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.
