Despic house - History of the city. Structural repair and restoration of the first theatre in Sarajevo.

The development of modern society is conditioned by the accelerated pace of development of technological awareness. Our urban environment is increasingly exposed to radical transformations, leaving no room for perception and adoption of the new, almost excluding the feeling of belonging to the transformed environment. Such changes, caused by the expansion of construction activity, often violate the ambient and original values, in the transformed environments of "captured" cultural and historical heritage Objects of cultural and historical heritage possess historical, artistic and aesthetic value, readability in all their historical changes and the symbolic value of the tradition of the society to which they belong. Preservation of spiritual, formal and traditional originality, with all the technical characteristics they carry with them, emphasizing the uniqueness and representativeness of heritage in a modern environment, is an imperative in preserving one's own identity. The constructive characteristics of the historical heritage building were dictated by the degree of technical knowledge, experience and intuitiveness of the builders of that time. The specificity of structural systems and construction techniques have a direct impact on the architectural character of buildings, and thus the approach to structural repair, considering the problem exclusively from the point of view of structure and application of modern methods of numerical analysis and technology, can be a cause of disavowal of these buildings.Thus, questions arise: How sovereign are new knowledge and methods over the old, or is it necessary to awaken the intuitiveness of today's builders? How to achieve compatibility of old and new, where necessary? In this paper, the case study of a specific sample of the cultural and historical heritage of Despic House will provide answers to the questions asked. Despic House, where the first theatre in Sarajevo was founded, is one of the few material evidences of life in the city at the turning point of the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian periods. Atypical in relation to the local way of building, it is a unique example of a combination of the traditional heritage of the Ottoman period and the " breakthrough of European creativity into the culture of this area". This paper presents a complex research process of establishing the genesis of the Despic House, as well as the consequences of the influence of urban transformations in the spatial framework at the level of the architectural object and the level of the urban-architectural ensemble. On the example of established and implemented measures of structural repair of this building, the importance of a multidisciplinary approach to detailed research and conservation-restoration works for cultural and historical heritage buildings will be confirmed, taking into account its original values. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]