Garaza
Parking System
Nova Gorica, Slovenia, 2001
Architects: Ciro Najle, Spela Videcnik
Collaborators: Santiago Bozzola, David Mah
Garaza is a slim parking structure that integrates on its top surface a series of open air and semi-public programs taking place informally across the field of a modernistic housing development, promoting their collaboration with the infrastructure in a model that shifts from the traditions of master planning to one where the building block works as a singularity of the ground and seamlessly articulates public uses and interior space.
Garaza consists of a regularly structured building block containing one level of parking that blurs with the ground on one of its short sides and is raised three meters on the other, thus constructing an artificial public ground. Its internal organization splits the block in segments of 16m, which are used as the steps of a terraced topography. The topography generates material and visual continuities with the surrounding areas.
