Here’s a beautiful project from Slovenia in Eastern Europe. Created by a modern and hip architecture studio Ofis Arhitekti. Although it’s a multistorey residential building, there are a few interesting ideas that we can adapt for just about any house.
The town of Nova Gorica is known to have extremely hot summers and cold and windy winters. Here’s continental climate for you. In a place like this you want a house that keeps cool during summers and warm during winters. How do you do that?
Good insulation? Yes, that’s obvious, but you can go one step further – creating an outer shell encapsulating the main building. Not only it allows you to play with the exterior design, it creates an extra layer of air, which, as we all know, works as insulator.
The Pajamas house, as it’s called locally (official name is the Lace Apartments) is clad in aluminium panels that have been coloured to reflect the tones and hues that are characteristic to Slovenian countryside. The majority of flats are one bedroom with a good-size kitchen-diner; and all flats have a balcony or a winter loggia that is cleverly hidden away from the hot sun or cold wind by an aluminium “lace”.
It’s a modern architecture at its best – it looks novel and there’s a purpose to the design!
