Balcony apartments 1
Ljubljana
Slovenia
2014

 

Status: 
built
Project: 
2010
Realization: 
2012-2014
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Client: 
Housing Fund of the Republic of Slovenia
Sourse: 
open competition, 1st prize
Type: 
housing
Project team: 
Aleš Žnidaršič
Katja Žlajpah
Vesna Vraničar
Petra Marinšek
Photo
© Miran Kambič
  • Piranesi Award, nominee, 2014

Balcony apartments

The area is situated in the elite part of the city of Ljubljana, which is considered to offer qualitative living standard within regulated systems of neighbourhoods and settlements, planned as distinctive ambient entity within the urban morphology.Moderate articulated design of the buildings aims in a specific way to provide and accentuate those parameters that offer primary a friendly and qualitative accommodation within these concentrated settlement systems. The premises comprise three buildings that differ in size and type, which define the comprehensive and modifications of the typology of a functional unit of five parallel laid out buildings. The dwelling typology is oriented towards a model that is aiming to ensure social friendly relations to the greatest possible extent: less concentration of units linked to common entrances, parameters of privacy / intimacy of the habitat (two-sided oriented flats), a large structural diversity of apartments, from the smallest units to the diverse terraced housing in the form of "family houses" at the top of the building (penthouse) and to include one of the forms of outer surfaces – the balconies, loggias or terraces.