petkovic iva / 9 and 1/2 thoughts on architecture

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:Feb 2013 – present, Boka Group – British worldwide investment company, Kotor, Montenegro Role: Design CoordinatorMain Projects: Touristic 5* golf/beach resorts and Residential projects (interior design, resort masterplan, villas and hotel concept designs, execution)- Concept design of masterplan, hotel, beach bar and villas, St Lucia, The Caribbean- Design coordination between UK and MNE on golf project with 18 holes and Torch beach club, Montenegro- Concept and main design for the driving range facility, golf project, Montenegro- Administrative regulations, design coordination, interior design and monitoring the execution of apartment complex Sea breeze, Kavač, Montenegro (seabreeze.me)-Concept designs of reconstruction of private residential houses in Ćeklici, LjutaMain Activities: monitoring the construction site and execution process, concept designs of interior, villas and hotel, procurement of interior equipment, coordination between British and Montenegrin architects and compiling designs, suppliers meetings and management of materials, concept designs of reconstruction of several residential houses, resolving urban administration, site visits.

Oct 2011 - Feb 2013, Sector for urban planning and environmental protection, Municipality of TivatRole: Independent advisor for urbanism Main Projects: planning documentation and environmental impact assesments-DUP Seljanovo, DUP Donja Lastva, DUP Radovici, DUP Gradiosnica… -procedure monitoring-Environmental impact assessment study for Waterfront Belane, Sea trade-touristic complex, Urban project RuljinaMain Activities: Professional practice in urbanism, monitoring the procedure of adoption of detailed urban plans for Tivat area, issuing urban technical conditions and extracts from plans, being member of Commission for Environmental impact assessment studies of various project in Tivat area, providing insights and conditions for Protection of urban settlements

Dec 2009 – Sept 2010, Architectural studio ARHIENT, PodgoricaRole: Design associateMain Projects: residential, cultural, commercial, landscape, interior design- Concept design of apartment building in Podgorica- Site analysis, elaborate of current state, concept and main design of reconstruction and adaptation of commercial building in Podgorica, main design of landscape- Main design of interior of office space in Podgorica- Landscape and concept design of City museum extensions, Podgorica- Concept design of Hikers home on Orjen, Herceg NoviMain Activities: Professional practice in architecture: 2D - 3D computer models, CAD layouts and different graphical representations useful for a concept and main design of architecture, landscape and interior design, client meetings

and site visits, collaboration with all phases necessary for the completion of main designs, concept design brochures for the clients, preparation of complete main design project documentation, preparation of design and documentation for webpage

Sept 2009 - Dec 2009, Center for Urbanism and Architecture - studio CAU, Podgorica Role: design assistant dealing with urban planning/permitting regulations Main Projects: State study of location – Sector 29, State study of location – part of Sector 27 and Sector 28, Urban project BjelisiMain Activities: Professional practice in urbanism, preparation of documentation and graphic development of planning documentation, participating urban competitions in the area

July 2009 - Aug 2009, Architectural studio FLOW DEVELOPMENT, Budva, Los Angeles Role: junior designer Main Activities: Professional practice in architecture, concept design of apartment building, documentation preparation for tenders

Sept 2008 - May 2009, Architectural studio BusinessART, Podgorica, Milano Role: junior designer Main Projects: commercial, residential, health-touristic complex - Preliminary design of commercial-residential building in Budva (number of stories: ground floor+10 stories)- Project MELJINE- health-touristic complex, area cca 94000 m2, consists of exclusive hotel with 150 rooms, 290 apartments and 6000 m2 of commercial zones - Preliminary design of hotel in Kumbor with ground floor and 3 stories Main Activities: Research work in the fields of landscape design and hotel design, functional resolving of architectural

Resume: Iva PetkovicKava bb, 85320 Tivat, Montenegro+382 (0) 69344647ivarch.petkovic@gmail.com

tasks followed by 3D visualization and preparation of project documentation, concept design of landscape with analytic schemes and proposals

Sept 2008 - June 2010, Faculty of Architecture, University of Montenegro. PodgoricaRole: Teaching Assistant Subject: Theory of Shape and Space Main Activities: Preparation of lectures together with professor, research on programmatic topics and conducting the assignments and its evaluation

INTERNSHIP:Apr 2008 - June 2008, Architectural studio - STUDIO SYNTHESIS, Podgorica Role: junior designer Oct 2007 - Nov 2007, International internship, studio S.C. GRAPHIC STUDIO S.R.L., Bucharest, Romania Role: junior designer

LANGUAGE:advanced level in English (C1), advanced level in French (B2), intermediate level of Spanish beginner level of Italian

SOFTWARE SKILLS:AutoCAD 2013, building design software – ArchiCad 16, visualization software – Artlantis Studio 5, Indesign , Adobe Photoshop CS5, SketchUp Pro 9, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint).strong photography skills

AWARDS AND HONNORS:2015 III prize, International Competition for Lustica Bay Promenade Hotel, cooperation with Andjelka Badnjar-Gojnic and visualization studio EDIT

2014 II prize, Competition: Reconstruction of old school in Tivat, Montenegro, cooperation with Andjelka Badnjar-Gojnic and Marko Radonjic 2013 Competition EUROPAN, location La Segrera, Barcelona, cooperation with Marta Garcia Orte and Aaron Tregent2012 Competition for Concept design of revitalization of Latsia park, Nicosia, Cyprus, collaboration with Matilde Gonzales Asteinza and Joanna Jossif 2010-2011 Barcelona Institute of Architecture – MASTER DEGREE – scholarship award 2009 II prize, Design competition of Shelter along mountain hiking and biking paths in Montenegro, GTZ , cooperation with Marko Radonjic 2009 Competition for Conceptual architectural and urban sanation of “Jalovište”, Mojkovac, done through studio CAU 2009 Study of revival of public spaces in Cetinje, made for EXPEDITIO organization2008 Competition for Conceptual urban-architectural design of the University complex of the Faculty of Fine Arts, Cetinje 2008 III prize, Design competition for Urban planning and design of Zukotrlica area, Bar, Montenegro, cooperation with Marko Radonjic 2007 Inter rail trip through Europe by ‘European movement in Montenegro’, one of the 20 best students of Montenegro 2003/2004/2005 Awarded with the ‘University of Montenegro’ award as the best student of the year EDUCATION AND MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL BODIES:2015 Member of Montenegrin Chambership of engineers, Podgorica 2013 Member of NGO KUKUTA (Cultural angle of Tivat)- architectural educative workshops 2013-2014School of Art in Tivat 2010-2011 Barcelona Institute of Architecture – MASTER DEGREE 2008 Summer school of architecture ‘Urban management, planning and project making of sustainable development of Tivat‘ 2003-2008University of Montenegro, Faculty of Architecture, Podgorica 2003/4/5/6/7 Summer school of architecture ‘Revitalization of Gornja Lastva’ with French students 2006 Member of delegacy for 5th Congress of architecture in Beograd, ‘Urban recycle’ 2006 School of photography (www.photo.net/photos/archiva) 2006 Summer school of architecture ‘Cross-boundary development of Skadar lake region’ with German and Albanian students 2005 Faculty Representative at the Ex-Yu Architecture Congress in Sarajevo, with the topic “Sustainable development” 2005 Summer school of restoration of traditional Swedish houses, Sweden 2005 Virtual school of “Dialogue, Democracy and Peaceful Conflict Resolution” by Nansen Dialogue Center 2005 A level of “Leadership course” (Jonkoping University Of Education and Communication, Sweden) 2004 Course of Advocacy, EXPEDITIO 1999 School of Human Rights (Helsinki Committee for Human Rights)

INTERESTS: photography, painting, writing, swimming, tennis, skiing, yoga, film-directing, music-funk, soul, nujazz, triphop, jazz

REFERENCES: References are available upon request.

protection / coexistance / interpollation / SYNERGY / conduit / process / PATTERN /condensity / time

Following pages are a simple trial to correlate something beyond architecture in projects describing what I find challenging and important in architecture. It is a fragile poem on how touch of hands provides warmth and protection, where all forces rather coexist with nature, people and places then only exist for themselves, exploring the potential in the buffer zone of interaction rather than just negating all, enhancing internal fusion and condensity in order to create platform for processes to grow and adopt during time, being a link rather than a barrier, but being responsible enough to state the change and provoke. I tried to lead you from my charcoal sketches of emotions towards the execution of construction, to show what I experienced in between.

Ideally, where my everyday struggle happens, I admire the dissolution of architecture towards flows and forces in time, as well as the honesty one can achieve in reduction of all towards meaningful relationships. My interest lies in architecture as a platform that stands for key issues to be explored and expressed, departing from representation towards the construction of an internal logic that could render architectural problems more legible. The goal is to consider architecture as an intellectual activity which is capable of opening new questions, rather than merely a problem-solving activity. I am interested in architecture as a process and architecture of process; when architecture becomes infrastructure and support, deferring from topic to topic, and from place to place. There is no style that can be detected, but only a specific type of sensibility I try to maintain. Architecture is a tool to accumulate conditions, define the limits and the attitude towards them, anticipate and accommodate potentials that are yet to come. The output should not be afraid to show anomalies since the value is in the process, not in the finished object.

Meanwhile, I continue questioning...

01

protection

competition: Concept design of shelters along hiking and biking paths

year: 2009location: all mountain regions, Montenegro

collaborator: Marko RadonjićII prize

Shelter for cyclists follows the basic architectural concept design for forming a coherent interior space with environments for gathering, socializing, dining and sleeping. In its external manifestation, it operates in symbolic-associative level, suggesting basic function-protection. The hand that protects, hides from external influences and disadvantages, rises above the ground leaving almost intact ecosystem. Corpus of the building rests on pillars of minimum dimensions over which the load is transferred to the base plate. Inspiration for shelter came from the genuine human need for safety. Handshake symbolises energy cover and all manifestations of preserved heat. The form of the shelter tended to be in harmony with the ambient of Montenegrin mountains, using materials of the surrounding.

The facility is fully built of wooden beams, columns and piles. The floor is also made of wood, while the bindings in the construction are made of steel plate. From functional reasons door frames are made of steel square box sections. The windows on the longer axis are fixed , while the window on the short side are driven and enable smooth airiness of the interior space. Comfort and functionality of the shelter are made through its movable possessings: bench, table, stairs, lamps..

In order to sustainability of the facility, windows are minimal, and the ventilation is projected through the wooden panels, and through the door. Stone and wood are used as construction materials. Interior space is designed to perform the mobility of the furniture and fluidity of the space. The gallery with places for sleeping bags is engaging vertical use of space.

SHELTER

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floor plan

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coexistance

concept design: lake restaurantyear: 2009

location: Rijeka Crnojevica, Skadar lake national park, Montenegro

collaborator: Marko Radonjić

There was a challenge to design in a very sensitive zone of national park in Montenegro, rich with remains of Ottoman architecture. The analysis of the existing architectural fund resulted with idea of segmented restaurant where organization followed the logic of living in this area intenslz bonded with water cycles, keeping the local measures and consistency.

The space is organising through the terraces slowly descending to the river, totally devoted to the view. Materials are autohtone, while the glass surfaces stress the transparency and proximity of the nature. The restaurant is designed as a simple medium of transponing people to the landscape, while being a platform accepting changes of nature through design (floating terrace). The use of restaurant is following water changes through use of different terraces. A rooftop and ground floor are activated when the water level is too high.

CASCADE FLOW

facade from the road

facade from the road

facade from the lake

facade from the lake

groundfloor plan groundfloor plan

03

interpollation

competition: Reconstruction of old school in Tivat

year: 2014location: Tivat, Montenegro

collaborators: Andjelka Badnjar-Gojnić, Marko Radonjić

How to deal with the concept of old and what is the quality of interaction with the new? Photo old school, her presence and connection to the collective memory of the average citizen is layer to which the new facility should work. Our tendency has been that these two layers, old and new, make it more independent so that a citizen in front of oleanders and visitors of the hotel sees mixed picture. Finally, no way we want to sacrifice the concept to nostalgia. To be a house of success, it must above all provide new value and demonstrate capacity to be up to date and competitive to new purpose. In this regard, we propose an efficient and cost-effective upgrades and finally give a special quality to the new function in its correlation with the current.

The basic concept in the design solution is the ratio of the voids and fill. The cavity is old claddings. The facades connect the outer membrane forming the external dimensions of the building and the image of the object as it was. At moments where there is no fundamental reasoning that the cover is preserved, we keep replacing it with a green wall that corresponded to needs such as protection from the sun (south) and distance with a neighbor (east). Thus formed layer makes the outer belt in which we propose to insert a new object but rather as an internal structure, lattice with a system of panels (large canvases) on the longitudinal sides, but as a solid object with the new weight. The space between the outer layer and new constructive membrane becomes the main carrier of ambient quality and specificity of apartments, thus receiving additional level of luxury and authenticity. On the other hand, the zone of interaction between the old and the new bases along the edge of becoming a thermal insulation zone using passive elements of bioclimatic architecture and develops the concept of living through a modern interpretation of Mediterranean form with loggia, summer kitchen, pergola and tinted walls.

BUFFER QUALITY

conceptual axonometry

deconstruction of the envelope and explanation of interventions

parts of existing building planned for demoslishinggreen facadeparts of facade planned for partial demolishingexisting facade that is preserved at maximum level

Capsule is the part of the building added thrugh basement incorporating with itself public uses and public entrance to the building, thus providing the eternitz of old school and its meaning for the locals.

Parter is resloved through two levels:- ramp to the roof, which will retain the position of old pine trees and create a promenade in the shade,- the lower level at which envisages prefarbricated grid network with various densities of vegetation.Between these two levels there is a wooden hill formed that follows the slope of the land and is used for seating and gathering.

Floors - In addressing the floorplan we applied symmetry and classic principle. The resulting order allows that all rooms have natural light and ventilation and that all apartment units are organized with double-sided and three-sided orientation; desired sizes are managed; peripheral sheath between the outer and inner membranes of the old and new structure is achieved by active facade and quality of space interaction

Through cross-section of the object is solved as two circumferential panels on longitudinal facades and as a system of constructive fill between the panels. Constructive filling on the edges seems that the object is not upgraded and covered but redesigned by working through a slight interpolation with the old membrane. The longitudinal panel on the western facade creates a clear and peaceful setting in which dominates the image of school. Constructive inner fillings are open to the north and south are used for the adoption of the coastal form of housing with the possibility of summer kitchen and large terraces.

first level - floorplan

northern facade

southern facade

04

SYNERGY

collaborative research: Master, Barcelonaprofessor: Inaki Abalos, Harward, USA

year: 2011location: Chicago, USA

collaborators: Andjelka Badnjar-Gojnić, Matilde Gonzales Asteinza

water as structure: office organisational pattern

The program of the verticalscape addresses reconstruction of the typology of office space. As both particular and general context two elements are relevant: water and historical development of skyscraper referential to the city of Chicago. System of water is formed into the structure that tends to holistically resolve behavior of verticalskype through: energy flow, construction and patterns of organization both public space and workstation. New patterns of office organization emerge through dialectic between structure and floor. Office is exposed to the public through promenade of museum defined by spatial diagonal. Contemporary oscillation between notion of work and playfulness tends to be resolved through superposition of office space and program of baths connected to the museum line.

thermodynamics

analysis of water movement and thermodynamic process

reorganization of work templates according to water and construction through the floorplans

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collaborative research: Master, Barcelonaprofessor: Stan Allen, Princeton, USA

year: 2011location: Montcada i Reixac, Barcelona

collaborators: Andjelka Badnjar, Aaron Tregent and Marta Garcia Orte

conduit

Working in disrupted ecosystem, architecture behaves as an infrastructural support and definition for ecological corridor, working with time and place, creating condition of diversities.

Using a truss as homogeneous structure that is passing through the landscape, architecture is thinking about least footprint, and at the same time creating progression towards the monotonous parts of space in order to create diversity. Mega-truss-form is being fulfilled with the earth from the excavation, and is becoming part of the landscape itself during the time. Defined by trusses that are giving place for program of cemetery, ecological corridor is working as filter and conduit.

This way we are connecting broken ecological processes through architecture, while experimenting with its program and giving space for new definitions to happen. Architecture is temporal, adoptable to change, beautiful in appropriation of the internal and external processes.

LINK

ceremonial space

chappel

megastructure working with time and place

mausoleums

mausoleums

meditation

ecology in time - merging of structure and nature

06

process

competition: Urban and architectural concept design of Square of artists

year: 2011location: Cetinje, Montenegrocollaborator: Marko Radonjić

Cetinje as the old capital of Montenegro always lived on the edge of its creative industries and alternative views of life mixed with mourning in its inveterate grayness and moisture. Rich in spirit and sweet burden of history but depleted in terms of interaction. Giving live and shaping the square in the central city core has its challenges and asks for intelligence of sensibility.

The idea was to form the public square as a courtyourd, where the daily theater would perform. Architecture becomes a platform for events. Architecture becomes a process that allows the square to enjoy its randomness. ´Barrying´the old hotel that was planed for rebuilding upon the old drawings and needs, we are bravely questionning the old city whitin the modern age, presenting it as a carpet on a scating ramp.

square as a scene

Architecture becomes a platform for events, a sort of podium for performance. It provides support for activities, gives an indication of use and permits freedom of weather changes and manipulation. It offers freedom and desire to be appropriated by certain groups in accordance with its requirements, ethics, aesthetics, ideology.

square as a yard

Where or what is the limit, the actual and theoretical, physical and psychological, which is the zone between “private “ and “ public“? Walking along the streets of Cetinje, we find the “ barricades“ in ejected benches, chairs, tables. Through the spontaneous release, residents came out in the public space, on the backbone of the street. They conquerred the sidewalks and created their own terraces and places for gathering.

The streets become pedestrian zones and habitants develop imaginative solutions for publishing themselves, whether they are the product of an emergency or search for identity.

square as scene

square plan

section of the square with scating slope

square as a process

Architecture becomes a process of allowing the market to enjoy their changes: passers-by, seasons, climates, the ruling parties, the revolutionary students, ambassadors, art exhibits, smells of fabric softener for the goods... Here, at the crossroads, the play happens.

square as life

Architecture retreats so to leave space for strengthen ing of energies of the place. The aim was to leave the space for reasonable relations to happen. Anticipate the potential. This way we open new questions for a citysquare opposite to the narrow definition. New questions provide life puzzle.

communication analysis and urban genesis of the square

07

PATTERN

competition: International competition for Hotel Promenadeyear: 2015

location: Lustica peninsula, Tivat, Montenegrocollaborators: Andjelka Badnjar-Gojnić, visualisation studio Edit

III prize

object as landscapeWith an attempt to understand local patterns of daily routines and to interpret them through complex program of the hotel, we propose the explicit expression of positive aspects of these routines that function as passive thermodynamic tools such as mentioned: shadow, vegetation, water, cross ventilation, daily and seasonal use of North and South, double façade layers, local materials and constant shift of indoor and outdoor space. With this, we form site-specific qualities of individual spaces and programs on local level. The complex as such acts dually: as total landscape and hill sediment with wide image seen from the sea and as system of diversified micro zones in inner structure and from the perspective of a user.

About traditional

Traditional patterns of Boka one keeps in mind are terraces and eaves, green pergola and cold stonewall, summer kitchen, verandas, shutters and shadows; mornings and evenings in south, and daylight in north. These are the notions of curtains on air ventilation, ivy shadow, and smell of vegetation. Houses in Boka absorb and transmit the Sun differently during the day. Understanding the performative aspects of inhabitants’ use and daily experiences we adopt to provide contextual answer to specific locality. In this way, we have chosen to interpret traditional through daily usage and continual swift between inside and outside, between old habits and patterns and new qualities of ambient and commercial functions. The notion and logic of traditional provide base for modern research of comfort levels and quality of living.

Composition: an object as a landscape

Hotel object is structured as a system of terraces that cascade terrain, thus making a whole appearance of the object more adaptive to the local area. Terraces both visually and conceptually mimic sedimentation of the landscape making the object as a new layer within these sediments. As such, the house forms a neutral base - a green plinth to the image of the upper settlement simultaneously collecting diversity of the upper built structure. Cascades are formed as surfaces of the green roofs and terraces in different slops and links to each other, thus enabling new patterns in use of rooms and commercial facilities.

Materials: vegetation, water, stone, wood, concrete, canvas

The terraces become platforms for cultivation of vegetation as main building material of the object and for research on ambient and thermodynamic aspects by which greenery serves to the subtitle effects of shadow, humidity, shelter and smell within the object. Vegetation becomes predominant in propositions of concepts of room types (by involving green terraces in front), entrance area of the hotel (pergola with wisteria plant) and in proposing panorama for upper floors (by green roofs in front of them). Vegetation makes whole mix of tactile and sensory effects that stay in hotel making an authentic and local experience. Vegetation interacts with water surfaces. On the roof of the condo hotel we propose rain collector for irrigation, which at the same time makes attractive panorama for the houses in upper area of the village. On the terraces of the rooms there could be added small water surfaces and finally, indoor and outdoor pools are gathered together, so that they can form central water surface with possibility to be completely open during summer months. Northern longitudinal façade of the hotel is solved as stone in wooden frames. Apart from vegetation, it enables cooling effect during hot summer months.

Floors of terraced surfaces are wood and polished concrete. The wood is dominant at the room terraces, pools platform at marina level, at access ramp for reception and lobby. With the same floor treatment of room terraces and interior parts of rooms, the wood connects areas of the indoor and outdoor thus blurring a clear boundary between inside and outside. In this way, in accordance to the needs the whole room becomes an open terrace.

White canvases are suggested within the whole parts of the object thus stressing the impression of transparency, airflow, and additional shadowing.

Room concepts

Longitudinal character of the given location enables the sea view to whole number of hotel rooms. The rooms are positioned within two major blocks of the complex.

First one is the condo hotel whose position is chosen in a way that it is connected with the upper village and with the residential area. In the same time, this position

floor plan - level 17m

frontal facade from the sea of both hotels

floor plan - level 17m

enables strong views on the seaside. In order to optimize comfort qualities (noise, view) of these rooms, the given traffic road is partly covered by the upper part of the condo hotel and partly with the pergola. These rooms are oriented toward two sides, south and north where we use motive of summer kitchen that are grouped in the atrium area so that they form interior zone of ambient qualities and authentic housing image for the individual unites.

The second block consists of rooms within system of terraces in boutique hotel. The rooms are backward compered to first coastal line thus enabling private comfort to the units in one hand, and liberating back of the marina from stressed building heights in the first line, in other. Within this second block, one room type has sloped roof surface in the form of terrace covered with vegetation (and possible water) in front. The second type has roof windows apart from terraces that allows cross ventilation and specific interior quality.

Central penetration, flow ability and promenade

Access to the hotel, reception and lobby area is resolved as central plaza and intermediate space between two hotels in the manner of the sloped surface, which gathers the users together (from funicular, rooms, pedestrians and from parking space) and transmits them into the penetration toward the marina. In this way, the lobby area becomes a gathering space within the complex, which connects upper areas with a coastal one. Apart from the urban aspect of its positioning and walking paths, lobby area becomes the space of particular interior qualities and strong impressions, a kind of observatory to the marina and a direct gallery to the commercial mixed-use area subjacent.

08

condensity

competition: EUROPAN year: 2012

location: La Segrera, Barcelonacollaborators: Aaron Tregent and

Marta Garcia Orte

adoptable city

Inspired by the theme of the europan, we stepped into investigation of the city life through new lenses that was asking the following:- how to share collective space and what are the methods of governance- what are rhythms and lifecycles of urban space- how spaces adopt to uncertain change- how to reach greater urbanity- economics of land, collective intelligence- how to alter uses temporaly and provoke continuous city- how to introduce stimulators, how to intensify and diversify

MegastructureTange’s megastructure deals with degrees of change.The ideal is not a system in which the physical structure of the city is at the mercy of unpredictable change. The ideal is kind of a master form which can move into ever new states of equilibrium and yet maintain consistency and a sense of continuity. Linking – invariant activities in making collective form out of either discrete or associate elements. In operational terms a link may be physical, implied, but always legible. Concerned with making the large entity comprehensible by articulating its parts.

OperationsConnect intermediate elements or imply medium. Mediation through adequate physical means, connotes multitudes of other transitions. It suggests that a link, properly conceived, changes with changing primary needs.

CondensorMegaform(Hidden) CoreConsider services as a sempiternal component of the city materiality. This becomes a protagonist to the traditional megastructure. Service bars, collect service areas of the living units. Support the metabolic system of the form. The ideal form is composed of independent systems that can expand or contract with the least disturbance to others. They maintain identity and longevity, engage in dynamic contact through physical connection points with others. Equilibrium. conceptual axonometry

situation plan

elevation

elevation

sectionperspective

typical floor plan

typical floor plan

section

UnitsPrimary infill components containing the basic and mutable typology of living. Urban FabricMegaform creates connection across site. The Cores suspend the living units allowing flows across the site.

Collective slopeAn independent system operating in dynamic interaction with other systems within the megaform through physical connection. Basic elemental components of floor and ceiling support the neotertiary industry. Flows of information and data, through virtual infrastructure negate materiality. Space is abstract.

Productive MatCan we evoke the social qualities of Can Boixeres through the garden archetype?Cultivated nature. Ownership/identity. Barest condition of adaptability, configured by time, season, and the ecological rhythms providing equilibrium to the obscuring urban rhythms of contemporary city. The gardens become social mediators with the residents MarketThe market becomes a connector with the community, while revivng the idea of „agora“, with exchanging goods and evoking colectiveness.Representing surplus of site production.Portal FrameThe barest elemental condition of space.

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time

supervising execution: luxury complex of villas ”Sea Breeze” Montenegroyear: 2014-2015

location: Kavac, Tivat, Montenegrodesign: STUDIO K, execution: CGroup, project management and Bokagroup

On the hilly area looking over Tivat bay, there is a luxury complex of villas being built. I was engaged in supervising the whole process, from administrative part of applying for the construction permit and coordination of phases in project execution, to procurement and developing interior details and features. All was accompained with resolving constant issues on construction site in terms of changes of project according to the existing situation on site.

The core building features are: reinforced concrete structure, gypsum partition walls, thermal and acoustic insulations up to the highest of standards with the pressed styrodur of 8cm thickness, full waterproofing, energy efficient double glazed windows and balcony doors, aluminum frames - windows and external doors - Rehau, Germany,facade with stone elements, including recycled stone - option which provides an effect that the villa has been built decades ago, app15m3 water reservoir to provide villas with autonomous water system.

Integrated systems in the facilities: CCTV, Sat-TV and Intercom, fiber optic internet equipment fitted, fire alarm signaling system, multi split heating and cooling system with one external unit and a number of internal units implanted in the space of suspended ceilings, Energy-Saving Operation - Daikin, optional under floor heating for the whole villa, smart home system ensuring security and maximum comfort for user’s everyday life: ADRIA intelligent systems provide an ideal balance of cost-effective investment, control and reduction of energy consumption by increased security and maximum comfort in use. System management is also enabled through centralized mounting professional display.

beauty in details

panoramic view

view of executed villas

interior details