“Belvedere” Hotel in Sarajevo by Architect Ahmet Hadrovic

“Belvedere” Hotel in Sarajevo is a typical example of construction in the first years of reconstruction of Sarajevo after the war (1992-1995). This is an example of 'the growth of the building in accordance with the growth of its investor', that is, the growth of the investor's business success. The hotel was built in three phases. The first phase was the construction of a building on the site of a former residential building that the hotel investor bought and then demolished to build a hotel. In the first phase, the hotel was developed through the basement (below one part of the ground floor contour - following the sloping terrain), the ground floor and two floors, with a total of 25 rooms. In the second phase, the physical structure of the hotel was topped with a third floor, with ten new rooms. By purchasing an individual residential building (to the west of the existing hotel building), the investor ordered a new hotel building that was designed and built as an independent building, but with the possibility of being connected to the existing hotel building with a 'warm connection'. The new building was developed vertically through the basement, ground floor, first floor and attic. The aim of this work is to present an architectural program in conditions typical of the social environment immediately after the end of the war (1992- 1995) in Bosnia and Herzegovina.