Housing in Existing Built Complexes

Housing, as the most common and oldest architectural typology, forms and produces, among others, urban environments, settlements and cities. Within the existing urban architectural entities - cities, residential or mixed use interpolations are a frequent and inexhaustible possibility for the exploration of various kinds, types and morphologies of living, as well as for the exploration of spatial entities, adapted to new forms of housing.
A mindful analysis of existing urban spaces and interpolated residential and commercial buildings in various parts of the city throughout different periods of time, as well as an analysis of downtown Zagreb blocks is the basis for research and the first design proposals for traditional and new housing typologies and other facilities and units, in the current Downtown housing block between the streets Petrinjska, Mrazovićeva, Hatzova and Palmotićeva in Zagreb. The proposed projects explore the coexistence of old and new, residential and commercial, fixed and variable, public and private, traditional and modern, local and global, flexible, temporary and permanent; in the apartment building, block; inside and outside of the legal frameworks, property rights and economic relations and potential.