Nova Iskra
Interior Architecture, Object Design



Reuse of an early 20^th-century warehouse into the first coworking design community space in Southeast Europe.

Discipline: Interior Architecture, Object Design
Client: Nova Iskra
Location: Savski Venac, Belgrade, Serbia
Status: Completed 2012 (phase II 2014)
Authors: Aleksa Bijelović, Milica Maksimović — Petokraka

Nova Iskra, the first design incubator in Southeast Europe, was initiated by a group of local managers/producers and embraced, supported, and brought to life by the local Belgrade municipality of Savski Venac and the keen commitment of Petokraka throughout years of ongoing efforts. Envisaged to host 20–30 independent young designers in an affordable, municipality-supported coworking model to sustain the professional growth of emerging professionals otherwise without access to workplace comforts of a similar scale.

  

An open-plan space is organised as a free-flow two-level area zoned with shifts in ambience by distinctive lighting, custom-made objects, and transparent partitions. The general spatial intervention follows the intact, existing brute treatment of the internal envelope, adding delicate, specially designed custom structures and objects, aiming to achieve fluidity of activities and motion, shaping the space with human interaction.

Project Recognition

37^th Salon of Architecture
Museum of Applied Arts, Belgrade, Serbia
— Interior Design Award for affirmation of interdependence of creative industries and community in an architectural space