Milanović Nikola M. arch. was born in 1989 in Kragujevac. He graduated from the Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade. In Belgrade, he founded the architectural studio URED, within which he has been engaged in design practice since 2013. He enrolled in doctoral studies at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Belgrade in 2013 and worked as an assistant at the Department of Architecture from 2016 to 2022.
Project description in English
The residential building in Kralja Milana Street number 88 in Kragujevac is located on the border of the zone of a row housing and the zone of public use, within which is the plot of the Gerontological Center, which conditioned the formation of the building in an interrupted row.
Urban analysis of building rules defined two variants of solutions:
Variant 1: Using the parameters for an interrupted row of single-family housing, a more favorable solution is obtained of a more compact residential building with main orientations towards the street and its own yard.
Variant 2: Using the parameters for an interrupted row of multi-family housing, the distance from the Gerontological Center would have to be much greater, which results in a building with a very narrow front with the main orientations towards the Gerontological Center building and its yard.
Variant 1 was accepted as a more favorable solution both for the tenants of the future building and for the users of the gerontological center.
Thanks to the compact shape, rational apartments were designed with secondary openings on the side facade and towards the skylights, which provides good lighting and ventilation.
The dimensions and proportions of the apartments enabled the scalability of the residential structure and the possibility of easily creating an additional room within the same given square footage.
The width of the front was used to design the entrance to the building on the main facade, separated from the carriageway, materialized from clinker brick elements on a flat slab that extends into the interior space.
The roof terrace was conceived as a safe space away from the street, which would have the potential of a summer garden for organizing children's birthdays, celebrations and other social needs of the tenants, as an extension of the space of a compact apartment and compensation for the lack of a better organized yard due to the limited number of parking spaces.
According to the latest changes to the planning documents in Kragujevac, it will no longer be possible to design residential buildings of this scale on plots of land smaller than 6 acres until further notice, but the construction of buildings with more than 20 apartments is encouraged.
In this sense, this is one of the last examples of the construction of residential buildings on a smaller scale and the realization of the comfort provided by a residential community with less than ten residential units.
