Commission 2006 /
construction start 2006 /
completed 2008
Navigation: Bohinjska
Bistrica, SloveniaThe initial task from
the client was to build a new shopping mall on the plot of the existing one.Furthermore the new project proposed use of the shopping roof for additional
volume-as new apartments.
The wooden mass is located centrally in the village of Bohinjska Bistrica in the alpine area of
LakeBohinj. The village has beautiful
views towards the mountains but unfortunately it was architecturally damaged in
the 60s with a textile factory and housing blocks, that were build around them.
The textile factory was later closed down and the plot later occupied the old
shopping mall and today the new one. The side views therefore are not very
nice.
The organization of the housing and the envelope of the apartments open
towards mountain views and the sun. Therefore the front, wooden facade is
mostly transparent with panoramic windows. The side facade is closed - the
windows open towards the balcony that is cut into the volume. From side windows
also view open to the mountains.
The stepped volume of the building follows the silhouette of
surrounding landscape. On top of the shopping mall apartments are set in
the form of stepped L-volume. >From the west strong wind and snow arrives
the facade is opened only towards enclosed balconies and its material is gray slate
- it is designed as a vertical roof. L-shape volume encloses inner communal
garden that is the roof of the shopping mall. The front and courtyard facade is
warm and opened, made of wooden verticals with different rhythm.Wood - local larch is used and slates in diagonal pattern are
traditional materials used for roof and facade. Play of transparency formed by
wooden verticals that form balcony fences, facade panels or mask characterizes
the north and south part of the building. On the east and west pitched
rhomboid-textured roof interpolates into vertical surfaces that protect
apartments from snow and wind. Shopping mall facade is combination of steel and
glass panels. Apartments are of different sizes - from
40m2 studio flats up to 120m2 apartment with gallery. They are made of local
materials such as wooden oak floors; granite tiled bathrooms and mainly has
large windows with 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. The structure is made as combination of columns in the shopping mall area
and structural walls in the area of shopping storages and services. The same
structure is adapted towards the cellar, where parking is located and towards
the upper floors where apartments are. The slabs are of reinforced concrete,
the rest of walls are brick. Pitched roof is made as combination of flat
roof at the top of the building. The purpose is to hide all installations such
as chimneys, ventilation and external air-conditioning.
Project leaders:Rok Oman,
Spela Videcnik
Design Team: Martina Lipicer,
Andrej Gregoric,
Meta FortunaShopping mall Project leader:
Jelka Solmajer (Mercator Optima)