Concrete and brick were typical materials of building fabric of multifamily residential buildings from Belgrade, from the 1960s until the 1980s. This was the period of intensive building construction, supported and financed by the state, when new parts of the Belgrade were erected, and New Belgrade was one of such new residential settlements. High intensity of construction that was typical for the period in question was followed by the application of various prefabricated construction systems that offered possibilities of creating diverse design solutions.
Nowadays efforts to improve the quality of existing residential buildings through the implementation of energy rehabilitation measures, raises the question of the need for preservation of original appearance. When such need exists, usual energy renovation measures such as addition of external thermal insulation and finishing layers are not considered appropriate. Therefore, such buildings seek for other type of intervention on the existing building fabric.
Having this in mind, this paper presents a case study of one of the residential buildings from the Block 29 in New Belgrade, designed by the Serbian architects Milosav Mitić and Mihailo Čanak during the 1960s.Thanks to its architectural values, today this blockhas the status of previous protection.Three main types of materialisation prevail on the building’s façade planes: concrete prefabricated elements with ceramic tiles as finishing, elements with exposed concrete and bricks applied on the walls. Today this building is approximately 50 years old, so the prefabricated facade elements are not in good condition and needs to be
repaired, but the building as a whole also needs to be energy renovated. Taking it all into account, problems and potential solutions of energy renovation and repair of prefabricated concrete facades that preserve their original appearance are examined on the example of the selected residential building
