The project is proposed as
the symbolic expression of the contemporary cultural condition, and interprets
the context of the center of Ljubljana in a dialectic relationship with the existing
structures: an urban park designed by Plecnick, the River Ljubljanica which
flows by the project site and the big hospital buildings behind it.
A building was designed to
re-interpret the double morphology of the historic center of the city on the
one hand and of the twentieth century expansion on the other; directrixes which
have their meeting point here.
A big cloud, an organic
element opens the front, balancing with the green of the park; in the interior
a display space leads into the building used for offices, reception activities
and the car parks.
The building has a ground
floor free for public use, used mainly for commercial and reception activities:
the front body of the building (18.95m high), containing the “cloud”, has
commercial and management functions, whilst the back block (15.50m high) makes
up the car park proper, together with the 3 underground levels situated under
the whole building.