ANA ŠVERKO

Integration of Urban Design and Heritage Conservation Strategiesfor Diocletian’s palace, Split, Croatia

DIOCLETIAN’S PALACE

PALACE OF PLACES

If the city is like some large house and the house in turn like some small city, cannot the varied parts of the house be considered miniature build-ings?

Leon Battista Alberti, On the Art of Building in Ten Books, mid 15th century

In a small room one does not say what one would in a large room.

Louis I. Kahn, Architecture Comes from the Making of a Room, City/2, 1971 (Philadelphia Museum of Art)

“Diocletian’s palace: Palace of Places” has grown out from my master’s thesis: Integration of Urban Design and Conservation strategies for Diocletian’s palace in Split, I wrote at UC Berkeley, USA, in 2002. It was a logical synthesis of the years of ex-perience acquired by working for the Conserva-tion department in Split and education received at College of Environmental Design, UC Berkeley, two complementary sources which have defined my criteria of thinking about, evaluating and be-having in space. Most of the photographs in the book were taken by my dear friends Josipa Bilić, Duška Boban, Dubravka Čerina and Ana Perajica, and I can’t thank them enough.

CONTENTS

1. INTRODUCTION Diocletian’s palace - origin of the city of Split Goal Methods

2. TIME SCALE Ancient clarity Medieval mystery Renaissance and Baroque enclosure 19th century explosion

3. LARGE SCALE

INTERMEZZO / Walking tours From the eastern to the western gate of the palace From the northern to the southern gate of the palace

4. MEDIUM SCALE 20th century purification Urban design vocabulary of Diocletian’s palace Local public perception research Observation through figure-ground theory Reading through linkage theory Reading through land use Interpretation through place theory

5. PALACE OF PLACES 21st century montage Street and site scale Learning from Edinburgh The wall and the entry foyer: superposition of small shops along eastern wall of the palace The archaeological site: rehabilitation of southeastern quadrant of the palace The ruin and the street: formation of one of the continuous E-W streets The street and the archaeological site: Decumanus and the ancient mosaic close to the eastern gate The Golden Gate “Green Art Area”

6. SMALL SCALE 7. CONCLUSION

About the Author

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BibliotekaHrvatska spomenička baština

Ana Šverko

PALACE OF PLACES

Publisher Ex libris d.o.o. / For the publisher Ivan Berislav Vodopija / / Editor Jelena Hekman /

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from the National University LibraryISBN 978-953-284-034-6

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