ALTERNA OFFICE
The project brief was an open plan office and a series of individual offices with a common lounge area. The challenge of a C-shaped plan was resolved with the organisation of linear offices along the entrance corridor, leading the visitors towards the common space, to which the “ocean office” connects.
The new organisation is articulated with newly built massive columns, whichcreate space in dialogue with the existing structural columns, on which the light solid parts of the walls are placed.
The spatial and material concepts articulate two materially different worlds:one informs the haptic environment up to a height of 2.30 mothers, the other a roofscape beyond the 2.30 horizon. The first world is one of strong, tactile materials – rough plaster, oiled wood, tinted rippled glass, textile curtains, smooth epoxy, and furniture in the same shade of brownish-grey. The other consists of existing visible electrical installations, ventilation, other technical equipment, and new partition walls. With the layer of white colour a kind of amnesty is accorded the “found” that is simply left right there, and an immaterial abstract roof space is created. Both the designed and the “found” together create a specific new architectural experience.
With the amnesty of the given and a newly imagined added, an environment with a specific character is created.
Project team: Anja Vidic, Jure Grohar, Andraž Tufegdžić
Ljubljana, 2020