Location: Ljubljana,
Slovenia
area: 3.300 m2
client: Ministrstvo za notranje
zadeve RS
type: public
status: completed
year of construction: 2007
The
Police Dog Training Facility comprises three zones: the first
is approach zone with parking spaces and area entrances; the
second zone, principal building, serves as a translator between
various public and private regions; the third zone comprises
dog habitats, charged with noise and dog activity. Principal
building houses rooms for dog guides, trainers and trainees,
all of them oriented to the public, quiet side. On the private
side, a connecting corridor runs along the whole building, serving
as a noise filter, but establishing a visual contact with goings-on
in the courtyards behind. The building's irregular floor plan
is looking to establish an organic contact with surrounding
natural environment; diversely slanted roofs echo the space
dynamic, protection of surrounding fields and tree-lined alleys.
Low cell fields form the dog habitats, which function as an
elevated parterre with their low flat roofs, thus additionally
diminishing the main volume's size.
Published in: Urban Environment
Design Magazine, (2010), Architecture file (2012)
