On a location where both nature and the city pulse mix, in the city district of Zelena jama, a new residential area called Atrium has emerged. Set in between the old city core and shopping and amusement district of Ljubljana, it offers its residents easy access to all the necessary infrastructure and services.
The upper stories of the residential buildings are designed as duplexes, rising above the neighboring buildings and opening up vistas towards the Ljubljana castle both from within the apartment itself as well as from its modern terrace, creating a setting where the landscape lovers can get their turn. This convinced a family of four to make a home for themselves within one of those duplexes and they turned to the helping hand of Kreatif design team to help them with designing their new interior spaces.
The apartment is conceived as a today ever more popular loft, where one space fluidly combines more functional areas that can merge into a single whole based on the wishes and needs of its residents. While the spaces in the lower story contain all the daily living areas, the upper more private area contains the bedrooms and storage spaces.
To make optimal use of their spaces, the family wanted to put a reading and work area in their lower floor, next to the saloon, kitchen and dining area. The architects placed this area into the central living space of the lower floor, which has excellent lighting and reading conditions due to its panoramic window with a splendid view towards the south-east while also boasting with direct access to the sunny terrace. By using a full height bookshelf, the architects created a strong line that marks the passage between two functional areas of the central living space, creating two opposing ambient, while leaving enough transparency between the book shelves and displayed objects to not act in a disrupting manner.
Upon entering the room, the living area is revealed first, further separated from the working area by the sofa, giving focus to the book shelve by opening visually towards it. On the working area, one of the shelves can be extended into a work desk, making the book shelve centerpiece act not only in a visual, but also in a functional manner. The work area is also fitted with a lounger for reading, accompanied by side tables that fall in line with the central bookshelf, TV stand and bar shelf. All the designs were, complying with the customers wishes, custom made.