Out & About: Covering the remains of the Church of St. John the Baptist in the Žiče Charterhouse

Guided tour as part of the Architectural festival Open House Slovenia 2024. The visit of the Church of St. John the Baptist in the Žiče Charterhouse includes a presentation of the project and guided tour with the authors. At the end, it will be a discussion with the participants.

Covering the remains of the Church of St. John the Baptist in the Žiče Charterhouse

The renovation had to comply with contemporary technical, programming and conservation requirements. The construction and restoration interventions in the existing walls were carried out in such a way that they enable a chronological reading of the nine-hundred-year-old sacral space. As part of the renovation, the reconstruction of the demolished part of the northern wall of the church was completed. The largest intervention was the covering of the existing building substance of the church with a semi-movable folding roof. A merged solution, the movable folding roof allows two extremes at the same time: when lowered, it enables smooth running of events in the church, regardless of the season and weather, while when raised, it preserves one of the most important intangible moments of the ruins – contact with the open sky. For access to the top of the remains or in the “loft” of the new roof, new suspended spiral staircases were designed in the existing vertical shafts of the former spiral staircases.

Guided tour: 14 April / 10:00 CET

Meeting point:
Stare Slemene, Žička kartuzija

◾In collaboration with Rok Žnidaršič (architect); Matija Plevnik (chief conservator); Tjaša Kangler TIC (client); OHS (promotor)
◾Guided tour with the authors

Language: Slovene & English

Register here: https://odprtehiseslovenije.org/en/

Out & About 2024

“Out & About. Discovering Architecture. EUmies Awards 2024” will take place from April onwards in over 30 European places in which shortlisted works of the prize are located. Organised by Creative Europe, Fundació Mies van der Rohe and the indisputable expertise of Guiding Architects, everybody has the opportunity to know much more about buildings and public spaces in their cities or in places that they are visiting with the authors, clients and people who know them well.