OFIS Architects, The Cultural Center Of European Space Technologies, Slovenia

Talking about future architecture, please, say hello to KSEVT, formally known as The Cultural Center of European Technologies in Slovenia. A place I had no idea even existed until I stumbled on this informative article on KNSTRT.

Would you ever guess that a tiny little Slovenia mountain village is the home to a ground breaking rocket engineer who pioneered theories on long-term human habitation of space? That’s right! Herman Potocnik Noordung, the first theoretician of space, was raised on the hillside of Vitanje. It is Potocnik’s theoretical work that brings the new Cultural Center of European Space Technologies (KSEVT) to the small town today.

OFIS Architects, The Cultural Center Of European Space Technologies, Slovenia

It was only a few years back when leading architects Rok Oman and Spela Videcnik presented their proposal for the competition to win the bid, on behalf of their Ljubljana-based architecture firm OFIS. 

OFIS Architects, The Cultural Center Of European Space Technologies, Slovenia

“The concept design for the building of the KSEVT derives from the habitation wheel of the first geostationary space station described in Noordung’s 1929 book,” the architects explained. 

OFIS Architects, The Cultural Center Of European Space Technologies, Slovenia

Pretty awesome, right? 

Read the whole article, for more behind the scenes info and photos, here.