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CURRICULUM VITAE
PORTFOLIO
WORKSHOPSAA Mittelmeeland 6-9
Borongaj: Campus and the City 10Parks of Vukovar 11
STUDENT WORKSkrad: Inhabiting the void 14-17
Contenant d’habitation 18Multimedia institute “Seka“ 19
PROFESSIONAL WORKHospital for chronic disease 24-25Elementary school in Zadar 26-27
Koprivnica Armory 28-29
COMPETITIONSBlock Badel - urban redevelopment 32-35
House in Dalmatinska 36-37Park Pomirenja 38-39
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NIKOLINA MUŽACURRICULUM VITAE
[email protected]+ 385 98 1858503Trnsko 41 d10 020 Zagreb, Croatia
M.ARCH. / DIPL.ING.ARCH Faculty of Arcitecture, Zagreb Architecture and Urban Design
ARCHITECT CI d.o.o., Zagreb[initial and development design, construction drawings and documentation]public, education, health and sport buildings
PART-TIME ASSISTANT Faculty of Architecture, ZagrebDepartment for Architectural Designculture and bussines buildings
INTERN Gorenflos Architekten, Berlin [competiton design, model making]competitons, residential buildings
FREELANCEhpnj+, Zagreb[competiton design, graphics, rendering]competitons
DEMONSTRATOR Faculty of Architecture, ZagrebDepartment for Urban Designurban planning
INTERN de Architekten Cie., Zagreb [plan drafting, model making]residential buildings
Cardiff University: AD1 Cinema design, Dubrovnik, Croatia [tutor]Interdisciplinary Workshop: Parks of Vukovar, Zagreb, CroatiaAA Visiting School Mittelmeerland II, Tangier, Morocco [tutor]AA Visiting School Mittelmeerland I, Dubrovnik, CroatiaInternational Workshop “Streetworks”, Zagreb, Croatia [tutor]Summer Workshop “Hiper Croatia”, Zagreb+Skrad, CroatiaInternational Workshop EKOSUSAK2008, Susak, CroatiaInternational Workshop Borongaj: “Campus and the city”, Croatia
Communicating and elaborating ideas: as a college demonstrator/assistant I’ve been helping students in their studio work as well as collaborating with different tutors on semestar tasks.
Cooperation and assistance in the organization of various work-shops such as Hiper Croatia in 2008, AA School Visting Mittelmeer-land II (Tangier) in 2011 and Mittelmeerland III (Beirut) in 2012.
In 2009 I was one of the Junior organizers of RAF (Review of ama-teur film) held in Kino Grič in Zagreb.
CONTACT INFORMATION
EDUCATION
09 / 2004 - 05 / 2011
WORK EXPERIENCE
12 / 2012 - 02 / 2015
02 / 2012 - 02 / 2015
11 / 2011 - 01 / 2012
06 / 2011 - 10 / 2011
09 / 2009 - 06 / 2011
06 / 2009 - 09 / 2009
WORKSHOPS
20122012201120112009200820082008
OTHER SKILLS AND COMPETENCES
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WORKSHOPS
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AA VISITING SCHOOL WORKSHOP SERIES
The Mediterranean Sea is not only situated be-tween continents, but also acts as a historical and contemporary centre and border zone. The social, economic and political dynamics of this zone are complex. In the last century the Mediterranean has been separated through politics, religions, fear of clash of cultures etc. Unified by climate and the history of civilization, the Mediterranean region has the potential to be seen as a geographic unit. Over the next 15 years major Mediterranean port cities expect rapid changes, because of the growth of global trade and container shipping. Regardless of current national borders, cultural and economic transformations the fact is that the Mediterranean Basin is among the four most significantly altered biodiversity hotspots on Earth. Mittelmeerland uses a comparative approach about the whole Mediter-ranean with detailed case studies of six locations. By analysing current Urbanization and Future de-velopments we aim to generate strong, narrative statements in the field of Urbanism, Architecture, Sociology and Art.
The purpose of the workshop is to examine how the Mediterranean region can position itself as a ‘ter-ritory’, one that is based on climatic and economic conditions, and subject to specific social, political and spatial dynamics and experiences. What can each city do to turn the Mediterranean from one of the largest Hotspots of the world into an Eco Spot? How can the Mediterranean Sea region po-sition itself as a ‘’territory’’? What does changing and shaping urban space mean for the 1:1 everyday use? What are similarities and differences by com-paring cities?
AA Programme Directors:Medine Altiok and Stephanie Tunkahttp://www.mittelmeerland.org/
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TANGIER
The history of Tangier is very rich due to the historical presence of many civilisations and cultures. Today the city is undergoing rapid development and modernisation benefiting greatly from the new Tanger Med port. Tang-ier is turning from an urban wasteland into a great cultural and commercial gateway between Africa and Europe. The project is part of the economic policy orienting Morocco towards exports. Tanger Med is located about 40km from old Tangier. Both ports are linked by a new highway along the coast.
Tanger Med is the largest port on the Mediterranean and went into service in 2007. The concept is to use the port’s location – just 14km from Spain – to attract shipping traffic between east and west, passing through the Gibraltar. The success of the port has attracted many investors: a new city is starting to develop behind the port. How is the rapid growth of global trade affecting Mediterranean ports? What can Tangier do to turn the Mediterranean from one of the world’s largest hotspots into a vibrant ecospot?
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DUBROVNIK
In the first of these workshops we studied the dynamic territory of Du-brovnik’s coastline and the mutual dependencies of land and water. The area itself, from Dubrovnik to the port of Ploce, extends more than 113km and provides an amphibious context defined by an ongoing conflict
between the natural landscape, industry and tourism. This condition forces us to ask: How is the rapid growth of global trade affecting Mediterranean ports? And how can these cities along the Mediterranean coast become more environmentally engaged?
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BORONGAJ: CAMPUS AND THE CITY
Zagreb, 2008.AF Zagreb + Harvard School of Design + ETH Zürich
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PARKS OF VUKOVAR WORKSHOP
PARKING PARKNikolina Muža + Iva Jeličić Zagreb, 2012.
We imagined the park “Vijenac kneza Branimira“ as a simple, inexpensive and pleasant neighbor-hood place for rest, recreation and play. In design-ing we were guided by the existing spatial shape of the plot, which we either expanded in order to obtain new parking spaces or reduced out to cre-ate several zones of interest; an avenue of trees sprcad out so that it allows parking for a few more cars, a circular trail for recreation or just to stretch your legs, a small “grove” as a buffer zone and a quiet heart of the village - the final, core area which is perfect for relaxing with a good book and / or chatting with neighbours while the kids are safely playing.
As elements of street furniture we used pre-ex-isiting elements, like the old recycling containers, that we either re-allocated or re-imagined / re-de-signed, and added simpe elements like concrete bean bags that the neighbourhood residents are able to construct themselves; in our park every-one can have their “bench”. A big old garbage container is converted into a boat that becomes a nice place for children to play and a recognizable element of the block. Meet me at the boat!
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STUDENT WORK
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SKRAD: INHABITING THE VOID
MASTER THESISSport centre in Skrad2011.
The main spatial element of Skrad is the landscape. Horizontal (forests) and vertical (steep terrain) density of the landscape is caused by the specific form of conquering space. Habitation in Skrad is “scattered” throughout the territory of the municipality.While the primary sector is still the economic base of the municipality, such a for-mation was favorable because of the use and types of agricultural land. Transport infrastructure was function-ing as a bloodstream allowing for the exchange of people and goods at a lower intensity.
The problem today is the demand for high-intensity exchange and the economic policy of the municipality, which focuses on tourism. Taking the existing network of transport infra-structure and the continuously inhab-ited area, the idea is not spreading and zoning of existing settlements but a superposition of the new network with periodically populated areas. The new network hosts facilities of interest to the everyday life of the municipality in terms that, in addition to creating jobs, it provides activities for both tourists and residents themselves.
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The idea of building a volume that follows the edges of theforest was derived from analysis of the built as well as the unbuilt envi-ronment . The uniqueness of the given plot is that it is “ an open-ing in the forest” and since the first terrain surveys it has been kept as such. As follows, the main task was to maintain the void as a balancing structure in the dense forest. The contours of the building follow the edge of the forest and not the ones of the par-cel, which are imaginary and not present in the physical world.
The existing soccer field has a tradition that goes back to the ear-ly 20th century and is without a doubt a form of human activity well established in the area. Because of this strong tradition the architectural conception and composition can be attributed to the stadium typology but due to changes in the content of the build-ings envelope the programme becomes more porous in contact with the surrounding landscape and the clash with the surround-ing terrain resists and/or accepts the existing topography.
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MULTIMEDIA INSTITUTE “SEKA“
Interieur2011.
Multimedia Institute “mama” is one of a few organizations in Zagreb which are financed from the municipal budget and are designed for youth culture. Specific to their work is that they are complete-ly open to citizens who, in return, con-tribute with their ideas to make up the program of “mama”. The main problem of “mama” is lack of space. “Mama” means mother and “seka” - sister. Both spaces are on the same pedestrian route and while “mama” is in the interior of the block, the new space is positioned at the corner of the block and thus offers greater exposure to the events and con-tents being generated there.
Apart from the obvious need for trans-parency, it was crucial to achieve inter-action of the environment and users. As the exchange of information on a computer screen simply happens by the opposition of 0/1, pixel on/off, so the information game is played by designed elements on the facade. The game initi-ator is the fact that there is virtually no indoor furniture so by using these ele-ments as such, by removing them from the facade or putting them back on, one is caught in the process of action and reaction, feedback information.
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CONTENANT D’HABITATION
Apartment for a friend2010.
A friend of mine was designeing a project for multi-unit housing in Rijeka. She set-up the base; a “tree“ of empty containers, steel trusses, and gave each contain-er to a friend to desing to their on likeing, to inahabit it. When given the task I imagined an al-ter-ego of a sort, and her backsto-ry, so I made a container for her. This is her story and her home.
“Iva needs a home”
Iva is an architecture student who loves her little laptop. Iva hates it when the screen of her laptop has to fight for attention with the big halogen light that orbits our planet. Iva has recently moved into an north-facing apartment. North is great. Not hot during summer and winters are bleak anyway.
Right now Iva lives in a small room with a low ceiling. Iva likes tree-houses. Iva is a smoker who likes to cook. She needs a nicely ventilated space. Iva likes to lie down. Especially on the floor. Iva does not like to sit on chairs. She draws, reads and eats on the bed. But Iva collects nice chairs.
Iva likes to party. People like to mingle and circulate. Crowds always gather near the toilet. People like small, narrow spaces where they can drink and talk and pretend to be dancing. Iva has friends who like to fight during parties. That requires space. And cheap an scarce furniture.
Iva is going to marry rich and her husband is going to buy her a big house where everyone will have their own room.
* The man with the squirrel on his butt is Iva’s grandfather; her idol, the most influential person ih her life. He came to visit Iva to see how she is doing in her new apartment.
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PROFESSIONAL WORK
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REFERENCE PROJECTS
EDUCATION
Elementary school “Crvene kuće“, Zadar- shematic design
- design development- construction documents
Elementary school “Novi Bokanjac“, Zadar- design development
- construction documentsElementary school “Klara“, Zagreb
- construction documents
SPORT
Sport hall “Lopar“, Rab- construction documents
Sport hall “Kamešnica“, Sinj- shematic design
- design developmentSport hall “Granešina“, Zagreb
- design developmentOutdoor swimming pool, Veliki Grđevac
- design development- construction documents
HEALTHCAREHospital for Chronic Diseases, Novi Marof
- construction documentsGerontological center, Volosko
- shematic designRehabilitation Center, Topusko
- construction documents
OTHERKlaićeva comeplex (garage+sport hall+shopping)
- construction documentsReconstruction of the Armory, Koprivnica
- design development
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HOSPITAL FOR CHRONIC DISEASES
2012.-2015.Novi Marofinterpolation
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ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
2013.-2014.Crvene kućeZadar
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KOPRIVNICA ARMORY
2013.-2014.reconstruction
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The Armory building (“the Turkish Gate”) is being reconstructed for the purposes of public represetation and parts of the fortress have educational and tourist function and are a monument to the history of forticication ar-chitecture of European importance.
The buliding is a unique rectangular prismat-ic volume and this project plans toimprove the funcion by adding “hidden“ restrooms build into the arthworks walls.
The intent is to make the different floors function independetly of one another.
The functions of the ground floor would be completely public with tourist exhibition fa-cilities while the floor space could be used for business, exhibition or similar facilities. Top floor would be used for business purpos-es because of the impossibility of providing two outputs from these levels in the case of public purpose.
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COMPETITIONS
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BLOCK BADEL - URBAN REDEVELOPMENT
2012.with Christian Suau, Joris de Baes, Marija Mateljan
The Badel Urban Redevelopment constitutes a strategic urban ‘attractor’ for the city of Zagreb. It reinforces and restructures the intermodality and urbanity around Kvaternik Square’ neighborhoods. Our proposal interprets the design brief in terms of an urban programmatic repair and spatial re-composition, a ‘machine of town regenerations and relationships’.In order to enhance the existing urban tissue, we implement 3 main ingredients: 1. Augmenting publicness (maximization of the public space footage) 2. Integration of existing formal/informal amenities such as the open-air market and industrial fragments3. Reuse of urban morphologies through distinctive block-types.
The typical Zagreb perimeter block is a very familiar urban element, which we use to define new interrelated squares on this compound. Its formal patterns remains intact, however its volumetric forms – the square and rectangle- has been abstracted, lifted up and extruded to generate two Platonic shapes with regular inner cavities that frame the immediate environment: squares, parks and streetscape.
Both the rectangular and cubic perimeter blocks are distinctive bodies. Their architectures serve as a natural stage of activities by acting as an ‘inhabited membrane’, filtering the every-day life of the vicinity. Their ‘grand courtyards’ or voids accommodate both cultural facilities (West side) and an existing open air market (East side). In both perimeter blocks there is a correlation between facades and programs, which define the envelope composition of each complex and offers shading in relation to the environmental demands of a specific program.
The aim is to re-configure and articulate the urban density and architectural variety of the townscape by conceiving ‘magic’ castles, a ‘Fortress of Ur-banity’, where volumes interplay by occupancy and space qualities, and vice versa.
The Badel Urban Redevelopment turns the interven-tion area almost into a blank canvas, leaving only a couple of industrial remnants open to an entire re-configuration of the public and private spaces. We reckon that this openness offers inclusive spatial qualities to be fostered and preserved, as a unique urban condition that has never been tested in this urban context before.
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Balancing Asymmetries: From metropolitan to local scales
The street level is the main support that accommodates the public life. However, the block performs in a dual mode: The Destilerija Square and its cubic building response to a metropolitan scale whilst Market Square and its slab-block response a local scale.
The incisions and slits in each perimeter block are designed to celebrate the collision of different scales, the here and there. These gestures re-sponse to visual games of proximity and composition, and therefore cre-ating a well-balanced ‘place-form’ that deals with all the scales.
Hybridity
Our scheme celebrates the complexities, diversity and variety of pro-grammes. The hybrid programmes in building and public spaces seek for unexpected, unpredictable and non-regimented social relationships. The hybridization is the inevitable manifesto of a catalyst of social congestion both horizontally and vertically. This amalgamation of uses enriches the sense of ‘placeness’ and new heterotopias: the new Babylon.
Multidirectional Porosity
The scheme allows residents and visitors to move freely from one space to another by elevating the perimeter blocks and thus providing 100% cross-connectivity and accessibility from/to the immediate surroundings. The street level is continuous; a moving platform that links different ten-sions and flows in the streetscape.
Programmatic Articulations
Programmatically the strategic functions of the complex are allocated in relation to its immediate context and the every-day life. Our design scheme follows the traditional block-type and takes a forefront position along the principal street. All openings that connect the accesses to the shopping centre, parking and inner are situated with an explicit relation-ship to pre-existing activities, orders and lines of forces.
Both the positioning of complex uses and the accessibility to the most public areas in each perimeter block secure the articulation of buildings with the immediate and wider contexts.
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DALMATINSKA 4
2012.with Siniša Justić, Darko Latin2nd place
The brief asked for a mixed use building (commercial + residential) to be interploated into a slim plot in the heart of downtown Zagreb. Our design drew heavily on the existing typlogy of housing; we used the T-plan to maximize usable floor area by moving the staircase to the back and positioned the elevator in the centre of the, now, free plan. For the facade we re-interpreted the motif of the “erker“ (a canitlevered box, as seen on the adjacent buildings) and used it to create volumentic play on the semitransparent facade.
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PARK POMIRENJA IN VUKOVAR
2013.with Helena Njirić and Nika Baričić
“Noli turbare circulos meos.”
The idea for the design of the Park Pomirenja in Vukovar starts with a simple image; bathing in the warm rays of the yellow sun, a light spring breeze, children playing in the high grass, older people stolling and relaxing in the shadows of the fragrant trees...all is peacefull.
To create such a place we started by encircleing the existing plot by a thick strip of tress, the “forrest“, a sort of a buffer from the hectic pace of everyday life. To create different areas of interest we scattered circles thru the park, each with a particular theme, connected by pathways. The meadow inside the “forrest“ is transversed with strips of diverse grass and flowers, an everchangeing landcape of smells and textures. At the north end the park culminates in a light pergola, a communal space for the neighbourhood to enjoy.
