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The reconstruction of Vila Muhr seeks to honor its rich history while embracing modern architectural and ecological principles. Originally built in 1902 by Austrian architect Franz Ritte Von Neumann for Adolf Muhr, the villa served as a hunting retreat and later became a royal residence, a hospital, and eventually a hotel annex. Over time, neglect led to its collapse in 2014, leaving only remnants of its stone foundation. Rooted in the architectural heritage of Bohinj, the project reinterprets traditional Alpine elements in a refined and innovative manner. Continue reading OFIS

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The legendary Vintgar Gorge was carved and shaped by glaciers. Unexplored and inaccessible until 1891. At that time, there was extremely little precipitation in the winter, so the water level of the Radovna River dropped markedly and after a long time it became possible to enter the wild Vintgar. The first to venture into it were local resident and mayor of Gorje Municipality Jakob Žumer and photographer and cartographer Benedikt Lergetporer. Fascinated by its beauty, they spread word about the Vintgar Gorge to the world, and so began the more than 130-year-old story of one of the world’s most beautiful gorges. With the desire to enable passage through the gorge, the locals prepared a plan. The money for the construction was contributed by companies, hoteliers and many locals by organizing dances. The construction of paths, bridges and galleries was extremely challenging due to the precipitous walls and the raging river. But despite this, they managed to build footbridges and protected paths along the river, and it was officially opened on August 28, 1893. The Gorje Tourist Association has been managing the gorge ever since. Continue reading OFIS ARCHITECTS

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‘No man is an island, all by himself; every person is a piece of the continent, part of the land; if the sea washes away a lump of land, Europe shrinks like a mountain, like the estate of your friends or your own..’, wrote the English metaphysical poet John Donne, and the quote was highlighted by Hemingway in the famous novel “For Whom the Bell Tolls”. And the same could be said for houses; all are part of the city and each contributes to the integrity of the place. On the island of Cres, construction is limited by considerations of how to deliver the material. Due to the difficult accessibility, all interventions must be pragmatic and deliberate. This also characterized the architecture of the small stone house on the corner of the square. The internal dimensions of the building are only 3 x 3 m, there are two floors and an attic above the ground floor. The structure of the existing house was solid enough before the renovation that the architects completely preserved the perimeter walls. Continue reading OFIS Architects

OFIS architects . photos: © Tomaz Gregoric

A family that unites the extremes of the global world: a Russian/American couple, she with a career in Moscow, he in New York, and their – not two or three, but – eight children. In search of neutral terrain, in which they would make a safe nest for venturing out into the world, they arrived in remote and almost forgotten places above the valleys of the Soča, Idrijca and Čepovans dol. The Banj plateau, a dry karst landscape of pastures on the border between the Mediterranean and the Alpine world, characterized by the typical stone folk architecture of sparse features and slate roofs, convinced them, and they bought an old homestead in Kanalski Lom, hoping to live there and build a new home. Continue reading OFIS

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In one of the areas of former Ljubljana suburbs, where bourgeois houses were built during the interwar period, stands an unusual hybrid. The original house with its cubic volume, typical of the early modernism of the 1930s, with a semicircle fringes and scanty details stretches towards the garden with its modern addition – a light floating pavilion. Continue reading OFIS