Reconstruction project of HOTEL RUBIN DHS in Krusevac is a complete structural, organizational and technological reconstruction of the previous building.
Reconstruction project completely affirmed two equal bodies that make up entire complex, namely the base as the building’s pedestal, of multi-volume character with flooring: basement + ground floor + mezzanine/ 1 above-ground floor, and the building’s tower, with flooring: basement + ground floor + mezzanine + 9 above-ground floors + detached floor, which in its multi-storey volume with the main pedestrian entrances from the plateau, goes to Trg Kosovskih junaka (Kosovskih Junaka Square).
Project design divides hotel facilities in organizational and functional terms into units that are reflected in spaces intended for accommodation units of different categories according to their capacity, service areas for the purposes of both the hotel and external users (bars, restaurants, conference rooms, lounge, spa, swimming pool, casino, gym….), maintenance zones, zone intended for stationary traffic and commercial spaces, whereby the content and quality of functional systems within the hotel complex provide a high-ranking categorization class of 4+ and higher, depending on further requirements of the operator.
In the system of selecting and applying both the way of design and treatment of colors and facade panels with the aim of their full affirmation, reconstruction project design clearly highlighted intention to establish connection with historical, very motivating and certainly adequate model, while emphasizing connection of designed unit with the site where the building is located, Lazarev Grad.
In addition to above, the natural pastel polychromy of pebbles and crushed stone and bricks, used in 1371 for construction and cladding of Donzon Tower and also smaller towers and fortifications of the Krusevac Town, became indisputable design pillar of overall colorful appearance of the composite, applied when designing facade panels of the reconstructed complex, in combination with dark vertical glass surfaces of strong reflection.