Atrium

About us

Atrium

… central and largest space of the ancient tenement. It was the main room and the centre of family life which was surrounded by smaller rooms. It included a fireplace and an opening for the rainwater which was stored underground… “Lexicon of architecture“

Architectural Studio Atrium

Created in 1991 with the goal of integrating architecture, urbanism, design and creative art into one spatium. We invite you to form it! We wish that through this place you would find help, recreation and protection and that it would encourage creative results, peace and humbleness.

The main features of our work

In our work we always search for the person and his connection with the nature and himself. We discover new space and disposal options, we search for our own, unique expression. There are no two identical results in our work. We face every single architecture, even the smallest one as a challenge to explore something new, from the basic design elements to largest scale urbanism and ground planning. We have experienced all typological variants but we have recently focused mainly on the architectural progress in means of ecology and continuous maintainable development.

Our services

We provide complex architectural services and related technical counselling, acquisition and processing of urban research, municipality, city and district (zones) ground plans including land planning and landscaping. Our professional frame offers mayors, individual investors or developers service packages scaling from architectural – urban intention through ground decission and building permit, to full realization and project documentation including all related professions and budget. In case of processing the ground plan to it's ground decision by the municipality or city council. Municipalities and cities are offered an option of processing projects applying for the structural and cohesion EU funds grants.

Family houses

All of the family house projects may be classified into ecological living category by means of the technology which was used (heat pumps, solar-powered systems, recuperative units), application of constructional principles eliminating potential heat leakage but mainly by the proposal of optimal disposition, orientation and actual architecture of the family house which definitely carry the attributes of healthy and quality of living.

Schools

We can definitely say that we are designing schools which children just love to visit. It is really nothing complicated, you just need to think like a child just for a little while. Scale / measurement, colour and diversity are the aspects which we contribute to these buildings. We were awarded most prestigious architectural award in Slovakia – The Dušan Jurkovič award for our Art Elementary School in Smižany project. Thanks to this project we were also nominated for the European architectural award = Mies van der Rohe Award and also the Brick Award. It was also included in the prestigious publication The Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture as the only Slovak building.

Rest Homes

The population generally grows older and therefore the need of constructing such grows as well. This represents a great architectural challenge for us. We are searching for solutions which essentially change the view on these kind of buildings. For us rest homes and senior boarding houses represent a place dominated by greenery, light, social and civilized life and appropriate services.

Spiritual structures

This type of buildings, even when we do not receive such projects as often as we would like, is the reason why we deal with architecture in the first place. We are searching for ourselves. It utterly cleanses and enriches our souls.

Urbanism and ground planning

The thing that makes our studio so unique is that beside the high number of buildings we also design a huge number of urban concepts and ground plans. There is no other similar studio which could count more than 100 ground plans, almost 150 urban studies in their portfolio and at the same time create architecture and design on the highest level. We took the chance and it worked. It gives us the confidence that our projects are designed responsibly towards the environment, the investor and ourselves.

The specific examples of our work can be found in the section PORTFOLIO.