The warehouses or rather small distribution centers built in recent years on the outskirts of towns (because of land prices and fast roads) can be called a second generation of this kind of architectural realization, primarily because of the free typologies and purposeful financial program. Common features of all such buildings are:
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Structure - mostly skeletal, prefabricated (enables greater manipulation of space and storage. In warehouses, cubic meters are as important as square meters.)
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Coating or shell covering the structural framework.
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Various functions related to distribution, with all the related infrastructure.
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The first generation of those centers was built at the onset of turbo-capitalism in Croatia and after the fall of the socialist economy, a period poetically called “transition” by European analysts. The architecture born under those stars is a kind of a bastard that must prove itself. Some used the workshops of bankrupt socialist giants, which underwent a degree of face-lifting that depended on the wealth of new investors. Centers of this kind can be recognized only by awkward advertisements.