![House JP / Bevk Perović Arhitekti - Windows, Facade](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/57c9/6b91/e58e/cebf/2400/00cf/newsletter/07_house_JP_-_side_elevation.jpg?1472818035)
- Area: 275 m²
- Year: 2012
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Photographs:Miran Kambič
![House JP / Bevk Perović Arhitekti - Windows, Facade](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/57c9/6c4f/e58e/ce18/b400/00c8/newsletter/02_house_JP_-_front_view-entrance_area.jpg?1472818224)
Text description provided by the architects. The project called for a small, one family house as a part of an existing semi-detached house, located in Ljubljana’s 1960s suburbia, in an area covered with a ‘blanket’ of small houses on minuscule plots of land.
![House JP / Bevk Perović Arhitekti - Shelving, Chair](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/57c9/6c2b/e58e/cebf/2400/00d1/newsletter/03_house_JP_-_interior_view-working_space.jpg?1472818189)
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![House JP / Bevk Perović Arhitekti - Table, Windows](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/57c9/6c07/e58e/ce18/b400/00c7/newsletter/04_house_JP_-_interior_view-kitchen_and_living_room.jpg?1472818153)
The project became an exercise in organisational simplicity of the interior plan: on the ground floor, an insertion of a staircase slightly off-centre into the plan of the small living space effectively divides it into 4 distinct zones: access, kitchen, living/dining area and a workspace. The rooms exist and evolve around the column-like staircase in a simple sequence of different widths that defines them, simultaneously independent and fluidly connected.
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Furthermore, a slight submersion of the ground floor surface by 30cm lower from the level of the garden, stresses the idea of ‘separation’ of the living space from the surroundings, creating a sense of intimacy with limited means at hand - this allows for both perpendicular walls of the ground floor to be opened along the entire length of the volume, while preserving the sense of ‘room’ for the interior.
![House JP / Bevk Perović Arhitekti - Windows](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/57c9/6be2/e58e/ce18/b400/00c6/medium_jpg/05_house_JP_-_master_bedroom.jpg?1472818112)
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![House JP / Bevk Perović Arhitekti - Stairs, Handrail](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/57c9/6bba/e58e/cebf/2400/00d0/medium_jpg/06_house_JP_-_staircase.jpg?1472818072)
On the upper floor, the staircase divides the attic space into 2 separate tent-like volumes - the parents and the kids room, which both overlook the neighbourhood through elongated, slit windows, lowered to the level of the beds.
![House JP / Bevk Perović Arhitekti - Facade, Windows, Chair, Deck](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/57c9/6b49/e58e/ce18/b400/00c4/medium_jpg/09_house_JP_-_view_through_house_from_backyard.jpg?1472817961)
The exterior of the house, in contrast to its older neighbour, is clad in black extruded aluminium profiling, reminding one of the black wood-clad buildings of the past. By turning the profiling inside out, a sense of precision of the project is achieved – the thinness of the profiling giving the whole building a sharp, monumental appearance.
![House JP / Bevk Perović Arhitekti - Windows, Facade](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/57c9/6b6e/e58e/ce18/b400/00c5/medium_jpg/08_house_JP_-_backyard_terrace.jpg?1472818000)