písnice elementary school

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location: Ladislava Coňka 3 

Praha Libuš Písnice

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author: Petr Burian a Jiří Havrda Robin Müller

 

cooperation: DAM architekti

Land 05 - Martina Forejtová

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client: Městská část Praha Libuš

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visual: Tomáš Korec

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year: 2020

new school building

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School as a model for the world colour card. Our solution sends a clear message to the surroundings that the historical school building still dominates its vicinity. In doing so, it is augmented by five fingers of low horizontal masses that subordinate to it. At the same time, their uniformly clad volumes, slightly rounded at the corners, make clear the difference of centuries that separated their origins. The key to reading the new cluster of buildings lies beneath the colourful carpet laid across the school square. A square that only the addition of volumes helped to form. The fingers of the additions referring to densely layered sheets of a colour card hide inside on their (exclusively) horizontal surfaces the entire range of all the world's colours.

The concept of the analogy of a human hand grasping the mass of the original school building in its five fingers is the basis of the material design. The five fingers - each with a slightly different functional use - leave the space of the old school so that it is clear at a glance what is an extension and what is the historical essence of the complex - the original trunk. Therefore, the concept of the additions' facades consistently designed as a unified substance is part of this dichotomous hierarchy. The individual fingers differ only in proportion, not in the type of cladding. On the east side, a blank facade ties the mass of the extensions to the very boundary of the school grounds. It is analogous to the behaviour of the adjacent building on the adjoining property; it is a principle found in many places in the original native village.