address: Rodica, Domžale
client: private

project: 2004 – 2006
built: 2006 – 2008

Bevk Perović project team:
Matija Bevk
Vasa Perović
Mitja Zorc

photo: Miran Kambič

House K is situated in a ‘no-man’s-land’, in a field of one family houses in a small suburban settlement near Ljubljana. It is a non-site, site without any particular character that can be used as a point of departure for the project.

Therefore, the actual dimensions of the site (55×20 meters), as well as a specific programmatic structure (a family with 4 small daughters, born to a couple after many years of living together) become the starting points for the project, its real ‘context’.

The house ‘takes over’ the site – a long, glass pavilion stretching from edge to edge of the site, bordered by greenery planted alongside the edges, that will grow to become a new ‘facade’ of the structure.

In terms of its ‘programmatic’ context, the building is a ‘celebration of life together’ for the newly enlarged family: a single room, ment for cooking, eating, living and playing together, where the private, separate spaces are kept at an absolute  minimum– super-small private bedrooms for all members of the family, like tents on a camping site.

A series of sliding and folding panels – walls and windows – can be used to divide the communal living space when extra privacy is needed, or when daughters grow up and start needing their own separate rooms.