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House of Olives / ARHINGinženjering

Andreas Luco — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 10:00:00 +0000

House of Olives is a building intended for the Association of Olive Growers of Montenegro as an administrative and educational center. It is also conceived as a meeting place for tourists and devotees of olive fruit products. The available location, the project program, the specific configuration of the terrain, the historical core of the fortified city and the vernacular architecture from the surroundings were noticed as the material from which the original spatial assembly could be composed. The architectural expression is realized according to the principle of group form creating a space rich in visual sequences. All this is related to the existing urban fabric and the traditional setting of the old town courtyards, composed of several buildings that build a mutual functional and aesthetic whole. The design solution is a composition of roofs combined with flat parts. The yard is covered except for a circular opening that allows growth of the olive.

Visitor Center Đalovića Pećina / ARHINGinženjering

Andreas Luco — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 06:00:00 +0000

The Visitor Center as the starting point of the tourist offer for a tour of the Đalovića Cave is being developed in a challenging location in the form of a group format. The building is the result of a response to the found context of built physical structures and the surrounding landscape, primarily the proximity of the Bistrica River and mountain peaks. The object is exposed to views from all sides, so the offered form is loose and playful. Due to the time-limited stay of visitors who are part of the tour to Đalovića Cave, the main idea was to establish physical and visual contact with the river as a dominant design factor as soon as possible. That's why the building is "split" into two parts, grouping functions so that the hall area becomes an extended terrace that overlooks the river.

Hadrovića Mosque / ARHINGinženjering

Andreas Luco — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 06:00:00 +0000

In the settlement of Drač (Podgorica_Monteengro), not only when it comes to Stara varoš (old city of Podgorica), but also in Montenegrin cities more widely, there is a unique typology of residential buildings, the essence of which is represented by single-pitched roofs of houses that direct water towards the inner courtyard. There are two benefits of this solution. The first is that roofs built in this way protect the streets from large amounts of water during frequent and heavy rains. The water that flowed into the inner courtyards was used for hygiene purposes, which represents another useful moment. In the process of thinking about the architectural composition of the mosque, these houses with single-pitched roofs, which strongly accentuate the space, could not be avoided as one of the important principles of the architectural composition. This is how the rule of the newcomer, a good neighbor who respects the established rules, was respected. Of course, the design language is modernized, but with a clear and recognizable reliance on the found features of the existing architecture.