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THE AIM WAS TO DESIGN A ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH IN THE HOUSING ESTATE BRNO-NOVÝ LÍSKOVEC WITH A CAPACITY OF 200 SEATED AND SOCIAL CENTER. SITE FOR CHURCH IS A ROCKY HILL BETWEEN HIGH RISE PREFABRICATED HOUSES, THIS HILL IS SLOPING FROM NORTH, WHERE MAIN ROAD AND BUS STOP IS LOCATED, TO SOUTH AND IT DROPS BY ABOUT 8 METERS. SINCE THIS IS A PROPOSAL IN HOUSING ESTATE WHICH LACKS QUALITY PUBLIC SPACE, CREATING PUBLIC SPACE WAS A PRIORITY. THE PROPOSAL USES EXISTING BUILDING ON SITE FOR SOCIAL CENTER AND ADDS NEW CHURCH BUILDING CREATING PUBLIC CHURCH SQUARE. PUBLIC SPACE IS OPENING TO THE SOUTH TOWARDS VIEW BETWEEN HOUSES ON NEIGHBOURINGNEIGHBOURING HILLS. MAIN CHURCH SPACE IS ARRANGED IN SEMI-CIRCULAR PLAN ENCLOSED WITH CIRCULAR PRESBYTERY. THE MAIN ELEVATED SPACE IS ENCLOSED BY SACRISTY, ADO-RATION CHAPEL, BAPTISMAL CHAPEL AND FACILITIES. ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE MAIN ENTRANCE TO THE CHURCH IS TOWER.

AIM WAS TO CREATE PUBLIC SPACE IN THE PARK IN PLACE OF INDUSTRIAL WASTELAND AND CONNECT WHOLE SPACE TO GLASGOW GREEN, WHILE KEEPING SOME REMINISCENCES OF PAST AND USING THEM IN COMPOSITION OF SPACES. HOSPICE BUILDING HAS ITS OWN “PARADISE GARDEN” WHICH IS GUARDED BY STONE WALLS AND SQUARE THAT IS SEPARATING IT FROM PARK AROUND AND THE PARK ITSELF IS SEPARATING SQUARE FROM NOISY ROAD. DIFFERENT TYPES OF SPACES ARE VERY IMPORTANT IN THIS PROJECT FROM HOSPICES PRIVATE GARDEN TO PUBLIC SQUARE. CLOSENESS AND COMMUNITY ARE VERY IMPORTANT IN HOSPICE, THAT TOGETHER WITH FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIONS BETWEEN ROOMS GAVE FORM OF BUILDING AROUND GLAZED ATRIUM WHICH SHOULD ACT AS TOWN SQUARE IN SMALL HOSPICE TOWN. BUILDING STRUCTURE IS MADE OF BRICK WITH WOODEN CLADDING. TOWN SQUARE IN SMALL HOSPICE TOWN. BUILDING STRUCTURE IS MADE OF BRICK WITH WOODEN CLADDING.

THEATRE IS PLACED UNDER CASTLE WALL (CASTLE FORMS BACKS FOR STAGE).THE STAGES BACKGROUND IS IN IMMEDIATE CONTACT WITH STAGE AND DEFINES THE SPACE AND ENTRY TO THE TERRITORY. EN-TRANCE WAS MOVED FEW METERS INTO THE GARDEN TO FORM BIGGER DISPERSION SPACE IN FRONT OF EXIT FROM THE CASTLE. VILLA BECOMES PART OF PUBLIC SPACE. STRICTLY GEOMETRIC BUILDINGS OF THEATRE AND VILLA ARE DEFINING URBANIZED PART OF THE GARDEN, WHICH IS CLOSED BY A CUBE FOR LIGHTING AND SOUND DESIGNERS. THE SECOND PART OF THE GARDEN (CLOSER TO THE “DEER DITCH”)DITCH”) IS SILENT, CALM PART FO R RELAXING IN THE NATURE. VILLA IS USED FOR SPECTATOR FACILITIES, CAFÉ, SMALL STAGE, THEATRE MANAGEMENT OFFICE AND APARTMENTS FOR ACTORS. VILLA IS CON-NECTED IN UNDERGROUND WITH UNDERGROUND PARKING, WHICH HAS ITS ENTRANCE FROM THE BOTTOM OF STREET “NA OPYŠI” (POLICE CHECKPOINT IS RELOCATED TO THIS POINT). DESIGN IS CLEARLY DIS-TINGUISHING PROPOSED NEW SECTIONS WHICH ARE HIGHLIGHTED WITH BLACK PLASTER (THEATRE, TERRACES AND BOX OF FACILITIES AND COMMUNICATIONS EMBEDDED IN THE INTERIOR OF THE VILLA, WHICH IS PENETRATING VILLA AND REAPPEARING IN EXTERIOR) AND COPPER CLADDING (SKYLIGHT, NEW ROOFS). ON EVERYTHING ELSE TRADITIONAL MATERIALS AS PLASTER, STONE AND WOOD ARE USED.

TREES ON "MORAVSKÉ NÁMĚSTÍ" ARE TWISTED DUE TO THEIR DIFFICULT LIFE. THE DESTINIES OF THE THREE NATIONS LIVING IN BRNO (CZECH, GERMAN, JEWISH) ARE TWISTED IN A SIMILAR WAY. EACH OF THESE THREE NATIONS IS REPRESENTED BY ONE CONCRETE RIBBON FLOATING THROUGH THE PARK. THE RIBBONS ARE JOINING IN THE CENTER OF THE PARK AND CREATING HIGH SCULPTURE WHICH IS POINT DE VUE FROM BRNOS MAIN SQUARE ("NÁMĚSTÍ SVOBODY"). THIS WAY THE MEMORIAL IS ENCLOSING VIEW AXIS THAT STAYED UNFINISHED AFTER DESTRUCTION OF “NĚMECKÝ DŮM” (THE GERMAN HOUSE). WALKWAYS GO STRAIGHT ACROSS THE WHOLE PARK AND THEIR CROSSING LIES NEAR THE SCULPTURE. THEY SYMBOLIZE PEOPLE WHO ARE WALKING CARELESSLY THROUGH LIFELIFE WHILE OTHERS STRUGGLE. BASIC MATERIAL USED ON THE MEMORIAL IS A REINFORCED GRIND CONCRETE IN THREE SHADES OF GRAY ON RIBBONS AND GRIND LIGHTENED CONCRETE ON MAIN SPACES. THERE ARE GREEN ROOFS USED ON THE WHOLE MEMORIAL WHICH IS HALF-BURRIED UNDERGROUND AND FORMS A SMALL HILL IN THE CENTER OF THE SITE. THIS WAY THE WHOLE PARK IS KEPT FOR PUBLIC USES AND THERE ARE NEW VALUES ADDED BY THE MEMORIAL. EXHIBITION AREAS ARE LIT BY NATURAL LIGHT THROUGH THIN OPENINGS BETWEEN ROOF AND WALLS.

MAIN OBJECTIVE WAS TO DESIGN A BUILDING THAT WILL SUITABLY COMPLEMENT THE URBAN STRUCTURE. BUILDING SHOULD FEEL LIKE IT BELONGS ON ITS PLACE, LIKE IT’S ALWAYS BEEN THERE. JET IT MUST BE A CONTEMPORARY BUILDING. PROPOSED BUILDING FOLLOWS ALTITUDE LEVEL OF THE ADJACENT HISTORICIST HOUSE. FOLLOWING THE EXAMPLE OF “SOKOL” BUILD-ING, IT REACTS ON ADJACENT BUILDINGS PITCHED ROOFS BY RECEDING OF TOP FLOOR, THEREBY CREATING A GENEROUS TERRACE WITH VIEWS ACROSS THE RIVER TO THE HISTORIC CORE. DESIGNED BUILDING IS TRYING TO BE AN IMPULSE TO MAKE WATERFRONT A FULL-FLEDGED URBAN SPACE WITH BUSINESS PARTERRE THAT SHOULD ATTRACT VISITORS. PARKING AND FACILI-TIES FOR APARTMENTS ARE IN THE UNDERGROUND FLOOR AND IN THE YARD WHICH IS COVERED BY A ROOF WITH GARDEN ON TOP. FACADE IS SIMPLE AND IN REGULAR GRID WHICH MAKES BUILDING CALM BUT IN SAME TIME BY SLIGHT BREACH OF GRID AND ADDED TEXTILE SHUTTERS AND AWNINGS IT REFERS TO UNPREDICTABLE NATURE OF WATER AND SHIPS SALES.

BUILDING IS REACTING TO MOST STIMULATING ELEMENTS ON THE SITE RIVER AND GREENERY. THATS WHY CAFÉ IS OPENED THROUGH GLAZED FACADE ON NORTH SIDE TO THE RIVER AND ON SOUTH TO THE PARK. OPEN MAIN SPACE IS ENCLOSED ON WEST AND EAST SIDES BY TWO COMPACT VOLUMES OF CAFÉ BACKGROUND AND FACILITIES. BUILDING IS LIFTED ABOVE GROUND TO THE HEIGHT OF ANTI-FLOODING WALL, THANKS TO THIS CAFÉ IS PROTECTED AGAINST FOODS. THANKS TO LIFTING OF THE BUILDING IT IS ALSO POSSIBLE TO CONNECT CAFE TO MAIN RIVERFRONT PROMENADE. MAIN CAFÉ SPACE IS EXTENDED BY TERRACES CONNECTING IT TO PROMENADE ON SOUTH SIDE AND ANOTHER ONE FALLING DOWNDOWN TO THE RIVER ON NORTH SIDE. ON SOUTH SIDE EXISTING ALLEY OF TREES IS USED TO PROVIDE SHADE FOR TERRACE AND MAIN SPACE. CAFÉ IS MORE OF A CONNECTION BE-TWEEN PARK AND RIVER THEN BARRIER WHICH IS EMPHASIZED BY VISIBLE WOODEN CONSTRUCTION FLOWING THROUGH BUILDING LIKE WAVE TO THE RIVER. MATERIALS ARE CHOSEN TO COMPLEMENT NATURE, CONSTRUCTION, FACADES AND INTERIOR FINISHINGS ARE WOODEN WITH JUST SLIGHT SUPPLEMENTS FROM METAL AND GLASS.

RECONSTRUCTION OF FLAT IN JABLUNKOV (2011)

THIS PROJECT WAS A COMPLEX RECONSTRUCTION OF FLAT INCLUDING CHANGES IN DISPOSITIONS, NEW TECHNICAL EQUIPMENT, NEW SANITARY FACILITIES AND DETAILED DESIGN OF FURNITURE. DESIGNED WITH MAREK PYSZKO.