Education
2021. Master’s degree, Architecture and Urban planning
Faculty of Architecture, University of Zagreb, Croatia
2018. Bachelor’s degree, Architecture and Urban planning
Faculty of Architecture, University of Zagreb, Croatia
2019/20. Erasmus+ student exchange
Faculdade de Architectura
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2013. High school diploma (emphasis on Computer Science)
V. Gymnasium, Zagreb
2004-09. Computer science workshops for gifted youth at ZRS (Zagreb Association for Computer Science)
(LOGO, Basic, Pascal, C++ programming workshops)
Interests and goals
I’m interested in working at interdisciplinary environments combining the fields of architectural and urban design with computational and digital design techniques, working toward creating more sustainable and inclusive products, services, spaces and societies. Besides, I’m a quick and independent learner, an organized worker, with a broad spectrum of interests, as well as being a good team mate who values open exchange of ideas.
Work experience
Architecture and Urban Design
2021. Arhitektura Filip Tadin d.o.o. (Zagreb, Croatia) (Nov-Dec)
• junior architect
2021. Freelance architect (Zagreb, Croatia) (July-Nov) (working with ZBIR d.o.o., Drugi Format d.o.o.)
• architectural surveying, 2D drafting, BIM modelling
2021. Faculty of Architecture at the University of Zagreb (Mar-Jun)
• student assistant in Computational Design class, assisting students with Rhino and Grasshopper basics
2018. Ivanišin.Kabashi. Arhitekti d.o.o. (Zagreb, Croatia) (Jan-July) • student internship
Other
2020/21. Croatian Chamber of Architects (Zagreb, Croatia)
• student internship
2020. Touch me festival 2020 (Zagreb, Croatia) (festival of art, science and technology)
• organization volunteer
2018/19. Zagreb 80’s interactive museum Zagreb
• student job
2015-17. Lauba art gallery, Zagreb
• student job
2014-17. HDLU museum, Zagreb
• student job
KSET students club
• DJ, volunteer
Bartol Oremović , M.Arch. date of birth: 26.08.1994.
address: Ilica 312a, Zagreb mobile: +385 91 7805 263
mail: bartol.oremovic@gmail.com linkedin.com/in/ bartol-oremović-a7966b1b5
Other
Rapid prototyping using CNC and laser cutting, 3D printing, model making.
Language
Croatian native speaker English C1 - advanced
Portuguese A2 - elementary Italian, Spanish basic understanding Drivers licence B category
Github https://github.com/boremovic
01Rakitje AgroCity
A self-sufficient neighbourhood for the 21st century.
Diploma thesis, 2021.
Faculty of Architecture
University of Zagreb
Typology
mixed-use, residential, agriculture, landscape, sustainability, strategy
02Ajuda palace
Rehabilitation of a historical Lisbon palace.
Urban rehabilitation, 2019.
Faculty of Architecture
University of Lisbon (Erasmus+)
Typology
cultural heritage, public space, urban design
03A5 Powerway
A Lisbon 'smart city' strategy.
Project Laboratory VI, 2019.
Faculty of Architecture
University of Lisbon (Erasmus+)
Typology
infrastructure, landscape, product design, interaction, urban design, design research
04Learning Landscape
Distributed education for the 21st century.
Design Studio III, 2016.
Faculty of Architecture
University of Zagreb
Typology
education, parametric, algorithmic, generative, interaction, urban design
05CloudLife Zagreb
Social housing for the digital age.
Contemporary housing workshop, 2018.
Faculty of Architecture
University of Zagreb
Typology
residential, mixed-use, digital age, interaction, urban design, algoritmic, generative design
06Adžijina BussinessHub
A modern bussiness hub in the heart of Zagreb.
Design Studio IV, 2017.
Faculty of Architecture
University of Zagreb
Typology
office, mixed-use, retail
Self-sufficient living for the 21st century
The main challenge of todays global politics - climate changes, is best answered locally. Current pandemic crisis, as well as a series of earthquakes which hit Croatia in 2020. make the idea of self-sufficiency and autonomy of living ever more important.
Sustainability and self-sufficiency in building, housing, work and life in general demand short and local supply chains, of energy, building materials as well as a circular way of managing goods in general, by means of reusing and recycling.
Diploma thesis, 2021.
Faculty of Architecture
University of Zagreb
Mentor
dr. sc. prof. Ivan Mlinar
Typology
mixed-use, residential, agriculture, landscape, infrastructure, sustainability, strategy
Location
Sveta Nedelja, Croatia
2. street view, ambiental illustration
Rakitje AgroCity
A model for a self-sufficient, garden city for the 21 st century, set in suburban Zagreb County area, functions as a mixed-use residential neighbourhood equipped with urban features, making for an ideal place of living for young and urban singles, families as well as seniors who want to adapt to contemporary lifestyles.
“Urban metabolism of Bruxelles, Belgium”, Duvigneaud, P., Denayeyer-De Smet, S., 1977. L’Ecosystéme Urbs, in L’Ecosystéme Urbain Bruxellois, in Productivité en Belgique.
Urban lifestyle, rural ambience
Driving an e-bike among corn fields and live stock is the best feature of this neighbourhood. Combining the best of rural qualities of life, clean air, fresh food with the newest of technological achivement in ‘clean-tech’ like electric mobility, solar power collection and various smart city, IoT solutions for betterment of daily life.
Masterplan
The project of Rakitje AgroCity was elaborately planned at the neighbourhood level, consisting of a residential, mixed-use area and a big park, preserving existing forrested area. In this visible duality multiple qualities of life have been achieved, a big recreational area with dining and caffe areas as well as a series of lookout points scattered among the trees offering views over a mostly flat surrounding landscape and the nearby lake.
Views from the outside
The views of the whole neighbourhood show the scale of the residential area in relation to the adjecent park and its lookout points. It was import to fit the newly planned neighbourhood into the existing surroundings, by carefully following the general masterplan of the city of Sveta Nedelja in Zagreb Countywhere the projects is located.
1. private housing
2. social housing with office and retail space (underground car park)
3. central public space
4. agro technology incubator
5. IT incubator and makerspace
6. bike parking
7. neighbourhood park with recreational, caffe and dining areas
8. biological water treatment plant
9. waste plant and post distribution center
10. greenhouses for crops and livestock
11. sport and rec facilities
12. indoor swimming pool
plan
Smart street for a resilient lifestyle
At the street level, the neighbourhood is equiped with vaiours urban IoT devices, like a 24/7 postal locker for delivery of parcels.
Smart waste-management in the form of an undeground waste containers, connected by small scale e-trucks which transfer waste to the recycling unit at the edge of the neighbourhood.
The streets are also equipped with communal bike racks, as well as plenty of sitting area in the shades of greenery.
1. street with pedestrian and micromobility access only
2. social housing with direct street access
3. communal bike racks
4. pedestrian garage
7. 24/7 postal locker
8. car access to undeground parking 9. communal gardens
Section
The section shows an undeground car-park, which is accessed from the outer edge of the neighbourhood, thus effectively making the living area car free.
It also depicts the relationship of housing with the garage, with multistory housing having direct parking access, while individual and row housing has street level access to parking from separate verticals.
The National Palace of Ajuda
Completion of the western facade of the palace of Ajuda in Lisbon will serve as a catalyst to the development of the surrounding area, the neighbourhood of Ajuda.
Currently neglected, the project proposes a series of strategies to revitalize the area, first and foremost by tearing down the physical and formal barriers which separate the palace from the city. The idea is to attract local citizens and give the area a central public space which it is currently missing. As well as activating the tourist potential which the area has, thanks to the historical palace which remains underused as a museum, but has great tourism potential.
Class
Urban rehabilitation, 2019.
Faculty of Architecture
University of Lisbon (Erasmus+)
Mentor
prof. Carlos Alho
Team Filip Ćiković
Bartol Oremović
Typology
cultural heritage, public space, urban design
Location
Lisbon, Portugal
Referential urban projects
Referential projects of similar urban qualities were analysed to provide a frame of possible intervention in Ajuda and Belem areas of Lisbon.
Belem connection
The north-south axis in the areas of Ajuda and Belem are currently lacking connection, thus this proposal tried to address this issue by offering a strategy of interwoving these areas.
Public
space intervention
A number of urban interventions were proposed for the unification of Ajuda and Belem areas, such as a new connecting tram line, new parking space, an extension of the Ajuda botanical gardens, as well as new public and performance spaces .
Concept of revitalisation
With the ongoing work to finish the western facade of the Palace, this proposal tries to further develop the area surrounding it. It does so in a way that would open the Palace and its surroundings to the public, by breaking down the historical barriers, in terms of physical and formal access.
Layers of public space
As well as attracting locals, the aim is to attract tourists who mostly frequent the popular area of Belem, south of the Palace.
This should be achieved improving the various layers of public space, the public transport, pedestrian access to the Palace itself, as well as to the whole of Ajuda.
Strategy of the masterplan
By breaking down the barriers the aim of the proposal is to attract the local residents to the Palaces and create a now missing central area for the neighbourhood of Ajuda.
Quiosques
A series of multifunctional quiosques were design and placed around the palaces in order to activate previously empty and underused public space.
Ajuda palace
The project seeked to revitalize the area around the historical Ajuda palace in Lisbon. Throught careful intervention in the public space around the palace, the goal was achieved through repavement, additional plantation, as well as an addition of multifunctional quiosques typical of Lisbon squares.
1. new metro link
2. metro station
3. retail and office area
4. public space
5. royal horse area
6. royal horse stables
7. new square
8. Ajuda Palace
9. open air market
10. garden
11. water basin
12. new housing
13. botanical garden quiosques
3.
Section
The section shows the relation between the palace and the subtle intervention in the surrounding space, with quiosques and an underground car park.
The A5 'Powerway'
A ‘smart-city’ is defined by it’s responsivnes to citizens needs. Therefore it is defined by it’s public space. For this task a strategy was designed for various scales of city and intercity infrastructure.
The highway, in the case of this project the A5 connecting Lisbon and Cascais, was imagined as a ‘smart-road’, also equiped with PV cells, CO2 and sound absorbers - all generating electricity from these sources...
Class
Project Laboratory VI, 2019.
Faculty of Architecture
University of Lisbon (Erasmus+)
Mentor
prof. Joao Rafael Santos, prof. Joao Silva Leite
Typology
infrastructure, landscape, product design, interaction design, urban design, design research
Location
Lisbon metropolitan area, Portugal
The A5 (Lisbon - Cascais)
The project task required evalutation of the A5 highway connecting Lisbon and Cascais, and the surrouding neighbourhoods it divides - north and south.
The aim was to propose design solutions to make the massive infrastructure and its area more useful to its surroundings.
A Portuguese 'smart street'
A series of IoT devices were imagined to be implemented in a typical street section, such as automated waste management containers, sensor equiped infrastructure underneath the street, measuring the flow and possible loss of water, sewage and energy.
Smart neighbourhood
Public squares were imagined as ‘hotspots’ serving public wi-fi access with work pavillions, as well as e-mobility charging stations and automated post lockers.
On the building scale, all roofs should be equipped with PV cells generating electricity and sharing excess energy into the common grid.
The highway was imagined as a ‘smart road’, also equiped with PV cells, CO2 and sound absorbersall generating electricity from these sources..
The ‘Power-wall’
The project imagined a device called the ‘power-wall’, an IoT poweredmultifunctional wall, similar to those we find on modern highways, usually serving as sound barriers.
In addition to noise absorption, the ‘powerwall’ also generates electricity from solar power and purifies air of CO2 with plant based solutions. It can also serve as a big digital screen displaying road-side informational messages.
Agrovoltaics and energy collection
Along with the theme of the ‘smart-city’ and the ‘smart-road’, another related topic was researched - sustainable urban farming.
To be able to use the sprawling spaces adjecent to the A5 highway, ‘agrovoltaics’ were proposed as a solution of combined food production and energy generation. Different scenarios were imagined on this theme, as well as the possible logistics behind the process of production and delivery of food.
Urban devices
Exploring various types of urban infrastructure was key to this project. The research mostly focused on energy infrastructure. Thus a series of 'smart urban devices' - IoT powered tools were imagined and explored.
A school for the 21st century
Could knowledge be disperesed in a distributed way, between students and teachers alike? Can teachers learn from their students as well as teaching them?
A prototype for an elementary school could be designed as a field of standardised units, layed out along a rectangular grid, modified by parameters, such as classroom capacity and specific function, lighting, proximity of fresh air and green areas. Following new ways of learning, a combination of a physical and virtual model of teaching could be used to form a framework of the school for the 21st century.
Class Design Studio III, 2016.
Faculty of Architecture
University of Zagreb
Mentor
prof. Tonči Žarnić, prof. Sanja Gašparović
Typology
education, parametric, algorithmic, generative design, interaction design, urban design
Location
Jastrebarsko, Zagreb County, Croatia
1. rectangular grid
2. landscape elements
3. basic classroom unit
4. 'attachment' - school administration, gym, kitchen, dining area,...
Jastrebarsko city school
The school is located on the outskirts of the city of Jastrebarsko in Zagreb County. The plot previously being occupied by an open air market. The chosen design option positions the school building on the center of the plot, leaving space for required parking in the north of the lot as well as outdoor recreational areas and sport fields on the eastern part of the plot.
2. conceptual illustration of a parametric school model
A parametric school model
The school building was designed in a parametric way. By defining the basic classroom unit and giving it variable parameters (genomes) according to specific function - such as the size, the height, amount of lighting.
As well as possible attachments to the classroom and the school - WC, teacher's cabinet, storage rooms, school administration, gym,...
A. define school
1. define site > input plot (polygon)
2. define rectangular grid > input field size and cell number (x, y, n) adjust grid size
3. define single unit > input classroom size and type (a, b, h, type)
4. define custom unit > add classroom cabinet; add front classroom yard
sitearea=2.17ha
3. algorithm flow chart
5. define 'attachments' > add school administration, gym, kitchen and dining, play and study areas, toilettes
B. generate school iterations
1. tweak algorithm
2. choose best design option(s)
C. output design and develop into detail
Choosing best design options
The defined parameters were used as variables in a generative algorithm which generates a number of design options, before eventually choosing the best of the population based on certain fitness criteria - classroom lightning, size, proximity to other school areas and so on. Thus enabling application of the algorithm on multiple and various sites, school programmes and sizes.
Distributed learning
A non-linear spatial organization was achieved through differentiating the individual classrooms while allowing them to be connected into bigger groups by opening up on the sides and forming bigger, continuous units should a need for more teaching space arise.
As well as grouping, the classroom units can be opened to the hallway itself thus removing traditional distinction and hierarchy of teaching and allowing students as well as teachers to roam freely - for example in an event of exhibiting student work.
Jastrebarsko elementary school
Detail of selected design variant - adjusted to site and specific school programme and size.
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A house is a device for living in
Imagine living in a cloud, but in a cloud that has landed on the ground. It’s a cloud that contains your whole neighbourhood. You, your girlfriend, your friends and even family can move in and the only important thing, when you do move in, is to share . Here everything can be shared, a kitchen, a gym, workshop and office spaces, even a miniature theater. Actually here you can find all the services you normally use in the city. It isn’t about what you posses, how much money you have, what religion or sex you are - it is about what you know, what your skills are and which of these you are willing to share with your neighbours.
You have your own private space - your apartment, but the shared, communal spaces is where life happens. You are not forced but should feel encouraged to interact with others. So in other words you are the resident ( user ), living in a unit ( device ), connected to the shared space ( cloud ) and using provided services and spaces ( apps ).
Imagine living in a cloud.
Class
Faculty
University of Zagreb
Mentor
Typology
residential, mixed-use, digital age, interaction, urban design, algorithmic, generative design
Location Zagreb, Croatia; Europe
New Zagreb towers for the digital age
The site chosen for this project was the west Zagreb city entrance. And the task was to propose a collective housing prototype for the 21st century.
Following along the line of Le Corbusier’s idea of a ‘machine for living’ and his various projects for the Unite d’Habitation, a similar idea was concieved - collective housing as ‘devices for living’.
1. proposed site, Sava river roundabout, Zagreb, Croatiawestern entrance to the city
Zagreb CloudLife
Ideas of 'digital twins' and cloud computing were utilized as metaphors in the conceptual stage of the project, thus the project got its name - CloudLife.
The basic housing unit
The basic housing unit of the Cloud contains only the basic fittings for one person or a couple. A single unit can be mirrored over a partition wall into a double one. The unit contains a sleeping area, working space, dining and living, as well as basic sanitary and cooking spaces.
Radial floorplan
The building plan was layed out on a radial grid, allowing parametric definition of unit depth and plan division. The circle was divided into 12 segments, forming 8 single units on a floor, a tower vertical housing a lift and a staircase. Additionally one segment is used for communal space on each floor.
Shared floor space
The middle of each floor plan is used as a sharing space for a number of daily activities. The residents use these spaces to extend their own living rooms, as well as being able to actively participate in the daily life of the building community.
Tower section
The tower section shows the vertical connection of the shared residential spaces, which are double heighted on some floors. The groundfloor houses retail and office spaces, while undeground there is a parking garage for the need of residents.
Clustering - forming a neighbourhood
The whole building was imagined as being scalable, down from the smallest detail to the scale of the neighbourhood.
Sharing the ground
Invididual buildings forming the cluster are interconnected on the groundfloor, as well as sharing an underground garage, used for the parking needs of the whole neighbourhood.
A vertical community
The building facade is cladded with industrial brick, reminiscing of residential neighbourhoods of a flat layout, being stacked vertically.
ring
The building structure consists of layered steel ring shaped beams, forming frames enforced with diagonal braces, thus being resistant to wind and seismic activities.
Vertical floor stacking
Floors are stacked vertical upon each other, while twisting for 60 or 120 degrees on each level, giving variety of orientation to the residential units, and the shared space.
Housing-as-a-service
Can we imagine a housing model based on the principles of the service economy of the early 21st century. Could service based business models like Uber, Netflix or Spotify be applied to housing as well?
Targeting a specific profile of young to middle aged, fast-paced, active urban people, students, digital nomads, immigrants and other various groups of people whose life style and situation allow and call for temporary rental of housing, as well as frequent need to change the place of habitation could benefit the most from such a model.
*Appendix to 05CloudLifeZagreb, 2020.
Typology
housing-as-a-service, service design, UX/UI design
Pick your housing plan
The proposed subscription-based housing model, or housing-as-a-service model, allows potential residents to choose from a number of different subscription plans, which offer the use of shared services and utilities in the shared - 'Cloud' part of the building. The residential units are furnished and dimensioned minimally and in a generic manner, to allow for individual shaping of the interior by the resident renting the unit at a given moment.
A European 'CloudLife'
This model also allows users of the subscription to change the location of their subscription and move to another building offered by the 'CloudLife' service. The proposal presumes the building owner or developer owns multiple buildings in multiple locations across the city, country or in a different country in Europe, but still offering the same services, with a rate adjusted to a specific standard of living in the chosen country.
A Zagreb office for the future
The traditional building block which forms the matrix of the Zagreb Lower town area was reinterpreted in a modern way, giving it a spatial cohesion while highlighting the introversion of the block as a building form, with its inner courtyard.
The difference in interpretation was achieved through inclusion of this inner courtyard into the surrounding public space, thus creating a semi private space, which invites curious passerbys to visit this inner space and spend some time in a nearby coffee shop, restaurant, gym or rest outdoors on a bench.
Class
Design Studio IV, 2017.
Faculty of Architecture
University of Zagreb
Mentor
prof.
Typology
office, mixed-use, retail
Location
Zagreb, Croatia
2. 'exploded block'; illustration of concept
The modern Zagreb block
Typology of the traditional block building is reinterpreted to invite people inside, thus becoming an introverted extension of the surrouding public space, providing temporary shelter from the noise and pollution of the outside world.
1. cardboard model; perspective collage
traditional office layout
coworking spaces for groups and individuals
new 'exploded' block
The future of work
The future (and now) of work was considered while designing the office spaces. The idea was to offer and combine different ways of spatial organization of working spaces. By the outer facade reside the individual offices and in the middle of the floor plan an open space organization is employed. In the middle of each floor exist island like structures
introverted, but inviting inner courtyard
Four twins
Defined in a modular fashion, the basic office unit - or a building houses one or multiple companies on its floors, while multipling four times to create a modern bussiness hub - facilitating new ways of working, sharing office spaces and coworking.
The core and the body
The core of each building is positioned on the inside of the block, thus facilitating the use of the common public space on the ground level of the block, inviting people working in the block as well as the accidental passerbys.
Detailing the facade
This detail of the inner glass facade of the block shows the facade ventilation system, inner shading, as well as hiding of the fixtures in the lowered ceiling, and under the floor level.
6. facade technical detail section; scale 1:20