LPO HOUSE

The house is located near Zadar, placed parallel to the access road on a slightly sloped terrain with a stretch of greenery in front that represents a protective buffer from the street side. In this area, apart from the existing autochthonous greenery, there is a simple steel structure in the function of a parking canopy. The back yard has a more intimate character with breath-taking vistas of Velebit. The archetypal white house is placed on thin steel pillars on which the building “hovers” above the rugged terrain. The elongated rectangular volume is divided into three segments. The interrelationship of two closed volumes creates an entrance zone, a space that is used as a covered terrace, i.e. an unheated living room. The volumes are connected by the central space of the unheated living room, and by a covered shallow terrace on the NE side. The construction of the house is steel with white cement cladding panels and white aluminium frames for wind and sun protection. All floors are covered with terracotta tiles. The staircase, staircase fence, terrace, bridge and canopy are made of hot-dip galvanized steel. The roof is gabled, bounded by an attic raised about 10 cm, which hides the gutter and covered with roof tiles in white colour.