Slovenian studio OFIS Arhitekti has accomplished Body Home, a household dwelling in Ljubljana clad in red-brick tiles that play on the realm’s pitched-roof buildings.
Body Home is situated within the metropolis’s suburbs and designed by OFIS Arhitekti with a footprint of 200 sq. metres in order to not intrude on the location’s massive rear backyard.
The house has a geometrical kind, fronted by a big cover with pitched sides. This shelters a paved entrance patio supposed as a spot for the consumer’s youngsters to play.
OFIS Arhitekti positioned a gap within the cover to supply an current tree with mild and area to develop.
“Because the consumer loves gardening the thought was to put the home in a method that retains the again backyard as massive as attainable,” OFIS Arhitekti co-founder Rok Oman advised Dezeen.
“Due to this fact the again of the home is flat and easy, whereas the doorway yard gives ample area for vehicles and is partly lined with a cover additionally creates area for youths to play,” he added.
Body Home’s cut-out on the entrance elevation comprises the doorway and entry to a single-storey storage space, each clad in blackened timber.
Inside, OFIS Arhitekti has created a ground-floor residing, eating and kitchen area with views of the backyard via massive sliding glass doorways that open onto a stone-paved terrace.
On the house’s northwestern aspect, the kitchen is lined by full-height home windows and perforated metallic screens to supply better privateness.
Three bedrooms are situated on the primary ground, which leads onto a rooftop terrace to the north. That is sheltered by a sloping parapet created by the cover on the entrance of the house.
Body Home’s exterior is intentionally easy, clad completely in red-brick tiles sometimes used on roofs, with areas of perforation made to supply glimpses into and out of the interiors.
“Purple brick is conventional materials for the pitched 45 degrees-roof residential homes that largely surrounds the realm,” stated Oman.
“Nonetheless the principle quantity of Body Home has a flat roof so in a method the red-brick envelope creates a form of play with the thought of a standard red-brick pitched roof,” he added.
Inside, this reddish-brown exterior is contrasted by uncovered concrete partitions and ceilings and pale picket flooring, chosen to create “cosy and cozy” areas that present a minimal backdrop to the backyard.
OFIS Arhiteki is led by Oman and Spela Videcnik. Earlier tasks by the studio embody a glazed star-gazing retreat in Andalusia and a prototype home constructed from adaptable modules.
The pictures is by Tomaz Gregoric.
