A semi-enclosed, twisting extension that goals to facilitate “residing inside and outside” defines Ring Home, a 1930s villa in Slovenia renovated by native studio OFIS Arhitekti.
Situated within the suburbs of the capital Ljubljana, the modernist villa required modernization to enhance its reference to the backyard, because it had no direct entry from the bottom ground.
OFIS Arhitekti achieved this by extending its residing areas with a loop construction that outlines a backyard atrium on the middle of the plan.
“The shoppers have been seeking to lengthen the home into the massive entrance backyard to increase their house inside and outside,” OFIS Arhitekti instructed Dezeen.
“The extension creates totally different out of doors areas,” he continued.
“The gesture is a type of transversal hall, which encloses a part of the backyard in a 'zen' inside atrium, whereas connecting the inside of the villa with the open backyard.”
The Ring Home extension follows the topography of the location, sloping gently to the south away from the home.
Inside there are two semi-circular residing areas, which seek advice from the unique bay home windows of the villa.
The residing space to the east is for rest and is sealed with full top glazing.
To the west, the residing space is used as an open-plan kitchen and eating room left open to the weather, bordered solely by columns and a curtain.
“The lounge is inside a glazed space that could be a type of winter backyard, whereas the out of doors eating and the kitchen are beneath the roof and guarded by shading curtains,” defined OFIS Arhitekti.
As a part of the undertaking, the studio additionally restored a number of the home's authentic options. This included changing the pitched roof of the 1980s with a flat roof that follows the unique design.
“Like many different bourgeois pre-war city villas, this home was remodeled by the previous house owners into what they thought-about to be extra sensible – so that they prolonged it with out of doors steel stairs and positioned a pitched roof over a flat roof”, stated OFIS Arhitekti. .
“We offered the consumer with a number of concepts that expressed that the principle formal idea ought to be a distinction to distinguish the brand new and the prevailing.”
Spanning practically ten years, the renovation undertaking constructed on OFIS Arhitekti's earlier work on the Ljubljana Metropolis Museum, the place the design featured a spiral extension to attach the museum's disparate exhibition areas.
Earlier initiatives by the Slovenian studio featured on Dezeen embrace a stargazing retreat in Spain's Gorafe desert and a geometrical home in Ljubljana clad in pink brick tiles.
The photograph is by Janez Martincic, until in any other case said.