Primorje-Gorski Kotar County has been granted the amount of 17.9 million euros for the project of construction of a new regional school Milan Brozović Kastav in Rešetari with a sports hall. The new school will be a district school for about 450 students and for teaching in one shift.
The topography is highly specific, featuring sinkholes characteristic of the area, and there is a 27m elevation difference in certain places. The overall concept seeks to respect the existing context, ensuring a harmonious integration of the school buildings into the surroundings. A two-story volume with classrooms, facing south, is connected to the sports hall volume by an underground passage. Above the passage, a public pedestrian path runs east to west. The sports field located on the roof of the hall forms a covered school square/courtyard and defines the main entrance. Accompanying school facilities that form atriums age located in the intermediate space between the school volume and the public passage. One of the key elements is the terraced gardens on the southern part of the plot, which will serve as a space for outdoor school activities.