Villa Spindler - Proto-Arch

The Špindler House with its garden is protected as an individual cultural asset and is an example of Dubrovnik’s residential Baroque architecture. The Špindler House was in a degraded state, and in accordance with the preparation of complex project documentation, respecting all conservation guidelines and carrying out the works, in parallel with the archaeological and restoration works, it retained its spatial organization while adapting it to the modern purpose of the building.

The investor envisaged the house as a heritage villa for rent with eight rooms. The spatial organization of the ground floor was retained in the planned state, and a reception desk with seating for guests was placed in the central part of the ground floor. The wooden Art Nouveau doors of the main portal on the ground floor were restored in the “marmorino” style. The side rooms on the ground floor are arranged as bedrooms with bathrooms.

On the first floor, the spatial organization has also been preserved; the hallway leads to three bedrooms with their bathrooms, with the southern room as the most representative room preserved with ceiling and wall paintings determined by conservation and restoration research. In the attic, the spatial organization was maintained with the planned three bedrooms with bathrooms, and with the retention of the existing characteristic wooden balustrade in the corridor, which was restored. Due to the adaptation of the space to new needs, the associated garden areas were arranged in accordance with modern needs, while respecting conservation guidelines. The placement of an auxiliary building – a swimming pool with unobtrusive ceramic treatment in the eastern garden field and the remainder of the carefully planned horticultural arrangement with a dominant pedestrian access path with a central view of the Minčeta tower contribute to the revival of the historical concept of intertwining garden and residential space.