Ljubica Jovanović – Architect – Designer designing reality into fantasyljubica.jovanovic.aenax@gmail.com
architecture
Concept Design Competition – BADEL Site Redevelopment Zagreb
Design for the BADEL competition in Zagreb, Croatia Integrated a new construction complex with the exiting distillery, including commercial and residential buildings while retaining its historical value and traditional urban identity. The aim was to create a fusion between the old brewery and the new, modern structure. Other team members: Tijana Oluic, Juan Carlos Salas [...]
The Lapidarium of Uzice
in uzice, a declining town in west serbia, an archaeologist and two architects, after a two-year-struggle, managed to convince the officials to build a lapidarium where ancient roman monuments from 2nd to 4th century AD, found on the territory of the town would be kept safely and exposed for the world to see. the town [...]
We Grow Furniture
Stylish outdoor furniture – it grows anyway you shape it! On an easy-to-shape supporting structure, the furniture grows and blooms, making a unique comfy sofa for your back yard. If we can make animals this way, why not furniture?
Pharmacy Store Interior
The client had bought the unbuilt commercial space for their pharmacy store years ago, however, when it was finally built it was not quite what they hoped for and they came to us to ask for a solution to the problem – there was no space! Stairs, apart from being a necessary functional element, can [...]
House in the country
Countryside house surrounded by the arboretum’s lush landscape, in a village called Mrcajevci in Serbia. The project is ordered by my mom, and the design was made so that she enjoys it. Click image for enlargement.
Contemporary Apartment – Redesigned in Onyx
The apartment is located in a residential building in Uzice, west Serbia. Originally this was just a half of a large apartment, and its previous owner divided it into two since it was easier to sell. My clients now own a small apartment with a large bedroom, bathroom and zig-zag walls separating them from their [...]
Ash Dining Set
Another example of design inspired by a mythical creature, phoenix the fire bird. ‘Ash’ refers to two things here. The first is the direct association based on the gray materials and lightweight organic forms, as if the ash was floating around, carried by the wind. The second is physical and logical connection to the Phoenix [...]
Phoenix Bedroom
Mythology has always been my endless inspiration – especially for design – and phoenix is one of my favorite motifs. The bedroom is next to the Ash dining room, as its logical sequence. (“Phoenix rises from the ashes.“) During daytime, this room looks like any other – a large comfy bed, dark heavy curtains, a [...]