{"id":23695,"date":"2025-04-16T03:20:18","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T03:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/23695\/"},"modified":"2025-04-16T03:20:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T03:20:18","slug":"horizontal-disk-anchors-office-building-by-mva-on-three-greened-mounds-near-zagreb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/23695\/","title":{"rendered":"horizontal disk anchors office building by MVA on three greened mounds near zagreb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MVA designs Production and Office Building in Dubrovcan<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>MVA \/ Mikelic Vres Arhitekti constructs a production and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.designboom.com\/tag\/where-people-work\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">office<\/a><\/strong> building located in Dubrov\u010dan, a village northwest of Zagreb, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.designboom.com\/tag\/architecture-in-croatia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Croatia<\/a><\/strong>, characterized by a rural and natural landscape. Situated in an environment that is rapidly transforming into a small business and industrial complex, the plot was originally used as a construction waste landfill. By remediating the landfill, the plot is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.designboom.com\/tag\/renovation-architecture-and-design\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">revived<\/a><\/strong>, creating a new topography, a new nature. Following the land\u2019s natural slope, three mounds are formed on the site, defining the central space and pedestrian access paths. Technical, production, and shared spaces are arranged within the mounds, oriented toward the pedestrian path that connects them. A horizontal disk is anchored in this unstable context. A simple single-story volume with a square floor plan, organized around a central circular atrium, is positioned on three greened mounds. Both neutral and specific, the building draws the natural landscape in, creating unexpected spatial sequences.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" bad-src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" alt=\"horizontal disk anchors office building by MVA on three greened mounds near zagreb\" width=\"818\" height=\"460\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/production-and-office-building-dubrovcan-8-67fd7f97f2621.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" lazyload\"\/><br \/>all images by <a href=\"https:\/\/cargocollective.com\/jurezivkovic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jure \u017divkovi\u0107<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>transparent surfaces enhance connection with outdoor space<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The interior of the disk is organized as a dynamic, horizontal working environment, consisting of office spaces of different types and characters. The <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mva.hr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">design team<\/a><\/strong> at MVA \/ Mikelic Vres Arhitekti uses a sequence of plans and transparent surfaces to enhance user interactions and intensive relations with the outdoor space. Along the outer facade, closed offices are arranged with corner meeting rooms and niches for group work, opening the central space towards the landscape. Wrapped around the atrium, this main communication space contains the entrance, reception, hot desk workstations, a circular presentation hall, and a small auditorium, which extends toward the multifunctional common space and outdoor terrace in the basement. A spiral staircase connects this space with a small rooftop pavilion, terrace, and running track.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" bad-src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" alt=\"horizontal disk anchors office building by MVA on three greened mounds near zagreb\" width=\"818\" height=\"511\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/production-and-office-building-dubrovcan-6-67fd7f97f259b.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" lazyload\"\/><br \/>a production and office building emerges from a remediated landfill in rural Croatia<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>MVA links two concrete slabs with peripheral V-shaped columns<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Production and Office Building\u2019s structural system consists of two prestressed concrete slabs connected by a series of peripheral V-shaped columns, four reinforced concrete cores, and freely positioned groups of inclined columns. The large structural spans allow for flexible space organization with lightweight, non-load-bearing, and demountable partitions. The building by MVA \/ Mikelic Vres Arhitekti creates its own context, simultaneously creating a dialogue with the surrounding nature and the newly built neighboring environment. With the continuous landscape extending beneath the building, the atrium becomes the central point of both the interior and exterior spaces, blurring the boundaries between them.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1127477 size-full lazyload\" bad-src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" alt=\"horizontal disk anchors office building by MVA on three greened mounds near zagreb\" width=\"818\" height=\"545\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/mva-mikelic-vres-arhitekti-production-office-building-dubrovcan-zagreb-croatia-designboom-818-5.jpg\"  data- loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>a horizontal concrete disk anchors the building in its evolving industrial setting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MVA designs Production and Office Building in Dubrovcan \u00a0 MVA \/ Mikelic Vres Arhitekti constructs a production and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3939],"tags":[14812,4021,4020,4022,77,14813,16,15,14814],"class_list":{"0":"post-23695","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-architecture-in-croatia","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-arts-and-design","11":"tag-design","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-renovation-and-restoration-architecture-and-design","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-where-people-work"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114345491267119411","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}