Exhibition and Retail Pavillion in the Concert Hall in the Postojna Cave
EXHIBITION AND RETAIL PAVILLION IN THE CONCERT HALL IN THE POSTOJNA CAVE
Studio Stratum
ARCHITECTS
Studio Stratum
PROJECT YEAR
2011
PHOTOGRAPHS
Miran Kambič
LOCATION
Postojna, slovenia
CATEGORY
Pavilion
Text description provided by architect.
The exhibition and retail pavilion inside the Postojna cave is the first underground post office building in the world. The aim of the project was the renovation of a pavilion in the Concert Hall deemed inappropriate functionally and material-wise.
The design would as well replace previously inappropriate visitor sanitary facilities located at the platform with new ones within the structure and connect them to a new biological treatment plant.
The concept of sustainability is also reflected in the heating system and ventilation and, last but not least, the first underground biological treatment plant in Slovenia. The exhibition and retail pavilion is designed in two parts.
The pavilion part is a transparent, passable area with four entrances/exits, designed within a longitudinal volume in the form of the letter S, thus reflecting the wall of the underground hall.
The volume is structured in a manner that directs the flow of visitors and points to entrances and exits. In the renovated service part of the structure, service areas and new sanitary facilities for the visitors of the postojna cave were provided as well as connected to the treatment plant on the level of the platform.
Other equipment elements in the exhibition niche can also be plugged in as desired to wall holders according to required exhibition or retail purposes.
