vLAB

Since 1862, a five-meter-high railway embankment has held captive hectares of prime land in the center of Zagreb. The presentation ahead argues for opening this space to the city and proposes the steps of its transformation into a new center of Zagreb’s public life. Conceived as a dedicated outpost of the Zagreb Fair, vLAB is a multi-purpose building in which programs and activities from three domains run simultaneously, 365 days a year: culture and tourism, innovation and education, and business and development.

The Commerce Changes Cities competition (2016): the master’s thesis receives further theoretical elaboration and expansion, as a universally applicable methodology for conceiving hybrid-type buildings, tailored to a target site. Read the essay ↗