Proarh

ul. kneza Mislava 15, 10000, Zagreb, Croazia

www.proarh.hr

Proarh is an architectural office founded in 1992 with its headquarters in Zagreb. Under the management of its founder and principal architect Davor Matekovic, the firm has evolved into a multidisciplinary workshop, creating different projects of various functions, typologies, as well as programmatic and spatial dimensions. Architecture is approached as a diversely complex topic, where all its individual elements are formative and the design process is all encompassing. It includes not only solving the given functional requirements, but also concept implementation, a progressive idea that gives the project its final quality. While attempting not to limit itself to only one type of project, the divergence of typologies requires an individual approach to each problem, with a tendency to be better, different, more innovative, and the final result is contemporary in every aspect. Proarh’s innovative approach, creativity, as well as dedicated work and acquired experience through relentless market conditions, have created a great number of successful projects and finished work of a wide spectrum. Its signature architectural work and progressive ideas have been recognized outside the local architectural scene. Proarh’s works have been nominated and awarded with a wide variety of international architectural prizes, presented in many exhibitions and published in renown domestic and international profession related publications

PROJECTS

MORpH. A smooth shape and a variable building structure for the Croatian military academy housing

MORpH is being built in Zagreb, Croatia: a 15-story residential building for housing officers and students of the "Dr. Franjo Tudjman" military academy. MORH stands for the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Croatia

Asylum Earth Membrane. A merging of nature and architecture into a single organic form

The location of the kindergarten in the center of Drinovac, a village in Croatia of 200 inhabitants, required a careful approach to the intervention that fits into the fabric of the rural settlement. An olive grove and an irregularly shaped lot evoke an expressively impactful architectural gesture, as if to give new direction to the identity of the village itself through the Terra Membrane kindergarten

Priko Vode Elementary School and Kindergarten. An unusual mash-up of educational facilities

The challenge of the project for the Priko Vode school in Solin, Croatia, was to combine in the same facility both an elementary school and a kindergarten, which are, although similar in purpose, not only different in their use and character, but also limit each other

Three-dimensionality and play of volumes on the facade. The residential building Interpolation B

Interpolation B, in Britanski square in the center of Zagreb, is a multi-apartment building of 22 residential units, mostly of larger size, with bilateral orientation. The building has 6 floors above ground and three basement floors, where there are parking lots and garages

Preserving Tradition: Hiža House's Renovation in Croatia

Perched on the green slopes of Kumrovec in the Croatian municipality of Zagorje, Hiža stands as a testament to thoughtful architectural renovation. Originally in a poor condition, this old cottage has undergone a remarkable transformation under the expert guidance of Studio Proarh, embracing local heritage and design