Petokraka is an independent creative practice founded in Belgrade, Serbia, by architects Aleksa Bijelović and Milica Maksimović.
A place of interdisciplinary actions and cross-disciplinary methodologies, with a wide array of interests and themes, Petokraka aims to create new experiences by open interpretation of every task — creating spaces, objects, and situations that draw the users into new relationships enabling them to make their story-line. The broad field of actions spans through domains of interior architecture and adaptive reuse, exhibition design and spatial installations, object design, visual art, identity and graphic design.
Since 2004 Petokraka has been working with the great support of a diverse team of graphic designers, architects, illustrators, photographers and art historians.
Awards and Recognitions
Big SEE Awards
Zavod Big, Center for creative economy of Southeast Europe, Ljubljana, Slovenia
— Interior Design Award 2021
Project: Nova Iskra, Zemun, Serbia
Recipients: Aleksa Bijelović, Milica Maksimović — Petokraka
37th Salon of Architecture
Museum of Applied Arts, Belgrade, Serbia
— Award in the category Interior Design
for affirmation of interdependence of creative industries and comunity in an architectural space
Project: Design Incubator Nova Iskra, Belgrade, Serbia
Recipients: Aleksa Bijelović, Milica Maksimović — Petokraka
Month of Design
Zavod Big, Center for creative economy of Southeast Europe, Ljubljana, Slovenia
— Interior of the South-East Europe Award 2014
Project: Bar 2.0 /, Belgrade, Serbia
Recipients: Aleksa Bijelović, Milica Maksimović — Petokraka
Zavod Big, Center for creative economy of Southeast Europe, Ljubljana, Slovenia
— Interior Design Award 2021
Project: Nova Iskra, Zemun, Serbia
Recipients: Aleksa Bijelović, Milica Maksimović — Petokraka
37th Salon of Architecture
Museum of Applied Arts, Belgrade, Serbia
— Award in the category Interior Design
for affirmation of interdependence of creative industries and comunity in an architectural space
Project: Design Incubator Nova Iskra, Belgrade, Serbia
Recipients: Aleksa Bijelović, Milica Maksimović — Petokraka
Month of Design
Zavod Big, Center for creative economy of Southeast Europe, Ljubljana, Slovenia
— Interior of the South-East Europe Award 2014
Project: Bar 2.0 /, Belgrade, Serbia
Recipients: Aleksa Bijelović, Milica Maksimović — Petokraka
PACE
Public Architecture in East-Central Europe – collection of outstanding communal architectural projects
Department of Public Building Design, Faculty of Architecture of Budapest, University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary
— selected work in the category Innovative Public Spaces 2020
Project: Nova Iskra, Zemun, Serbia
Authors: Aleksa Bijelović, Milica Maksimović — Petokraka
Award of the City of Belgrade
The Assembly of the City of Belgrade, Serbia
— Special Recognition for outstanding contribution for realization of the events of great importance for the City of Belgrade 2011
Recipients: Jelena Ivanović Vojvodić, Danica Jovović Prodanović, Tanja Damljanović Conley, Ružica Sarić, Darko Marušić, Ivan Kucina, Ana Janković Čorbić, Milica Maksimović, Aleksa Bijelović —Author Team of the Belgrade International Architecture Week
Public Architecture in East-Central Europe – collection of outstanding communal architectural projects
Department of Public Building Design, Faculty of Architecture of Budapest, University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary
— selected work in the category Innovative Public Spaces 2020
Project: Nova Iskra, Zemun, Serbia
Authors: Aleksa Bijelović, Milica Maksimović — Petokraka
Award of the City of Belgrade
The Assembly of the City of Belgrade, Serbia
— Special Recognition for outstanding contribution for realization of the events of great importance for the City of Belgrade 2011
Recipients: Jelena Ivanović Vojvodić, Danica Jovović Prodanović, Tanja Damljanović Conley, Ružica Sarić, Darko Marušić, Ivan Kucina, Ana Janković Čorbić, Milica Maksimović, Aleksa Bijelović —Author Team of the Belgrade International Architecture Week