The Zagreb established 3LHD designers actualized the Zamet Centre in Rijeka in north of Croatia. The 16830 m2 complex hosts varied installations: sports lobby with max 2380 seats, local community agencies, library, and 13 retail and serve spaces and a garage with 250 parking zone.

Here is what the designers extend:

“The destination and an unending guideline for the plan were the evaluation and a minimal distortion of the existing urban surroundings. One third of the sports hall intensity is break in the ground, and the relaxation of the center is fully matched into the environing landscape. The construction’s important architectural component are ribbon-like linear streaks stretching over the site in a north-south management, operating concurrently as an architectural design component of the target and as a partitioning component which forms a world square and a link among the park on the north and school and B. Vidas street on the south.”

“The streaks were motivated by “groma?a”, a character of rocks particular to Rijeka, which the center unnaturally reinterprets by color and pattern. They’re paved with 51.000 ceramic tiles planned by 3LHD and fabricated especially for the center. The steel development, girder span of 55 meters and their varied height admit the natural lit to light the sports hall.”“The hall has been planned in accordance with the recent international sports measures for top world sports competitions. The conception is supported to flexibleness of space. Playground size is 46 x 44 metres, for two handball courtyards. The hall consists all the supporting installations for master training and competition, and the auditorium planned as a arrangement of telescopic stands enables the transformation for daily apply as well as for different actions such as concerts, conferences and congresses. Decided interior substances timber and acoustic panels and the furniture accustomed furnish the hall recommend that it’s a wide living room for athletes. The important approach to the hall and different installations is set west of the hall from the public square and from the subsurface garage.”