While in Croatia, I took some time to visit Ljubljana, Slovenia, 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 / OFIS Arhitekti

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 Slovenia, 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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Architects: OFIS arhitekti
Location: Podpec, Slovenia
Project Team: Rok Oman, Spela Videcnik, Andrej Gregoric, Javier Carrera, Janez Martincic, Katja Aljaz
Each Plot Area: 420 sqm
Each House Area: 110 sqm
Project Year: 2006-2010
Photographs: Tomaz Gregoric

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Aloni House in Antiparos / deca ARCHITECTURE

The international jury for the Piranesi Award met on 20 and 21 November 2009 in the premises of Mestna galerija in Piran, in the context of the Piran Days of Architecture. The members of the jury were: Maruša Zorec, Milton Braga, Robert McCarter, Saša Randić, Wang Shu, John Wardle, Aaron Tan, Shelley McNamara, Yvonne Farrell and Diébédo Francis Kéré.

The Piranesi Award 2009 was awarded to deca ARCHITECTURE from Greece for the project Aloni House in Antiparos. You can see the two Honorable Mentions and the Student’s Honorable Mention after the break. For more information, visit the competition’s official website. read more »

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Architects: Arhitektura d.o.o.
Location: Ljubljana, Slovenia
Project Team: Peter Gabrijelčič , Boštjan Gabrijelčič, Tomaž Budkovič
Investor: private
Construction year: 2008-2009
Photographer: Marko Zoranovič

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Sadar Vuga Architects have shared with us their design for the air traffic control centre for the Brnik Airport in Slovenia. The centre is conceived so as to provide security and enable high operativeness, 24-hour work comfort as well as comfort for the employees and visitors to the Centre. Furthermore, the Centre is designed according to all strict requirements of safety, operation and efficient functioning, but it is also envisaged as a special, memorable and symbolic building of the arrival in Slovenia.

The Centre is designed as a compact shell that uncloses where natural lighting is needed in the interior. The compact building with a pentagonal ‘head’ of the Centre, which is tied to two administration ‘wings’ by the vertical hall in the central area of the Centre, is situated, for safety reasons, in the centre of a plot along the central boulevard of the future Airport City. The Centre is separated from the edge of the plot in the north by a parking platform and in the south by the tall greenery of the Centre’s garden. The Centre’s interior is organized into zones of various safety degrees. The more we move from the perimeter with administration offices and resting areas towards the free centre of the building, the higher the safety level.

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Architect: OFIS arhitekti
Location: Trata, Skofja Loka, Slovenia
Competition Year: 2005
Construction Year: 2008-2009
Project leaders: Rok Oman & Spela Videcnik
Design Team: Andrej Gregoric, Katja Aljaz, Janez Martincic, Magdalena Lacka
Budget: $180,000 Euro
Site Area: 2,500 sqm
Constructed Area: 1,080 sqm
Project year: 2008-2009
Photographs: Tomaz Gregoric

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Bostjan Gabrijelcic from Arhitektura d.o.o. sent us this rehabilitation of an old apartment’s terrace in Slovenia.

More images and drawings after the break.

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Architects: Sadar Vuga Arhitekti (lead architect); KSS, London (consultant in sports architecture); MYSI, Tel Aviv (shopping centre concept); OFIS arhitekti, Ljubljana (architect shopping centre)
Location: Ljubljana, Slovenia
Landscape Architects: AKKA, Ljubljana
Construction Engineering: Gradis; Atelier One, London
Mechanical Engineering: Lenassi; Jelen & Zaveršnik
Electrical Engineering: Elprojekt; UTRIS
Fire Engineering: EKOsystem
Client: Ljubljana City Municipality, Grep
Project year: 2007
Site Area: 182,000 sqm
Constructed Area: 460,720 sqm
Photographs: Sadar Vuga

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The house designed by Prof. Peter Gabrijelcic sits on a narrow parcel of land among typical Slovene suburban structures. On one side, there is a chaotic settlement; on the other, we find the marshy plain of the Barje landscape park, and an intertwining of meadows, fields and ditches, with a magnificent mountain rising in the background. The space is dotted with various types of houses and tradesman’s workshops with their messy yards. When one’s back is turned to the settlement, one may enjoy views of pristine green nature.

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Architects: Atelje Desman & Gregorc+Vrhovec
Location: Ig, Slovenia
Project team: Miha Desman, Vanja Gregorc, Katarina Pirkmajer Desman, Ales Vrhovec
Collaborators: Sandra Banfi, Eva Fiser Berlot, Damjana Zavirsek, Dean Pertinac
Building Physics: Simon Fiser
Construction Engineer: Franc Zugel
Electrical Engineer: Ladislav Poboljsaj
Mechanical Engineer: Iztok Koch
Quantity Engineer: Irena Bele
Project year: 2005-2006
Construction Year: 2008
Photographs: Atelje Desman, Gregorc+Vrhovec, Miran Kambic and Peter Rauch

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Architects: dans arhitekti
Location: Ljubljana, Slovenia
Project team: Miha Desman, Katarina Pirkmajer Desman, Rok Bogataj, Eva Fiser Berlot, Vlatka Ljubanovic
Collaborators: Vesna Drnovsek, Luka Mladenovic, Nina Savnik, Veronika Ule
Building Physics: Peter Zargi
Statics: Franc Zugel
Electrical Engineer: Sebastjan Zelko
Mechanical Engineer: Franc Peperko
Quantity Engineer: Irena Bele
Graphics: Natasa Skusek
Project year: 2004-2006
Construction Year: 2008
Photographs: dans arhitekti and Miran Kambic

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Architects: Sadar Vuga Architects
Location: Portorož, Slovenia
Project Team: Jurij Sadar, Boštjan Vuga, Anamarija Volk, Corina Trunz, Goran Golubič
Structural Engineer: Elea IC
Landscape: GLG projektiranje
Client: Lesnina Inženiring, d.d.
Project year: 2009
Site Area: 626 sqm
Constructed Area: 398 sqm
Photographs: Marco Covi

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Architect: OFIS arhitekti
Location: Stara fuzina, Slovenia
Design Year: 2007
Construction Year: 2008-2009
Design Team: Rok Oman, Špela Videčnik, andrej gregoric, anna breda
Constructed Area: 66 sqm
Photographs: Tomaz Gregoric

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The second part of Trimo Urban Crash international competition for students of architecture is underway, as the short-listed projects were just selected. The public can already rate the 19 short-listed projects on the competition website. The students were asked to design a venue performed with Trimo products in the center of Ljubljana.

For more information about the competition, click here.

Architect: OFIS arhitekti
Location: Ljubljana, Slovenia
Design Year: 2003
Construction Year: 2003-2008
Project leaders: Rok Oman & Špela Videčnik
Design Team: Rok Oman, Špela Videčnik, Neža Oman, Florian Frey, Vanja Fink, Špela Uršič
Constructed Area: 800 sqm
Structural Engineering: Valide d. o. o
Mechanical Engineering: Oves d. o. o., Vavtar Engineering d. o. o.
Electrical Engineering: Winky d. o. o, Energomont d. o. o.
Budget: 1M Euro (US $1,32M)
Photographs: Tomaz Gregoric

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Architect: OFIS arhitekti
Location: Ljubljana, Slovenia
Project Year: 2006-2008
Project leaders: Rok Oman & Špela Videčnik
Design Team: Rok Oman, Spela Videcnik, Andrej Gregoric, Javier Carrera, Anna Breda, Luis Ferreira, Ana Kosi, Katja Aljaz
Client: Mercator d.d.
Interior Design: Mercator Optima
Structural Engineering: Projecta d.o.o.
Contractor: Gradis Skupina G d.d.
Constructed Area: 2,000 sqm
Photographs: Tomaz Gregoric

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Architect: OFIS arhitekti
Location: Nova Gorica, Slovenia
Design Year: 2006-2007
Construction Year: 2008
Project leaders: Rok Oman & Špela Videčnik
Design Team: Rok Oman, Špela Videčnik, Nejc Batistic, Martina Lipicer, Andrej Gregoric, Katja Aljaz
Client: Kraski zidar, Sezana, Slovenia
Constructed Area: 10.250 sqm including parking
Photographs: Tomaz Gregoric

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Architect: OFIS arhitekti
Location: Ljubljana, Slovenia
Design Year: 1998-2000
Construction Year: 2000-2004
Project leaders: Rok Oman & Špela Videčnik
Design Team: Rok Oman, Špela Videčnik, Rok Gerbec, Josip Konstantinovič, Karla Murovec, Damjan Bradač
Competition Design Team: Rok Oman, Špela Videčnik, Lidija Dragišič, Marko Coloni
Client: Mestni muzej Ljubljana
Constructed Area: 2,650 sqm (existing building) / 790 sqm (extension)
Structural Engineering: ELEA IC d. o. o
Budget: 6,71M Euro (US $10,6M)
Photographs: Tomaz Gregoric

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Architect: Bevk Perović arhitekti
Location: Ljubljana, Slovenia
Project Team: Matija Bevk, Vasa J. Perović, Nika Prešeren, Robert Loher, Maja Valič
Project year: 2002 – 2004
Construction year: 2004 – 2006
Client: University of Ljubljana
Site Area: 5,000 sqm
Photographs: Miran Kambič

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Architect: OFIS arhitekti
Location: Ljubljana, Slovenia
Design Year: 2005-2006
Construction Year: 2006-2007
Project leaders: Rok Oman & Špela Videčnik
Design Team: Martina Lipicer – udia, Nejc Batistic – udia, Andrej Gregoric – cand.arh, Ana Kosi – stud.arch.
Programme: Social apartments with parking
Client: Gradis G group, Ljubljana
Constructed Area: 5,000 sqm
Nº of floors: 4 floors + 2 underground parking
Budget: Construction: 650 EURO/sqm (US $1,020)
Ceilling: 1,200 EURO/sqm (US $1,880)
Photographs: Tomaz Gregoric

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