INSPIRATION FOR CONTEMPORARY PREFABRICATION FOUND IN TRADITION

Abstract

The paper discusses the buildings from the past that can be considered the precursors of prefabricated buildings as we know them today, and can also be considered as inspiration for modern prefabrication. The research platform in the paper is represented by selected examples of buildings characteristic of the Western Balkans, namely: "kućer", "povoznica", "tronj", a hut on Koštan polje and a house from Kosovo. The second part of the paper presents an example from the world, a "yurt" characteristic of various locations on the Asian continent, which finds application in the modern world. Flexibility, mobility and economy, the main characteristics of prefabricated buildings as we know them today, are recognized as guiding ideas of the analyzed examples

Keywords

• regionalism
• vernacular architecture
• portable buildings
• prefab buildings
• assembly-disassembly
• prefab evolution