16. Januar 2007 - Architekturarchiv Slowenien
(TITLE) Apartment house Gradaška
The size, location, shape and spatial organisation of the Gradaska apartment house outrank all the neighbouring, almost village-like constructions. It is an independant building. There are twelve diffrent and individualised apartments in it. They all cover the area of several storeys or between-storeys. The central living area is always devided into one and a half or two storeys. The vertical arrangement of these apartments is thus highlighted, which, besides the open ground plan and the large glass surfaces, exposes the buildings urban and metropolitan character. The apartments form a unity which resembles the three-dimentional tetris.The façade is made of three diffrent materials: a stone facing, which outlines individual apartments, a combination of reflective and transparent glass panels which either reflect the sorrunding area into the apartment or reveal the interior of the apartment to the sorrunding, and a filigran base whose ornamentation throws a reflection of the buildings greens to its façade.
This façade functions as a kind of switching surface between the structure and the living character of the metropolitan vertical lofts on one hand andalmost village-like atmosphere of the area on which the gradaska apartment house is located.
