new public entrance to national park krka
open architectural competition :: 3rd prize
program: ticket office . auditorium . exhibition space . parking
authors: davor busnja . ines hrdalo . ida polzer
The complexity of the entrance programmatic scheme, along with the natural and traditional values of the site area, indicate the pavilion-type system as an optimal design concept. The initial idea to organize pavilions under a single canopy is being transformed: as the building itself, the canopy is being fragmented into many elements, horizontally and vertically shifted. Fragmentation of the canopy is providing with various added values: formation of programmatic micro localities, unobstructed air circulation, diffuse natural lighting of the building complex interior, simple structural system, and distinguished design language.
The primary design of architectural and landscape elements comes from a simple geometric element, a circle. Circular elements and their horizontal and vertical placement are bio-mimicry of the surrounding natural environment: by replicating the structural logic of plants, created is a composition amid nature and architecture, indoors and outdoors, a city and a house, texture and light. Such design of the entrance complex, despite its size, becomes unobtrusive with respect to traditional architecture and environmental values of the Natural Park Krka.
Landscape design of the site area and the architectural complex are treated as two inseparable and corresponding features. The discourse between architecture and nature is evident through functional and design aspects. Circle and its mutations are consistently applied to the landscape just as they are to architecture, whereas the green surfaces within the complex act as scenic intermissions within a programmatically dense environment.
