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Year: 2006
Location: Markuševac, Zagreb
Authors: Assistant Prof. Sanja Filep, B.Sc. (arch.), Vesna Mikić, Ph.D.,Arch.Eng., Ivan Mladina, B.Sc. (arch.)
Public urban and architectural design competition
The plot chosen for the construction of a nursing home is located at the northeastern part of the City of Zagreb, in the neighbourhood of Markuševac. According to the available physical documentation, the plot is located within the zone intended for public and social-welfare purposes, therefore this new, socially relevant space appropriately supplements the existing public facilities.
In the immediate vicinity, there is a kindergarten and a nursery in the north, while the surrounding area contains low-rise, individual residential buildings.
The main entrance to the facility is in Štefanovec Street, as well as a drive way, a parking lot, and an area for the transportation of patients. The interconnection between the building and the terrain is achieved both by designing the house in the form of cascades and by ensuring its direct connection with the rear part of the land plot, the roof covered with greenery, and an exit on the lateral side of the building via a half-landing on the northern side.
The house is intended to optimally respond to the context of the centre of Markuševac as an urban and natural tissue. The idea was implemented by the dual construction of the building: a solid volume was set up along the street (intensification of the urban character of the street grows toward the central square Trg Sv. Šimuna), while the interior volume, which respects the topography of the plot to a maximum, - is adjusted to the solid volume. The roof covered with greenery and its direct interconnection with the features of the terrain greatly contribute to the existing scenery. Particular attention is dedicated to the problem of overcoming the programme of the building and, at the same time to respect the criteria and the urban and historical character of the neighbourhood by inserting green atriums and green covering.
Attention has been paid to the social life in the institution, which has been made possible by setting up a launge on the ground floor with a library, shop, dining-room and a chapel.
In addition, several private areas have been designed in the accommodation zone by positioning lounges at the extended communications, but also in the exterior – in atriums and parks.
An entrance unit is available on the lateral side of the building facing the kindergarten via the landing, so as to establish direct and physical communication between the nursing home and the kindergarten, the aim of which is to enable the youngest to socialize with the elderly. The terrain is directly linked with the lounge so as to enable as intense as possible the contact with the surrounding park.
Efforts have been made to design the rooms so that they meet to a maximum the requirements of the programme and, at the same time, to ensure optimal light and airing (this particularly applies to the in-patient clinic, which is lit zenithally) and the highest quality of the available space in terms of both physical and psychological benefit of users. Also, the idea was that all rooms have the view of the greenery and that atriums face the hillside.
The economic design of bathrooms has been obtained by installing showers with a base at the floor level (so-called Tatami shower).
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