General Maister Memorial Park

Landscape architecture: Bruto (Matej Kučina, Tanja Maljevac)
Sculpture: Primož Pugelj - sculptor
Project: General Maister memorial park
Location: Ljubno ob Savinji, Slovenia
Client: Society of soldiers for northern border
Area: 1500m2
Project: 2005
Construction: 2007
Photo: Miran Kambič

The park, dedicated to General Maister and the soldiers for the northern border was planned as an abstract three-dimensional space, where the paths lead around geometrically cut grass crests. It is an abstract representation of the crest of the northern border, for which Maister’s soldiers fought.

The crest next to the road is truncated and ends with a supporting wall, which serves as a part of the memorial symbol, for on it there is a line of metal sticks, bearing the names of the soldiers for the northern border. The symbolic composition ends with an abstract life-size bronze figure of a horseman.

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Nordic Centre Planica

Landscape Architecture: Studio AKKA
Architecture: A.BIRO
Graphic design for public spaces: Studio Botas
Consultancy:
Ski-jumps: Klemen KOBAL
Cross-country skiing: Uroš PONIKVAR
Constructions: Vojko KILAR, FA
Traffic: Špela SITAR, Tegainvest
Water-management: Rok FAZARINC
Light: ARCADIA LIGHTWEAR

Competition: 2009 / details
Location: Planica, Slovenija

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Butcher’s Bridge-House

Project: Butcher’s Bridge
Archtecture: Sadar Vuga Arhitekti (Jurij Sadar, Boštjan Vuga, Nataša Mrkonjić, Bor Pungerčič, Margarida Dias, Adrian Petrucelli);
Structural engineer: Atelier One, London/Mancheste
Source: open anonymous competition
Client: City Council Ljubljana
Address/Site: The Ljubljanica river and embankments in the centre of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Site area: 5.722 m2
Building area: 722 m2
Total floor area: 7.166 m2
Storeys: ground floor + 2 storeys
Structure: cast-on-site reinforced concrete, prefab reinforced concrete
Programme: market opening, public event space, bridge

Excerpt: The new Butcher’s bridge concludes the arrangement of the Jože Plecnik’s covered market from the mid-1930s. It connects the market area on the Adamic-Lunder embankment with the new market area on the regulated Petkovšek embankment.

The proposal envisages a ‘house-bridge’ with three horizontal platforms. The lower, the upper and the canopy platforms determine two levels of covered space above the river. The dimensions of the platforms, 39×19 m, enable a continuation of both the market and the public event area on the lower and upper levels of the bridge. All three platforms are equipped with slender bell-shaped columns that alternatingly widen either downwards or upwards, tied to a homogeneous spatial structure. The columns are placed onto the platforms in two longitudinal rows, which leave open a central space on each level. The columns are set at a distance from all edges of the platforms so that the space between the fence of the platforms and the columns offers room for a three-metre passageway.

The entire bridge construction is made of concrete. The columns are of artificial stone, the paving of the platform is terrazzo. All three platforms are perforated and covered with glass floor tiles that are permeated by diffuse light.

More info:: sadarvuga.com / All images:: © 1996-2007 SVA

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Designing a forest

Location:Bled, Slovenia
Area: 1800m²
Design period: 2004
Construction period: 2009
Project team:
Landscape architecture: Studio AKKA (Ana Kučan, Luka Javornik)
Sculpture: Mirko Bratuša, akad. kipar
Architecture of the wach hut cover: Maruša Zorec

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The neo-renaissance villa is situated on the verge of the lake Bled. The area is steep, mostly covered with forest. The scattered remains of the former forest-park – paths and masonry details – unfold the once discovered potential of the site. The main experiential value is hidden in the sequence of a walk through the forest at the back of the villa. From time to time, between the dark verticals of the trees, magnificent views open to the lake, to the island and to the castle, while the forest itself unveils interesting ambiences with significant connotations: a watch hut, water reservoirs and relief flats. The proposal conserves and enhances the existing ambiental qualities by revealing some old structures and adding some new ones, by adding new punctuated planting and enhancing the views by removing some trees. The most appropriate programme, according to the aspirations of the owner, seems to be a sculpture park, which is yet to evolve gradually. It begins with the sculpture at the corner of the ice-cellar behind the villa. The sculpture and the vault of the cellar are reminiscent of the grotto, one of the most important elements of the renaissance and baroque gardens. The path will later lead the visitor into the forest, which, while infested with cultural imprints, still preserves some of the calm monumentality of the primordial wild.

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