12/06/2025
One of the most important investments in public health has been annaunced in Maribor—building a new health center in Tezno.
With this project, designed by Styria arhitektura, the Municipality of Maribor aims to provide modern, accessible, and high-quality healthcare to the residents of one of the largest city districts.
The urban development of Tezno – industrial city districts – is based on the “linear city” model, which was frequently used in the first half of the 20th century for planning industrial areas or designing new industrial cities. The location and design of the health, education, and social center—the new central hub of Tezna on the edge of the Stražunski gozd forest, in an area marked by a "morphological break" between two diverse building morphologies—requires extremely careful selection of an appropriate urban planning concept which, after successive development, would encourage and establish processes of urban regeneration of the industrial town model with the aim of increasing urban development, not only in the residential belt, but also in the entire Tezno district. The area of the new Tezno center is established by the placement of buildings in contact with the natural or green belt, creating a recognizable typology of a perforated built edge.
The design of the building is spatially rationalized on an orthogonal grid, while at the same time offering a higher degree of user flexibility with a uniform grid, as it allows for simultaneous or temporary adaptation of space use. The orthogonal grid establishes the lowest possible common denominator between heterogeneous and complex program requirements.
Collaborators: Uroš Lobnik univ. dipl. inž. arh., David Mišič univ. dipl. inž. arh., Žiga Kreševič univ. dipl. inž.arh., Sašo Žolek mag. inž. arh., Goran Piršić dipl. inž. arh. (UN), Davor Fistrič dipl. inž. arh. (UN), Maja Žalik dipl. inž. arh. (UN)