Out & About: Lonja Wetlands Wildlife Observatories and Visitor Centre

Tour of the Lonja wetlands, guided by authors, with a get-together at the Osekovo visitor centre. This visit will be preceded by a lecture of the architects in the Croatian Architects’ Association, in Zagreb, on the 7th of June at 6 p.m. Both events are jointly organized by OUT&ABOUT 2024 and Croatian Architects’ Association.

Lonja Wetlands Wildlife Observatories and Visitor Centre by roth&čerina

Exploring the unique protected landscape of the Lonja wetlands is planned through a network of entry-points, visitor centres and observatories placed alogn the edges of the nature park. The visitor infrastructure embodies centuries of culture adapting to a landscape in constant flux, of anthropogenic and natural symbioses, of a border condition.
The Osekovo visitor centre samples rural morphologies and tells the stories of the flora, fauna and cultural heritage. It repeats the scales and materials of surrounding rural morphologies, placing an info-point and administration in one house, an exhibition and auditorium in the other. The two buildings frame a communal square defined by deep trapezoid porticos and denivelations, initiating a focus of rural communal life. To expose the radical changes this environment goes through even closer, a network of observatories is placed along its edges. They serve as markers and vistas for witnessing slow change of waters, migrating wildlife, free-range livestock, but are also a ludic element of the landscape. Their biomorphic language is not explicit, yet embodies movement, organic form, traditional tools, echoing the locally familiar.

Guided tour: 9 June / 10:00 CET

Meeting point for the tour:
Centar Crna roda,
Gornje selo bb,
Osekovo

Venue of the lecture:
Trg bana J. Jelačića 3/1,
Zagreb

◾In collaboration with roth&čerina (architects); Clinica; Park prirode Lonjsko polje, Croatian Architects’ Association

Language: Croatian & English

Register here: tajnistvo@uha.hr

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.