Air Traffic Control Centre Interior

In 2010, while working at the Sadar+Vuga architectural office in Ljubljana, I designed several pieces of furniture for the main control room of the new Air Traffic Control Centre at Brnik, Slovenia. More specifically, I designed the workplaces for the people who monitor and direct air traffic.
The rather high-tech nature of these workplaces (movable motor-controlled parts, built-in computer and radar equipment, etc.) and the very specific ergonomic requirements involved made this a very interesting project to work on indeed.

During my time at S+V, I have also worked (for the most part, actually) on the "Football Stadium and Multipurpose Sports Hall Stožice" project. However, my personal contribution there in terms of design was quite miniscule relatively speaking, since this was (still is) a rather large project (one of the largest in Slovenia to this date I think).

ECON pavilion

"Every year since 1981, hundreds of European students of architecture have gathered each summer to discuss and work with architecture, student to student. These summerschools are organised by EASA (European Architecture Students Assembly) and happen in a new place and with a specific theme for each year. During the two weeks of the assembly, visions and experiments grow from workshops, tutored and arranged by architecture students. It is an important and inspiring gathering, with a scope that extends beyond the 400 participants and organisers. Anyone who has ever attended an EASA summerschool will have stories to tell about architecture, friendship and new ideas."

In addition to all this (the quote taken from the EASA homepage), EASA sometimes also organizes student architectural competitions. The winning projects then get built during these summerschools.

In the year 2003/2004, EASA took place in Denmark and the theme was "sustainable living". The group that won the competition that year was from the faculty of architecture in Ljubljana, Slovenia and I was a member of that group. This pavilion was the result.




The chair in the last photo was a small, unplanned addition to the interior space of the pavilion. I built it myself, even though I've never done anything similar before in my life. Despite the fact that it was a complete improvisation (no plan involved) and that it was finished fast (a couple of hours), I believe the result was a success. It was constructed out of the wooden left-overs of the pavilion's roof construction. Recycled and eco-friendly!

More 3d visualizations

4th year at the faculty of architecture, images taken from two design-oriented subjects.

Metal furniture competition, initiated by KIG d.d. company (Kovinska industrija Ig d.d.). Two of the projects were actually built and at least one of them was (still is?) commercialy available. This one not, unfortunately.


An example of a particular approach to 3d visualisation that I found intriguing at the time. The idea was to make somewhat photo-realistic images that depict physically built models of the project - not the actual project itself. Introduction of this additional level of indirection (image - model - reality, as opposed to image - reality) in a way allows for greater "realism" of the image, which, at the same time, can be produced with relatively little effort.

At one point one very distinguished older gentleman even mistook one of the rendered images for a photograph of an actual model...

• Autocad, 3D studio Max, Photoshop