Aljoša Dekleva / Tina Gregorič: Lecture and Video Presentation

Cultural centre of EU space technologies (KSEVT) - Challenging the visionary diagram of first geostationary space station and the gravity

Lecture and Video Presentation by Aljoša Dekleva and Tina Gregorič (dekleva gregorič architects, Ljubljana)

The Cultural Center of European Space Technologies (KSEVT) substantially supplements and emphasizes the local cultural and social activities of the former Community Center in Vitanje, the town in Slovenia that was family home to Herman Potocnik Noordung, the first theoretician of space. 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 titled “The Problem of Space Travel - The Rocket Motor“. The main exhibition space circularly wraps the main round hall, which connects with the research spaces above through the round opening between the two spaces. It creates interaction between the program of local community and the scientific program of KSEVT.

dekleva gregorič arhitekti was set up by Aljoša Dekleva and Tina Gregorič in 2003 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. They both graduated from the Faculty of Architecture, the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia and continued studying at the Architectural Association in London, where they received Master degrees in Architecture, with Distinction, in 2002.