Location:
Ljubljana, Slovenia
area: 30.500 m2 type: housing status: concept
year of project: 2007
Apartment program is looking
for a place in a large green area between dense apartment complexes
from the 1970s. Investment in a new apartment complex is to
generate positive changes: it comprises a large underground
parking garage for the whole neighbourhood which is currently
missing about 12.200 parking spaces. The aim of the project
was to check the space capacity, with the imperative to preserve
the maximum amount of existing green area and to retain its
purpose of public use. Thus, the idea of three towers was developed;
their position concentrated at the edge of the site so as to
minimise its impact on existing spatial relations. The vertical
composition comprises three towers with 17/21/25 floors; together
they represent a lesser visual obstruction than a single existing
apartment block east to the green area. Some public programmes
are envisaged on the ground floor to to the north so as to emphasize
the public park program, their volumes are covered with earth,
providing green slopes for playing and for sledding in winter.