BUSINESS
PETAR SIMOVIĆ, ARCHITECT AND GENERAL MANAGER, AND MARIJA SIMOVIĆ, ARCHITECT AND TECHNICAL DIRECTOR, ARCHITECTURAL AND ENGINEERING STUDIO ARIS D.O.O. KRAGUJEVAC
Ready For The Most Complex Projects ARIS is a relatively young bureau that was founded in 2016 as a partnership between engineers who had already worked together for many years. The studio is successfully engaged in design, supervision, project management and consulting in the field of construction
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e have correctly and at the right time dimensioned and structured a company that can respond to such challenging and complex project demands. There are above all large complexes in Kragujevac for clients like Tesla Palace, Euro Motus Real Estate, Delta Real Estate, JDM Real Estate - says the Simović tandem
How did you profile yourself in the industry and how did the development of your design office go? Petar: The idea of ARIS from the start was to position it as a reliable partner for design and all the other activities in design and engineering in Kragujevac and beyond. We recognised a lack of local quality service, while Kragujevac has experienced a kind of expansion and development in the last ten years, so it was logical to focus on narrow specialisation. You have a brilliant team of experienced professionals that you have been working with for years? Without their expertise, understanding and complementarity, you wouldn’t be so successful? Marija: That’s true and we saw the first five years of the company’s development as a period to profile our services, so we specialised ARIS as a bureau that provides quality service in architectural and construction design, with permanent, high quality external associates necessary to complete the documentation so we can provide a complete service. We have invested a lot of time and effort in mastering and forming knowhow, especially for coordinating projects on a small scale through large and varied typologies. So it is very important to understand all the specifics 10 |
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It is important to understand all the specifics of the different phases of a project so that the final product is satisfying to both clients and ourselves as designers of the different phases of a project so that the final product is satisfying to both the client and ourselves as designers. Serbia is seeing building more than ever before, which has its downsides - the chaos of lay and ad hoc architecture. Can this be stopped? Marija: We think that the regulations that are on their way to be integrated with the EU’s have almost stopped lay architecture. People became aware that permission was needed
to build something, so a culture of hiring an architect was established so that at least the bureaucratic part would be respected. In that sense, it has already been taken care of to some extent, but that is the only thing that is right. And ad hoc architecture, if we define it as something that is designed quickly and without too much attention to the importance that architecture can have for users and the immediate and wider environment, it is present and is initiated by the speed required to spend certain funds or carry out intentions. The only way to
