04_BEVK, PEROVIC | SOCIAL HOUSING POLJE, LJUBLJANA

NAME

Project title: Social Housing Polje

Recommending party
The project has been submitted by:

Bevk Perović Arhitekti

LOCATION
Country: Slovenia

City: Polje

Address: 

AUTHOR

Designer or design team architects:

Bevk Perović Arhitekti (Matija Bevk udia, Vasa Perović MA BiA, Mitja Zorc udia, Davor Počivašek udia)

DETAILS  

Lot surface area: 7500 m²

Total area of the project: – m²

Of which residential: – m²
Public/communal areas: – m²
Facilities for the public: – m²
Business/trade:
Offices: 

Number of residential units: 13
Typology of users: Families, students

Construction costs (euro/square metre): – €/m²

Work started on date: 2003
Work completion date: 2005

OWNERSHIP 

Promoter: Javni stanovanjski sklad MOL (Public Housing Fund, Municipality of Ljubljana)
Owner: Javni stanovanjski sklad MOL (Public Housing Fund, Municipality of Ljubljana)

Description of the project:

Six apartment blocks are situated on the ‘edge’ of the city, the last buildings of the city – facing the open fields on one side, built city fabric on the other side and busy railway tracks on the third side.

The existing urban plan had to be kept – a series of symmetrically positioned buildings, positioned irrespective of their surroundings.

Therefore, the project became the exercise in ‘dissolution’ and rearrangement of the original plan – trying to establish the central open strip of land as a kind of a ‘social condenser’ park-like area, with artificial hills acting as separation ‘walls’ between different social and age-groups of users and trying to ‘dissolve’ the preconceived volumes of the buildings. Each side of the building therefore attains a different ‘profile’, a recognizable silhouette that refuses to fuse into a volumetric reading of the whole object.

Each building contains 13 apartments, very modest in size. The balconies are ‘pushing-out’ of the building volume, so as to achieve certain ‘openness’ for the units. By being suspended on metal cables, they retain the idea of ‘industrial’ iconography of the nearby railways. The railway theme is further carried out in the ferroxide red colouring of the fibre-cement panelling of the elevation. The super-enlarged attachment plates – 8 cm aluminium discs – on the elevation panels, positioned so as to follow the random sizes of the panels, shift the primary perception of the building volumes towards the idea of skin-wrapping of silver dots.