P O R T F O L I O P O R T F O L I O
Architect, dipl.ing.arch
ti.vucic@gmail.com
+385 91 732 0082
WORK EXPERIENCE
NORMALA d.o.o., Zagreb Croatia, 2013-2024. senior architect,
� design development
� schematic design
� preliminary design
� construction documents
� coordinating design with consultants & engineers
� developing price list for tender documentation
@ti.vucic @ �
� bill of quantites, including preparation for public procurement
� on-site supervision, RFI
FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE ZAGREB, Zagreb Croatia, 2009-2010
� Demonstrator Urban Planning Studio 1 &2 /MSc/
STRELKA - Institute for Media, Architecture & Design, Moscow
FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE
University of Zagreb, M.Arch.
EDUCATION HIGHLIGHTS
ON SITE SUPERVISION
5+years coordinating detailed design with construction site
TEAM LEADERSHIP
8+ years delegating and coaching cross-functional teams
TRAINING
Particitating in workshops, courses to keep software skills upto-date
ARTUR award in Category for research & publication - for Mljet Development Strategy
SKILLS
BIM software: Archicad 27, Revit, Autocad 2024
3D modelling: Rhinoceros 7.0 Sketchup 2022
Graphics: Adobe Suite Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign,
Languages: English (C1), German (B1), Russian (A2)
� Landscape Design /BSc/
� City Planning /BSc/
GRADEL d.o.o., Velika Gorica, Croatia, 2007
� internship
� draughting& technical support
PROJECTS
� Croatian Music Institute, 08.2022 (ongoing)– in construction
cost estimate, bill of quantiteis, tender documentation (senior architect)
� Centre for Speleology Cerovac Caves, 07.2016 – 07.2022 design development, construction documents, tender documentation, on-site monitoring: construction phase (architect)
� Private residence - house J, 08.2019-03.2020 design development, technical design, cost estimate, tender documentation
� R-M Private residence 04. 2019 - 08. 2019
interior project, bill of quantites (architect),
� Interpretation Centre Sinac, 10.2017 - 07.2018.
interior project (architect)
� National Park Mljet - Development Strategy, 11 .2015 - 04.2016. concept design, graphic design, research, editing (junior architect)
� GFOS Faculty of Civil Engineering, Osijek, Croatia, 09 .2015. - 04.2016. Interior design project, public procurement documentation (junior associate)
� Public square Zaprešić Croatia, 01. 2015. - 05. 2015.
design development, technical design (junior associate)
COMPETITIONS
� Požega Town Square (project architect) 08.-09.2020.
� Vilnus National Concert Hall (project architect), 05.-06. 2019.
� ISCI Sisak* 3rd place (project architect), 10.2018.
� Public swimming pool Stenjevac (architect), 01.2018.
� Elementary School Podbrežje* 4th place (junior architect), 09.-10. 2017.
WORKSHOPS
� OMA Hinterland Workshop, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2012.
� Reading Tokyo: Urban Condition, Yokohama, Japan (Yokohama Graduate School of Design), 2012.
� Campus in the City, Zagreb, Croatia, collaboration with GSD Harvard & ETH Zurich, 2008.
� EkoSusak Summer Workshop, Susak, Croatia (Fogue & Chinchilla), 2008.
� HyperContinental Croatia, Skrad, Croatia, (http://hicro.net/_hr/hicro/) 2008.
PORTFOLIO
CENTAR FOR SPELEOLOGY CEROVAC
FORESTRY INSTITUTE SKRAD
STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK FOR NATIONAL PARK MLJET
INTERPRETATION CENTRE SISCIA
NATIONAL MUSIC HALL VILNUS
PUBLIC SQUARE POŽEGA
CENTER FOR SPELEOLOGY
Cerovac, Gračac, Croatia 2016-2022
CENTER FOR SCIENCE, CAVES & VISITORS
There is a line of karst mountains along the Mediterranean coastline, it starts north of Croatian borders and continues further south. The area is biodiverse, filled with underground caves that establish not yet fully explored ecosystems. The Centre is located at the edge of nationally protected area and is intended to serve scientists, researchers, speleologists, Nature Park employees and visitors.
The building encompasses the central outdoor atrium, while the spaces surrounding it can function independently. The spaces include laboratory, living room, apartments for scientists, offices for Nature Park employees, lecture hall, cafe. All the spaces are distributed on mezzanines, securing the visual contact to all the different functions. The spaces are internally connected and opening up to the karst rock just behind the building.
EU funds enabled the development and execution of the project, which also meant all documentation underwent additional fastidious overview. This experience provided me with patience in working out complex problems while protecting the original idea of the project. Odd thing to say to describe the project and I’m aware it falls far out of mere concept portrayal but it offers the ultimate lesson for me - the one that come from following the project till completion.
RENDERING
PHOTOS
FORESTRY INSTITUTE SKRAD
Integral work
Faculty of Architecture, 2010
THE STORY ABOUT FORESTRY INSTITUTE
Located in an mountain region of Croatia, which is covered up by forestry by 83%. They are governed by Forestry’s, Universities and National Parks. Part of the assignment was developing a concept for a project, communicating it with the local community and finally delivering integral work.
Forestry Institute is located on the outskirts of city of Skrad. The program enables researches to stay there in small residential units, work in laboratories, has management offices, library for studying and lectures and the places in-between. The concept of programming compresses each individual funcion, inverts them, closes them and establishes shared spaces and expanded communications. It makes certain functions introverted, shielded from the enviroment and some shared, exposed to other users and visually connected to the forest.
Lifting the building above ground with forest-like columns enabled connecting interior visually the surroundings serving as a visual marker on the small forest road.
ROOF PLAN
SOUTH
RENDERING
STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK FOR NATIONAL PARK
published, 2016
https://issuu.com/normala
STRATEGIES FOR PROTECTED AREAS
The island of Mljet, located in the south of Croatia is a tourist destination well known for its natural beauty. The island struggles with tourism and nature preservation, juggles with ambitions to grow in all of its capacity and to maintain a delicate balance the ecosystem of forest and sea lakes that has been protected since 1960.
The strategy researched European strategies and programms for nature protection, which goes beyond mere preservation and estimates impact of a certain area in the boarder ecosystem. It leaves beauty as an argument for protection in favor of immediate impact for species and their habitats. It is true that urban planning methods have limited tools to conceptualize these topics, and it often come down to defining carrying capacity of a space, but it also enabled prescribing programs with sustainable parameters for infrastructural projects, maintenance projects, encourage brownfield investments over greenfield ones.
What makes this strategy unique is that it defined all project for an area of National park Mljet for the next 30 years, it gave program descriptions and estimated values. Nothing make me more proud than the final table with indexes of all the projects connected with possible sources for financing from domestic and European funds all the while having design ideas installed in the fine print.
OPERATIVNE POLITIKE / OPERATIVE POLITCS
ATLAS PROJEKTNIH IDEJA / ATLAS OF PROJECT IDEAS
PROVEDBENI PRIRUČNIK / MANUAL FOR IMPLEMENTATION
INTERPRETATION CENTRE SISCIA
competition 3rd place
RECONSTRUCTING THE “SPIRIT” FACTORY
Little over 60 km from the capital small industrial town of Sisak was working on re imagining it’s own legacy. One of the brownfield sites, former liquor distillery has long been forgotten and in disarray. Due to opportunities provided by the EU funding plan was made to reconstruct the former beverage factory (locally grain alchol is called spirit) into a exhibition space and a artist hub to help give a home to local artist scene and people alike.
The site boasts several buildings former manufacturing facilities with several historical in situ pieces of manufacturing equipment. Basic concept was linking the existing buildings with follies - smaller buildings, using them to meet the all the requirements up to code. The linking building demarcate the historic division of functions while enabling separate points of entrances, establishing continuous line of movement when necessary.
First building offers a narrative about remains of Roman ruins found around Sisak, central building holds exhibits form former factory including a two-storey boiler with walk around gallery and a open space research library while the third building contains multipurpose hall and artist-in-residence housing scheme.
It’s easy to imagine these spaces, the program presented the ultimate dream for me as an architect. To the date, no further plans where made to develop the project beyond the architectural competition.
NATIONAL CONCERT HALL
Vilnus, Lithuania international competition, 2019
CONCERT HALL IN THE HILLS
Situated on a hill overlooking the capital of Lithuania, Vilnius, the competition for national concert hall presented a interesting challenge. Visible from the city below, the landmark qualities determined the concept - life of the building will be organized within the central axis with small areas that open to the city function almost as periscope, positioned carefully to cater to the eye of the visitor. It is always a challenge to approach a landmark significance of the building so purposefully entangling paths and essentially how visitors can be physically public to the city below.
The building is presented as a volume to the city below, with geometrical shape that changes from all sides. The compact outer shell derives its stringent shape from acoustics demands for concert halls. This volume has entrances carved out, outer spaced that flank the halls and main viewpoint- the rooftop restaurant.
The interior is organized around central hall, flanked on both sides by concert halls, shared spaces, practice rooms, office spaces and other ares. The hall is multistory, with galleries that connect separate functions, where possible with exposed vertical communication (aka stairs) creating vibrant central communication, making it potentially more varied wether there is an ongoing concert or just a normal workday for the employees.
PUBLIC SQAURE POŽEGA
Croatia
SMALL TOWN'S HISTORIC PUBLIC SQUARE
Small town in an agricultural area in the eastern part of Croatia had a open competition for designing their public space. Ancient travel and commerce route created one of the oldest squares in the town, but in dire need of a design scheme, traffic management and overall infrastructure update. The square has longitudinal but irregular shape and it houses a historic monuments that were to preserved and incorporated into the design.
South face of the park is comprises of church and episcopal court. North face consists of private building with commercial ground floor, often bustling with foot traffic.
As historic squares are usually expanded crossing, the assignment required the solution for open market and parking, both displaced tangentially to the south, but out of sight when on the square. That posed additional design challenges but ultimately enabled the square to be design with sole purpose of pedestrian use.
The site is zoned to specific usages while establishing visual connection with connecting streets and existing historic landmarks. On one level, the biggest open space is defined between main church and important pedestrian street, then the zones become smaller squares and rectangles. Zones are visible through elements of design, using different materials for paving, using smaller pedestrian strips to further suggest the possible pedestrian routs while catering to a design of the whole square. Designing benches, fountain, integrating lighting, all these elements are minimal to expose the baroque façades adorning the square.
