Detail View: Archivision Base to Module 13: Apartment House Gradaska

Collection: 
Archivision Base to Module 13
Preferred Title: 
Apartment House Gradaska
Image View: 
Detail showing use of various materials
Creator: 
Sadar + Vuga Architects (Slovene architectural firm, established 1996)
Location: 
site: Ljubljana, Ljubljana-Center, Slovenia
Location Note: 
Gradaska Ulica 20
GPS: 
+46.043565+14.503629
Date: 
2003-2007 (creation)
Cultural Context: 
Slovene
Style Period: 
Twenty-first century
Work Type 1: 
apartment house
Classification: 
architecture
Material: 
reinforced concrete; steel; structured stone panels; glass; reflecting glass
Technique: 
construction (assembling)
Measurements: 
3,800 m2 (area, total floor area)
Subjects: 
architecture; cityscape; contemporary (1960 to present); City planning
Description: 
The architects use the reflective glass surface of the facade "as a kind of a Switching Surface between the structure and the living character of the metropolitan vertical lofts, on the one hand, and the almost village-like atmosphere of the area on which the Apartment House Grada?ka is located." The apartment house has 12 units in it. (Source: Sadar + Vuga Arhitekti [firm website]; http://www.sadarvuga.com)
Collection: 
Archivision Addition Module Five
Identifier: 
1A1-SVA-GAB-A4
Rights: 
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.