Funded by
 Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe

Built by Industrogradnja in 1974 the apartment complex was designed by prof. Dure Mirković and Nevenka Postružnik. 
It is home to about 5000 people and has 19 populated floors with 1169 apartments.

Located in Eastern Novi Zagreb, in the neighborhood of Travno, Mamutica is the largest building in Croatia and one of the most significant residential buildings in Europe. The complex it’s almost a town in its own right. Mamutica resounds took sound as inherently a spatial process and investigates architecture’s interactive relationship with the manipulation and manifestation of sound.

The starting point for the sound research were the 9 concrete opened structures designed for ventilation purposes placed on the plateau of 
the complex. By experimenting with the flows of the moving air that circulates through them, together with injected frequencies their acoustic properties were activated giving Mamutica a “voice”.

The results of this acoustic investigation was materialized into a public performance in collaboration with local artists Tin Dožić & Sven Sorić 2022 scheduled for 25th of March 2022 from 18:30 until 19:30 for the residents and the guests of the Mamutica complex.

The public performance aims to open up former discussions regarding Mamutica complex as protected socialist architectural heritage. The project wants to contribute to recent discussions of the alarming state of socialist modernist architecture in Central and Eastern Europe and is looking forward for new approaches to help revitalize this cultural heritage on a longer term.

poster: Sven Sorić

photography: Sven Sorić, Sanja Bistričić