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- Architects: Bevk Perović Arhitekti
- Location: Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Design Team: Matija Bevk, Vasa J. Perovic, Tina Marn
- Area: 275.0 sqm
- Project Year: 2012
- Photographs: Miran Kambic
- Structural Engineering: Mitja Strlekar
- Mechanical Engineering: Biro Petkovski
- Electrical Engineering: Profi
- Drainage Consultant: IB-program
- Building Physics / Detailing: Polytechnic
- Construction Supervision: Projekt GT
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The project called for a small, one family house as a part of an existing semi-detached house, located in Ljubljana’s 1960s suburbia, in an area covered with a ‘blanket’ of small houses on minuscule plots of land.
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Plan 0
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The project became an exercise in organisational simplicity of the interior plan: on the ground floor, an insertion of a staircase slightly off-centre into the plan of the small living space effectively divides it into 4 distinct zones: access, kitchen, living/dining area and a workspace. The rooms exist and evolve around the column-like staircase in a simple sequence of different widths that defines them, simultaneously independent and fluidly connected.
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Furthermore, a slight submersion of the ground floor surface by 30cm lower from the level of the garden, stresses the idea of ‘separation’ of the living space from the surroundings, creating a sense of intimacy with limited means at hand – this allows for both perpendicular walls of the ground floor to be opened along the entire length of the volume, while preserving the sense of ‘room’ for the interior.
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Plan 1
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On the upper floor, the staircase divides the attic space into 2 separate tent-like volumes – the parents and the kids room, which both overlook the neighbourhood through elongated, slit windows, lowered to the level of the beds.
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The exterior of the house, in contrast to its older neighbour, is clad in black extruded aluminium profiling, reminding one of the black wood-clad buildings of the past. By turning the profiling inside out, a sense of precision of the project is achieved – the thinness of the profiling giving the whole building a sharp, monumental appearance.
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