SONČEK Travel agency, Ljubljana
Before the creation, there was nothing. God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. He gave the light the meaning, he decided who cares about whom, and created a kind of perfect equilibrium.
The story from Babylon in about 580 B.C is a clear message of importance, to keep nature in routine and its rules, a kind of adjustment within the context. It is not an explanation of world origin but more a kind of wisdom about the non-violent order, an order of great utopia. A kind of place in a balanced relationship. Finally, we should not understand the story of creation as a natural-scientific theory but as a world order, a protective note, and as an impact of responsibility. Reading the story of creation is like looking at this “fake Mona Lisa”. Not as a passport picture but as a creation of someone’s nature in beauty and spirit.
The goal was to create an environment that people are halfway expecting to encounter while booking their holidays and perhaps even sharing on media platforms such as panoramic views, gallery walls, and floor images. For the project, we opted for automatic sliding doors of the 300 Thales Doorson type, which are entirely frameless and made of glass. The doors between the street and the venue are essentially an almost imperceptible boundary that serves exclusively as acoustic insulation and a barrier between the public and private space. With the help of the Doorson frameless sliding door system, we managed to neutralize this barrier through maximum transparency. Project “Sonček” is certainly a great example of how design, architecture, and technology are inseparable when we talk about creativity. The line between the real and virtual is becoming increasingly blurred and harder to perceive. Space and time are changing their dimensions, even those that are less measurable. Reality is being virtualized, and the virtual is becoming a new reality.
