Complex „BEKO“
2014.
Architecture
renderi: Zaha Hadid Architects
ZAP was engaged as a local partner of “Zaha Hadid Architects” bureau from London on developing a project for the construction of a business residential complex at the location of the former factory “BEKO” The project focuses on the urban regeneration of an important site at the intersection of key cultural projects within the city of Belgrade. Following the region’s strong modernist traditions, the master plan has applied new concepts and methods that examine and organize the programs of the site. defining a composition of buildings that address the complexity of 21st-century living patterns. The design for BEKO is embedded within the surrounding landscape of Belgrade’s cultural axis and incorporates essential public spaces. The design introduces a habitable landscape with an undulating topography that opens the BEKO site to a variety of possibilities, giving views towards the confluence of Belgrade’s two rivers, the subtle monumentality of the Kalemegdan Castle and internally, between the constituent volumes of the design. Developed as a contemporary mixed/use masterplan, it includes residential, retail, and commercial areas, a large-scale convention facility, and a five/star boutique hotel.
Business–residential complex
Client:„Property Development“ d.o.o.
94.000 m2
Year:2014.
Location:Dorćol, Belgrade, Serbia
-3+Pr+9
Authors:Zaha Hadid Architects
Local partners in Serbia:ZAP d.o.o Beograd
Scope of work:UD, SD, DD
Status:urban planning design finished
The master plan moves away from traditional modernist notions of urban zoning and functionalist separation, enhancing the relationships between the components of each program and creating a living fusion between public and private urbanism. Public space and private areas flow into a series of ever-changing topographical adjacencies producing a rich variety of uses and activities. The project has been developed as a series of flow lines that carve the inhabited landscape and act as continuities where outdoor spaces, landscape undulations, balconies, roof edges, and bridges all flow into one another in an ever-changing continuum. The ground level is open to the city, enabling civic space to flow through the site. Perhaps one of the most important aspects of the project, the landscape undulates to create variable physical connections between different levels, enhancing the continuities of the outdoor spaces with the facades of the building to become an implicit engine for navigation through the site.
It is a planned complex to contain 4 buildings for different purposes. The complex would include a high-category hotel, a congress center with wellness, a department store with commercial facilities, and a residential building with a combination of residential and rental apartments.
