Centre for the Promotion of Science

The competition proposal for the Center for Promotion of Science consists of an overall urban concept / masterplan for the future faculty of science and research campus on New Belgrade's Blok 39, as well as the architectural intervention of the Center for Promotion of Science.

The proposed urban concept for the materplan aims to create a new type of urban tissue: by mixing the structure of the old city fabric typology with the future scientific epicenter of Serbia, the masterplan assumes its own identity. Based on the presence of public spaces, green areas, pathways, streets and different buildings, the Campus will reach the complexity and the variety of the city fabric.

The project for the centre is conceptually and functionally structured and organized by three different horizontal layers, which react to the programmatic requirements and requested adjacencies of function and atmosphere:

_     a solid basement level is conceptually and physically connected within the landscaping of the masterplan. This level contains all the functions that support the main Exhibition Areas;

_     the ground floor exists as a void space which hosts the main exhibition space. Its free-span volume allows for maximum  flexibility of the exhibitions over time; it is a suspended and transparent window that overlooks the Campus, providing views beyond the campus to the surrounding landscape of old Belgrade.

_    finally the large floating roof structure exists as the landmark element of the project, defining the form of the building and shaping the relationship between building-campus-city. The roof structure is a multifaceted object consisting of an occupiable roof terrace. 

Client: Ministry of science and technological development
Location: Belgrade, Serbia
Program: Masterplan and centre for promotion of science
Status: Design competition
Dates: 2010
Gross floor area: 20,914 sqm
Cost: 14,807,000 euro
Design: Labics (Maria Claudia Clemente, Francesco Isidori) with Prof. Andrea Simitch, Prof. Val Warke
Architectural team: Dominique Rethans, Billy Erhard, Manuela Gentile
Model:Billy Erhard
Renderings: Federico Pitzalis
Consultant team: Sustainability: Prof. Arch. Eliana Cangelli, Maurizio Sibilla
Structural concept : Proges Engineering Ing. Andrea Imprenda
Cost estimation: Geom. Gabriele Micozzi Ferri

 

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