INCE MENGEŠ CARE AND WORK CENTRE

The INCE Care and Work Centre provides the social service of care and employment under special conditions as well as a service of institutional care for individuals suffering from mild to serious intellectual development disorders. The building is located on an elongated patch of land by a stream. Being divided to a farmyard along the road and a private garden by the stream, its design complies with a typology of a village centre and the organisation of traditional homesteads. Typical elements of traditional construction in Slovenia, such as a walk-around balcony (“gank”), wood, roof eaves and a gable roof attenuate the size of the building thus making it look more like the surrounding houses in terms of its size. A dynamic shape of a gable roof connects the whole building into a single unit.