Вилла в Загребе, Хорватия, 370 м²

House is situated in the northern, quite, residential area of Zagreb, Croatia, on Pantovčak.
The house has 370 m2. The ground floor consists of big living room (with sunroom) and dining (65 m2), kitchen and service area and guest room with bathroom.
On the first floor there is office, master bedroom with bathroom and walk-in closet.
Top floor has three bedrooms, two bathrooms, two walk-in closets and kitchenette.
Garage for one car is connected to the house and garden is approximately 250 m2.
The house was built in 1997 and from 2002 to 2013 was rented as a residence of the Indian ambassador to Croatia.
It was biult with high quality materials, the interior primarily with wood nad marble and it was maintained regularly.
Technical description:
The house has 3 floors with total of 370 m2: ground floor, 1st floor and 2nd floor, the whole plot area is 554 m2.
It has 2 separate entrances (one on the ground floor and one on the first floor) so there is an option of using the house as two separate units.
Ground floor has a big living room with kitchen, laundry and entrance to the terrace and garden.
There is also a guestroom with bathroom and garage. Under the garage is cellar that can be accessed from the garden.
On the first floor is master bedroom with a big bathroom (Jacuzzi tub for two, shower), walk-in closet and a big study room.
On the second floor are three bedrooms with two bathrooms, two walk-in closets and a kitchenette.
The house was built in 1997. It has reinforced concrete slab foundation.
It is earthquake proof for the highest possible earthquake in Zagreb. Insulation consists of three layers: mineral rendering (stucco), mineral wool 8cm, concrete wall 20cm. Openings are finished in aluminum-wood profiles double glazed, with electric aluminum shades. Finishing carpentry is made out of high quality wood from
Italy. The roof and gutters are made out of copper.
Living room has a sunroom (world-known “Four Season” from USA) that extends the living room into the garden.
There is also a roofed terrace before going into the garden. Garden is maintained, has automatic watering system, roofed pavilion for sitting and dining, and a fully grown green fence all around the housing plot.
Whole house has a VRV system for heating and cooling from GEA manufacturer.
In addition to that there is separate system for central heating. Gas heater for heating connected with hot water container (200 liters) from Vaillant manufacturer.
Interior temperature is regulated based on the outside temperature through the sensor on the exterior of the house. Radiators are made out of cast iron and are hidden with built-in furniture.
Floors are made of premium length cherry wood and exotic wood. Stairs are wood covered.
Bathrooms and hallways are stone covered.
There is security system (theft and fire) throughout the whole house connected with security service and UTP cable network in every room (TV, Phone and Internet).
The house was designed by the architecture firm Aries from Zagreb by prof. Mr. Dražen Juračić, PhD and Ms. Jelena Skorup, and was featured in several architectural magazines including well-known Oris magazine:
The architectural solution is always created as a composition amalgam of the design task and the available volume. The interaction of the conditions set by the investor and the conditions set by the plot, and even the possible contradictions between them, are solved in the house at Goljak by a subdued version of Loos's Raumplan, by consistently making space out of function with no volume residue. Here, there is an active, skilful distortion of an otherwise simple, traditional residential scheme which rests on solving the space conflicts by cross section rather than plan, whose logic of internal connections and functional clarity in favour of the daily cycle of using the premises clearly appear in any case in Juračić's projects. The usual division of functions per level is additionally supported by a clear division of the vertical communication, thus completely contributing to the rich interpretation of the "architectural promenade". The circular connection in the living rooms is not disturbed by the head staircase in the sleeping area. And the completely purposeful distribution of functions dimensioned in a balanced way is enveloped around such a vertical clarity of connections and divisions by moving through the house. The sequence, service - kitchen - dining room, and from there the porch, garden and a bower towards the outside, and living room and winter garden towards the inside, have acquired their high value by the manner in which the relatively small plot has been used, with the garden literally and directly becoming the extension of the living room. It is not only the investor's requirements, but also Juračić's American experience which contributed to the planning of the sleeping area through a scheme of units for every single person. No matter how much above average this standard of combining every bedroom in a unit with its own proper closet space and bathroom is, it clearly indicates the conceptual difference between a house designed as a large flat and a house designed for "large" living. The same incentives define the selection of the furnishings and material of this building. There is an enviable balance between the facade and the interior, where the modernistic simplicity of lines and planes is not enriched by phrase, but is underlined by the quality of the used materials. This is especially proven on the facades by individual windows being translated into a ribbon-window theme of horizontal cut-outs by inserting stone slabs on the simple fond with the colour of neutral mortar. The lines of the dark green aluminium frames only underline the atmosphere of a modern interpretation of the facade of a Zagreb villa from the beginning of the century. Embedded in such an expression, the sentimental quotation hidden in the motif of the bay window is easily balanced by the completely modern entrance cut out from the corner of the building and covered in a strong series of large plates in the skirting material, almost in the fashion of the period of Zagreb Modernism of the late thirties. The interior follows such a main thread, with nothing indicating luxury or boastfulness. The selection of top-quality doors, whose only ornaments are the perfection of the surfaces and the richness of the wood, the calm use of the warm tonality of panels, the unobtrusive hiding of the necessary installations and the skilful use of natural and artificial light in the living room create in the interior an atmosphere of pleasant relaxation whose main highlights are the big, clearly interpreted and simply embedded fireplace and, on the facing side, a beautiful winter garden, as a wide passe-pariout of the changing picture of the sky and the garden. At the level of a summarised impression, the unobtrusive presence of the exterior of this house in the ambience of the street, which is so very much in contrast to the striking presence of the green environment in its interior, is its highest value - all the rest is anyway the well-known and already constant top professional routine of its author.
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