Območje ob svetilniku v Izoli | The area at the lighthouse in Izola

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Pri zasnovi ureditve območja ob svetilniku v Izoli, natečaj je obsegal ureditev plaže in parkovnega zaledja, smo izhajali iz izkušnje pogleda na obzorje, kjer se v daljavi spajata morje in nebo, izkušnje skoraj neznosne vodoravnosti, ki jo prebadajo temne navpičnice dreves. Ta kontrast med svetlim in temnim, odprtim in zaprtim je značilen za Sredozemlje, za zavetja borovcev, izpod katerih se odpirajo dolgi pogledi v svetlobo modrine, v „to nedoumljivo razsežnost, ki se na horizontu spaja z nebom in izginja v neskončnost“. Ta izkušnja je na kratki slovenski obali komaj mogoča. Zato smo jo želeli privesti do skrajnosti. Iz nje smo izpeljali kompozicijsko načelo, ki je veljalo tako za krajinsko ureditev kot za vanjo vstavljene arhitekturne elemente. Po eni strani gre za plastenje horizontal, ki se od morja približujejo mestu, in po drugi za temine vertikal, ki prebadajo obzorje, s čimer uokvirjajo poglede iz notranjosti na morje. Izkušnjo smo prevedli v podobo, ki je postala medij predajanja te izkušnje.

The competition brief for the renovation and redesign of the beach area around the Izola lighthouse called for a plan that covered both the coast and the inland park. Our starting point was the experience of looking out to the horizon where the sky meets the sea in the distance, the experience of that almost unbearable horizontality, the view interrupted only by the dark verticals of trees. That contrast between light and dark, open and closed, is characteristic of the Mediterranean where, from the shelter of pine trees, the long view into the light of blueness opens out onto “this unfathomable expansion, merging with the sky on the horizon and disappearing into infinity”. On the minute Slovenian coast, this experienceis hardly possible, which is why we wanted to push it to the extreme. From the experience of the horizon, we derived our compositional principle and applied it not only to the design of landscape, but also to the architectural elements that would be placed within this landscape. On one hand, we proposed horizontal lines that approach the town from the seaside and, on the other hand, dark verticals that pierce the horizon, framing the gaze from the inland park out to the sea. We translated this experience into an image that became a medium of communication.