The North City Gate, a place of many opportunities and views – a residential and commercial building on Ljubljana’s northern entrance road. The layout plan for the northern part of Vienna Road, adopted in the early 1990s, was based on the bold visual-spatial assumption that a relatively low, compact, mixed-use row of buildings would be […]
Can post-earthquake reconstruction also be an opportunity to rethink traditional building typologies? In 1998, the Upper Posočje region was struck by a massive earthquake with a magnitude of 5.6. Many buildings were damaged, but one of the worst affected settlements was the village of Čezsoča, near Bovec. The rapid response that accompanies all disaster response […]
Can traffic become a park, or how to deal with the fact that an elevated car park is planned in a prominent urban location? The Ljubljana Clinical Centre Urban Master Plan envisages the siting of two above-ground car parks to relieve traffic congestion in the area and to provide visitors with easy, transparent and accessible […]
A small intervention in the heart of Slovenian Alpine tourism. By purchasing a hotel apartment just below the krvavž ski resort, the client wanted to ensure accessibility and proximity to one of Slovenia’s most popular ski resorts. With a modest floor area of just 24 m² and an average family size of four, the biggest […]
“Šmartinka” is one of those acquisitions that have brought Slovenian architecture together with global trends and aspirations. It is unique, but it is also extremely vulnerable to any attempt to return to tradition and tried-and-tested comfort. A few years after independence, Slovenian architecture was caught by a completely fresh wind, which looked for its models […]
Metamorphosis of the typology of the individual dwelling house in the Škofjeloje hills. One of the most common, yet most difficult tasks architects face is designing a residential house in a rural environment for clients who come from the city. The gradual migration of the urban population back to the countryside after 50 years of […]
