ENGLISH IN ARCHITECTURE

(Description of residential building)

AUTHOR: Stefan Ristic

PROJECT: Residential building
Banjaluka
Area [m2]: 21 434 m2
Surface od building [m2]: 8.597m2
Price: probably tens of millions

0.0. TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION

1.0. CONCEPT
The idea was to take advantage of the gable walls of the existing buildings but at the same
time that the new facilities enable views of the river, also sought to connect the street as a
symbol of the city and urbanity and the river as an oasis of peace and relaxation in the
city from that, loigcno imposing appearance of the building and irregularities floors and
large openings are formed and passes as elements of connection between the river and the
street. The building should be an oasis for independent residents, or one built organic
wholeness that connects the two extremes of urbanity, the street and the river.
The building was conceived in order to allow the greatest possible percentage of
construction and housing and at the same time to provide all people the proper light and
comfort. The design and architecture of the building leads to the fact that he becomes the
city Landmark. The building is conceived so that it rests on the gable walls of existing
without damaging their integrity and people who are already here.
The very geometry of the building is very simple premises is made from a tube of
rectangular cubes that are intertwined with each other, collectively connected they
constitute a building 220 meters long, the largest part of the building is off the ground and
which enables the formation of the street at the site under the building thus better
communication between two blocks of the city for pedestrians and cyclists. The first time
that someone has used this principle the construction of Swiss-French architect Le
Corbusier in the early 20th century.
0.1. LOCATION AND FUNCTION

Location

At the location that constitutes a block conceived the entire length of the building,
which is interwoven with the existing residential buildings, existing buildings were made
in 1980 together with the street that serves the building, it is planned to be knocked down
in the preliminary design and to abolish road cars and to replaceit with street for
pedestrians and cyclists.

Function

The function and purpose of the building is to provide housing a large percentage of
people in its tracts and has administrative and caterer role, which is located on the ground
floor. Tracts are located in every third floor which allows better usage and space and
lower costs in the construction because it is not lost space in the corridors, residents enter
the building apartments facing the two sides of the city that provides better illumination
of the apartment and at the same time view of the river and the street. Apartments are
imagined in different sizes from 40 to 150 square meters. Apartment of 150 square meters
located on the corners of the building facing the three sides of the city and water as the
luxury apartments of this project. Administrative and catering part of the facility, which is
located in a supply block with shops and markets for various purposes, in the central part
of the complex building of the administration of restaurants. In the basement of the
complex there is a garage and a storage unit that serves the residents
car parking space and a storage room also there is also room for
heating and electricity. The underground building through a path that
extends the entire length of the block (220 meters), which connects the
two sides of the block, the street is set in the cellar in order not to
compromise the integrity of the outside of the building.Building consists of
a basement, ground floor and ten floors the most suitable for housing.
 The basic concept of the design:

the location is the instances of existing facilities which can be easily exploited for
stvaanje new. The very geometry is the primary form of the atrium, while the secondary
notion of playfulness achieved curves typical prismatic units. In this case is not used a
multitude of forms, all the princes cubic. According street have something closed-city
faade with pronounced entrances and expression in the manner of distributing holes,
while inside the character of the house opposite, with many openings. The diversity of the
variations of material is supported by the need for people to feel the basic features of
individual buildings. Parterre decorated building is such that it allows pedestrians and
cyclists to pass through the entire block and leads them towards the river where there are
places for recreation and walk.

0.2. CONSTRUCTION

Construction of the building is a not ordinary the building is construct with a diagrid
structure system of load-bearing stell beams and pillars which is connected in shape of
diamond d = 30:30 cm diagrid structure supports the roof and hold tracts in place the
wight is transferred on . Over them were set reinforce concrete plates d = 12cm.
The building is based on the deep fundation made out of reinforce concrete MB30
mark thickness of concrete is 20 cm and under the pillars 60 cm thick. The core of the
building where the tracts are padded and eternal reinforced concrete which are formed as
a reinforced concrete skeleton. The core is surrounded by elevator core to the fire escape
stairway the core is completly made of reinforced concrete 20 cm thick. Diagrid structure
is hidden behind the double curtain wall, which makes the facade.
 0.3. MATERIALS

Roof

The roof covering is made of layers of waterproofing materials that make green
roof, which has not only a role to reduce the heating of the building and its energy
consumption but at the same time the residents of the building can grow plants on it. This
type of roof is a new branch of architecture today, which is increasingly used as a
finishing roof.
Before installing the waterproofing d = 10 mm of welded bitumen sheets are
placed all elements of galvanized sheet metal so that it carefully seal all horizontal and
vertical joints. This project is anticipated to be vented roof for better insulation, in this
regard cover is set to double layer strips and planks with air space between them. Be sure
to properly carry out the supply and exhaust air with sufficient circulation for each field
as well as protect the building. Roof drainage is predicted through the gutters located at
the corners of the house.

Facade

The double-skin facade is a system of building consisting of two skins, or facades,

placed in such a way that air flows in the intermediate cavity. The ventilation of the cavity
can be natural, fan supported or mechanical. Apart from the type of the ventilation inside
the cavity, the origin and destination of the air can differ depending mostly on climatic
conditions, the use, the location, the occupational hours of the building
Spoljni zidovi su obloeni temoizolacionim ploama debljine 12 cm. Fasada se u
najveem dijelu oblae demit fasadom StoVentec i djelimino vjetrenom fasadom Max
compact exterior fasadnim sistemom.
The cavity between the two skins may be either naturally or mechanically ventilated.
In cool climates the solar gain within the cavity may be circulated to the occupied space
to offset heating requirements, while in hot climates the cavity may be vented out of the
building to mitigate solar gain and decrease the cooling load. In each case the assumption
is that a higher insulative value may be achieved by using this glazing configuration over
a conventional glazing configuration.

Walls

The exterior walls are provided by a double curtain wall izakoji of reinforced concrete
skeleton poles 40cm thick internal partition walls are made of hollow brick block
thickness of 20 and 10 cm wide, built in lime mortar, bilaterally and roughly plastered,
smoothed and painted dispersion. Exterior walls plastered only on the inside. The toilets
and kitchen, kitchenette and cafeteria walls are clad with ceramic tiles to the ceiling and
to the height of hanging kitchen cabinets.

0.4. INSTALLATIONS

Plumbing and sewage system, mechanical and electrical installation are given
specific descriptions in this project.
It is necessary to pay attention to the arrangement of the heat convector in the context of
landscaping, detailed in the phase of mechanical instalacija.zgrada has its thermal springs,
which are located below and to the boiler room. Because of the large building height of
10 storeys with ground floor and basement introduce you special retardants at instalavija
for verticals.