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Issa Megaron

Issa Megaron
© Damir Fabijanić

ISSA MEGARON

Proarh

ARCHITECTS
Proarh

LOCATION
Croatia

CATEGORY
Houses

LEAD ARCHITECT 
Davor Matekovic

 YEAR
2016

AREA
420 m²

MANUFACTURERS
AXOR, Hansgrohe, Bosch, Laufen, Sto, prostoria

DESIGN TEAM
Vedrana Jancic, Bojana Benic

BUILDING ENERGY CONCEPT, BUILDING PHYSICS AND BUILDING DETAILS DESIGN 
MEAU, Mateo Bilus

STRUCTURAL DESIGNER
MSc, Branko Galić

Issa Megaron
© Damir Fabijanić
Issa Megaron
© Damir Fabijanić

Text description provided by architect.

The Issa Megaron project is dealing with questions regarding the context of the site boundary, envisioned on the plot that is read as a "void", a blank space-with deception that context is non -existent.

Issa Megaron
Issa Megaron
© Damir Fabijanić

Given that the "genius loci" is not only the plot an island of Vis but actually the Mediterranean, we conceive the house by the system of the Socrates Megaron ( as the first passive house), reinterpreting the ancient traditional stone drywalls and creating a new rural man-made topography.

The assignment was to design a house for a temporary family retreat on a site without infrastructure, at the same time completely satisfying the needs of the user.

Issa Megaron
© Damir Fabijanić
Issa Megaron
© Damir Fabijanić

The complete lack of infrastructure and general inaccessibility imply that self-sustainability is prerogative, and the only solution for the completion of the project, that encompasses the plausibility of the project, minimal costs, satisfaction of all user needs, local government and urban plans as well as the architectural expression.

The house is designed with natural cooling and ventilation systems, rainwater exploitation, solar panels, and other elaborate ways of exploiting natural resources, enabling the facility to function as a place for life.

Issa Megaron
© Damir Fabijanić
Issa Megaron
© Damir Fabijanić

The house is envisioned as a dug in volume, a residential pocket between the stretches of space forming walls, an artificial grotto, a memory of a primitive shelter.

It consists of two levels - sleeping quarters/lounge on the first floor and downstairs open space dining/kitchen/lounge area opened to the covered and uncovered terraces and pool deck.

Issa Megaron
© Damir Fabijanić
Issa Megaron
© Damir Fabijanić

All the bearing elements are made of reinforced concrete. Stone from the site was used for the cladding of the facade.

The design that emerges from such conditions is subtle, creates a symbiosis with the new/old stonewall topography.

Issa Megaron
© Damir Fabijanić
Issa Megaron
© Damir Fabijanić

The newly built structure is man-made but unobtrusive in intent, material, and ultimate appearance.


Issa Megaron
Concept Scheme


Issa Megaron
First Floor Plan
Issa Megaron
Ground Floor Plan
Issa Megaron
Site Plan
Issa Megaron
Section


Issa Megaron
Location Plan
Issa Megaron
Sustainability Scheme

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