Earth, Wind & Water

Team Point of View

For the last 30 years, Makarska has known significant transformations related to mass tourism, causing congestion, traffic jam, and urban settlement issues.
The project, grounded on three existing sites of the historic centre, offers new urban conditions for locals and tourists, centred around its local community and identity. Specific climatic conditions are offered on each site to accommodate the program and improve the comfort of its users. Systematically, these voids are reconfigured through new topographies, superstructures, and elements. Thus, we propose a covered square for the market, a terrace for the gastronomic centre and the wine cellar, and a performative park for the cultural platform.

Jury Point of View

The authors recognize the urban significance of the three voids in the dense structure of the city, and retain their basic character, but subtly reconfigure them, thus creating frameworks for polyvalent activities and programs. Their interventions are functional, serial, but not at all generic or neutral. With a pronounced sense of measure, they offer responses to the identity problems of the city of Makarska, and provide new cultural and social facilities that logically connect to the existing ones in the city: they interact with the existing natural and built environment, and achieve a clear mutual interaction.