House HB by Bevk Perovi? Arhitekti in Ljubljana, Slovenia

May 19th, 2009 - Posted in Architecture Design

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Slovenian architects Bevk Perovi? Arhitekti built this house on a hilltop in the countryside close to Ljubljana. Completed in 2007, the aluminium-clad House HB features an elongated house-form containing living areas, while bedrooms and bathrooms are contained in a hidden level buried underground. The architectural concept of House HB was determined by the location of the property on the prominent part of the landscape, a top of a small hill overlooking a village.

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This picturesque site is a typical Slovenian suburban situation – a ‘rural suburbia’ – close to the city but rural at the same time. While most of the buildings in the neighborhood are cliché two stories high individual houses, typical of postwar central European architecture, House HB attempts to define another kind of domestic environment – it is a redefinition of a specific form of traditional houses, low and elongated rural buildings more associated with stables than habitation. House HB, situated on top of the low hill, appears like a transparent object rising from the ground. Despite its dominant position, the house seems to merge with the landscape. At first sight it looks like a kind of prototypical house-shape, dominating the top of the hill.

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The roof and side facades are clad in the same material, 6 m long aluminum plates, which merge the surfaces together into a clean, anonymous house-shape, devoid of any ornamental details. The house appears as a sign, as a model of the house. House HB aims to keep iconographic motives of the traditional house such as pitched roof, relatively small volume and linear spatial sequences. But it is more spacious then it appears from a distance – a whole floor of the house is ‘submerged’ into the hill underneath it. The intimate areas of the house, including bedrooms and library, are hidden in the terrain while the living areas are located in the upper part of the house.

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