The semi-transparent volume, which derives its appearance from the rhythm and material of the railway infrastructure was designed to protect the inhabitant of the building – the machine.

Project Name: The Train house
Architect: Damjan Bradač 
Investitor: Slovenian Railways
Photography: Damjan Bradač
location: Murska Sobota
planinng: 2010
build: 2015
area: 132 m2

The Train House by dba - Sheet4
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Le Corbusier’s statement that a house is a machine for living and Mies’ saying “less is more” are probably the most frequently quoted architectural phrases.

The Train House by dba - Sheet5
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Both have produced more misunderstandings than reflections in their long and by no means finished history.

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If we generate new statement that we intend to design a machine for the machine a wide field of possibilities opens in front of us, proving, as so many times before, that architecture can be practiced outside of usual box of traditional experiences.

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