An Atrium House That’s a Ceramics Studio and a Family Home in One

Working and residing underneath the identical roof can current a plethora of obstacles, particularly when work requires easy accessibility to a ceramics studio. When designing the atrium Home for a Ceramic Designer and their household in Ljubljana, Slovenia, Arhitektura was offered with the problem to create a house with ample area for each design work and every day life.

The neighborhood is up-and-coming, so the shopper requested a non-public residence that shields itself from the unpredictable development to return.

With this constraint in thoughts, Arhitektura wanted to ensure that the area may nonetheless let in sufficient pure mild to make a pleasing at-home workspace potential. The result’s a U-shaped concrete construction with three partitions that cover a majority of the outside home windows from the general public.

A big central atrium acts because the anchor of the area and lets much more daylight via. The atrium additionally permits for straightforward passage between the residing quarters and workshop.

The complete ceramics workshop and studio options potter’s wheels, kilns, and ample desk area. The area opens out to the atrium, which can be utilized for quite a lot of outside firing strategies when wanted.

The residing space is an open idea area the place a big kitchen, eating, and seating space are positioned. Since this area can also be immediately linked to the atrium with sliding glass doorways, the residing space might be expanded outdoors throughout the heat summer time months.

In a separate space of the house, a big bed room, two smaller rooms, and two bogs provide loads of sleeping area for the household.

Images by Miran Kambič.