Adris Business Complex, Zagreb
Autor: Ivica Plavec
The project was conceived to meet the requirements of attractive appearance, visual dynamics and modern spatial organisation; the materials were chosen with aim of achieving a high level of architectural design and lasting high quality.
Work areas have been provided with new possibilities: comfortable work spaces of interesting spatial arrangements and views, transparency, fluidity, casualness, vicinity of terraces suited for socializing, conversations and work in the open, in natural and green space, and in some places – in an almost garden-like environment. All this contributes to a feeling of harmony and satisfaction during stay there. The spatial composition of vertical arrangement of longitudinal, transverse and atrial forms creates dynamic internal space, and contributes to the attractive appearance of the building, which we additionally tried to emphasise by alternately ‘projecting out’ transversally set volumes facing the street and the courtyard.
The volume of the new building takes part in the activation of the interior of the block by forming an inner square. Expanded free space designed as a public square with a fully resolved landscaping and floor design provides a free access to the future Croatian Historical Museum, and has an affirmative relation towards the protected building. At the ground floor zone of the new building there are public purpose areas, and the transparency of the zone enables a visual connection of the new square with the Jagićeva street.
The new building of the Adris Group complex harmoniously blends – in terms of design – into the existing tissue of the downtown block and affirms the old factory in contrast to its own contemporary design language. At the same time, it plays the role of a new spatial benchmark of the western part of the city – in an area of pronounced historical and urban values. Architectural articulation of full, hollow, green and transparent segments of the constructed building programme results in a dynamic presence visible along the Primorska street axis.
Work areas have been provided with new possibilities: comfortable work spaces of interesting spatial arrangements and views, transparency, fluidity, casualness, vicinity of terraces suited for socializing, conversations and work in the open, in natural and green space, and in some places – in an almost garden-like environment. All this contributes to a feeling of harmony and satisfaction during stay there. The spatial composition of vertical arrangement of longitudinal, transverse and atrial forms creates dynamic internal space, and contributes to the attractive appearance of the building, which we additionally tried to emphasise by alternately ‘projecting out’ transversally set volumes facing the street and the courtyard.
The volume of the new building takes part in the activation of the interior of the block by forming an inner square. Expanded free space designed as a public square with a fully resolved landscaping and floor design provides a free access to the future Croatian Historical Museum, and has an affirmative relation towards the protected building. At the ground floor zone of the new building there are public purpose areas, and the transparency of the zone enables a visual connection of the new square with the Jagićeva street.
The new building of the Adris Group complex harmoniously blends – in terms of design – into the existing tissue of the downtown block and affirms the old factory in contrast to its own contemporary design language. At the same time, it plays the role of a new spatial benchmark of the western part of the city – in an area of pronounced historical and urban values. Architectural articulation of full, hollow, green and transparent segments of the constructed building programme results in a dynamic presence visible along the Primorska street axis.
