Bustler

“Croatian architecture firm 3LHD recently finished the Zamet Center in Rijeka, an industrial port city in Croatia.

The center is a brand new building that will have a great impact on the local community. The project is a hybrid, with mixed use facilities: multipurpose sports hall, new library, civic center, local administration offices, bars, shops and a parking garage.

The design of Zamet Center is the result of an invited competition that 3LHD won the first price for.”
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3LHD-designed Zamet Sports and Cultural Center in Rijeka, Croatia - Click above image to enlarge

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Project Description:
“Situated in Rijeka’s quarter Zamet, the new Zamet Centre in complete size of 16,830 m2 hosts various facilities: sports hall with max 2,380 seats, local community offices, library, 13 retail and service spaces and a garage with 250 parking spaces.

One third of the sports hall’s volume is cut in the ground, and the rest of the Centre is fully fitted into the surrounding landscape. The building’s main architectural element are ribbon-like linear stripes stretching over the site in a north-south direction, functioning at the same time as an architectural design element of the object and as a zoning element which forms a public square and a link between the park on the north and school and B. Vidas street on the south.”
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click above image to enlarge - Photo: Domagoj Blazevic

click above image to enlarge - Photo: 3LHD

click above image to enlarge - Photo: Domagoj Blazevic

click above image to enlarge- Photo: Domagoj Blazevic

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“The stripes were inspired by “gromača”, a type of rocks specific to Rijeka, which the centre artificially reinterprets by colour and shape. They are paved with 51.000 ceramic tiles designed by 3LHD and manufactured specially for the centre. The steel construction, girder span of 55 meters and their varying height allow the natural light illumination of the sports hall. ……”

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