Elena Ruzova

advisor

S.G. Stroganov Moscow State Academy of Arts and Industry

Russian

Design of interior and exterior environment more

The competition project presented by Andrija Vilotijevic in Stari Grad envisages a residential area, a pier and a landscape park, located on a terraced slope of the bay of the island Hvar. The project today is rather an express concept without detailed elaboration. It is an impressive combination of a zone of single storey villas with a giant canopy based on the MERO design.
The idea of construction of a series of houses based on rapidly assembled and disassembled “ball-pipe” constructions was born in the famous Bauhaus school of architecture and design, founded by the outstanding German architect Walter Gropius. The School has always been proud of such great professors as Wassily Kandinsky, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy.
The “ball-pipe” concept was based on using a great number of different shape and volume constructions with a small number of various elements. And this task was implemented. From this construction you can assemble anything you want, the possibilities are almost unlimited. The MERO constructions are based on an unique and still unsurpassed idea that is considered to be the classic of the world avant-garde. This idea was developed by the Bauhaus School.
The main task of such constructions is not the beauty but the speed of the construction work and the ability to cover large areas with minimal resource costs. Constructions can take any shape thanks to the almost unlimited number of options for connecting individual parts.
As apparently the authors planned the solar panels and functional lighting should be integrated into design. A landscape park becomes both a divider and a connecting link in the entire composition of the territory. The light frame system is seen to be a giant protective "spread", providing access to the coastal part of the sea bay, or a fragment of an object of futuristic forms. Combined with the traditional Croatian buildings in Dalmatia the project looks very beautiful and modern.
The residential part with its acute-angled form was little developed. But the beautiful shape of the modules is visible in the buildings of the yacht pier and can be combined in different ways.