Facade Renewal of Generalštab Building in Rehabilitation and Adaptive Reuse Processes

Abstract

Awareness of the need to protect the architectural heritage of the twentieth century in Serbia has just started to develop. The future of the architect Nikola Dobrović’s Generalštab building, legally protected as a cultural property, but for a long time in a state of a ruin after the bombing in 1999, is still uncertain. After any future interventions with an aim to preserve the building, it will be necessary for it to remain the old Generalštab, but to become a modern facility. It brings us to a great number of processes that it will pass through, within its rehabilitation and adaptive reuse, when the selection of materials for new constructions and coverings, or repairs and conservation of the existing ones, will be inevitable. With the analysis of physical and mechanical characteristics of facade stone, we can make conclusions about the causes of current facade state and the possibilities of its renewal.