Hayrack apartments

Cerklje na Gorenjskem, Slovenia

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Hayrack apartments

Cerklje na Gorenjskem, Slovenia

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YEAR

2008

SIZE

500,000 sqft - 1,000,000 sqft

“Hayrack” apartments
Commission
2005 /
construction start 2006 /
completed 2008
Navigation: Cerklje, Slovenia

The site is the edge of alpine town Cerklje (near the Ljubljana Airport) with
beautiful views to surrounding fields and mountains. On the site there is beautiful
protected 300 year old lime-tree. The plan of the building therefore is L-shaped
and embraces a green area around the tree. Also mountain views are opening from
this courtyard therefore most of apartments have beautiful views.

Apartments are social – they were sold to Slovenian Housing Fund
for young families at price 900 EUR/m2 that is extremely. Therefore the budget
had to be very limited (600 EUR/m2) and materials are simple and economic.
The landscape and villages in the area remained unspoiled with many examples of
traditional architecture such as old farms, barns and hayracks.
The concept is developed from the hayrack system –
wooden beams follow traditional details and patterns. Traditionally farmers
store grass and corn on beams, on the housing one can store flowers or other
balcony decoration.

Apartments are of different sizes -
from 30m2 studio flats up to 4 room apartment of 80m2. Bigger apartments are
developed on the corners of the building and have corner opened and nicer
views. They are made of economic but quality materials such as wooden oak
floors, granite tiled bathrooms and have large windows with external metal
blinds. The concept of structure is made in a way, that floor plans are
flexible, since only structural walls are those, that separate apartment shell
from the rest of the building. All other inner walls are non-structural.

Roof tiling is made of grey eternite tiles in caro-texture that
copy traditional slate roof. The roof is pitched roof but cut on the ridge –
there flat roof appears. The pitched roof partly functions as 1m high blind,
that covers all the installation, that is hidden behind – chimneys, external
air conditioning, kitchen ventilation etc.

Façade is formed in several element layers plaster of tree different colors, windows are PVC but
colored from outside and wooden elements are of spruce-wood that is cut and
glued for better resistance.

Sustainability
issues:
The balcony layer runs all around the block. The wooden ornamental construction
elements in front of the balconies and loggias are designed in the same sense
as traditional hayracks; wooden objects in function of storing and drying the
grass. They provide first entry temperature zone to the main living and
sleeping areas and also creates shading to the balconies.
Additional aluminum shading panels are placed on the outer sides of the winter
loggias and balconies.
2. The service and communication spaces are reduced to minimum thus the
daylight is provided on the shafts. The monthly basic energetic and service
costs are very low; so also economic for habitants since the apartments are
social type.


Project:

Apartment block
with underground garage
Client:

Gradis G group, Ljubljana
Location:

Cerklje, Slovenia
Program:

Apartments with
underground garage and park
Variosity :
surface:
7.000m2 including
garage

No. of floors:
4 floors

Apartment types:
2-room
apartment:69.00m2
2.5- room
apartment:89.00m2
3- room apartment:
103.00m2
Summa 56 apartments
Budget
Construction cost:
600 EUR/m2

Time-tables:
Project
(competition)
February 2005
Construction start:
May 2006
Construction
finish:
September 2008
Project team:
architecture:       project leaders :
Rok Oman
Spela Videcnik
             Design team :
Andrej Gregoric, Nejc Batistic, Martina Lipicer

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Hayrack apartments

Cerklje na Gorenjskem, Slovenia

Hayrack apartments

Cerklje na Gorenjskem, Slovenia

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