Studio AKKA

In 2019, the municipality of Ankaran launched a public competition for a new cemetery, where, at the edge of the settlement, reverent, sacral, and recreational activities would intertwine, on a steep, already excavated and eroded terrain. To balance functionality, sustainability, and reverence it was evident that the cemetery needs to be organised in terraces, linked […]

Dr. Ana Kučan is a professor of landscape design and theory at the Department of Landscape Architecture of the Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and a principal of Studio AKKA. After graduating in landscape architecture at the University of Ljubljana, she continued her studies in urban design at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard […]