Ad Hoc
Design Research
Design Research
Summer retreat on a bank of West Morava, a river in Central Serbia.
Situated in the Ovčar-Kablar Gorge, a protected nature reserve, characterized by extreme fluctuations, which results in severe floods.
Discipline: Architecture, Design Research
Location: Ovcar-Kablar Gorge, Serbia
Status: Completed 2023
Authors: Aleksa Bijelović, Milica Maksimović — Petokraka
Discipline: Architecture, Design Research
Location: Ovcar-Kablar Gorge, Serbia
Status: Completed 2023
Authors: Aleksa Bijelović, Milica Maksimović — Petokraka
Building Site
Ad Hoc: A Remote Design-assisted Building Process
A response to a self-build project initiated as a fast-track routing to replace an existing structure lost by severe flooding. Contextually a viable practice, this organic building process is infamous for the lack of planning and for missing the usual checkpoints of professional procedures. It reflects the local social dynamics and communal relations.
To add a design component to it means to rewire the typical methods of work and to relearn the rules of action. The design doesn’t have a planning purpose anymore but is reactive and informed by the building actions in the field and adapts to them. It is almost a role-inversion play with uncertain consequences.
To add a design component to it means to rewire the typical methods of work and to relearn the rules of action. The design doesn’t have a planning purpose anymore but is reactive and informed by the building actions in the field and adapts to them. It is almost a role-inversion play with uncertain consequences.
Creative Practice — Petokraka
In Perth, Western Australia
and Belgrade, Serbia
In Perth, Western Australia
and Belgrade, Serbia