While renovating the facade, the owners of an old Ljubljana villa,
built in 1913, also wanted to enlarge the ground floor space, and to
connect it to the garden by constructing a new terrace. A 5x5m flexible
outer room was added to the villa for this purpose, allowing for a
variety of uses. It is designed as a ‘magic box’ - as a cube whose
vacant space is delimited by metal edges containing movable screens and
a roof plane. By means of remote control, a great variety of spatial
geometries may be created, including automatic adaptation of the space
to outdoor factors. A new outer staircase with a projecting roof and a
garden fence were built. All the new elements were added to the villa
in a very concise way, so that there is a clear difference between the
pre-existing and the added.
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