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education2004 - 2011 Faculty of Architecture, University of Zagreb
Master’s degree in Architecture and Urban Planning
2003 - 2004 Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Zagreb
completed 1st year of general engineering studies
1999 - 2003 Tin Ujevic Gymnasium, Kutina, Croatia
1984, July 18th born in Kutina, Croatia
computer skillsAutoCAD, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, Corel PhotoPaint
Solidworks, Archicad, Sketch Up, Rhinoceros, MS Office
languagesEnglish excellent; German fair; Italian basic
other skills model making, CNC machine operation, hardware maintainance, driver’s licence
employment 2011 - ongoing XYZ arhitektura, Zagreb, Croatia
full-time employee
2010 - 2011 Faculty of Architecture, Zagreb, Croatia
model workshop assistant
2008 - 2011 XYZ arhitektura, Zagreb, Croatia
competition collaboration, model building
2010 Studio UP, Zagreb, Croatia
project preparation, drafting
2010 hpnj+, Zagreb, Croatia
competition collaboration, model building, exhibition preparation
2008 de Architekten Cie., Zagreb, Croatia
model building
independent work2012 Badel Blok, international competition
team Tamara Baresic, Luka Anic, Srdan Gajic
2012 NT Family House
Danko Balog
bus station kutinadiploma project 2011
After organizing a series of ambitious architectural competitions for a range of public buildings, the city of Kutina failed to set up an equally ambitious realisation of awarded projects. Due to lack of funding and bad management, projects were cancelled, sizes reduced, competitions anulled.One of the results was a desperate new situation of the bus station and city market site.
This project attempted to salvage what was left of the space, after the building of two large supermarkets and a badly designed city market was finished, and the old bus station demolished.
The area necessary for traffic circulation was optimized and thus reduced to save a portion of the already small site, to be articulated as urban space, a background for the market, whose marginal position and size denounced its important role within the town.
The station itself is organised along a tall and narrow spine, representing a barrier, a buffer zone, a sort of a new city wall, an entrance to the city. On one side of the wall is the traffic, the road leading away, and on the other is the urban space.
Like makeshift lean-ons on historic city walls, the programmatic content of the station is placed in lower irregular spaces on both sides of the spine. This creates an undulating open space facing the market, supplementing what is supposed to be a proper piazza.
The irregular shape is also an attempt to contradict surrounding big-box type supermarket buildings
The station building tries to allow maximum permeability and numerous entry-points, but always trying to keep a fortificationess about itself.
Being in fact a quite small building, like a small dog, it is sharp and edgy.
sports centre vrbani
school project
3rd year, 2008
tradesmen guild centre zagrebcompetition project 2010with XYZ arhitekturafifth prize
The large and diverse competition brief is organised into multiple volumes, then grouped into four selfcontained vertical structures, which then form a single monovolume.
Between the closely packed programmatic groupes, gaps are left free. These are informal green meeting spaces, places outside the programme, which constitute an internal driveshaft of the project. An enclosed urbanity is formed to compensate for the remoteness and disurbanity of the site.
unit multiplication
school project
1st year, 2005
orphanage zagrebschool project 5th year 2009
To get the maximum out of the desperate site loca-ted between a busy road, a multi-track railroad and an ex industrial site, the or-phanage is concentrated in a small tower, maximaizing the children's yard space and giving the orphanage a clear physical presence.
The tower is built up out of two-floor L-units which are combined in a sort of moe-bius system, that allows the childern to find numerous paths through their house. While the outer facade gives them a perspective on the city, the inner creates a sen-se of community.
bosanka urban plan dubrovnik
competition project 2011
with XYZ arhitektura
third prize
badel block zagrebcompetition project 2012with tamara baresic, luka anic, srdan gajic
Largeness
The large demanded gross built area quoted in the competition brief, 65 000 m2, instils initial reproach. However, its justification can be found, apart from the apparent economical argument, in the term of density. A dense city is a live, vibrant city. Multiplicity of people, events, and spaces makes a city. And high quality density is what Zagreb lacks.
A large area invokes a large building, but also a multitude of smaller ones. A big building is always a focal point, a marker, a pole. Small buildings account for human scale and spatial richness.
Open space
In establishing a new subcentre, an open public space is required, offering a multitude of connections. One must be able to walk around, explore, leave a complex tracery of paths behind.
Among public open spaces, a park cannot be beaten. A small forest, the oppo-site of a city. A denial of a city within a city, a penance of greenery for the sin of brick and mortar. A union dreamed of, a park within a block.
Block
By definition, a block closes itself in. Whatever is behind the perimeter, is secluded and can be reached only by cutting through the perimeter. Seclusion, however, leads to particularisation of spaces rather than integration and the latter is what we seek. The perimeter building of 19th century block is there-fore unfit for our purpose. And yet, the overall Lower city structure requires of us to retain the integrity of the Badel block, already tested by its marginal position in the grid.
A big building, small buildings, a park and a block
And so, we remember Friedman, Isozaki, Archigram, Tschumi. We prepare the site and divide it into a 16 x 16 metre grid. Through this grid, we build up the full site area, completing the unbuilt block. We make this building a steel spa-ce-frame grid and raise it to the top floor level of the existing block structure. The height of the space beneath the grid is equal to the height of the existing buildings. The block is closed with an invisible facade. From the raised grid, we extrude small sky- and ground-scrapers. Leaving holes in the raised grid unfilled, we make the space underneath it a park. The park makes for a large open public space covered partially with a large roof, networked by a system of paths linking the wider area. Ground-scraper landings make for small sunken public plazas. The former distillery building becomes a focal point of the park, a pavilion. Heritage protected industrial facades remain as pseudoarchaeologi-cal relics of a bygone industrial phase, and act as gateways to the park. A big building, small buildings, a park and, all together, a block.
gracani urban plan
project exhibition 2010
project by
helena paver njiric
elementary school sredisceschool project 3rd year, 2007
Located in a CIAM-type neighbourhood of Zagreb,
the project attempts to offer a compensation
for the lack of enclosed public space in the area.
The ground floor level encloses a large multifunctional
space that can act as a neighbourhood activity hall
on days when the school is out.
The simple prefabricated repetetive construction system
tries to ensure an economic justification for the enlarged
floor area, in comparison to the educational standard.
Although placed above ground, all lower grade
and some higher grade classrooms have an open
air courtyard, matching their floor area.
ferry passanger terminal zadar
school project 2011
with josipa baricevic
construction detail
eastern shoreline splitcompetition project 2012with XYZ arhitektura
The eastern shoreline is a part of the most central space of Split. It is also space heavily burdened by traffic, comprising the main bus station, the main passanger railway station, an extensive ferry port and a cruise- -ship dock, as well as the city market, right next to the Roman city core.
This project suggests a transformation of the existing mess in the middle of the city into a continuity of green urban pedestrian spaces, connecting the very centre of the city and the popular Bacvice beach. 16 metre strips serve as an organizing module for the integration of the pedestrian paths and a huge traffic infrastructure underneath. The visible size of the infrastructure is mitigated by burrying the vehicular sorting and parking spaces underground, which allows the green of the central shoreline to pass right through, made possible by a reorganisation of traffic on a city-wide level.
urban plan tromostovlje
school project
4th year, 2007
spatial organisation model
models2008 - 2012with XYZ arhitektura
home for the elderly senj
competition model 2009
pressed cardboard
home for the elderly senj
development model 2011
PET sheet
home for the elderly senj
development model 2011
PET sheet
church square rijeka
2012
paper, XPS, PET foil
new cemetery zadar
2011
pressed cardboard, paper,
glass fragment tape
ill children care centre zagreb
detailed model 2012
foamed PVC sheet, PET sheet
ill children care centre zagreb
urban context model 2012
pressed cardboard, XPS
pastoral centre trogir
2011
foamed PVC sheet,
PVC pipes, PET foil
company headquarters zagreb
2011
foamed PVC sheet, PET foil,
paper-PUR sheet
national park entrance krka
2012
PET sheet, PUR foam,
EPS, glass fragment tape
elementary school popovaca
development model, 2009
foamed PVC sheet, PET foil,
paper-PUR sheet
awardswith XYZ arhitektura
Bosanka, urban planning competition l 3rd prize I Dubrovnik I 2011
Tradesmen Guild Business Complex, competition I 5th prize l Zagreb l 2010
Muller Hill, urban planning competition l 6th prize l Zagreb l 2010
Senj Nursing Home, competition l 1st prize l Senj l 2009
Kajzerica Educational Complex, competition l 2nd prize l Zagreb l 2008
with Helena Paver Njiric
Drava River Bank, international competition I 2nd prize l Maribor, Slovenia l 2010
other
Ministry of Education Scholarship for Academic Excellence l 2004 - 2010
Zagreb Film Festival l Palunko scriptwriting competition l 2nd prize I 2009
workshops2010 Restart Documentary Film Workshop l Zagreb
2009 Bauhaus Summer School l Dessau, Germany
2009 Palunko Scriptwriting Workshop l Zagreb
2008 Borongaj Campus Workshop l Zagreb
my other interestsinclude film, literature, writing, bicycling, traveling, food, languages, ...
XYZ arhitektura teamare Mia Roth Cerina, Tonci Cerina, Damir Mioc and Zvone Prlic version 080812
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