The document contains details of several architectural design projects completed by Nikola Jovicic at Florida Atlantic University including: - A bed and breakfast in Boca Raton inspired by Japanese roof structures with private guest rooms opening onto a central rock garden. - A bike cafe in Savannah conceptualizing the shifting of time through uniform masses that move along a fixed axis to create a feeling of motion for users. - An analysis and abstraction of spaces between storefronts on Atlantic Avenue in Delray Beach looking at how shadows define new areas. - Additional projects include a textile museum in Savannah celebrating the city's cotton history, an eco-lodge in the Florida Everglades nestled among mang

1. Nikola Jovicic | Florida Atlantic University | njovicic2014@fau.edu | 732-763-1773

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4. Morakami Bed & Breakfast | Boca Raton, Florida | Design IV
Located next to the Morakami
Japanese Museum in Boca Raton, the
program asked for a bed and breakfast
for museum guests. Inspired by typical
Japanese roofing structure the project
features one long hall that supports
the guest units.
With transparent concrete walls in
the center where the programs cross,
creating space for a traditional rock
garden with views into it from the
rooms and restrooms, each view being
private and unique. The hall is shaded
by corrugated plastic further creating a
light translucent atmosphere.
Floor Plan
Tea Room & Spa Section
Sauna Section
Hall Section Cross Section

5. Bike Cafe | Savannah, Georgia | Design VI
Savannah is one of the oldest cities in America, and it
has been preserved throughout time. This project tak-
ing the concept of time and how some theorize time
to work, a shift through space but remaining constant.
This project projects the
theory of time into a physical form with uniform
masses that shift along an fixed axis, giving the users
of the bike shop and cafe a feeling of motion as they
walk along through the space.
Concept
Bay Street Elevation
Floor Plan
Floor Plan
Rear Axonometric
Cross Section
Front Axonometric

6. Atlantic Ave. Analysis | Delray Beach, Florida | Design III
The following is an abstract representation of the spaces
between store fronts and backs located along Atlantic
Avenue, Delray Beach. The analysis began with looking at
the back contours of the stores and restaurants and how
they served as an end to the flow of space from the street
through the business. Further analysis lead to the analyzing
the spaces behind the businesses and how one space ends
and the void creates a new space.
The abstraction from this analysis lead to this piece that
showcases spaces defined by the street, fronts and backs of
businesses and the spaces behind them.
Following is an analysis of shadows
cast throughout various fragments
on Atlantic avenue. With an abstrac-
tion representing spaces and space
formed within the shadows.

7. Applying these abstract concepts to Atlantic Ave, I created a shading structure
through which I derived structures that create spaces in-between them, spaces
in between the shadows. Littering them across the Ave in means of trying to
develop new spaces and different means of circulation.
Further analyzing spaces created between the new structures and already
existing store fronts/backs and its relation to the street.
Generating a abstract piece of space between the shadows and how it bleeds out.

8. Density in Motion | Design I
This project aims to show density in motion
through the use of 3”x3” cubes. The project
was then abstracted by manipulating the
cubes and the negative space around the
cubes. Manipulation by elongation, shrinkage,
through stereotomic, tectonic, and linear ele-
ments.
After the first stage of abstraction, we were
tasked with abstracting with the intent to
make spaces for human beings.
Cube Model
First Abstraction
Plan
Section BB Section AA
Axonometric

9. Palm Pavilion | Fort Lauderdale, Florida | Intro Into Digital Design
The last project in a three series curriculum of
being tasked to use MAYA and sketch-up to
generate varying sized objects, the Palm Pavilion
started off as just a single ‘frond’ unit generated
in MAYA. Then brought into sketch, from which it
was duplicated, scaled, angled and pieced
together to form one tree unit, from where it was
spread across a grid and elevated up and down.
The intent of the project is to provide shading
while the trees are designed to collect rainwater
and trickle it down to water plants on the last
fronds. Giving an organic attribute to an artificial
construction, inspired by nature.
Palm Plan
Rain Water Collection Section Diagram

10. Textile Institute | Savannah, Georgia | Design VI
Savannah’s rich history with cotton paved the way to make the city
what it is today, and for that it should be praised.
The ancient Greeks built temples to praise deities, the word
museum comes from their word mouseion, a temple for the muses.
Taking ancient Greek temples into account and applying it to the
context of Savannah, and the bluff which the site for this project
is located on. The site has many different access points on many
different elevations, with the original building not having a conver-
gence point within. So taking cotton and constructing an atrium
that shows people the inside and out of cotton’s history, through its
growth and how it grows with us. This atrium allows participants
to converge together in the museum and allows the students of the
institute to converge to be inspired by the cotton and all the while
looking down and seeing museum attendants from up above.
1st Level Floor Plan 2nd Level Floor Plan 3rd Level Floor Plan 4th Level Floor Plan 5th Level Floor Plan
Concept Model
Cross Section
Glass Floors & Glass Display Boxes
Textile Displays
Projector Screen
Balls of Cotton
Dirt & Seeds
River Street Elevation
Contextual Axonometric

11. Eco Lodge | Chokoloskee Island, Florida | Design V
The program of the Eco Lodge is necklaced around a grid projected off
the contours of the marina. As you travel down the program you are
elevated a constant 5’ as you go from public and transition into private
spaces. As you transition you step. The transition leads into a stepped
labyrinth of the guest units pushed against the surrounding mangroves,
with a large gathering space tucked underneath. In the labyrinth the
guest units emulate the spaces in-between the mangrove root system
that is reflected on the facades.
Floor Plan
Rental Kiosk Section
South-North Section
Axonometric
Concept
Construction Detail Model

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Olympic Pool Complex | Savannah, Georgia | Design VI
I began with analyzing the act of platform diving, the walk
up to the edge of the platform and then the crossing of the
threshold from a secure grounded position to that of the free
form in the air.
As well as taking into context a preexisting bluff located on
the site, I took the contour of the bluff and extended it down,
creating a new bluff on the other end of my program, and
splitting my program in half. I used this as my “edge” of the
platform. These two halves, the platform and the diver mid-
air. The “edge” serves as a public bridge that allows people to
access the restaurant, the gym, and upper level access to the
bike rental. Access to the upper level is also accessible via
the bluff, while access to the pool entrance and locker rooms
are located on the lower level.
1st Level Floor Plan 2nd Level Floor Plan Secondary & Tertiary
Primary
East-West Section & Water Collection Diagram
Entrance Elevation
North-South Section
Structural Diagram