The new complex complements the urban tissue of Budva city center, by adding content and shape to improve its existing qualities. Present surroundings impose the framework for the creation of architectural morphology, which is to upgrade the input of the location. Thus, the fusion of heritage and modernity is the answer to the needs of time, and its value system. Prominent position in the city matrix enables the appearance of the new structure to the level of landmark. Its size and shape complies with silhouettes of nearby masts of the old port, merging with them into a single scene. The new complex becomes, therefore, the gravitational point on one of the most important vistas of the city center. The connection of past and present here is exposed by combining different spatial and formal principles, resulting in innovative relations. For example, main staircase, occupying the center of the vertical architectural structure, extends through the inner and outer space, like in local zoning schemes. On the other hand, the central motif of architectural design is a gap in the building volume, which brings to mind the silhouettes of coastal settlement, and its narrow Mediterranean streets. However, the view is not stopped on the facade, but vectored to the environment- the hills and the bay to the west, and the open sea at the east and south. The new building is ambiguous; at the same time, it's a part of the urban matrix, dependent on its inputs, and at the same time, it represents a separate world, protected from external influences. The first aspect is related primarily to the manifestation of its spatial structure, and the other to its spatial standard, within which users can be isolated from the environment if they wish.

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