022. Primary Health Care Centre in City kvart in Podgorica

The project works with one simple and perhaps a classical idea, to make public facilities as public spaces. All the architectural moves and arrangements of architectural elements are oriented to generate a sense of public space at the neighborhood scale. As the project is situated in a developing neighborhood which is surrounded by low- rise suburban development on one side and modernist slab buildings on the other, the building deliberately takes on a more colonnaded and curvilinear form to distinguish itself as a public building in this emerging neighborhood. Not only that, to counter the neutrality of appearance of the surrounding context, the building is also imagined as a deliberately colorful and textureful architecture. To that extent the facade of the building is articulated as a chromatic and inviting presence in the neighborhood. The facade of the building is imagined to be made in multi coloured terracotta or ceramic louvers. The third way in which the project tries to distinguish itself from the neighborhood is by the use of a tectonic language derived from steel construction. The construction technique is also used as an expressive idea in the design of the project.

The ground floor of the building is also imagined as a set of neighborhood gardens orcommunity gathering place: both along the colonnade or the various courtyards inside the perimeter organization of the plan. The porosity of the ground floor plan also gives a sense of neighborly street and public realm. The circular building towards the north end of the perimeter form also responds to the taller buildings and the future developments in the context. The stepped section and terraces on all levels also continue the sense of porosity from the ground floor to all floors. Each of the terraces also help connect with various aspects of the context: some to immediate neighborhoods and some to the beautiful mountain ranges around. The roof of the colonnade and also the building also act as a potential public space, but also as green roofs with capacity to install solar panels and landscaping elements.