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The existing commercial building “Nama” is being transformed into a new typology of a modern public library, a low pavilion, open on all four sides, which establishes a series of public spaces and connects them with the interior and leads through all floors of the building to the roof terrace with a view of the city skyline . Ivan Tavčar’s new library thus becomes one of the important public contents along the central city axis, which connects the historical spaces and institutions of the city.
The new library follows modern approaches in the design of general libraries by creating an open public space among the treetops, which serves not only as a storage of information and a generator of content, but above all as a connector of the local community and a promoter of creative processes. With its floor plan, the building becomes a platform for local social life, connecting and intertwining learning spaces, inspiration spaces, event spaces and meeting spaces. The variety of environments creates an inclusive and flexible space for socializing and working, relaxed conversations, concentrated study, social events, lifelong education, open lectures, creative workshops …

The renovated building is a demonstration facility for a sustainable society, as the existing structure is stripped bare, surrounded by a new transparent facade membrane and presents to the public technological systems for obtaining renewable energy sources and a design that enables better microclimatic conditions. From the point of view of indicators of sustainable construction, a major contribution is the preservation of existing building structural elements. On the preserved existing reinforced concrete skeletal structure, measures are planned to improve the building’s resistance to anticipated external influences and increase seismic safety. The entire design takes into account the starting points for ecologically aware, energy-efficient and economical sustainable planning to the highest extent. The project is based on a thoughtful, compact bioclimatic design; a well-designed building envelope with which we achieve the optimal energy effect and on the production and utilization of energy from renewable sources.

The new building of the State Audit Institution of Montenegro is a compact building volume that follows the building lines and at the same time is morphologically connected to the geometry of the surrounding buildings with the notch of the intermediate vertical hall. The hybrid typology of the business palace combines a low pavilion part on the ground floor, open directly to atriums with a mediterranean garden, and a vertical urban hall that runs through all floors. This works as a generator of communication between employees, as all workplaces are visually connected to each other. The flexibility of the work space is achieved with a variable configuration of workplaces, which is provided by an open floor plan without structural supports – the entire building is supported by two reinforced concrete cores on which the steel structure of the floor rests.

The cemetery, as a ceremonial place of farewell, as a silent place of mourning and as a place of memory, is designed with the idea of ​​entering the forest and opening towards the sea. The space of the cemetery is determined by the contrasting relations between open and closed, between light and dark, between here and hereafter. The trees between the burial fields personify the sacred grove. Clean, clear plots of grave fields are inserted into it.
The forest cemetery shows its dual nature by its design: it is built as a series of fenced burial fields, “smaller cemeteries”, which are lined up in terraces above the farewell building up the slope. Individual, more intimate units are connected by a ritual path, which, due to their closedness, can also be a park path embedded in a network of public paths.
The design takes advantage of the relief as a potential for the separation of the space of farewell and the space of memory from service work and traffic; utilizes the relief and the existing path network for accessibility to the place of farewell and the necessary length of the paved path for the rhythm of the procession and the integration of the cemetery into life, while at the same time clearly identifying the cemetery as a special space, a place of farewell, mourning, memory and reflection, while using the existing forest as an extension to form the boundary of the memory space.

What should be the place for the enforcement of sanctions, which will encourage humanity and the reintegration of protected women into society? The reflection on the modern prison is based on the promotion of social inclusion instead of isolation and thus preparation for freedom. Here, architecture can play a key role only to the extent that it ensures, within the required security requirements, the openness of the design, which enables and encourages communication with the outside space. The concept is developed from three elements: a plinth, which redefines the forecourt of the castle and highlights the castle as a spatial dominant; walls that rise from the plinth and terrace the area into which the new program slats of the shutter are placed; notches at the contact with the existing topography, which illuminate the basement floors, open up views of nature and establish the necessary height of the protective perimeter.