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DELO PRODAJA HEADQUARTERS AND PRINTING HOUSE
 
 

Location: Ljubljana, Slovenia
area: 8.000 m2
client: Delo Prodaja d.d.
tip: office, production
status: concept
year of project: 1998

 
 


Design of the complex derives from the content itself. The distribution center is a space of interactions and dynamics, it has functional principles that we have given a design echo to. The office building, with its monumental facade, turns to the space in front of it. The flat, raised multi-layered surface (shading the southern facade) is embraced by the curved line of the rear facade.
The commercial building stands on a pedestal – a platform above the basement parking. Towards Brnčičeva Street, we are creating a lawn with low green and flowering shrubs, which gives the building a visual pedestal. Despite the fact that the building has no visual barrier to the road, the sloping lawn gives it the necessary distance. The monumentality of the front facade is the primary element of regulating the perception of arrival. The inscription in the upper right corner of the facade pulls the dynamics forward and communicates that the entrance to the complex is from the east. When changing direction, the
volume of the Square opens, which is a secondary element of the perception of arrival. The path divides further past the gatekeeper into the handling areas and towards the production facility or the office building (via the basement parking or via the entrance platform).
The given functional and design concept allows for implementation in a combined skeleton-wall construction system. Along the columns, the horizontal forces can also be partially taken over by the southern - flat facade.
The production facility is defined by long horizontals, interrupted by the doors of the unloading ramps. Rationality imposes a rectangular shape, which has a functionally conditioned height regulation.

 

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