Gërmia - center for contemporary creation

This work examines and argues the reuse of an existing building, a former department store, and its transformation into a centre of contemporary creation, using architecture as an instrument to resolve a specific urban vision and reimagine the relationship between the city, its past and art. The focus lies in the typological transformative reuse as well as in reactivation of an important architectural socialist modernist heritage in a specific context. Through detailed contextual analysis as well as typology research, this work, in addition, tries to answer the question of how to deal with the Yugoslav modernist legacy in Prishtina, what do these landmarks represent and based on an example explore their reuse potential as well as give an answer to the unfinished utopia.