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client:    Public media institution

“Radio – Television of Vojvodina”

architect:     Riste Dobrijević

chief technician:     Dragoljub Kujović

project: 2014 – 2016

completion year:    2020

gross built area:    17.523,00 m2

project location:    Novi Sad, Serbia

consultants:   Jovan Bačić – RTV

photographer:     Relja Ivanić

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Concept

Radio Television of Vojvodina was constructed on the slopes of the mountain Fruška gora, on the cliff on a bank of the Danube, and in the immediate vicinity of the Sloboda bridge. Abandoned for twenty years, this public service building has emphasized horizontality, and, at 18 metres in length, it is hidden behind a canopy of plane trees. It stands a distance from the road in a large green belt. With a small footprint, the building sits both alone and lonely. In the vast expanse of Mišeluk, the building has a beautiful relationship with the sun, the sky and fresh air. At an altitude of 140 metres above sea level, the site offers a fine view of the whole of Novi Sad.

The basis for the building’s development was (a) being awarded in 2014 first prize in the competition for the conceptual architectural-urban design of the new building, and then (b) starting the process of reviving its two functional cubes.

The pure geometric form of the cubes proved to be the best model for defining dimensional membranes. This reduced smaller or larger functions in mutually drastic height differences to a relationship that mostly aspired to its spatial minimum and thus optimum.

This led to the social aspect that defined in the building’s interior and exterior function, leading to a structure without any lost space in which both the installations and Man touch the sky on its fifth facade in accordance with the spatial needs of both.

The smaller cube is administrative, as spatially expected of an office. The larger cube is different in everything. It is full of smaller wholes that are cubically different and whose relations transition from one void to another. These gaps define the interior volume close to humans that acts to create sound, movement, scenography, play and images.

The gaps are connected by a central covered atrium with which they create a whole. Every journalist, creative person and engineer has a workspace, which, with the help of a smaller open atrium, has allowed external light to penetrate an honest building of fine proportions that reaches each and every employee.

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Numerical parameters:

– Occupancy on the plot: 20%

– Roof height: 18m

– Area under the building

(gross ground floor): 4.050,00 m2

– Gross building area (all floors): 17.523,00 m2

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Functional parameters:

Approximately 1,500 employees are involved in creating radio and television programmes in 12 languages. This influenced the creation of various small spaces requiring peace and quiet with a separate acoustic enclosure. There are 5 television studios of different dimensions from ​​600 m2 to 100 m2 which vary in height from 5.5 to 12 metres, each studio having its own audio and video facilities. The central atrium functions as an additional sixth TV studio in addition to providing primary functions of light and internal communications.

The radio programme will use 7 radio studios of which that for music (in the basement) is the largest at 180 m2 and 6 metres in height. Other radio facilities include one drama studio with a deaf room, 3 show studios with their own directors, one youth studio, and one multi-functional studio.

The immediate vicinity of the building’s source of energy, on the second floor of the production cube, houses both the technical engineers and management. Journalists work on the third floor within two open-plan offices. Two News desks are each located in 500 m2, with each one hosting 70 news programmes with separate editorial and editing suites. Administration offices, legal services with editorial premises for each national minority, meeting rooms, a restaurant and a cafe, a media centre and accompanying facilities have been housed in another functional cube designed to maximise the efficient use of available working space.