This project can only be understood by taking the numbers into account: 650 subsidized dwellings in one of the Ljubljana’s urban voids; 4 long strips aligned in a plot demanding compactness; a height of ground floor plus five storeys, with dwellings on each floor; a density of approximately 300 dwellings/ ha and a construction cost of no more than €700/m².
Taking the above into account the low cost solutions for the façade, the limitations of the common spaces and the lack of a design for the public spaces begin to make sense. In contrast the good decisions of the complex: camouflaging its corpulence by using the set of resin panels in the façade; adapting it to the context through the smooth setting of the top-floor apartments and offering usable and sheltered exterior spaces in each dwelling.
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650 dwellings 2004-2006
Mesarska cesta SI-1000. Ljubljana. Slovenia
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