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Half House in Sarajevo
Real Estate Project Bosnia and Herzegovina – design by Projekt V Arhitektura
5 Nov 2019
Half House
Architects: Projekt V Arhitektura
Location: Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Situated in an ordinary unplanned neighbourhood in Sarajevo, the Half House is a new studio extension and refurbishment of the ground floor of a typical Bosnian ?family house?. The Half House has been designed for a wheelchair user and his wife. The studio extension is a new typology for the area: it is in between a detached studio house, a family gathering space, and a ?weekend? countryside house common to the region.
The existing family house and ground floor apartment was built in the early 1980s and has been reconfigured through decades of ?ad-hoc? interventions and extensions following the war in the 90s. These renovations resulted in limited and constrained space for living, moving around in a wheelchair, and hosting a large family.

The Half House responds to the disjointed, confusing post-war character of the surrounding neighbourhood and existing family house, with a simple, elemental and minimalistic architecture that brings an order to its setting.

This first completed phase includes a new side extension that can act as a semi-detached studio unit. It has been designed to accommodate a carer in the couple?s later life, and incorporates a large open-plan d...