Kali is one of the largest settlements on the Adriatic islands located on the island of Ugljan near the city of Zadar, Croatia. The village is best known for fishing. The project brief was to design two vacation houses on one of the few vacant lots situated between two roads with a height difference of 21 m in the longitudinal section. The challenge was to design a unified space, which would fulfill a multitude of the contemporary user’s heterogeneous needs, and at the same time, to create the feeling of living „with the sea at the seaside“.
Infobip is a unicorn IT company based in Vodnjan, Istria, where it also built its first campus. The company’s rapid growth has spawned the need for a new hybrid building in Zagreb. Infobip is located on a plot on the southern edge of Zagreb, in a rurban zone bordering New Zagreb, directly next to the corridor of the newly planned avenue that will, once it is built, run along the southern edge of Zagreb. The zone is an entropic and poorly regulated area with low-rise medium-density multi-dwelling buildings lacking both an articulated public space and nature.
Black Slavonian pig is an autochthonous Croatian breed. In the 19th century, it was the most commonly farmed breed in Slavonia. During the 20th century, the number of individuals declined steadily, to the extent that it was declared an endangered species in the 1990s. According to the official data, at one point, this number was reduced to only 50 animals.
The new Student Residence Pavilion, together with the two existing dormitories, forms a public square which is a part of the entrance sequence to the Osijek campus, a developing student city.
The extensive program and unambiguous design guidelines resulted in a longitudinal volume – dimensions comparable to those of the famous battleship Potemkin.
Grand Park Hotel Rovinj is a viewpoint for the most beautiful stage on the Adriatic. No matter where he is in the hotel, the guest gets the impression he is staying in a park overlooking Rovinj, St. Euphemia, the island of St. Catherine and the most beautiful sea sunset. Located directly on the coast, near the marina and the promenade, it connects the inner city area with the tourist attractions of the Monte Mulini zone.
The hinterland of the Opatija Riviera in Croatia is dotted with villas (built within a century and a half). Their upper, front side reveals nothing but entrances beyond which we can only imagine their spaciousness. Their scale and relation to the bay are entirely dependent on the seafront slope (perhaps, it is the tension arising from the assumption of something hidden what gives the spatial frame of Opatija’s hinterland its appeal).
Swimming pool Vukovar is located on the site of the old, open-air swimming complex in Borovo naselje, which had been destroyed during the war of the 1990s. The former, torn down pool in Borovo naselje was not only a sport and recreation center, it was a place of encounter, fellowship, the place of social interaction of people from Vukovar as well as their outside visitors. On the site of the previous swimming complex architects faced an entirely devastated rectangular plot, positioned within the defined recreation area: bordering a big sports hall to the south and to the north, an outdoor tennis center and football court.
Work on the new project began in 2004 and in the subsequent 13 years the complex was designed, developed, redesigned, reworked, constructed, demolished, suspended and relaunched, finalized and concluded, tested and appraised and, at last in 2017, open to the public.
Design Team: Project architects in the 2nd phase of project from 2012: Ana Staničić, Marko Liović, Josip Mičetić, Vilijam Brajković, Vedran Hubicki. Project architects in the 1st phase of project, from 2004: Gordan Resan, Ivana Žalac, Janja Zovko, Saša Randić, Margita Grubiša
Engineering: Nikolina Drinski (1st phase of project), Ante Grubišić (2nd phase of project)
Collaborators: Božidar Legović, Ivan Conjar (Façades)
In 2016 Ministry of Foreign Affairs of The Kingdom of The Netherlands has entrusted GE+ architects the process of developing a new philosophy of flexible work-space where employees are not strictly related to one.
The interior is dominated by a unique multi-functional central surface and carpet as a floor covering designed for the purpose of this project. Carpet’s role as visual media conveys new Dutch identity which makes it distance itself from the usual ones such as windmills, clogs and orange colour, and becomes recognizable through its coastal landscape. The carpet design carries a picture of a photograph of the Dutch coast – prophesying in diplomatic language about the natural wealth that connects both The Netherlands and Croatia.
Authors / Lead Architects: GORANA GILJANOVIĆ, EUGEN POPOVIĆ
Other Participants: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of The Kingdom of The Netherlands – 3W World Wide Working – Infrastructure development department (client), NINO KUŠTER (light design associate)
The river Sava is an important natural element of the city of Slavonski Brod and there is a big tradition of kayaking and canoeing, so the local government decided to support this by building the new KAYAK CLUB located next to the City’s Stadium, near the embankment along the Sava River. The theme of the context determined by the structure of the existing and the future stadium complex, the vicinity of the Sava River, a certain symbolism of the purpose of the project and the structure of program is contained within the design concept.
The volume begins with a semi-open, covered courtyard, open in the middle with a niche at the main entrance and ends with a closed gable at the stadium. On the ground floor, the structure of the building is dominantly full, and on the upper floor is completely transparent up to the roof hovering over the site as a symbol of a raised, carved kayak that it held up when entering the water.
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