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Dr. Alenka Fikfak
University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Architecture, Slovenia

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Journal article
Published: 24 June 2020 in Sustainability
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Parking in park-and-ride (P + R) facilities on the outskirts of a city reduces the traffic inside the cities and follows the principles of sustainable mobility. However, large paved (asphalt) surfaces create urban heat islands (UHI). This causes the temperature to rise in vehicles during full-day parking, which has a negative effect on comfort level and driving performance. This study was conceptualized as two-stage research. The first (preliminary) stage dealt with the measurement and analysis of temperature data at two nearby open parking lots in the city of Ljubljana, one of which was the main research spatial area, P + R Barje (L1), and Trnovo parking (L2), which was used for comparison in the first-stage research. In the preliminary research, we underlined the problem of long-term parking in parking areas exposed to heatwaves (HW). The second stage involved the studying of greening schemes in P + R facilities, which would allow for optimal shading during parking. Advanced 3D and 4D models using ENVI-met and LEONARDO software were developed, which assessed the parking surfaces and the areas of optimum outdoor comfort. Shading by greenery was adopted in this paper, as the strategy aimed at improving the conditions by modelling different variants of greening the parking lot L1.

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Alenka Fikfak; Kristijan Lavtižar; Janez Peter Grom; Saja Kosanović; Martina Zbašnik-Senegačnik. Study of Urban Greenery Models to Prevent Overheating of Parked Vehicles in P + R Facilities in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Sustainability 2020, 12, 5160 .

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Alenka Fikfak, Kristijan Lavtižar, Janez Peter Grom, Saja Kosanović, Martina Zbašnik-Senegačnik. Study of Urban Greenery Models to Prevent Overheating of Parked Vehicles in P + R Facilities in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (12):5160.

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Alenka Fikfak; Kristijan Lavtižar; Janez Peter Grom; Saja Kosanović; Martina Zbašnik-Senegačnik. 2020. "Study of Urban Greenery Models to Prevent Overheating of Parked Vehicles in P + R Facilities in Ljubljana, Slovenia." Sustainability 12, no. 12: 5160.

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Published: 28 September 2018 in Urbani izziv
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Matej Nikšič; Stefania Ragozino; Alenka Fikfak. Public spaces and local life: Questioning the participatory approaches. Urbani izziv 2018, 29, 3 -8.

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Matej Nikšič, Stefania Ragozino, Alenka Fikfak. Public spaces and local life: Questioning the participatory approaches. Urbani izziv. 2018; 29 (supplement):3-8.

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Matej Nikšič; Stefania Ragozino; Alenka Fikfak. 2018. "Public spaces and local life: Questioning the participatory approaches." Urbani izziv 29, no. supplement: 3-8.

Journal article
Published: 11 May 2018 in Mokslas - Lietuvos ateitis
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In the period between the two world wars, the latent tensions between the European nations resulted in the construction of defensive positions on the borderlines of major European countries. Under the same conditions, the Italian Kingdom built an extensive fortification line, i.e. the Alpine Wall. The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes (SHS) replied to it with the Rupnik Line. On the base of the Treaty of Rapallo, a 289-km long demarcation line was built with an exceptional defence infrastructure, which interfered with vast natural areas of exceptional quality that are protected by various nature conservation regimes today. The research presented in this paper is focused on a specific land expropriation. The goal is to understand the historical perspectives and assess the current significance of this fortification system with its impact on the natural environment. The system of spatial assessment of the architectural, urban, regional and spatial planning aspects and landscape interpretation has been developed with the use of spatial planning mapping and other methods. It was tested on the case study of the Žiri Municipality to establish a possible systemic base on which the entirety of the Rapallo border with its defence infrastructures could be mapped and their contemporary role assessed.

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Janez Peter Grom; Alenka Fikfak; Luka Skansi. FORTIFICATIONS OF THE RAPALLO BORDER AND THEIR ROLE AS CO-CREATORS OF SPACE / RAPALLO SIENOS ĮTVIRTINIMAI IR JŲ VAIDMUO KURIANT ERDVĘ. Mokslas - Lietuvos ateitis 2018, 10, 1 -8.

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Janez Peter Grom, Alenka Fikfak, Luka Skansi. FORTIFICATIONS OF THE RAPALLO BORDER AND THEIR ROLE AS CO-CREATORS OF SPACE / RAPALLO SIENOS ĮTVIRTINIMAI IR JŲ VAIDMUO KURIANT ERDVĘ. Mokslas - Lietuvos ateitis. 2018; 10 ():1-8.

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Janez Peter Grom; Alenka Fikfak; Luka Skansi. 2018. "FORTIFICATIONS OF THE RAPALLO BORDER AND THEIR ROLE AS CO-CREATORS OF SPACE / RAPALLO SIENOS ĮTVIRTINIMAI IR JŲ VAIDMUO KURIANT ERDVĘ." Mokslas - Lietuvos ateitis 10, no. : 1-8.

Conference paper
Published: 06 March 2018 in E3S Web of Conferences
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Lack of financial resources has become one of the main issues in fulfilling social and physical needs in urban development. The declining levels of public resources make the collaboration between public and private investors necessary. When facing the challenges of ageing population, shared investment may contribute to the appropriate development of sheltered housing to meet the goals of spatial planning as well as certain standards at the level of urban design. By ensuring appropriate living conditions for all generations such urban PPP projects may contribute to the fulfilment of the public interest. The paper presents practice of PPP implementation in Ljubljana, Slovenia, where local authority with the collaboration of private partners ensured more than 400 sheltered apartments in the last years. Examples show the extension of the idea from the 70s onwards in finding new models of housing for the aging population. The development of new models can be a good example of strengthening the cooperation between public and private partners in the field of urban development practice.

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Miha Konjar; Matej Nikšič; Janez Peter Grom; Sabina Mujkić; Alenka Fikfak. Ensuring living condition for ageing population by public–private partnership (PPP). E3S Web of Conferences 2018, 33, 03002 .

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Miha Konjar, Matej Nikšič, Janez Peter Grom, Sabina Mujkić, Alenka Fikfak. Ensuring living condition for ageing population by public–private partnership (PPP). E3S Web of Conferences. 2018; 33 ():03002.

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Miha Konjar; Matej Nikšič; Janez Peter Grom; Sabina Mujkić; Alenka Fikfak. 2018. "Ensuring living condition for ageing population by public–private partnership (PPP)." E3S Web of Conferences 33, no. : 03002.

Journal article
Published: 01 January 2018 in Igra ustvarjalnosti - Creativity Game
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Saja Kosanović; Branislav Folić; Olivera Lekić; Alenka Fikfak. Designing the Knowledge Labs for Sustainable Built Environment in the Western Balkans. Igra ustvarjalnosti - Creativity Game 2018, 2018, 1 .

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Saja Kosanović, Branislav Folić, Olivera Lekić, Alenka Fikfak. Designing the Knowledge Labs for Sustainable Built Environment in the Western Balkans. Igra ustvarjalnosti - Creativity Game. 2018; 2018 (6):1.

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Saja Kosanović; Branislav Folić; Olivera Lekić; Alenka Fikfak. 2018. "Designing the Knowledge Labs for Sustainable Built Environment in the Western Balkans." Igra ustvarjalnosti - Creativity Game 2018, no. 6: 1.

Journal article
Published: 15 September 2017 in Notulae Botanicae Horti Agrobotanici Cluj-Napoca
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Land development analyses play a fundamental role in understanding how land use change shapes the land, depending on continuously changing social, economic, and environmental factors that reflect the interests in space. It is especially important to follow land use changes in rural areas due to their role in food security, environmental hazards, cultural landscape preservation, etc. Continuous analyses and monitoring of land use changes allow for the identification and prevention of negative trends in land use (over intensification, land fragmentation, etc.) that might affect biodiversity, change physical and chemical properties of soil, causing soil degradation, change the spatial balance, stability and natural equilibrium in the rural area. The use of the cross-tabulation matrix methodology was suggested for land use change analyses. The methodology, when the cross-tabulation matrix elements are correctly interpreted, allows us to gain as much insight as possible in the process of land use change. This approach enabled a detailed analysis of vineyards in Goriška brda, Slovenia. It was found that the existing methodology fails to analyse the location of change. For this reason, additional analyses of spatial distribution of change and of the locations where changes in space occur were suggested. The study demonstrated that the land use category of vineyards changes systematically, although seemingly randomly. By comparing land use categories over several time periods, the study determined that the size and speed of change varied across different time intervals. The identified land use changes were assessed in the context of their high pressure on agricultural land. The results of the analyses showed different trends shaping the typical agrarian landscape in Goriška brda.

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Alenka Fikfak; Velibor Spalevic; Saja Kosanovic; Svetislav G. Popovic; Mladen Djurovic; Miha Konjar. Land Use Development of Vineyards in Goriška Brda, Slovenia. Notulae Botanicae Horti Agrobotanici Cluj-Napoca 2017, 45, 611 -622.

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Alenka Fikfak, Velibor Spalevic, Saja Kosanovic, Svetislav G. Popovic, Mladen Djurovic, Miha Konjar. Land Use Development of Vineyards in Goriška Brda, Slovenia. Notulae Botanicae Horti Agrobotanici Cluj-Napoca. 2017; 45 (2):611-622.

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Alenka Fikfak; Velibor Spalevic; Saja Kosanovic; Svetislav G. Popovic; Mladen Djurovic; Miha Konjar. 2017. "Land Use Development of Vineyards in Goriška Brda, Slovenia." Notulae Botanicae Horti Agrobotanici Cluj-Napoca 45, no. 2: 611-622.

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Published: 14 January 2017 in Sustainability
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The study conducted in this paper is focused on a predominantly residential area of the City of Ljubljana—Koseze, which is characterized by generally favorable (bio)climatic conditions. Nonetheless, thermal satellite images showed that residential neighborhoods within the Koseze district display unexpected variations in summer temperatures. This observation called into question the benefits of existing bioclimatic features and indicated the need to investigate and compare two neighborhoods with similar urban parameters, with the aim to identify morphological differential characteristics impacting urban heat island (UHI) intensity. By applying the study methodology based on a literature review, surveys of key precedents, detailed mapping in two Koseze locations, in situ measurements, observations and recordings, thermal imagery, and the analyses of statistical data, as well as by defining the four main categories of morphological urban parameters—structure, cover, fabric and metabolism, it was concluded that both neighborhoods have common morphological elements mitigating the UHI effect. Additionally, it was found that the neighborhood with higher UHI intensity has several less favorable features, such as busier roads, larger surface of parking corridors, and the existence of underground parking space. The traffic as an element of urban morphology hence represents the main cause of differences among UHI levels in the two Koseze neighborhoods.

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Alenka Fikfak; Saja Kosanović; Miha Konjar; Janez P. Grom; Martina Zbašnik-Senegačnik. The Impact of Morphological Features on Summer Temperature Variations on the Example of Two Residential Neighborhoods in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Sustainability 2017, 9, 122 .

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Alenka Fikfak, Saja Kosanović, Miha Konjar, Janez P. Grom, Martina Zbašnik-Senegačnik. The Impact of Morphological Features on Summer Temperature Variations on the Example of Two Residential Neighborhoods in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Sustainability. 2017; 9 (1):122.

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Alenka Fikfak; Saja Kosanović; Miha Konjar; Janez P. Grom; Martina Zbašnik-Senegačnik. 2017. "The Impact of Morphological Features on Summer Temperature Variations on the Example of Two Residential Neighborhoods in Ljubljana, Slovenia." Sustainability 9, no. 1: 122.

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Published: 13 January 2017
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The study conducted in this paper is focused on a predominantly residential area of the City of Ljubljana – Koseze, which is characterized by generally favorable (bio)climatic conditions. Nonetheless, thermal satellite imaging showed that residential neighborhoods within the Koseze district display unexpected variations in summer temperatures. This observation called into question the benefits of existing bioclimatic features and indicated the need to investigate and compare two neighborhoods with similar urban parameters, with the aim to identify morphological differential characteristics impacting urban heat island (UHI) intensity. By applying the study methodology based on a literature review, surveys of key precedents, detailed mapping in two Koseze locations, in situ measurements, observations and recordings, thermal imaging and the analyses of statistical data, as well as by defining the four main categories of morphological urban parameters – structure, cover, fabric and metabolism, it was concluded that both neighborhoods have common morphological elements mitigating the UHI effect. Additionally, it was found that the neighborhood with higher UHI intensity has several less favorable features, such as busier roads, larger surface of parking corridors, and the existence of underground parking space. The traffic as an element of urban morphology hence represents the main cause of differences among UHI levels in the two Koseze neighborhoods.

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Alenka Fikfak; Saja Kosanović; Miha Konjar; Janez P. Grom; Martina Zbašnik-Senegačnik. The Impact of Morphological Features on Summer Temperature Variations on the Example of two Residential Neighborhoods in Ljubljana, Slovenia. 2017, 1 .

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Alenka Fikfak, Saja Kosanović, Miha Konjar, Janez P. Grom, Martina Zbašnik-Senegačnik. The Impact of Morphological Features on Summer Temperature Variations on the Example of two Residential Neighborhoods in Ljubljana, Slovenia. . 2017; ():1.

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Alenka Fikfak; Saja Kosanović; Miha Konjar; Janez P. Grom; Martina Zbašnik-Senegačnik. 2017. "The Impact of Morphological Features on Summer Temperature Variations on the Example of two Residential Neighborhoods in Ljubljana, Slovenia." , no. : 1.

Journal article
Published: 01 September 2016 in Materials Science Forum
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Innovative materials and structures are analyzed in this paper. The quality indicators of the wet front systems could be improved by possible expanding the range of mineral fillers due to the use of raw materials nanotehnological carbonate.This work is dedicated to use of nanofilled compositions for plastering in order to expand the competitiveness of Russian producers. It presents an experimental method of determining strength of the separation of the sample solution from the hardened base (brick or concrete). Educed the effect of the sludge and the PCC on the plasters composition.

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Elena Perlova; Maria Platonova; Evgeny Bondarenko; Исса Того; Alexander Tereshchenko; Alenka Fikfak. Nano Filled Façade Plasters to Increase Durability of Building and Structures. Materials Science Forum 2016, 871, 76 -83.

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Elena Perlova, Maria Platonova, Evgeny Bondarenko, Исса Того, Alexander Tereshchenko, Alenka Fikfak. Nano Filled Façade Plasters to Increase Durability of Building and Structures. Materials Science Forum. 2016; 871 ():76-83.

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Elena Perlova; Maria Platonova; Evgeny Bondarenko; Исса Того; Alexander Tereshchenko; Alenka Fikfak. 2016. "Nano Filled Façade Plasters to Increase Durability of Building and Structures." Materials Science Forum 871, no. : 76-83.

Journal article
Published: 01 July 2016 in Architecture and Urban Planning
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Design studio, workshop, practical placement and design-build concept, are all forms of experiential learning. The aim of this paper is to investigate the significance of design-build concept and to define the extent to which it has penetrated into architectural curricula. Results indicate variety in understanding, programming and implementation among different schools. Conducted comparative analysis of different case examples could be used as a guideline to schools in which this concept has not been introduced yet.

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Branislav Folić; Saja Kosanović; Tadej Glažar; Alenka Fikfak. Design-Build Concept In Architectural Education. Architecture and Urban Planning 2016, 11, 49 -55.

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Branislav Folić, Saja Kosanović, Tadej Glažar, Alenka Fikfak. Design-Build Concept In Architectural Education. Architecture and Urban Planning. 2016; 11 (1):49-55.

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Branislav Folić; Saja Kosanović; Tadej Glažar; Alenka Fikfak. 2016. "Design-Build Concept In Architectural Education." Architecture and Urban Planning 11, no. 1: 49-55.

Journal article
Published: 30 June 2016 in The Journal "Agriculture and Forestry"
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Saja Kosanovic; Alenka Fikfak; Svetislav G. Popovic. AGRARIAN LANDSCAPE BETWEEN TRANSITION AND SUSTAINABILITY - GRACANICA AREA CASE STUDY. The Journal "Agriculture and Forestry" 2016, 62, 1 .

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Saja Kosanovic, Alenka Fikfak, Svetislav G. Popovic. AGRARIAN LANDSCAPE BETWEEN TRANSITION AND SUSTAINABILITY - GRACANICA AREA CASE STUDY. The Journal "Agriculture and Forestry". 2016; 62 (2):1.

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Saja Kosanovic; Alenka Fikfak; Svetislav G. Popovic. 2016. "AGRARIAN LANDSCAPE BETWEEN TRANSITION AND SUSTAINABILITY - GRACANICA AREA CASE STUDY." The Journal "Agriculture and Forestry" 62, no. 2: 1.

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Published: 01 March 2016 in Energy and Buildings
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Saja Kosanović; Alenka Fikfak. Development of criteria for ecological evaluation of private residential lots in urban areas. Energy and Buildings 2016, 115, 69 -77.

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Saja Kosanović, Alenka Fikfak. Development of criteria for ecological evaluation of private residential lots in urban areas. Energy and Buildings. 2016; 115 ():69-77.

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Saja Kosanović; Alenka Fikfak. 2016. "Development of criteria for ecological evaluation of private residential lots in urban areas." Energy and Buildings 115, no. : 69-77.

Journal article
Published: 31 December 2015 in Open Urban Studies and Demography Journal
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Resilience of Inland Urban Areas to Disasters Occurred Due to Extreme Precipitations

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Saja Kosanović; Linda Hildebrand; Gordana Stević; Alenka Fikfak. Resilience of Inland Urban Areas to Disasters Occurred Due to Extreme Precipitations. Open Urban Studies and Demography Journal 2015, 1, 41 -51.

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Saja Kosanović, Linda Hildebrand, Gordana Stević, Alenka Fikfak. Resilience of Inland Urban Areas to Disasters Occurred Due to Extreme Precipitations. Open Urban Studies and Demography Journal. 2015; 1 (1):41-51.

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Saja Kosanović; Linda Hildebrand; Gordana Stević; Alenka Fikfak. 2015. "Resilience of Inland Urban Areas to Disasters Occurred Due to Extreme Precipitations." Open Urban Studies and Demography Journal 1, no. 1: 41-51.

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Published: 31 December 2015 in Open Urban Studies and Demography Journal
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Editorial “Urbanity in Motion”

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Alenka Fikfak; Cristian Suau. Editorial “Urbanity in Motion”. Open Urban Studies and Demography Journal 2015, 1, 13 -15.

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Alenka Fikfak, Cristian Suau. Editorial “Urbanity in Motion”. Open Urban Studies and Demography Journal. 2015; 1 (1):13-15.

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Alenka Fikfak; Cristian Suau. 2015. "Editorial “Urbanity in Motion”." Open Urban Studies and Demography Journal 1, no. 1: 13-15.

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Published: 15 December 2015 in The Journal "Agriculture and Forestry"
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Alenka Fikfak; Svetislav G. Popovic; Saja Kosanovic. SETTLEMENT PATTERNS IN AN AGRARIAN LANDSCAPE � PRINCIPLES OF CLASIFFICATION IN GORISKA BRDA, SLOVENIA. The Journal "Agriculture and Forestry" 2015, 61, 1 .

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Alenka Fikfak, Svetislav G. Popovic, Saja Kosanovic. SETTLEMENT PATTERNS IN AN AGRARIAN LANDSCAPE � PRINCIPLES OF CLASIFFICATION IN GORISKA BRDA, SLOVENIA. The Journal "Agriculture and Forestry". 2015; 61 (4):1.

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Alenka Fikfak; Svetislav G. Popovic; Saja Kosanovic. 2015. "SETTLEMENT PATTERNS IN AN AGRARIAN LANDSCAPE � PRINCIPLES OF CLASIFFICATION IN GORISKA BRDA, SLOVENIA." The Journal "Agriculture and Forestry" 61, no. 4: 1.

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Published: 01 January 2015 in Applied Mechanics and Materials
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During the period of transition after the independence, Slovenia faced many challenges brought about by the liberal free market, among others in spatial planning. National spatial development legislation and profession steadily adapted to this process, by changing the existing practice of spatial development planning in line with the new development baselines and objectives. The paper focuses on the survey of planning trends and the difficulties encountered by Slovenia in the implementation of development strategies, as shown in the example of business zones.

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Alenka Fikfak; Gregor Čok. Efficiency of Implementation of Spatial Development Strategies on the Case of Business Zones in Slovenia. Applied Mechanics and Materials 2015, 725-726, 1128 -1133.

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Alenka Fikfak, Gregor Čok. Efficiency of Implementation of Spatial Development Strategies on the Case of Business Zones in Slovenia. Applied Mechanics and Materials. 2015; 725-726 ():1128-1133.

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Alenka Fikfak; Gregor Čok. 2015. "Efficiency of Implementation of Spatial Development Strategies on the Case of Business Zones in Slovenia." Applied Mechanics and Materials 725-726, no. : 1128-1133.

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Published: 01 January 2015 in Spatium
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The history of prison architecture concerns the development of various design formats. In contemporary terms, punishment and re-socialization are the two equally important purposes of a prison institution. Rightfully, the contemporary model of prison architecture may be viewed, inter alia, as a spatial response to the re-socialization programme. Based on a comprehensive literature review, critical discussion, and scientific description, this paper defines the main qualitative elements of prison architecture, which responds to the requirements for re-socialization of inmates, and further explains the way in which each response is provided. From these architectural and design attributes, a list of 30 indicators of the spatial response to re-socialization was established. Furthermore, by using the derived indicators, a comparative analysis of four contemporary European prisons was conducted. The results showed both similarities and differences in the spatial response to the re-socialization programme, indicating that the spatial potential for re-socialization of inmates may be developed by using various approaches to prison design.

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Alenka Fikfak; Saja Kosanovic; Mia Crnic; Vasa J. Perović. The contemporary model of prison architecture: Spatial response to the re-socialization programme. Spatium 2015, 27 -34.

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Alenka Fikfak, Saja Kosanovic, Mia Crnic, Vasa J. Perović. The contemporary model of prison architecture: Spatial response to the re-socialization programme. Spatium. 2015; (34):27-34.

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Alenka Fikfak; Saja Kosanovic; Mia Crnic; Vasa J. Perović. 2015. "The contemporary model of prison architecture: Spatial response to the re-socialization programme." Spatium , no. 34: 27-34.

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Published: 23 December 2014 in JOURNAL OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM
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Mega-slums are dynamic laboratories for urban pattern making. Instead of surveying about stable urban symbols represented by formal orders and regular geometries, this study explores the semantic meaning of informal urbanism associated with chaos or randomness and often ignored by critique and conventions. Slums are forms of ‘instant urbanity’ that underscore alternative ways of self-organisation, which include bottom-up strategies, autonomous urban dynamics and spatial activation by remaking. Are slum patterns representing a lack of symbolism or, on contrary, rich, complex, and fluid urban idioms? Urban informality without planning offers immense opportunities to investigate resilient urban forms and languages as complex systems throughout self-ruled structures. Slums are not only the result of urban economic asymmetries and social marginalisation but the elementary construction of survival urbanism, a randomised, agile and transformative pattern system. Slum making is a form of subsistence urbanity that constructs transitory, elusive or spontaneous geometries. They differ in sizes, magnitudes and geometries regarding cultural, climatic and topographic conditions. Slums are unstable systems in continuous transformation. This essay questions the stigmatisation of informalised urban patterns as ‘other’ unclassified codes by analysing a selection of twenty mega-slums in the Americas, Africa and Asia regarding semantics, urban and geometrical meanings. Their urban tissues contain various symbols that activate the every-day production of spaces. They can be visible or invisible; passive or active; and formal or informal. A taxonomic tree of slums was developed to compare and map slum regions to describe similarities and differences among the selected case studies. From this analysis, a profound discourse appeared between informal settlements: tissue-patterns at macro level and cell-patterns in micro urbanisation. Does the macro pattern inform the micro, or vice versa?

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Carmelo Zappulla; Cristian Suau; Alenka Fikfak. THE PATTERN MAKING OF MEGA-SLUMS ON SEMANTICS IN SLUM URBAN CULTURES. JOURNAL OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM 2014, 38, 247 -264.

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Carmelo Zappulla, Cristian Suau, Alenka Fikfak. THE PATTERN MAKING OF MEGA-SLUMS ON SEMANTICS IN SLUM URBAN CULTURES. JOURNAL OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM. 2014; 38 (4):247-264.

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Carmelo Zappulla; Cristian Suau; Alenka Fikfak. 2014. "THE PATTERN MAKING OF MEGA-SLUMS ON SEMANTICS IN SLUM URBAN CULTURES." JOURNAL OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM 38, no. 4: 247-264.

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Published: 01 September 2014 in European Countryside
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The paper focuses on the interdependence between the development of demographically endangered settlements and the frequency of mountain accidents in the Triglav National Park in the Slovenian Alps. Using statistical data analyses of the Mountain Rescue Association of Slovenia, field surveys and spatial information of the Surveying and Mapping Authority of the Republic of Slovenia, conclusions were reached, which redefined the existing settlement pattern of alpine shelters and mountain pastures, to encourage safe mountaineering and the development of tourism. The upgraded network of Alpine posts is designed as an upgrade of the existing system of providing safety for the visitors to the high mountain regions of the Triglav National Park. At the same time, it offers a new format of tourist services as an opportunity to develop local economies in demographically endangered environments. The dual function (rescue services and tourism) reduces investment and maintenance costs and increases the efficiency in the exploitation of the network of paths and Alpine posts, hence it is feasible also in demographically endangered areas. It is one of the operational tools for stopping further decline in population.

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Ilka Čerpes; Nina Pandol; Alenka Fikfak. Upgrading the Network of High Mountain Shelter as A Method of Restoring of Demographically Endangered Settlements in the Slovenian Alps. European Countryside 2014, 6, 225 -242.

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Ilka Čerpes, Nina Pandol, Alenka Fikfak. Upgrading the Network of High Mountain Shelter as A Method of Restoring of Demographically Endangered Settlements in the Slovenian Alps. European Countryside. 2014; 6 (3):225-242.

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Ilka Čerpes; Nina Pandol; Alenka Fikfak. 2014. "Upgrading the Network of High Mountain Shelter as A Method of Restoring of Demographically Endangered Settlements in the Slovenian Alps." European Countryside 6, no. 3: 225-242.

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Published: 24 December 2013 in JOURNAL OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM
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The paper presents a study on the quality of architectural education at the Faculty of Architecture (FA) of the University of Ljubljana (UL) and the changes as a result of adopting the new rules, criteria and evaluation systems. In order to improve the quality of education at FA, we look at the indicators related to the data on student learning outcomes and the education as a whole. The formal data and the comparison of performance (quality) indicators between 2006 and 2012 are shown. Additionally, the basic scope of the Long-cycle Master's Study Programme in Architecture (MSPA) is presented in terms of content and mobility. The focus of architectural education at the UL FA, which includes practical, artistic and research work, and simulates work in the architectural studio, is on Design Studio course, which is directly complemented by the Architectural Workshop course. The work that includes both the individual approach and team work promotes connections among foreign and Slovenian students. Four cases in point are presented, confirming the significance of creative work within the courses of Design Studio, Architectural Workshop and Master Thesis.

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Alenka Fikfak. QUALITY OF ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION AT THE FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA. JOURNAL OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM 2013, 37, 257 -267.

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Alenka Fikfak. QUALITY OF ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION AT THE FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA. JOURNAL OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM. 2013; 37 (4):257-267.

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Alenka Fikfak. 2013. "QUALITY OF ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION AT THE FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA." JOURNAL OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM 37, no. 4: 257-267.