Conceptual design of underground Natural history museum in Podgorica, Montenegro

When the authors of major projects along the Morača canyon were still being put through the test of architectural competitions back in the days of modernistic expansion of Podgorica, none of them could have foreseen that in a future filled with strict regulations and laws those that came to life would be challenged by non other than commercial parasites. In reaction to the skyscraper built over Hotel Podgorica, Kana Radević’s modernist masterpiece, my project proposes an alternative approach. It demonstrates that even when a new structure is unjustified, it is still possible to intervene respectfully. The new object attaches itself under Radosav Zeković’s Committee Building, using a parasitic architectural strategy to emphasise and reinforce the existing heritage rather than undermine it.