SPACE December 2024 (No. 685)
interview Špela Videčnik co-principal, OFIS arhitekti × Kim Bokyoung
Kim Bokyoung (Kim): This project is the renovation of the Mladinska Knjiga Printing House which was designed by the Slovenian modernist architect Savin Sever (1927 – 2003) in the 1960s.
Špela Videčnik (Videčnik): The modernist roots of architecture in Slovenia are very profound. Savin Sever was a student of Edvard Ravnikar (1907 – 1993). Ravnikar was a key figure during this period in Slovenian architecture. He studied and collaborated with Le Corbusier and was also deeply influenced by him during his time at Le Corbusier’s studio. Ravnikar developed his own architectural poetics, both drawing on tradition and advancing its themes with a modernist approach that became the mark of Slovenia’s post-war generation of architects. Sever is one of the most prominent representatives of this so-called Ljubljana School of architecture. Luckily for them, the socialist government at that time supported their architectural style. Therefore, Ravnikar and his students could command key tasks in the post-war reconstruction of socialist Slovenia and Yugoslavia. Sever designed several factories and industrial building...
OFIS arhitekti (Rok Oman, Špela Videčni
Janez Martinčič, Andrej Gregorič, M
Dunajska cesta 123, Ljubljana, Slovenia
mixed use
9,050㎡
12,800㎡
10,800㎡
2F
166 (car), 129 (bike)
RC, steel frame
concrete, fibre cement façade board
concrete, silicone-reinforced finishing
Project PA d.o.o.
ISP d.o.o.
Pro-elekt d.o.o.
Tolstojeva d.o.o.
2021 – 2022
2022 – 2024