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vascular professional | issue 02 · 2022

D CENTER OF EXCELLENCE D

FRIENDS TELL ABOUT

Efficient Beauty

BY FRAN SILVESTRE
CEO ARQUITECTOS

During the hot month of August ‒ in which the city of Valencia is empty ‒ we received an E-mail from
Dr Dragić indicating that he was here and that he would like to visit our studio. This is how we met

Petar and the first stone was laid for what would be the most productive cooperation that has led to
the project being presented.

Successive trips and meetings, both in Belgrade and in Valencia, have allowed us to know our client
and the spaces in which he worked in depth. We were fascinated with the innovations that we could

see in some of his clinics, many of them devised and executed by Dr. Dragić and his team. We knew
that we would make an excellent team, being able to provide solutions to all needs without many
limits. On the other hand, we were surprised by Petar’s ability to admire architecture and the com-
mon goal of the search for efficient beauty. A simple but effective architecture, radical and direct as a
whole but focused on the small details that make it specific. Beyond the project in question, we also
find his desire to export the architecture that originated in our studio admirable, offering the possi-

bility of future cooperation between our cities.

When we received the assignment for this project, we asked ourselves what we would like to expe-
rience as users there, and from that idea we conceived the project strategies that have been put into
practice. On the one hand, we were looking for a hermetic and massive element from the outside,

which by day would have an almost geological presence and at night would act as a lantern for one of
the city’s squares, and on the other hand, an open, flexible, and bright interior. We knew that we had
hit the mark with the proposal when we were aware of the surprise reaction of the client, who did
not hesitate to share his admiration and confirm verbally and non-verbally the vision that made him

carry out a project of these characteristics.

Dr. Petar Dragić

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