dekleva gregoric architects . photos: © Miran Kambič
University Campus Livade is set to operate as an open network, continuously growing spatial system that allows integrating consecutive needs of University of Primorska in the Mediterranean coastal town of Izola, Slovenia. An autonomous urban fabric with its own rules defines the specific identity of the new campus, which extends and complements the existing town centre.
The organization of built mass on a hilly slope allows for maximum permeability in physical as well as visual terms in order to enhance the contextual quality of connecting the green outskirts with the dense historical town centre.
Livade 1.0 is the first in the network of five interconnected faculty buildings, each organised as a two shifted concrete narrow volumes around a central covered atrium with double system of linear stairs to enhance social interaction and illuminate connecting corridors. The programs are distributed vertically from more to less public: lecture halls – research labs – offices. Common programs, as the library, the canteen, gallery and the deanery with administration, of the campus are collected in the main entrance building that visually and programmatically represents the campus “head” on the scale of the town fabric.
As the sea view presents a stimulating quality of the working spaces a system of protruded windows was developed to direct the view towards the sea.
The Campus is planned as three main sections: the “head” building, the network of stretched H plan faculty buildings and student housing next to the tree lane. The campus master plan integrates the concept of progressive adapting to changing needs of the University with the adaptable or open network of faculty buildings where within the grid one can adapt the size of the main faculty buildings (A,B,C,D) as well as their lower connectors (B2, C2,D2). A special attention was given to the design of all open spaces which carefully correspond within the grid of the system.
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