CCIS Panoramic Garden

View of the interiors of the Panoramic Winter Garden.

Project Details

• Project Name: CCIS Panoramic Garden
• Client: Chamber Of Commerce And Industry Of Slovenia
• Project Type: Landscape design
• Design Team: Jurij Sadar, Bostjan Vuga, Tina Hocevar, Janja Brodar, Aleksandar Lalic
• Date of commencement of project: April 2004
• Date of completion of project: March 2005
• Location of site: Ljubljana, Slovenia, University And Governmental District
• Total Floor Area: 194,6 square metres
• Structural Enginers: Elea Ic
• Service Engineers: Klimaterm Kranj, Norma
• Flower Garden: Gregor Pintar
• Lighting: Strle Svetila
• Construction Cost: Euros 800.000

The ribbon not only presents the green belt running through the space but also organizes the interiors.

The Project

The project presents a structural and programmatic intervention into a project previously realized by the designers themselves. The brief required the large summer banquet terrace to be glazed and extended into the current VIP room.

The designers responded by creating an interior winter garden wherefrom one can enjoy a magnificent view of the city centre.

CCIS Panoramic Garden -- Floor Plan [opens in a pop-up window - 38.9kb image]

CCIS Panoramic Garden -- Section [opens in a pop-up window - 25.3kb image]

View of the steel lamellas shading the terrace garden.

A spatial ribbon snaking through its volumes provides for lush tropical greenery in the interiors of the building. The green ribbon also enables the partition of the space into several micro-ambiances that allow flexibility in use of the space as per event and requirements. The ribbon accentuates the spatial quality of the garden and emerges as one of the most attractive spaces in the CCIS building. The space is used also as a business and club room intended for events such as ceremonial receptions, award-granting ceremonies, banquet luncheons and meetings of the extended management team.

CCIS Panoramic Garden -- 3d view of Spatial Ribbon [opens in a pop-up window - 29.8kb image]

View of the exteriors of the terrace garden.

The construction pattern of the glazing structure was inspired by the cross-section of a plant leaf, which, reaching out from the two outer lateral sections and from the roof, envelopes the space. The rear and front ends of the block are connected with a filigree spatial structure in sync with the design.

View of the CCIS building with the Panoramic Garden on its terrace.

The plants and greenery in the interior, the play of light and shadow enabled by the innovative shading structures, and views afforded into its surrounded contribute to creating a relaxed working atmosphere.

Credits

• Text: Courtesy of the architect
• Photographs by Ramon Prat and Zare Modlic, Courtesy of the architect
• Compiled and edited by Varun M. Ajani