Matchbox Elementary School Sports Hall / Jovan Mitrović
Architects: Jovan Mitrović
Location: Obrenovac, Serbia
Area: 1100.0 sqm
Year: 2015
Photographs: Relja Ivanić
Associates: Vuk Lukić, Milena Folić, Miloš Milivojević, Aida Hadžiahmetović
Structural Engineer: Vojislava Vasović, Dragan Janković
Contractor: Ferbild ltd, Chief Engineer: Dragan Radulac
From the architect. Obrenovac is a small town near Belgrade. As Belgrade has developed very fast, Obrenovac recently became suburban Belgrade’s municipality.
The Obrenovac First Elementary School is the first established school in Belgrade, almost 200 years old. During the two centuries pupils of this school had no adequate indoor space for physical education and sports activities.
According to urban concept, made by local planers, surface area of new sports hall was supposed to cover almost the whole school yard and its height would overtop surrounding buildings from 19th century and Church behind it.
As Obrenovac Municipality is close to the river Sava banks, it is under the influence of the underground water. This was the crucial technical problem which had to be resolved from the first preliminary design phase. Through design process, the solution for these challenges has been successfully found by designing the waterproof concrete hull, 5 meters deep in the ground, just few centimeters over the highest underground water level. This concept provided some kind of waterproof box, as boat sink, for all premises inside.
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