RETIREMENT HOME ''VODICE'' PROJECT LOCATION DESCRIPTION
CONSTRUCTION
Competition for Retirement home ''Vodice'' with AV-Consulting d.o.o. (2nd place) Vodice, Croatia Necessity for new private retirement home with 39 apartments: 30 apartments for one (28m2 - 32m2) 9 apartments for two (39m2 - 45m2) Building is made of two volumes, one cubical with inner courtyard and rooms on the rim, and another longitudinal volume with rooms on both rims. The basement contains garage, kitchen and fitness studio, also morgue, engine room and storage. There is an road entrance into garage and service areas. Ground floor contains entrance hall, apartments on the left, and on the right dining room, and apartments on the north, and outdoor pool. First and second floor contain apartments with meeting point and offices for nurses in centre near vertical communications. The building is partly sustainable using solar panels on the roof. Rooms are one or two-person planned, with small kitchenette, bathrooms for disabled and terrace, basically fully equipped apartments for living. Terraces are in line with outside walls and can be protected from sun with sunshades, due to large number of sunny days. They slide left/right over facade. Construction is planned to be concrete (walls and slabs).
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