SARABON PARKING LOT LJ

DESCRIZIONE: The project is proposed as the symbolic expression of the contemporary cultural condition, and interprets the context of the center of Ljubljana in a...

The project is proposed as the symbolic expression of the contemporary cultural condition, and interprets the context of the center of Ljubljana in a dialectic relationship with the existing structures: an urban park designed by Plecnick, the River Ljubljanica which flows by the project site and the big hospital buildings behind it. A building was designed to re-interpret the double morphology of the historic center of the city on the one hand and of the twentieth century expansion on the other; directrixes which have their meeting point here. A big cloud, an organic element opens the front, balancing with the green of the park; in the interior a display space leads into the building used for offices, reception activities and the car parks. The building has a ground floor free for public use, used mainly for commercial and reception activities: the front body of the building (18.95m high), containing the “cloud”, has commercial and management functions, whilst the back block (15.50m high) makes up the car park proper, together with the 3 underground levels situated under the whole building.