Shopping center & hotel Grude
CLIENT
Violeta doo Grude
SERVICES
Conceptual design
YEAR
2020
PLACE
Grude, Bosnia and Herzegovina
The idea for the shape of the building is modeled on the form of the stone, since Herzegovina is
a country where stone dominates. The shopping center is connected through public and social spaces with
the hotel, so a warm connection is achieved between the commercial and residential part of the building.
Access to the shopping center is in the shadow of the cantilever form of the vertical spread of the
residential facilities of the building. Access to the hotel is organized from the south side of the location from
Stjepan Radić Street. The entrance hall and vertical communication of the hotel is bounded on the west,
east and north sides by the corpora of trade (business) exhibition spaces. In the diagonal corners of the
ground floor south-east and north-west, the spaces are reserved for catering business premises (coffee
playroom and coffee pizzeria) which have the possibility of dissolving towards the outer space (access
plateau). In the central area of the entrance hall of the shopping center, which is directly leaning against the
entrance hall of the hotel, the height is gallery-enabled communication with floor -1 where within
the
hypermarket is positioned a garden program from which plants rise in height to the ground floor, thus
creating a green oasis and beautify the atmosphere on both floors, and especially in the entrance halls.
These three basic architectural volumes form a certain degree of necessary isolation considering the
characteristics of the climate. The space enriched with plants and enriched with spacious views is a
entrance salon, and in this way the first impression of welcome is achieved. In perspective, it is possible to
glaze the atrium space with simple construction projects and turn it into an isolated garden, for plants that
require special climatic conditions. In the area of the plateau, paved areas are intersected by green zones,
where areas are reserved for planting olives, rosemary and other plants characteristic of Herzegovina. In the
visual identity with which the plateau was designed, we were guided by the idea of looking at the hills of
the Herzegovinian karst with dry stone walls.
