Sea organ & Greeting to the sun. Zadar: an architectural experience "in between"

Sea Organ and Greeting to the Sun are two projects developed by Nikola Basic in Zadar (Croatia). His research is finding a new way to promote the inactive and marginal space of the historic core of the city and change its urban identity. The project transforms the site in an essential place of everyday life, a key point where people can meet, socialize and relax. We should not become victims of the unlimited possibilities of technology; we can use it in a project of contemporary architecture. The architect re-interpret human living needs and uses of space, but also does it by finding a satisfactory relation with nature. Sometimes the effort produces unexpected results like a visionary project. This public urban space is playful and essentially and it works with the waves of the sea and the solar energy producing a stage enlivened from the sounds, the sights and the images. This project works on the boundary between the land and the water, but also between concreteness and emotional, and it translates the matters of the measure and of the architectural form in the language of the music and of the rhythm, generated from the natural elements.