Písek Malt house - A study on economical usage of industrial architecture

This Bachelor Thesis focuses on the issue of economic use of industrial buildings. Having defined industrial architecture theoretically, specific aspects of its historic preservation are mentioned. This thesis analyses approach to protection and conversion of industrial monuments in the Czech Republic, reasons for renewal of industrial constructions, and ways of their new employment. The practical part examines an industrial building, Malt house in the city of Písek particularly, which nowadays serves as a seat of a cultural organisation. This Thesis researches the history of the building and its original use, and the course of its reconstruction for the purpose of new use. Moreover, besides financial burden of the conversion, its profit for local citizens in social and economic terms is assessed, and further renewal of the Malt house, which is currently employed only from one third, is considered