Kindergarten Sacre Coer

Idea projektu

The aim of the project is to design a multi-functional building — a kindergarten with for 75 children (3classes), a wedding hall and a café. Part of the brief includes the reuse of an existing building on the plot.

Popis projektu

Here's the English translation of the provided text: The building is an amalgamation, just like the brief (reuse/kindergarten/cafe/wedding hall). For the Sacre Coeur park in Prague, I propose a "confluence" of various objects, unified in mass, structure, and material, into one complex form. With this design, I aim to sensitively integrate into the park's context while also creating a small, vibrant square/plaza facing the street. The cafe and kindergarten entrances face this space. This area also serves as a waiting antechamber for parents, with a few "kiss and ride" parking spots. To calm the area, I am repaving the existing street and raising it to pavement level (creating a shared zone). I am building upon the existing landscape design of the park entrance, adding a "funnel" lined with trees to emphasize the entrance motif. The kindergarten is enclosed by segmented Ytong block walls, which always enclose lighter structures (shelters, greenhouses...) or gates, vine-covered fences, and transparent elements in pairs – thus, despite its enclosure, the kindergarten opens up to its surroundings. The building presents two faces: a metallic one, facing the square, and an archetypal farmhouse face (white buildings with sheds oriented towards the garden). Throughout the design, I work with the concept of semi-spaces – places where movement, dwelling, play, running around, and hiding take place... The space expands and then contracts, opens and then closes, widens and then dims. These corridors, enfilades, passages, tunnels, cut-outs, and views are always utilitarian – providing sanitation, lighting, storage, and separation of functions/space... Natural and honest materials contribute to the coziness of the classrooms and cafe. All spaces are equipped with acoustic ceilings. The single-story, partially basemented object is fully barrier-free both internally and in relation to the exterior. All elements of the amalgamation convey their function through their visuality and structural system: two made of steel with an open frame, two of wooden CLT panels, and two of classic masonry. The three kindergarten classrooms are located in the original, insulated, and reconstructed building, and in two new wooden extensions. Each has its own entrance with a changing room (lowered ceilings), its own sanitary core surrounded by a storage corridor, and a built-in play structure... All classrooms are interconnected by two enfilades – a small "corridor" (for play and storage) and a large connecting one, leading to the common space. This hall functions in two separate modes: as a common kindergarten playroom or a wedding hall, its zenithal lighting flowing into the corridor leading to the metal cafe. The metal structure also includes an annex with a choir room attached to the original building. The fully barrier-free basement part of the building under the hall is purely utilitarian: it contains a laundry room/cellar, toilets, and cafe storage. The garden is wild, overgrown, and adventurous. You might hear a cat and maybe even elephants... A plaster dwarf said that, I think... In the design, I pay special attention to it – it's the main "living room" of the kindergarten. With minimal interventions, I propose mown lawns and patches of meadow, drawing walls, a large sandbox, a river with a drawbridge, a wading pool, wooden mikado sticks, swings, a fire pit and woodshed, a well-trodden path that circles the entire garden, balancing logs, a tunnel in the bushes. A chicken coop with chickens, a beehive with bees, and garden beds for things like pumpkins. I'm planting fruit trees and felling a minimum of existing ones. Water from the roofs is infiltrated/collected – then I can use it to water flowers, or friends.

Technické informace

The building's structural system is combined: in the design, I utilize the existing masonry structures (middle classroom), which I reconstruct and modify. All new structures are predominantly made of wooden CLT panels (in combination with steel I-beams), with a part built from YTONG aerated concrete blocks.