Brave, innovative, unique in Montenegro!
With these words, fellow architects proposed the family house of Mr. Nebojša Adžić for the European Union Award for Modern Architecture - Mies van der Rohe.
And what did the people of Nikšić say to Adžić, when they saw a building with a flat roof, without windows facing the street.
"The facade of the house facing the street has no openings, which causes various associations for passers-by. There were really diverse comments. I remember an acquaintance who told me: 'You will build a roof when you have money'. There were also comments like, 'foreign music is to blame for everything,'" Adžić tells "Vijesti".
He is the first to build an energy-efficient modern family house in Montenegro. What does that actually mean?
- The house is compact, so heat losses are reduced
- The house is made of local materials: wood and brick. The walls are made of bricks laid at 25 cm, with 8 cm insulation, and facade cladding made of coniferous wood, placed on a wooden substructure, which formed the so-called "windy facade" with an air layer of 5 cm
- The structure of the mezzanine ceiling is made of glued laminated wooden beams, and the final roof structure is made of latticed wooden LKV supports, with thermal insulation of 20 cm
- Window openings and balcony doors are glazed with triple low-emissivity glasses
The Adžić house has a basement, a ground floor and an upper floor: the area for daily activities is on the ground floor, the night zone is on the upper floor, and the auxiliary rooms are in the basement.
"In my house, the heating is in a pump system that uses well water, the average temperature of which is around 10 ˚C, and it is achieved through a wall heating and cooling system, where pipes are placed in the plane of the structural walls," explains Adžić.
"Local masters had never built a 'Prussian vault' before. I helped them. I was both a designer and a contractor."
"In the summer, the temperature in the rooms is lowered through them," Nebojša explains.
He notes that he invested around 700 euros per square meter in the construction of his house, stressing that 1000 euros per square meter is the European average.
"When building the house, I invested 50 euros more per square meter compared to a house with a conventional construction method, but my larger investments will pay off in 5 to 10 years on energy savings for internal comfort, which includes: heating, cooling, ventilation."
Nebojša remembers that during the construction of the house he himself helped the craftsmen, especially when he made vaults made of solid bricks, the so-called "Prussian vault".
"Local craftsmen have never built it before. I was helping them. I was both a designer and a contractor," says Adžić.
He wanted his family house to fit into the already existing environment that forms the characteristics of the city: a mosque, a hospital, a bank, as well as a number of family houses from the last century.
Adžić believes, like the professional public, that the primary cubic forms, without any ornamentation and superfluous details, as well as the wooden facade, have their own autonomy and complete the ambience.
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