arhiv

urban palimpsest

The spatial concept of the new building on Erjavčeva Street in Ljubljana is derived from three spatial elements that materialize the memory of the demolished Villa Bahovec and articulate the open public space of the city at the end of the axis of Ravnikar´s Trg republike square. The slender building volume defines the edge of the public space between Gregorčičeva and Erjavčeva and leaves an open passage from Trg republike square. The new plinth defines the border between public and semi-public space and materializes the perimeter of the demolished villa. The residential volume floating above the plinth follows the heights and facade lines of the surrounding buildings.

The architectural design of the building establishes a platform with a staircase and a ramp that runs along the park and connects to the existing staircase in front of the Majde Vrhovnik Elementary School. The platform creates the character of a high ground floor, under which there is a basement with parking and service areas. From Erjavčeva street the ground floor descends slightly into the public program (e.g. gallery) between the perimeter walls, which follow the line of the perimeter walls of the former Villa Bahovec. Via ramp, the ground floor rises to a platform from which we enter the residential part of the building, which comprises 4 floors and a public program on the platform level (e.g. a bookstore). The division of the building volume into two staggered lamellas oriented north-south enables a favorable orientation of the rooms to the east and west and the division of the floor plan into additional mezzanines. The apartments consist of a living room and two mezzanines with bedrooms. Mezzanines enable greater utilization of the building volume and flexibility of apartment types by maintaining the floor plan.

client

LEONTIPODIUM d.o.o.

year

2019

location

Ljubljana, Erjavčeva street

surface area

1600m2

project group, competition

Uroš Rustja, u.d.i.a.
Primož Žitnik, u.d.i.a.
Mina Hiršman, m.i.a.
Tomaž Mlinarič, u.d.i.a.,
Denis Hitrec abs. arh.,
Lara Sedar abs. arh.,
Rok Staudacher m.i.a.

double-sided apartments without corridors for young and young families

Maribor’s Magdalena district marks the transition from a compact area of city squares to a scattered buildings in the green. The location of the new building follows the street lines and adapts to them in both horizontal and vertical dimensions. The compact building volume occupies only 50% of the land area and allows the other 50% to be used for green areas. On one side, the perimeter building closes the building island with an urban street facade and on the other side surrounds a safe inner atrium with a children’s playground. The building is designed as a generator of the urbanity of the city area, as a public program is located in the corner of the ground floor for everyone (cafe, co-working space, repair shop, exchange office, mobility center, etc.).

Most apartments have two-sided orientation. The vertical communications are on the street façade and next to them are few one-sided apartments, looking towards the park. The two-sided orientation ensures quality views, quality ventilation and better contact of the apartments both with the natural environment in the atrium as well as with the city street. The apartments enable a flexible way of living, which offers young people and young families from different social, cultural and economic backgrounds deep living spaces with a circular floor plan and variable room layout. The project also envisages the recycling of waste concrete and bricks of existing buildings by processing them into cement clinker for the concrete construction of new ones.

client

Public intermunicipal housing fund Maribor

competition

third place

year

2022

location

Maribor, Dvořakova street

surface area

9200m2

project group

Primož Žitnik, u.d.i.a.
Uroš Rustja, u.d.i.a.
Mina Hiršman, m.i.a.
Tomaž Mlinarič, u.d.i.a.
Urška Linda Beuermann, m.i.a.
Darja Josić m.i.a.
Mateo Zonta m.i.a.