Culture & art
enthusiast
Sustainable
designer
Bottom-up initiator
Participatory architect
Enterprenuer
Heritage
preservation renovation
advocate
VR
explorer
BIM
master
virtual reality environments. Working in international environment with diversified and interdisciplinary team I gained important experiences of team work, collaboration with other professions and team organisation. We even won a competition for high-efficient building, organised by PBL Lab at Stanford University.
I see myself strongly as a participatory architect and I believe that participatory architecture is crucial, for making spaces that fit users needs. As Jane Jacobs put it: "There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them, not buildings, that we must fit our plans."
I gained important insight in making of user-tailored spaces while being part of the organisational and architecture team for very fresh and developing Creative district Barutana and while working for a non-profit urbanism studio Prostorož, known for their public space initiatives and activism. I had a chance to work first hand with leading public space initiators and activists non-profit urbanist studio Prostorož and also users like artists, students, active local communities, elderly, citizens, etc.
about
My name is Jan Šimnovec and I am a freshly graduated architect with great interest in topics like user-participation, sustainability, circular economy, bottom-up activism, future-proof technologies, etc. During my studies in Germany and Slovenia I had an opportunity to learn from interesting and award-winning mentors from all around the world. While studying in Germany I was enrolled in Diébédo Francis Kéré, Pritzker Prize winner, design studio at The Technical University of Munich. As part of the Chair of Architectural Design and Participation, we developed cultural hubs for artists and public.
I gained important knowledge and skills trough Stanford University program, focused on developing a high-efficient and sustainable buildings, that addressed topics like sustainable materials and technologies, prefabrication, parametric design, equity, etc. I had an opportunity to work with leading professors and industry leaders in architecture and engineering like Buro Happold. Parallel to our project, that was entirely powered by BIM software, we also tested future-proof communication technologies, like VR glasses in