24.10.2008
Campus Novo mesto
Overlapping Living with Learning, the new plan for the Novo Mesto University Campus proposes a confluence of the two. Sited in the Drganèevje forest, the proposed footprint plan bleeds into the seductive natural setting with its loosely crystallized forms shaped by the interaction of people with places.
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Utilizing the lush forest as its most precious material, the plan gingerly converts long-abandoned military magazines into a unified network of education with little additional felling; the building footprints remain while their forms create a vertical dialogue not unlike the interwoven forest.
The new plan weaves the forest throughout the interiors as well by organizing event spaces as «clearings in a forest» suggesting different types of social clustering. Those spaces adhere to 4 forestal qualities; 1) firmly-rooted trunks erupting from the earth; 2) the 3-dimensioanl barcode of the forest floor; 3) the alternate landscape generated by the forest canopy; 4) the cinematic play of light diffused by the density of limbs and trees. The orchestrated sequence of «stills» creates the effect that one is moving through an also moving world.