Space Habitable Wheel by OFIS, Sadar Vuga, Bevk Perovic and Dekleva Gregoric

A conceptual space station that was conceived in the 1920s inspired the spiralling structure of this culture and technology centre in Slovenia.



Slovenian studios OFIS Arhitekti, Sadar Vuga Arhitekti, Bevk Perovic Arhitekti and Dekleva Gregoric Arhitekti teamed up to design the Cultural Centre of European Space Technologies, which functions as a visitor facility for a nearby cultural centre in the small town of Vitanje.



Referred to as the Space Habitable Wheel, the building’s form is derived from the space station that rocket engineer and local resident Herman Potocnik Noordung described in his 1929 book, The Problem of Space Travel.

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