The book presents a renovation project of a rural estate in the Kamnik-Savinja Alps by the Slovenian architectural studio Medprostor.

The book features texts by Slovenian and Croatian architects and architectural theorists—Petra Čeferin, Miloš Kosec, Maroje Mrduljaš—as well as Finnish architect and former professor of architecture Juhani Pallasmaa. It includes an extensive interview with the Medprostor studio, a technical elaboration of the project, and a photo essay by Damir Fabijanić.

The book won the award at the 59th Zagreb Salon of Architecture and Urbanism, with the selector’s reasoning:

A publication that explores the balance of traditional rural architecture through a refined, as the authors describe it, surgical operation of architectural intervention on a risky patient—a traditional estate intertwined with nature. Every step of the intervention is carefully weighed, combining traditional yet radical methods, separating the useful from the unnecessary, and balancing the intellectual and emotional aspects. The duration of the operation is not a factor to be considered, yet the path to a fascinating result took precisely as long as needed—just enough to write a book.

Publisher: Oris and Oris House of Architecture
Architectural project authors: Rok Žnidaršić, Jerneja Fischer Knap, Žiga Ravnikar
Contributors: Petra Čeferin, Tadej Glažar, Vera Grimmer, Maja Haderlap, Miloš Kosec, Maroje Mrduljaš, Juhani Pallasmaa, Maruša Zorec
Photo essay author: Damir Fabijanić
Editor in chief: Andrija Rusan
Editorial board: Vera Grimmer, Maroje Mrduljaš, Andrija Rusan, Tadej Glažar
Executive editors: Ana Gajski, Vera Grimmer, Ana Bedenko
Design: Sven Sorić