December 11, 2019 – Zadar Airport and the Zadar Society of Architects have organized an exhibition of the offers for the preliminary architectural and urban design of the Zadar Airport passenger terminal.
Dalmacija Danas reports that the winning conceptual design of the Zadar Airport passenger terminal was presented to the Zadar public on Monday. Ten ideas were submitted to the competition conducted by the Zadar Society of Architects in Zadar, and finally the work of a team led by Split architect Ante Kuzmanić was selected.
This solution, which can be viewed at the Museum of Ancient Glass, allows construction in phases that will not interfere with the operation of the airport – which was one of the main conditions. The value of the project is around 500 million kuna, and works in the first phase could start in a year. As it was heard at the grand opening of the exhibition, Zadar should get one of the most beautiful airports in Croatia.
“I am extremely pleased, the first-class work is such that it allows for many years of development, provides us with the modularity of the building at any time as a whole and that after its full construction, it also allows for further expansion while retaining a unique construction,” said Josip Klišmanić, director of Zadar Airport.
“The virtue of this work is that it is somehow homey, because its giant waiting rooms almost look like living rooms; there are light pillars in which bamboo, trees, and lavender grow… which also contributes to the feeling that you are not in a barrack or container of some kind, but that you are in a living room,” said jury member Goran Rako.
“What inspired us most was the pine forest through which we access the harbor and the landscape of Ravni kotari. We felt that there should be no steps that would corrupt that landscape. In this way, we practically retracted the nature with this roof, in some way, with this detail of the pillar, and at the same time maintained the relationship with the glass membrane towards nature,” said Ante Kuzmanić, who with his team, offered the best solution for renovating the passenger terminal of Zadar Airport.
The organizer of this competition was the Zadar Society of Architects.
“This is certainly one of the most challenging projects we have worked on, because when we look at the types of content we can design for the airport, with the fact that we are becoming a Schengen border, there are so many conditions that you have to satisfy, there are so many roads that intersect, that’s why teams of people worked on this,” said the president of the Society, architect Petar Kozina.
You can see the designs below.
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