Architect: ENOTA
Location: Ptuj, Slovenia
Client: Ptuj Municipality
Date: 2013
ENOTA was founded in 1998 with the ambition to create contemporary and critical architectural practice of an open type based on a collective approach towards architectural and urban solutions. Over the years ENOTA has served as a creative platform for more than fifty architects, led by founding partners and principal architects Dean Lah and Milan Tomac. ENOTA has received several national and international architecture awards. Their work has been presented on numerous exhibitions and published in professional and broad interest publications all over the world.
Ptuj is Slovenia’s oldest city dating back to a settlement from the Stone Age. In the thirteenth century the Dominicans began constructing a monastery and a church bordering existing Romanesque buildings near the city walls. Whilst the monastery was completed in Baroque style, many of the interim Medieval Gothic structures are preserved as well. After serving variously as barracks, a hospital, a museum, and even social housing, its current incarnation as a performance centre has required dancing around all sorts of archaeological considerations on the part of the architects ENOTA. Their solution was to build a building within the building, a set of black contrasting forms which float within the original structure – sharing the space without seeming to actually touch one another. (ew)
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