The concept of the Cultural ? Educational Complex in Kajzerica has been deducted from a contextual inspiration: by shifting the direction of the buildings from the street of the old Kajzerica Neighbourhood, we get a public area and an extension of the urban space under a green canopy. The lifted classroom volume slabs are outdoing the access to the school yard, opening transparency, lucidity, continuity and relations within the site, metaphorically substituting crowns and shadows of the trees, freeing the public space and rendering an artificial forest merged with the authentic green surface.

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Architects: Sangrad + AVP

Location: Zagreb, Croatia

Lead Architects: Vedran Pedi?i?, Emil ?piri?, Erick Velasco Farrera, Juan Jose Nuñez Andrade
Area: 16220.0 m2

Project Year: 2014

Photographs: Sandro Lendler

Collaborators: Gordana Greguri? Mio?i?, Iva Marjan?evi? Vuksani?, Mladen Hofmann, Igor Blaha, Antonija Milovac

Structure: Boris Baljkas, Tanja Baljkas, Boris Androi?

Mechanical Engineering: Goran Tomek

Electrical Installations: Marijan Marciu?

Water And Sewage: Bo?ica Magdaleni?

Owner/Client: City of Zagreb

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Text description provided by the architects. The concept of the Cultural ? Educational Complex in Kajzerica has been deducted from a contextual inspiration: by shifting the direction of the buildings f...