PROJEDE, ALANDA ÇIKAN YEREL DOĞAL TAŞ KULLANILDI.
LOCAL NATURAL STONE FOUND ON THE SITE IS USED FOR THE PROJECT.
S
anjay Puri Architects of Mumbai proposal for a
residential and tourism project for Montenegro,
one of the former states of Yugoslavia, seeks to
recreate the feel of a historic Adriatic coast town
in a completely new development. The Piazza
at Montenegro project is located on a spectacular site
where two hills in Montenegro touches Queens beach on
the Adriatic towards the south. The design concept of
this site has been derived from old Adriatic towns like
Kotor and Budva in Montenegro and Dubrovnik in Croatia
due to their organic character and an interesting mix of
built forms and open spaces. The design team states that
these historic towns such as Kotor “still retain a charm
and character that newer developments do not have.
They have no repetition and each part of the town has
its own identity.” In Puri’s design strategy rather than
repeating the same pattern for the primary building
units, the project offers a variety of spatial solutions in
relation to the topographical and environmental context.
Sanjay Puri Architects was established in 1992 in Mumbai,
India, one of the few South Asian practices producing
contemporary architecture at a global scale. The
office, with a team of 72 people, has projects in India,
Mauritius, Montenegro, U.A.E and Spain. Their advanced
modernist architecture has won 34 international
architecture awards including: 3 MIPIM Architectural
Review Future Projects Awards (Cannes, 2013) and the
A+Architizer Award (New York, 2013), Chicago Athenaeum
Museum of Architecture & Design’s International
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