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Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Slovenia
Ljubljana, Slovenija
1996-1999
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| Type: |
office and workspace
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| Source: |
competition |
| Client: |
Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Slovenia |
| Address/Site: |
university and governmental district, Dimičeva 13, Ljubljana, Slovenia |
| Site area: |
4640 m2 |
| Building area: |
1194 m2 |
| Total floor area: |
18189 m2 |
| Storeys: |
2 basements (128 parking spaces) + groundfloor+7 storeys (internal part), groundfloor+5 storeys (semi-public part) |
Structure:
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reinforced concrete spatial steel trusses |
| Cladding: |
double skin façade, structural glazing, printed glass |
| Architect: |
SVA (Jure Sadar, Boštjan Vuga, Josip Konstantinovič, Aljoša Dekleva, Tadej Žaucer, Simona Muc, Peter Šenk)
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The Chamber of Commerce and Industry, whose task is to promote the movement and flow of capital in the Republic of Slovenia, is conceived as a "megastore".
In encompassing consultation, information and training departments and services, it acts as a local lead-in to economic globalization. What was involved in this project was the rehabilitation of the institution's offices housed in a strictly rationalist lowrise building, and the addition of a series of semi-public amenities (restaurants, library, lecture rooms, exhibition areas, archival reading room).
Project attempts explicitly to do away with any barriers between the public, semi-public and private features which are all present in this hybrid design.
By retaining the huge public forecourt, the programme along the existing building is verticalized, thus giving it a new façade, designed like boxes piled on top of each other.Fitted between the two fronts, as if the public forecourt had been suddenly straightened, is a vertical hall, espousing the principle of continuity and interaction between the two parts of the programme.
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