AD Interviews: OFIS Arhitekti

By David Basulto — Filed under: ArchDaily Interviews , ,
 

While in Croatia, I took some time to visit Ljubljana, , and interview OFIS Arhitekti. The practice was founded in 1998 by partners Rok Oman and Spela Videcnik, both graduates from the Ljubljana architecture school and the Architectural Association.

OFIS has produced a high amount of buildings in the last years, with very good examples in housing: Izola Social Housing, Shopping Roof Apartments, Tetris Apartments, Lace Apartments, Student apartment studios and the Backbone Village Houses.

Izola Social Housing /

But the firm has also being involved in retail (Mercator), religious architecture (Farewell Chapel), and some houses such as the Alpine Hut and Villa Old Oaks (full list of OFIS projects previously featured at ArchDaily). Clearly, dealing with different types of clients (individuals, state, real state) is not a problem for this young office.

What I liked about the interview was to see how responsible this young firm feels as a generation in terms of building the image of , a new nation that has been trough many changes in the last years, specially in terms of opening to the rest of the world.

 
 
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simonstar says:

Interesting to see who is hiding behind the name OFIS;
as well interesting to see what they have to say.

One question: What is Rok really trying to say with his monologue 9:42-12:05?

 
# February 3, 2010 at 09:52
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Spaceman says:

Very interesting projects..

 
# February 3, 2010 at 10:57
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neolaser says:

@ simonstar:

you are right mate, never knew who’s behind OFIS. i really love their work and it’s much interesting to know now that they are only a very small office which realises one after the other… sure this office will have a great future…

 
# February 3, 2010 at 14:10
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Marco says:

Yeah, this is OFIS disclosure. Neverthenless I witnessed really interesting Rok’s lecture on ORIS Days in Zagreb.

 
# February 3, 2010 at 15:30
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# February 4, 2010 at 20:01
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cloe says:

Are they couple?

 
# February 8, 2010 at 08:44
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Alex T says:

No, why >)

 
# February 8, 2010 at 19:12
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a says:

they were

 
# February 22, 2010 at 14:31
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torres says:

They are in hideaway, not social-izing

 
# August 5, 2010 at 16:28

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