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Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Slovenia

This is a project by SADAR + VUGA and it is located at Ljubljana, Slovenia. There are twelve images for Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Slovenia.

: © Hisao Suzuki

Project images

Designer's statement

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.

Details/Credits

Client: Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Slovenia
Location: Dimiceva 13, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Type: Offices and workspace
Formula: Vertical Hall
Source: Open anonymous competition, 1st prize
Architect: SADAR + VUGA (Jurij Sadar, Boštjan Vuga, Josip Konstantinovic, Aljoša Dekleva, Tadej Žaucer, Simona Muc, Peter Šenk)
Structural engineer: Elea iC
Service engineer: Biro ES
Landscape architect: Ana Kucan
Site area: 4.640 m2
Storeys: 2 basements (128 parking spaces) + ground floor + 7 storeys (internal part), ground floor + 5 storeys (semi-public part)
Programme: Entrance hall, conference halls, library, gallery, classrooms, restaurant and offices
Building area: 1.194
Total floor area: 18.189 m2
Signage: Studio Botas
Lighting: Studio Japelj
Project start: 1996
Completion: 1999
Photographs: Hisao Suzuki