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Zakopane, Poland: The Critical Analysis of Contemporary Large-Scale Architecture
Zakopane is a Polish winter resort renowned for its vernacular, wooden architecture and strong regional culture. Development of the city is linked strongly to tourism and nestled in the foothills of the Tatra Mountains, Zakopane and the Podhale region since the second half of the 19th century has attracted mountaineers, researchers, scientists and later sanatoriums for tuberculosis patients. The city obtained charter rights in 1933. Subsequent development has seen a progressive change in the local architectural style with the construction of larger scale buildings to accommodate growing visitor numbers. Currently, Zakopane attracts around 3.5 million tourists annually making it one of the most visited cities in Poland. Specific changes to the built form are the result of newly constructed buildings predominately designed for wealthy, out of town people as investments in rental and time-share vacation accommodation bringing inappropriate adaptations of the local, vernacular architecture such as unauthentic decorative motives and citations. Nevertheless, while most properties offer high quality, luxury accommodation with many amenities it has made real estate prices unobtainable for local residents and changed the socioeconomic and urban aspects of everyday life in Zakopane. This paper aims to study and classify new, large-scale investment in the city such as hotels, condo hotels and apartment buildings and their influence on the vernacular urban architecture of the city. It will also investigate and characterise various qualities of these new developments such as functionality, aesthetics and the protection of existing cultural values such as the city centre and area around the Ski Jump.
Zakopane, Poland: The Critical Analysis of Contemporary Large-Scale Architecture
Zakopane is a Polish winter resort renowned for its vernacular, wooden architecture and strong regional culture. Development of the city is linked strongly to tourism and nestled in the foothills of the Tatra Mountains, Zakopane and the Podhale region since the second half of the 19th century has attracted mountaineers, researchers, scientists and later sanatoriums for tuberculosis patients. The city obtained charter rights in 1933. Subsequent development has seen a progressive change in the local architectural style with the construction of larger scale buildings to accommodate growing visitor numbers. Currently, Zakopane attracts around 3.5 million tourists annually making it one of the most visited cities in Poland. Specific changes to the built form are the result of newly constructed buildings predominately designed for wealthy, out of town people as investments in rental and time-share vacation accommodation bringing inappropriate adaptations of the local, vernacular architecture such as unauthentic decorative motives and citations. Nevertheless, while most properties offer high quality, luxury accommodation with many amenities it has made real estate prices unobtainable for local residents and changed the socioeconomic and urban aspects of everyday life in Zakopane. This paper aims to study and classify new, large-scale investment in the city such as hotels, condo hotels and apartment buildings and their influence on the vernacular urban architecture of the city. It will also investigate and characterise various qualities of these new developments such as functionality, aesthetics and the protection of existing cultural values such as the city centre and area around the Ski Jump.
Zakopane, Poland: The Critical Analysis of Contemporary Large-Scale Architecture
Ewa Stachura (author) / Marta Mantyka (author)
2019
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, Architecture , NA1-9428
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