Gregorc/Vrhovec Arhitekti
Rožna dolina VI/7, SI-2000 Ljubljana
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Founded byVanja Gregorc
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Before setting up the studio in 1996, Gregorc and Vrhovec both worked in interior design and planning. Rather than waiting for commissions and investors, they are often involved in investing in and constructing their own designs – an approach more common abroad than in Slovenia. Two of their earlier projects were realised this way. The first was a row of five studio lofts in Rožna Dolina, Ljubljana (2005), with elegant demarcations between living and working, private and communal. The second was a group of four single-family "passive houses" in the Barje, the area of marshland to the south of the city. Like much of their work, it references older Slovenian building materials and styles – in this case, the use of black (tar-protected) timber as favoured by earlier generations of marshland builders. Both projects also, to some extent, express the architects' admiration for the aesthetics and social focus of the American "Case Study Programme", the experimental residential house-building initiative that ran from the end of WW2 to the mid-1960s. | Before setting up the studio in 1996, Gregorc and Vrhovec both worked in interior design and planning. Rather than waiting for commissions and investors, they are often involved in investing in and constructing their own designs – an approach more common abroad than in Slovenia. Two of their earlier projects were realised this way. The first was a row of five studio lofts in Rožna Dolina, Ljubljana (2005), with elegant demarcations between living and working, private and communal. The second was a group of four single-family "passive houses" in the Barje, the area of marshland to the south of the city. Like much of their work, it references older Slovenian building materials and styles – in this case, the use of black (tar-protected) timber as favoured by earlier generations of marshland builders. Both projects also, to some extent, express the architects' admiration for the aesthetics and social focus of the American "Case Study Programme", the experimental residential house-building initiative that ran from the end of WW2 to the mid-1960s. | ||
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==Podkoren== | ==Podkoren== | ||
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==Celovška 01== | ==Celovška 01== | ||
| − | The studio closed out the decade with perhaps their most internationally resonant project up that point | + | The studio closed out the decade with perhaps their most internationally resonant project up that point, '''House Celovška 01''' (2018), a characteristically bold confrontation between tradition and modernity, which is located at the start of one of the main roads leading out of Ljubljana. It won praise from across the architectural world, as well as a 2018 [[Golden Pencil Award]] and a nomination for the Mies Van Der Rohe Award, one of the world's most prestigious prizes in the field of architecture, in 2019. |
| + | ==2018 Winter Olympics== | ||
| + | In Gregorc and Vrhovec designed the interior of the Slovenian centre at the Alpensia resort in Pyongchang, host of the 2018 Winter Olympics. This followed on from their work, in collaboration with the [[arnoldvuga+]] agency, on the Slovenian Olympic Education Centre in the BTC City shopping complex in Ljubljana, which won a Top Design Achievement Award from the [[Designers Society of Slovenia (DOS)]] in 2017. | ||
==Awards and nominations== | ==Awards and nominations== | ||
* Alpine Interior Award 2011 for the house at Podkoren | * Alpine Interior Award 2011 for the house at Podkoren | ||
| + | * Top Design Achievement Award 2017 (Designers Society of Slovenia) for the Slovenian Olympic Education Centre (with arnoldvuga+) | ||
* Golden Pencil Award 2018 for House Celovška 01 | * Golden Pencil Award 2018 for House Celovška 01 | ||
| − | * Mies Van Der Rohe Award for House Celovška 01 (nominated) | + | * Mies Van Der Rohe Award 2019 for House Celovška 01 (nominated) |
==See also== | ==See also== | ||
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==External links== | ==External links== | ||
| − | * [http://gregorcvrhovec.si/ Gregorc/Vrhovec website] | + | * [http://gregorcvrhovec.si/ Gregorc/Vrhovec website] (in English) |
| − | * [https://www. | + | * [https://www.mladina.si/47087/zivimo-v-druzbi-ki-ne-tolerira-drugacnosti/ Interview with Vanja Gregorc and Aleš Vrhovec, ''Mladina'', May 2009] |
| + | * [https://outsider.si/arhitekturo-je-treba-vsakic-na-novo-izumiti/ Interview with Gregorc and Vrhovec, ''Outsider'', October 2018, with particular reference to Celovška 01] | ||
| + | '''Projects''' | ||
| + | * [https://www.rtvslo.si/zabava-in-slog/novice/hisa-kot-je-se-niste-videli/488259 MMC, May 2019, Celovška 01] (in Slovenian) | ||
| + | * [https://www.dnevnik.si/1042849629/kultura/arhitektura/najprej-hisa-nato-iskanje-kupca ''Dnevnik'', Decmber 2018, Celovška 01] (in Slovenian) | ||
| + | * [https://www.miesarch.com/work/4202 Mies Van Der Rohe Award page, Celovška 01] | ||
| + | * [https://www.mladina.si/47081/vrstni-bivalni-ateljeji-rozna-dolina/ ''Mladina'', report on the studio lofts in Rožna Dolina, May 2009] | ||
| + | * [https://www.archdaily.com/office/gregorc-vrhovec Ig Centre presentation, Archdaily.com] | ||
| + | * [https://www.rikogroup.com/en/files/default/novice/riko_hise/nagrada%20podkoren/Mladina_Hi%c5%a1a%20v%20Podkorenu.pdf Report on the house at Podkoren and associated controversy, ''Mladina'', September 2011] | ||
[[Category:Architecture]] | [[Category:Architecture]] | ||
[[Category:Architecture studios]] | [[Category:Architecture studios]] | ||
[[Category:Architecture & Design]] | [[Category:Architecture & Design]] | ||
Revision as of 19:18, 25 January 2021
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Background and early projects
Before setting up the studio in 1996, Gregorc and Vrhovec both worked in interior design and planning. Rather than waiting for commissions and investors, they are often involved in investing in and constructing their own designs – an approach more common abroad than in Slovenia. Two of their earlier projects were realised this way. The first was a row of five studio lofts in Rožna Dolina, Ljubljana (2005), with elegant demarcations between living and working, private and communal. The second was a group of four single-family "passive houses" in the Barje, the area of marshland to the south of the city. Like much of their work, it references older Slovenian building materials and styles – in this case, the use of black (tar-protected) timber as favoured by earlier generations of marshland builders. Both projects also, to some extent, express the architects' admiration for the aesthetics and social focus of the American "Case Study Programme", the experimental residential house-building initiative that ran from the end of WW2 to the mid-1960s.
Podkoren
Other noteworthy projects have followed, including Center Ig (2008), a multi-purpose, modern, urban-style building on Ljubljana's outskirts that quotes the steeped roofs of traditional Slovenian architecture, and a three-apartment building in the village of Podkoren (2009). This latter project was, in the architects' words, an attempt "to design a contemporary house that would evoke the traditional architecture of the Alpine farming estate". While it attracted considerable admiration from the profession both at home and abroad, winning an Alpine Interior Award in 2011, it drew the ire of local residents at odds with what they saw as the intrusion of contemporary style into a predominantly traditional architectural landscape.
Celovška 01
The studio closed out the decade with perhaps their most internationally resonant project up that point, House Celovška 01 (2018), a characteristically bold confrontation between tradition and modernity, which is located at the start of one of the main roads leading out of Ljubljana. It won praise from across the architectural world, as well as a 2018 Golden Pencil Award and a nomination for the Mies Van Der Rohe Award, one of the world's most prestigious prizes in the field of architecture, in 2019.
2018 Winter Olympics
In Gregorc and Vrhovec designed the interior of the Slovenian centre at the Alpensia resort in Pyongchang, host of the 2018 Winter Olympics. This followed on from their work, in collaboration with the Arnoldvuga+ agency, on the Slovenian Olympic Education Centre in the BTC City shopping complex in Ljubljana, which won a Top Design Achievement Award from the Designers Society of Slovenia (DOS) in 2017.
Awards and nominations
- Alpine Interior Award 2011 for the house at Podkoren
- Top Design Achievement Award 2017 (Designers Society of Slovenia) for the Slovenian Olympic Education Centre (with arnoldvuga+)
- Golden Pencil Award 2018 for House Celovška 01
- Mies Van Der Rohe Award 2019 for House Celovška 01 (nominated)
See also
External links
- Gregorc/Vrhovec website (in English)
- Interview with Vanja Gregorc and Aleš Vrhovec, Mladina, May 2009
- Interview with Gregorc and Vrhovec, Outsider, October 2018, with particular reference to Celovška 01
Projects
- MMC, May 2019, Celovška 01 (in Slovenian)
- Dnevnik, Decmber 2018, Celovška 01 (in Slovenian)
- Mies Van Der Rohe Award page, Celovška 01
- Mladina, report on the studio lofts in Rožna Dolina, May 2009
- Ig Centre presentation, Archdaily.com
- Report on the house at Podkoren and associated controversy, Mladina, September 2011
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