Sava River House

Mačvanska Mitrovica, Serbia

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Sava River House

Mačvanska Mitrovica, Serbia

Firm

Studio MARSA

Type

Residential › Private House

STATUS

Built

YEAR

2025

SIZE

0 sqft - 1000 sqft

BUDGET

$50K - 100K

The project is an intimate eight-by-six-meter cabin set on a stationary pontoon along the Sava River in Mačvanska Mitrovica, Serbia. Designed for a family’s leisure and weekend stays, and adaptable for hosting larger gatherings, the structure is conceived as a flexible open-plan space. The first third of the plan accommodates the service functions – kitchen, bathroom, and utility room – while the remaining area unfolds into a lounge and dining space with direct access to the river.

Set in a small town with a century-old shipbuilding history, with ‘Sava Shipyard’ being one of the most renowned shipyards in former Yugoslavia, the project draws inspiration from the Corbusian-modernist relationship of architecture and nautical design. Combined with the cabin archetype, the nautical functionality of clean-lined and sunlit, open-plan interiors, deliberately plays into the ‘simple living’ cliché, crafting the space of the river dwelling as an instrument of escapism.

Conceived as an everyday outpost of respite, the architecture of the cabin is fundamentally shaped by its relationship to the water. A mono-pitch roof, angled against the coastline, allows the interior volume to expand vertically as you step inside, ‘revealing’ the space in its full, airy lightness. Wherever one stands within the space, their view of the river and shoreline is meticulously curated - whether it is the scenic perspective of the landmark pedestrian bridge framed in the lounge, or a sliver of shore’s shrubbery peeking through the kitchen’s letterbox window.

The dialogue between the river landscape and the site’s nautical history is further articulated through combining wood and metal materialities, expressed consistently across the façade and the interior. The river is further drawn into the space through the deep-green palette of the joinery – tones borrowed from the hues of the water, while red accents reference nautical navigation markers, grounding the design in its riverside context.

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Sava River House

Mačvanska Mitrovica, Serbia

Sava River House

Mačvanska Mitrovica, Serbia

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