A House Beneath Rašica Where the Garden Enters the Living Room

The renovation of a terraced house beneath Rašica was guided by restraint. “It was a gentle and reserved renovation,” architect Klara Bohinc of the a2o2 studio says, explaining that the team did not want to take a radical approach.

The clients valued outdoor space, nature and abundant light. The house stands at the end of a row on the outskirts of Ljubljana, near a forest and a pond, with a large garden surrounding it on three sides.

The development was designed in the mid-1970s by Jože Nemec, an architect from Domžale’s Biro 71. Bohinc describes the original house as carefully planned, with rooms offset across the floors. Those shifts create distinctive boundaries between the spaces and give the home its varied layout.

The house already had a lively design before the renovation. Because of the staggered levels, the living area rises through two floors. The project’s central lesson is that quality architecture can be adapted for contemporary life without major structural changes or high costs.

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It was a gentle and reserved renovation, in which we did not try to be merely radical. We had a beautiful task: outdoor spaces, nature and lots of light were important to the clients. In addition, the architect of the development, Jože Nemec, designed these terraced houses very thoughtfully.