This Slovenian home by Skupaj Arhitekti mimics the gabled form of its Alpine village neighbours, but it also features contemporary details and finishes (+ slideshow).

Slovenian architects Meta Kutin and Toma? Eben?panger designed the 100-square-metre residence for a hillside plot in Stara Fu?ina, a protected Alpine village in Slovenia's Triglav National Park.

The house replaces a former mechanic's workshop.
Its gabled form means the new structure is inconspicuous among its traditional neighbours, but more contemporary materials including fibre-cement shingles were used to finish the project.

The roof is covered in thin, overlapping fibre-cement tiles laid to create a cross-hatched pattern, while galvanised metal accents update traditional wooden elements like window shutters and frames.
"The house in Stara Fu?ina has introduced new building materials and details into a traditional rural space and is aimed to constitute a place of permanent residence for a native member of the community," said Kutin and Eben?panger, who call the project Living in Alpine Village.

"In spite of its different conception of details, pure lines, absence of merely decorative use of wood, large glass surfaces and visible concrete inside the house, it seems that this house has stood in its place since old times," they added.

The architects had to negotiate elements of the design with the Slovenian Institute for the Protection of Cultural Heritage, including rotating...