New market in Celje by studio arhitektura krušec

The market has been the city’s heart throughout its history, a crucial point in its urban fabric.
True to this idea of the historic site of commerce as the true centre of the town, the architects of Slovenian studio arhitektura Krušec built a new covered market with close ties to its surroundings in the town of Celje.

Precisely because of its important role ensuring social cohesion, architecture is at the service of the structure’s main function: offering users a space they require, sheltered from the elements.The colour white is used throughout the structure to show off the colours of the fruit and vegetables sold in the market, setting off the colours typical of goods and people in everyday life.

The big metal roof covering the market structure is divided into smaller parts with alternating different heights, a solution which not only adds dynamism to the construction but lets daylight into the structure.The external supports aligned with these subdivisions ensure that the space inside the market does not need any pillars, permitting highly flexible use of space.

Celja, Slovenia’s third-largest city, now has a new meeting-place, a structure which is built in osmosis with the city and its people: the true focus of a construction which is completed only when there are people in it, with their noise and colours.

Design: Arhitektura Krušec (Lena Krušec, Tomaž Krušec and Vid Kurinčič), http://arhitekturakrusec.si/
Client: City of Celje and CMC Celje
Location: Celje, Slovenia
Year: 2009
Assistants: Tina Mikulič, Vanja Milosavljevič, Jurij Nemec, Matej Nolda, Jan Šavli and Miha Žargi
Photographs: Miran Kambič

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