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“Hayrack” apartments

The site is the edge of alpine town Cerklje (near the Ljubljana Airport) with beautiful views to surrounding
fields and mountains. On the site there is beautiful protected 300 year old lime-tree. The plan of the building
therefore is L-shaped and embraces a green area around the tree. Also mountain views are opening from
this courtyard therefore most of apartments have beautiful views.

Apartments are social – they were sold to Slovenian Housing Fund for young families at price 900 EUR/m2
that is extremely. Therefore the budget had to be very limited (600 EUR/m2) and materials are simple and
economic. The landscape and villages in the area remained unspoiled with many examples of traditional
architecture such as old farms, barns and hayracks. The concept of the façade is taken from the hayrack
system – wooden beams follow traditional details and patterns. Traditionally farmers store grass and corn
on beams, on the housing one can store flowers or other balcony decoration.

Apartments are of different sizes - from 30m2 studio flats up to 4 room apartment of 80m2. Bigger apartments
are developed on the corners of the building and have corner opened and nicer views. They are made of
economic but quality materials such as wooden oak floors, granite tiled bathrooms and have large windows
with external metal blinds. The concept of structure is made in a way, that floor plans are flexible, since only
structural walls are those, that separate apartment shell from the rest of the building. All other inner walls are
non-structural.

Roof tiling is made of grey eternite tiles in caro-texture that copy traditional slate roof. The roof is pitched roof
but cut on the ridge – there flat roof appears. The pitched roof partly functions as 1m high blind, that covers all
the installation, that is hidden behind – chimneys, external air conditioning, kitchen ventilation etc.

Façade is plaster of tree different colors, windows are PVC but colored from outside and wooden elements
are of spruce-wood that is cut and glued for better resistance.