full form, that campus should be a place for studying, working, learning and living for about 20,000 academic citizens. For that reason, it was necessary to design a complex system and implement cutting-edge green technology and energy efficiency principles: bioclimatic principles of renewable energy sources, advanced technology, smart systems, and user adoptation of the new environment and technology within the methodology of the living laboratory concept. In the proposed three year project the team would research new materials, building elements and construction methods to define those appropriate for implementation. Using Building Information Management software and sustainable design principles the team will develop alternative building proposals that will be analyzed based on detailed energy, cost/benefit and quality of life simulations. The input from the construction industry is also planned. The third phase of the project is a testing phase in which, through student surveys and direct input from a selected group of students, the team expects to refine the proposals. In the end the research result needs to be evaluated within the high expectations of the green campus concept.

Europe gave birth to the industrial revolution about two centuries ago thanks to the convergence of a series of factors that allowed technology to be closer to society, while creating economic benefits to regional and national economies. With the globalisation, European cities lost a large volume of manufacturing capacity and transitioned to a knowledge economy. The result: a decrease in manufacturing jobs, the lack appreciation for these jobs, and neglected industrial areas subject to decay. Decay of industrial heritage has a major imprint on European city's identities, but also is a source of opportunity. The result, industrial areas with high historical value for Europe being abandoned or exploited by extractive economic activities, with no connection to local knowledge, and with no generation of value at the local level. CENTRINNO aims to develop and demonstrate strategies, approaches and solutions for regeneration of industrial historic sites and areas as creative production and manufacturing hubs, that 1) hold true to the ecological challenges of our time, 2) boost a diverse, inclusive and innovative urban economy, and 3) and use heritage as a catalizer for innovation and social inclusion. We give centre stage to craftsmen, vocationally trained professionals, entrepreneurs, makers, SME’s, Fab Labs, Food Labs and Makerpaces to become key players in the cities supply of local goods and support them to take on a fundamental role in our future cities, thus opposing disengagement and stagnation of local economies. Through a holistic method combining the Fab City Global Initiative approach to productive cities with Emotion Networking, life cycle assessment and spatially-specific material flow analyses, we bring to the fore both complex, layered histories of these sites as well as the cities available resources in terms of urban landscape, materials, current day skills and practice and human capital.

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