Vila Mon Repos Bled

33, Prešernova cesta, Bled, Slovenia

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Vila Mon Repos Bled

33, Prešernova cesta, Bled, Slovenia

Type

Educational › Elementary School

YEAR

2008

SIZE

100,000 sqft - 300,000 sqft

The facilities
of the Bled School of Management have been expanded with a third building,
constructed on the site of a smaller building, a manor from the 1920s.
The new
building, called Vila Mon Repos, transposes the orientation and the cube-like
shape of the old manor with the addition of some displaced elements, such as
the stairway and the entrance hall or vestibule on the north side, and the
glass part of the gathering space or social area on the ground floor on the
south-east side towards the terrace, also featuring the green roof of the lower
ground floor. The full wooden facade cladding with window openings embraces both
the ground floor and the first floor of the building and passes into a glass
facade on the second floor, which thus forms a displaced glass caesura between
the “cube-shaped” house and the floating roof. The slight incline of the roof falls
away from the lake. The lower ground floor represents the building’s plinth and
looks out of the terrain on the south-east side as the roof of the large
classrooms on the lower level. This roof is predominantly green and arranged as
a terrace in front of the large gathering area on the ground floor.
On the lower
ground floor, the manor is physically connected with Vila Mežakla via an
enclosed passageway, while on the ground floor they are connected via an open
passageway between the terraces and by the uniform landscape in front of the
main entrances. Thus the entire complex of the three buildings is linked into
an integrated entity.
The new manor transposes the wooden elements of its predecessor in a
contemporary way: the mono-pitched roof has been enlarged and floats above the
transparent top floor. The facade is clad with vertical cedar-wood planks; the
rhythm of wooden planks of varying widths creates a playful wave in an
otherwise static wooden facade.