As a live contribution to [Home at Arsenale] – Pavilion of Slovenia, Tomaž Krištof will present, as mentor, the final results of the workshop titled “NEW ON TOP OF THE OLD: Apartments for whistleblowers” with the students of the Tomaž Krištof with the students of Faculty of Civil Engineering, Transportation Engineering and Architecture in Maribor and Faculty of Architecture in Ljubljana. Task of the workshop: designing apartments for whistleblowers on top of the roofs of the Slovenian embassies around the world such as Moscow, Washington, Tokyo, Budapest, Prague, Rome, Prishtina, Skopje, Zagreb, Belgrade and Podgorica. The embassies, representing Slovenia’s sovereign territory on foreign soil, can provide refuge to politically persecuted people.  Despite the strong social and political premise of the task the students will expose the exploration of crucial questions: What new typologies are needed to cater new lifestyles? How does a building’s social significance affect its architectural expression? Can architectural form still convey non-architectural symbolic significance? Or is the architectural message conveyed by the absence of symbolic dimension?

Tomaž Krištof, architect, born 1974 in Maribor, Slovenia; graduated from the Faculty of Architecture in Ljubljana in 2002; since 2011 a doctoral student at the FA in Ljubljana, 2nd assistant at the FA Ljubljana in school years 2014/15 and 15/16 and since 2015 guest lecturer at the FGTA in Maribor. In 2009, he established Studio Krištof architectural office; he is a founder of DueDiligence Slovenia brand (since 2012) and a co-founder of Dominum company (2016). In his doctoral thesis ‘Architecture as Deer’s Antlers of Communities’, he is mainly interested in the representation of social groups through architecture and in how that representation influences architecture and architectural styles. His recent work has focused on renovations of multi-apartment buildings from the 1950s and 1960s; he developed a new architectural and financial concept for renovations that has a potential to become a new model for renovations in Slovenia.

Location

Arsenale / Pavilion of Slovenia
[Home at Arsenale] Campo della Tana, 2169/S, 30122 Venezia, Italy

Admission

Entrance with  tickets of 15th International Architecture Exhibition – Reporting from the front

Info

homeatarsenale(at)gmail.com
www.homeatarsenale.org