Architecture
Three volumes in red concrete, set into the eastern face of Učka, facing the sea.
Red concrete
and green
These are the two materials the complex returns to. The red volumes mark what is shared — what gathers people, what gives the hillside a shape from the water. The green holds everything else.
The red concrete is not decorative. It is structural and specific: its warmth shifts with the light, catching the late afternoon sun from the Adriatic in a way that paler materials would not.
Shaded terraces extend from every level, and the gradient of the hillside ensures.
Against the Mediterranean planting — composed with the same care as the structures it surrounds — it reads as a thing that belongs.
The complex reveals itself from the water — three red volumes on a green hillside older than any of it.
Idis Turato
Architect born 1964 in Rijeka
Idis Turato is one of the few architects working in Croatia today whose buildings carry a recognisable signature — not through repetition, but through a consistent way of thinking about place.
His work has been exhibited internationally and built across the Kvarner region, where the relationship between land and sea is rarely simple.
INSPIRATION
His starting point for Avara was the Austro-Hungarian summerhouse — not as a reference to be cited, but as a form to be reconsidered. What emerged from that inquiry is not a revival.
It is a reinterpretation: three buildings that belong to their hillside the way the old ljetnikovci belonged to theirs, without pretending that the century between them did not happen.
