EDUCATIONAL COMPLEX SREDIŠĆE
Zagreb, Hrvatska
Zagreb, Hrvatska
The complex is a set of orthogonal volumes along the eastern margin of the plot keeping the same perimeter and strict height relationship. The American school forms the northeast corner, the Croatian elementary school the southeast, and the kindergarten is a neutral, low structure in the middle. The objects are in a dialogue of form […]
AUTHORS
Vedran Pedišić, Erick Velasco Farrera, David A. Croteau, Jenni Katajamäki
PHOTOS
Robert Benson Photography, Erick Velasco Farrera, Ivan Pavić
PROJECT TYPE
Awarded, Selected works
LOCATION
Zagreb, Hrvatska
CLIENT / INVESTITOR
City of Zagreb, American International School of Zagreb
STATUS
Completed
BUILDING SURFACE
15856
YEAR
2021
AWARDS
Competition - 1. Prize, GREEN ARCHITECT award 2017, Medal for Architecture 2018, BSA award 2019, OUTSTANDING PROJECT AWARD 2020, BIG SEE award 2021, IDEA TOPS award 2023, New England HONOR AWARD 2023
The complex is a set of orthogonal volumes along the eastern margin of the plot keeping the same perimeter and strict height relationship. The American school forms the northeast corner, the Croatian elementary school the southeast, and the kindergarten is a neutral, low structure in the middle. The objects are in a dialogue of form and structure; they build a space around the inner courtyards and emphasize the intimacy or security of the introvert. The educational complex is a nearly-zero design and the orientation is strictly determined by the optimal lighting in the north-south direction with glazed facades or east-west where the solid wall surface dominates.
The American school is a departure from both the classical system of education; classrooms are transparent to the surroundings as an intertwined system of niches next to the atrium and all spaces which are connected and flow into each other. The kindergarten was formed around an elongated central courtyard. PVN continuously with the atrium separates the nursery from the kindergarten unit and the primary school is organized in groups circularly connected to the inner courtyard.
