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Name & Surname: Mina Kordić Date & Place of Birth: May 22, 1987, Zrenjanin, Serbia Mobile: +381 (0) 642150806 +381 (0) 692150806 E-mail: mina.kordic@gmail.com
PROJECTS (national and international competitions) 2013: Square at kafe “Stara Hercegovina” in Belgrade. –Project, team work (AGM). Status: Second Prize; 2012: Call-in competition for a Kindergarten in Belgrade. –Project, team work (AGM); 2012: Call-in international architectural competition for an apartment complex in city center of city of Budva, Montenegro. –Project, team work (AGM Project Bureau, Belgrade, Serbia). Status: First Prize; 2011: Call-in architectural competition for the solution of new buildings and development of urban ground floor and gables in a city block between Knez Mihailova, Jaksic, Obilicev venac and Zmaj Jovin’s street in Belgrade. - Project team work (project manager Zorica Savičić) Status: First Prize; 2011: The Extension of Library in Novi Sad, Serbia, The project, team work (no.plan); 2011: The Alternative Car Park in Hong Kong - The international contest, team work (no.plan); 2011: The Ensemble of the Orlovsko Naselje Multi-Cultural Centre in the Zvezdara Municipality of the City of Belgrade – The project; 2011: The Waterfront Center Concrete Hall – The international contest, The project, teamwork; 2008: Hotel & Congress Business Complex in New Belgrade (Novi Beograd) – the call-in contest with professors at the Faculty of Architecture. -Project, team work, status: buy-off INTERNSHIPS 2012, 2013: The AGM Project Bureau, Belgrade, Serbia, work on a competition project, result: first prize; 2011: Portart Project Bureau, Belgrade, Serbia, work on a competition project, result: first prize; 2010: IAESTE Expert Internship - Summer workshops within the college, bureau and office work, Lattakia, Syria; 2010: Teaching associate to the Associate Professor Ana Nikezic, PhD, with the Contemporary Urban House course , School of Architecture, University of Belgrade, Serbia; 2009: The AGM Project Bureau, Belgrade, Serbia. EXHIBITION 2007: One of the participants of a photography exhibition within the Serbian performance at the Prague Quadriennale; EDUCATION 2011: MA in Architectural Engineering, Faculty of Architecture, University of Belgrade, Serbia (average grade: 9.74 of max. 10); MA thesis and project name ‘Diffusion Forms – Culture & Architecture’, The Ensemble of the Orlovsko Naselje Multi-Cultural Centre in the Zvezdara Municipality of the City of Belgrade (Mentor: Prof. Tamara Skulic, PhD; grade: 10.00); 2009: BA in Architectural Engineering, School of Architecture, University of Belgrade, Serbia (average grade: 8.80 of max. 10); 2002-2006: The Zrenjanin High School, Zrenjanin, Serbia. LANGUAGES English – Advanced reading, writing and speaking; Italian – Basic reading, writing and speaking (level: A1.2); German – Basic reading, writing and speaking COMPUTER SKILLS Autocad, Adobe Photoshop, InDesign (basics), MS Office, 3D and rendering: SketchUp, Rhinoceros (basics) and Vray for Rhinoceros
Master Project Center for New Music Mentor: prof. Vladimir Milenkovic, PhD Belgrade, Serbia 2010
disharmony center for new music in Jurija Gagarina Street, New Belgrade, Serbia Floating was chosen as a method of designing the space in New Belgrade on which, as Ljiljana Blagojevic (professor of architecture) says, it could be argued that the principal failure of New Belgrade is its functional reduction, more precisely, its failure to develop as a complex spatio-urban structure of multiple functions, which has consequently put strain on the social life and movement of the community. The new building is ambiguous; at the same time, it’s a part of the urban matrix, dependent on its inputs, and at the same time, it represents a separate world, protected from external influences. The first aspect is related primarily to the manifestation of its spatial structure, and the other to its spatial standard, within which users can be isolated from the environment if they wish.
Master Project Ansamble of Multicultural Center Mentor: prof. Tamara Skulic Belgrade, Serbia 2011
Forms of Diffusion | Culture and Architecture Diffusion (lat. diffusio) smear, spread, spreading | Culture spread, spread, permits leaking of influences other cultures and thus interfere, these are all aspects of Diffusion. Center is created on the principle of spreading of a porous structure consisting of an open, semi-open and enclosed areas, each of which is equally important, since all three types of space are important in the culture of the Roma people. The principle of generating space relies on the transfer, the crossroads and intersections. Criss-crossing to diversity and the creation of hybrids in the transition, changing the concentration and dispersion in multifunctional environment. Experiencing the change of activity is also one of the major factors of everyday life, so structure must allow different facilities to occupy the same place. Children’s space is everywhere, spreaded Everywhere is garden - half-open and open
International Competition Beton Hala Waterfront Center Srđan Marlović, Milica Oluić Milena Kordić co-authors: Tijana Stevanović Marina Milivojević Mina Kordić Bojana Gočanin Belgrade, Serbia 2011
The Waterfront Center project has been seen as an opportunity to make one of the vital connections of the old city center and riverfront. The emphasis is no longer on an iconic building, but instead on connective tissue. Design’s goal is to enable disparate parts of the existing urban fabric to stitch together by forming new fabric which will blend with existing natural and artificial elements, in order to produce general continuity, both formal and functional. This approach, that produce relations rather than objects, would enable also resolving the infrastructural neuralgic tension that site has at the moment, by creating links separated by the level but integrated in the same layered structure. Long-planed continuity of pedestrian zone from the city center to the riverfront /from Knez Mihajlova Street, over the Kalemegdan park/ was put in the center of the conceptual framework of the project. Considering this, main flows through structure where positioned to embrace pedestrians from Kalemegdan park /new escalator-steps block/, pedestrians and cyclists from river promenade /4 fingers trough beton hala/, and pedestrians from the Kosancicev venac block. All this pedestrians flows cross and connect on the main feature of the project - wooden surface: both Waterfront Center roof and new city square. This surface is perforated by the main atrium with escalator which connects this new city square and the Waterfront Center cultural contents below the wooden deck.
International Call-in Competition Budva Business Complex Center, Montenegro First Award AGM: Borislav Petrović, Ivan Rašković, Nada Jelić, Nikola Stojković, Luka Ostojić, Mina, Kordić, Bojana Marković Budva, Montenegro 2012
The new complex complements the urban tissue of Budva city center, by adding content and shape to improve its existing qualities. Present surroundings impose the framework for the creation of architectural morphology, which is to upgrade the input of the location. Thus, the fusion of heritage and modernity is the answer to the needs of time, and its value system. Prominent position in the city matrix passes the appearance of the new structure to the level of urban landmark. Its size and shape complies with silhouettes of nearby masts of the old port, merging with them into a single scene. The new complex becomes, therefore, the gravitational point on one of the most important vistas of the city center. The connection of past and present here is exposed by combining different spatial and formal principles, resulting in innovative relations. For example, main staircase, occupying the center of the vertical architectural structure, extends through the inner and outer space, like in local zoning schemes. On the other hand, the central motif of architectural design is a gap in the building volume, which brings to mind the silhouettes of coastal settlement, and its narrow Mediterranean streets. However, the view is not stopped on the facade, but vectored to the environmentthe hills and the bay to the west, and the open sea at the east and south. The new building is ambiguous; at the same time, it's a part of the urban matrix, dependent on its inputs, and at the same time, it represents a separate world, protected from external influences. The first aspect is related primarily to the manifestation of its spatial structure, and the other to its spatial standard, within which users can be isolated from the environment if they wish. The character of dwelling units connects both, systematic solution, and desire for the unique response. Standardized schemes, intended for supposed unknown user requirements, are personalized by enrichment of spatial forms and details.
Call-in Competition Kindergarten AGM: Borislav Petrović, Ivan Rašković, Nada Jelić, Nikola Stojković, Luka Ostojić, Mina, Kordić, Bojana Marković Belgrade, Serbia 2012
New kindergarten establishes an independent children’s world in a currently “non-existing place”. Spatial concept forms a safe enviroment that responds to the location requierements and physical protection of children. Morphology of kindergarten creates conditions needed for child’s imagination to form a chain of events, within child’s viepoints. New kindergarten improves existing terrain topography in a manner that expresses a metaphor of safety. Ring form determinates two spatial zones: inner, and outer. First one relates to space within a building’s core as a protected world of childhood, bounded by childrens partial grasp of life. Second one, the outer perimeter of the site, relates to the world yet to be known. Relation of these two zones describes the process of growing up and cognition wich in this occasion could be depicted within way the building is used. Current de-levelling of terrain, in spatial correlation with the architectural structure, form a variety of different environments, necessary for the creation of appropriate segments within the whole physical structure of kindergarten. As a result, three deferent areas are formed within the whole structure, covered, open area on the lower part of the plot, and a wide, open space that surrounds the building. Two lower levels of the building structure are linked into a single unit, included in use and activated; formed three yards as follows: inner, upper and lower outer courtyard.
Competition Square “Stara Hercegovina” Second Award Nikola Stojković, Luka Ostojić, Mina, Kordić, Bojana Marković Belgrade, Serbia 2013
Gravitational field of the existing place is being amplified by emphasizing dominant activities of local users. Along with phisiognomical restructuring of the square, interrelations within also change, thus recreating space’s original purpose - park within the city square. The change is dual in nature: it nurtures existing memorial and spatial qualities of the square, while avoiding it’s strict geometrical determinancy. These two entities interrelations creates series of spatial expiriences - linear transforms into circular, and circular into linear, again. Modulations within the state of these interrelations powers the change of understanding: it motivates and intensifies the use of square, while precieving the phenomenon of central space as a hub meeting place and mediator of local users activities; therefore affirming sense of neighborgood, exchange, collectivity etc. Proposed enviroment functions as a diagram, whose characteristic points guide users behavior. Paths, architectural elements and determinants are all in service of the structuring of spatial contents. Binding of the square’s spatial parts is phisical - with formal character of new assembly; and graphical with pavement texturing. Pivotal part of the assembly - central ring with it’s elements, acts as a spatial regulator, drawing it’s origin from morphology of the existing place. New, interactive relationship is formed with the outer rim of the square. Ring’s formal character is determined with distance between the square’s surrounding buildings, while it’s deformations (deviation from circular shape) expresses dimensional limes/an interaction between determinants of surrounding facades and ring morphology. By defining each other, they reveal the square as a new gravitational field.