EXPERIENCE
The Villa is located in Trnovo within the city
center of Ljubljana, Slovenia. It is renovation
of a small existing house dating from
1934. Old house was designed by architect
Emil Navinsek, known for inovation space
concepts of a school non-corridor plan. He
designed the house next to his residence for
his two unmarried eldery sisters who lived
together in a small surface of only 50m2 per
floor. The street where the house is situated
was mostly built in the 60s and 70s with
typical one family residential houses made
in combination of white plaster render and
dark wood cladding.
The extension is creating different
intersection between old and new part
on each floor ... is composed of 3 cube
volumes, each in a proportion of a shoe-
box like existing house floorplan. Boxes
are stacked with 90 degrees shifts creating
overhangs and terraces. The volumes
are claded in dark wood – spruce vertical
lattice - in the context of the street
architecture. The structure is combination of
a concrete base, metal frames and wooden
substructure. Interior of the new part is
formed mostly by wall cladding creating
integrated wardrobes and walls.
The old house is simply renovated keeping
all the existing textures and materials.
Interior of an old
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