THE PASSENGER CENTER . INFRASTRUCTURAL PROJECT . COMPETITION MENTION . CELJE (SI ). 2024
The Passenger Center in Celje is more than just a transport hub – it is the city’s living room, a place that fosters creative and spontaneous connections among travelers, commuters, and residents. It represents an open space for meetings, the exchange of ideas, and the development of new knowledge, cultural initiatives, and entrepreneurial opportunities that enrich both visitors and the local community.
DOUBLE BRICK HOUSE . RESIDENTIAL PROJECT . COMPLETED . LJUBLJANA (SI) . 2020
The new residential semi-detached house stands on a long and narrow plot of land, which is sandwiched between older adjacent residential houses. The new house is designed to accommodate two large families of five and it is built on the site of a previously dilapidated residential building, which was of poor quality and low living value. The unusual building plot dictated a unique narrow floor plan, which measures only 6 m in width and 30 m in length. The height of the building is 9 m and has three functional floors. It houses two identical residential units, each having a usable area of 170 square m. The units are sequentially placed one behind the other with a common parking area in front of the building facing the access street.
HOUSE FOR CERAMIC ARTIST . RESIDENTIAL PROJECT . COMPLETED . LJUBLJANA (SI) . 2020
The atrium house was designed to unite the family’s living quarters with the working studio of its owner – a ceramic designer and artist - under one roof. Its aim was to be crafted in response to the growing trend of working at home. The 550 square meter plot is located in the suburbs of Ljubljana, Slovenia, in an area currently undergoing extensive gentrification. It is surrounded by dense and diverse construction of singlefamily houses. The client wanted to keep the house closed from its visually busy immediate surroundings.
ATTIC REIMAGINED EXTENSION . RENOVATION AND EXTENSION . COMPLETED . LJUBLJANA (SI) . 2024
The newly designed attic forms a large, unified space beneath a single-pitch roof. To the south, the space continues into a wide and bright winter garden, offering broad panoramic views of the surrounding greenery. The home's distance from the street ensures a sense of complete privacy. In addition to the sweeping views through the winter garden, two additional windows provide more intimate views. To the east, the view extends along the quiet suburban street through a large scenic window, while to the north, it opens through a smaller one.
RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOOD - POD HRIBOM . RESIDENTIAL . COMPETITION MENTION . ILIRSKA BISTRICA (SI ). 2024
The spatial design of the "Pod Hribom" neighborhood in competition proposal in the form of offset buildings represents an efficient and aesthetically balanced solution that enables high quality settlement with an even distribution of buildings. It ensures a clear structure and easy orientation in the settlement and thus a comfortable living in an urban environment.
HOUSE ABOVE THE VALLEY . RESIDENTIAL . COMPLETED . CERKNICA (SI) . 2021
The residential house is located on the brink of a forest, on a hillside above Cerknica field. From here, views of the beautiful Cerknica intermittent lake open up. It was precisely the breathtaking views that served as the basis for designing the architectural idea. The house is nestled parallel to the hillside. It was designed as an elongated volume with steep gable roof. It opens up towards the valley via grand panoramic window, while remaining predominantly closed off towards the forest. Here is a single window that overlooks the court yard and entrance.
RIBJA BRV FOOTBRIDGE . BRIDGES . COMPLETED . LJUBLJANA (SI) . 2014
Ribja Brv footbridge is a frame construction with the horizontal element comprising a thin steel box, fastened into the vertical element represented by a concrete pillar on the right bank of Ljubljanica River. On the opposite side, at Makalonca, the steel pylon is simply leaning on the bank with two elastic beds. The steel deck resembles a shallow ‘’V’’ in cress section, the deck measures 25 meters in length and 3.4 meters in width, with construction height of only 50 centimeters.
THE BLACK BARN . RESIDENTIAL PROJECT . COMPLETED . CIRNIK (SI) . 2014
Even though the building is intended for agricultural activities of the homestead it is also an elegant »protocol« and symbolic architectural creation. With it the owner wishes to express a respectful attitude towards Slovenian cultural heritage and Slovenian constructional and architectural tradition and to the way in which buildings are placed into the environment. The bold construction of large spans which strikes us with hayracks also gives this new building an air of nobility, in harmony with the picturesque landscape of the surrounding pastoral scenery.
TIMBER CITY . MIX USE BUILDINGS . INVITED COMPETITON . LJUBLJANA (SI) . 2023
At ground-floor level, the lower commercial and office buildings feature an open floor plan that enables the formation of a public and semi-public ground plane, conceived as a zone of interwoven public and semi-public environments. Fluid pathways move through open, semi-open, and enclosed spaces, continuously unfolding into new views and extending past softly shaped volumes.
VILLA SONČNICA. RENOVATION OF AN OLD VILLA . COMPLETED . BLED (SI) . 2019
The Villa Sončnica was built in 1936 by the then Senator of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and Mayor of Ljubljana Ivan Hribar. Because the garden did not live in harmony with the living rooms of the villa, we wanted to add a lounge terrace to it, a kind of outdoor extension of the living room, which we designed as a pavilion overlooking the lake.
EMERGENCY AND RESCUE CENTRE . FIRE STATIONS . COMPETITION MENTION . NOVO MESTO (SI ). 2025
Historically, the color red has been associated with intervention activities, as it was one of the first colors used by protective and rescue services to make their vehicles recognizable. It is a color symbolically associated with danger, warning, and urgency.
THE RAFFLE BRIDGE . BRIDGES . COMPLETED . CELJE (SI) . 2017
The new construction complements the iconography of existing spatial elements. It preserves the grace of the old town panorama and offers a cultural dialogue between the old and the new. Each era leaves a mark in the space with a new bridge. Therefore the decision on the choice of the bridge construction and thus its architectural and symbolic image was aimed at finding a long span object with the bridge beam as thin as possible. The bridge was to span the river in one leap. The new footbridge therefore will not compete with the ambiance of the town scenery by being extravagant or garish, but will complement it with a youthful elegance and boldness, which are made possible by using new technologies and knowledge.
WOODEN URBAN BLOCK . RESIDENTIAL PROJECT . INVITED COMPETITON . LJUBLJANA (SI) . 2023
A case study for a new housing built around the notion of sustainable cities. The design of six blocks of mixed use is based on the idea of creating urban spaces that combine different functions, such as apartments, business premises, shops and recreational facilities. This design encourages the establishment of a vibrant and sustainable community and takes advantage of the public and semi-public environment. The designed housing includes various green elements such as roof gardens, vertical gardens and community parks. You green spaces contribute to improving air quality, reducing the heat island and increasing biodiversity.
HOUSE SUHA . RESIDENTIAL PROJECT . COMPLETED . SUHA (SI) . 2012
The presented single-family house is built in the village of Suha, in the suburbs of a famous medieval town, Škofja Loka in Slovenia. The building is built as a replacement structure on the site of a former farm building which represented the eastern side of a unified space of a farm courtyard. Due to the cultural heritage regulations the new building has a gabled roof and follows the gauges of maximum allowed building dimensions of the demolished structure. The investor of the new building is the farm owner’s son, who is academically educated and therefore has very urban housing needs in terms of the program of the house, which is located in a traditional rural area.
FIRE STATION AND COMMUNITY CENTER . INVITED COMPETITON . DOMŽALE (SI) . 2024
Proposal for a design of a multifunctional social hybrid in the center of Domžale, which includes the premises of the fire brigade, an intergenerational center and a large event hall.
RUBIKUM FOR THREE . INTERIOR PROJECT . COMPLETED . LJUBLJANA (SI) . 2020
The apartment, named Rubikum for Three, is situated just outside the centre of Ljubljana and belongs to a young couple and their pet dog. As space is meant for dynamic use, this type of flooring is durable and brings a feeling of freshness to the apartment. All mobile furnishings are made of stainless steel to ensure durability. Also, their subtle luster acts as an additional light source further inside the apartment. The silver curtain enhances the experience of the character of this space.
HOUSES MEDNO . RESIDENTIAL PROJECT . INVITED COMPETITION . MEDNO(SI) . 2022
Living in the green belt of Ljubljana, specifically in a brick house, offers numerous advantages. The lush surrounding provide a serene and refreshing environment, ideal for relaxiation and reconnecting with nature.
APARTMENT WITH A TROPICAL GARDEN . RESIDENTIAL INTERIOR PROJECT . COMPLETED . LJUBLJANA (SI) . 2022
The client is a young professional, who in his spare time enjoys traveling around the globe, collecting various local artifacts. While at home he enjoys playing musical instruments and listening to old vinyl records, preferably thosewith groovy rhythms. The existing apartment was too divided and restrictive for his rhythm of life. By demolishing all the non-load-bearing walls, we formed a blank slate into which we inserted a spatial element featuring a bathroom with the toilet, and a kitchen. The result is an apartment that has no hidden corners and closed-off sides.
CHAIR C2210 . OBJECTS . COMPLETED . LJUBLJANA (SI) . 2020
A chair, even one without the expected four legs, is still a chair. And although at a glance it stuns us as unusual piece of seatery, its three-limbed incarnations can be found throughout the history of grand designs. The minimalist, elegantly designed chair C2210 is visually and functionally unique. Iconic for its slender backrest, shaped in a single swing from a thin curved metal rod that, like a stroke of a pen or a play of bends, transcends the narrative of cold material. The chair is not meant for lazy relaxation, but for thoughtfulness and elegance. Despite its apparent fragility and asceticism, it attracts us because of its practicality and lightness - it can be carried around only with one finger. Made from a single material it can be fully recycled and at the end of its life it can easily melt and form into something new.
PATIO HOUSE . RESIDENTIAL PROJECT . COMPLETED . LJUBLJANA (SI) . 2019
In spite of its seeming simplicity, the minimalist-designed house offers complex spatial and living experiences. The clever architectural design responds to the needs of a family of four, who wished a house with a high degree of privacy, while enjoying its spaciousness and openness despite the relatively small plot. Due to the unpredictable nature of the future development in the area, the house is oriented into itself. It forgoes a garden in favor of an intimate inner atrium, around which the entire program of the house is arranged. The atrium is embraced on two sides by two wings connected via a corridor.
HOUSE BEHIND THE WALL . RESIDENTIAL PROJECT . COMPLETED . LAVRICA(SI) . 2007
The new longitudinal house is conceived as a wall – a fence forming a secure atrium in the midst of the existing built environment. The house is turned outside in. It enables its residents intimacy, and at the same time it offers a compromise with the co-existence of the widely divergent structures in the same area. It resembles a nest, well- accommodated, protected and concealed, but at the same time benevolent to nature, openness and broadness of mind. The longitudinal wall, 40 metres long, has two functions. It marks the parcel boundary of the new house, sets its exterior margin - keeping out of sight the disorderly, inhabited side of the parcel - and at the same time, on the inside, accommodates a storage space running along its entire length.
LIFE AFTER MADRID . INTERIOR PROJECT . COMPLETED . LJUBLJANA (SI) . 2017
Life After Madrid is a refurbishment of a small apartment in one of the skyscrapers that Slovenian modernist architect Edvard Ravnikar built in the 1960s. Designed by Arhitektura d.o.o., the small 51-sqm (549-sqft) apartment in Ljubljana, was finished in 2017. Our goal was to preserve the basic floor plan of this 50 m2 flat, which connects the central meeting space with other living spaces – the kitchen, the bedroom and the study At the same time, we wanted to move all the service and utilitarian elements – such as the water heater, washing machine, and wardrobe – to the narrow space dividing the flat into two halves – the public and the private. The service space relieves the living quarters of additional storage surfaces, thus creating open and light ambients.
MAGIC BOX . RENOVATION OF AN OLD VILLA . COMPLETED . LJUBLJANA (SI) . 2009
While renovating the facade, the owners of an old Ljubljana villa, built in 1913, also wanted to enlarge the ground floor space, and to connect it to the garden by constructing a new terrace. A 5x5m flexible outer room was added to the villa for this purpose, allowing for a variety of uses. It is designed as a ‘magic box’ – as a cube whose vacant space is delimited by metal edges containing movable screens and a roof plane. By means of remote control, a great variety of spatial geometries may be created, including automatic adaptation of the space to outdoor factors. A new outer staircase with a projecting roof and a garden fence were built. All the new elements were added to the villa in a very concise way, so that there is a clear difference between the pre-existing and the added.
ATTIC APARTMENT . INTERIOR PROJECT . COMPLETED . LJUBLJANA (SI) . 2025
The new owner aimed to expand a central, double-height living area in the spirit of a loft. The main living area is illuminated from both the north and south, creating a fluid and airy atmosphere. At its center, the existing staircase and wardrobe act as a dividing element between the living and private quarters. The lower level includes two bedrooms with a luxurious bathroom and sauna, while the upper floor features a library overlooking the double-height living space, as well as a guest room with an ensuite bathroom.
ADA BRIDGE . BRIDGES . COMPLETED . BEOGRAD (SER) . 2012
Ada bridge spans the Sava in a leap by means of two wide arches abutting on the river banks and on Ada Ciganlija, the island in the middle. At the very promontory of Ada Ciganlija island, a 207 m high pylon was erected to enable two assymmetrical spans to cross the river by means of 80 steel backstay cables. The new bridge is 920 m long, with a span of 375 metres. The carriageway is 45 metres wide, with six lanes for road vehicles, two light rail railway tracks, and two pedestrian and cycling paths. This is the largest bridge surface in the world suspended by just one pylon. The bridge incorporates numerous superior characteristics and succesfully meets many technical challenges.