HOME FOR THE ELDERLY
Ground floor hall is a space, where social functions are overlapping and running into each other. The focal point is a yard, social and communication center, which is used for digging the house into the ground. The house becomes a landscape. Residential part grows from the yard, it is its gallery. It communicates with the park, it communicates with the new landscape. The other house, house by the river, articulates on the ground floor a commercial arcade and creates an independent walk along the river Rokytka.
Park Podvinní is besides Rokytka a significant creator of the story in this area, which is reflected to the lives of elderly people only indirectly - by visual contact. There is an unorganized mess of greenery, which forms a barrier on the boundary with the park. I am getting rid of this barrier and I am placing here an object whit the largest social significance. The focal point is a yard, from which the entire layout unfolds. The yard is a paraphrase of paradise garden as a place of relaxation and meditation, which is not missing an ‘ambit’, opened to the exterior by the raster of columns. The yard is a paraphrase of the antique atrium ad a secondary lighting system of the adjacent rooms. A transparent façade around the yard opens a dialogue with interior space. In certain views a bilateral transparency allows a view of the park.
There is a residential part of harder care as if it is growing from the yard. It becomes a gallery of the paradise garden. The whole house is embraced by the strict raster that allows a variable dividing of interior space and its universality. Filling of the module is always characteristic for the area behind it. Glass panels in the hallway area reflect the world outside and it is indirectly mediated to the inhabitants inside. Reflection of one world to another, interface. And when it gets dark due to the artificial light, on the contrary, the inner world reflects itself out. The protection provides a system of hinges, which in the best case is created by the participation of the inhabitants or clients of the pensioners’ club. They actively contribute to the coziness of their own home. Curtains make the rational raster softer and lighter.
Raster of the plinth uses finer grid and creates inside a universal indoor space for various social activities. The main thrust here is a day care center, but which is fully assimilated with other residents and visitors of the facility. One part flows into the other. There is a social interaction between the local residents and seniors from the outside. Flowing space is made possible thanks to the inner cells which can be freely articulated due to the finer grid of the perimeter. These cells have diverse shapes, sometimes are open to the courtyard, sometimes to the park. While the intercellular space is an infinite social living room whit various characters, it is a place for interaction.
Park Podvinní is besides Rokytka a significant creator of the story in this area, which is reflected to the lives of elderly people only indirectly - by visual contact. There is an unorganized mess of greenery, which forms a barrier on the boundary with the park. I am getting rid of this barrier and I am placing here an object whit the largest social significance. The focal point is a yard, from which the entire layout unfolds. The yard is a paraphrase of paradise garden as a place of relaxation and meditation, which is not missing an ‘ambit’, opened to the exterior by the raster of columns. The yard is a paraphrase of the antique atrium ad a secondary lighting system of the adjacent rooms. A transparent façade around the yard opens a dialogue with interior space. In certain views a bilateral transparency allows a view of the park.
There is a residential part of harder care as if it is growing from the yard. It becomes a gallery of the paradise garden. The whole house is embraced by the strict raster that allows a variable dividing of interior space and its universality. Filling of the module is always characteristic for the area behind it. Glass panels in the hallway area reflect the world outside and it is indirectly mediated to the inhabitants inside. Reflection of one world to another, interface. And when it gets dark due to the artificial light, on the contrary, the inner world reflects itself out. The protection provides a system of hinges, which in the best case is created by the participation of the inhabitants or clients of the pensioners’ club. They actively contribute to the coziness of their own home. Curtains make the rational raster softer and lighter.
Raster of the plinth uses finer grid and creates inside a universal indoor space for various social activities. The main thrust here is a day care center, but which is fully assimilated with other residents and visitors of the facility. One part flows into the other. There is a social interaction between the local residents and seniors from the outside. Flowing space is made possible thanks to the inner cells which can be freely articulated due to the finer grid of the perimeter. These cells have diverse shapes, sometimes are open to the courtyard, sometimes to the park. While the intercellular space is an infinite social living room whit various characters, it is a place for interaction.