Faculty of Fine Arts in Brno, Czech Republic by CHYBIK+KRISTOF Associated Architects

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The project is based on the idea of maximal respect to the character of the park’s locality in  the city centre for which it is designed. It is a complex of separate pavilions based on the floor  plan of the existing build-up area of provisional assembled buildings, so-called likusáks. The  concept of the project presupposes an interaction between education, culture and the public.  Its realisation will significantly contribute to revitalise the neglected eastern part of the park  on Kraví hora. The exclusively located area offers only a commercial use of the provisional  built-up area, and even though it is situated in the wider city centre, it has not undergone a  process of revitalisation yet. The joyless nature of the area with decrepit temporary objects  contrasts dramatically with the surrounds of Kraví hora, being architectonically and socially  highly attractive.

Faculty of Fine Arts, Brno University of Technology

• Architects: CHYBIK+KRISTOF Associated Architects
• Project:Faculty of Fine Arts, Brno University of Technology
• Location: Brno, Czech republic
• Team: CHYBIK+KRISTOF ASSOCIATED ARCHITECTS, Ivan Ruller and Ondrej Stehlik
• Use: University and creative incubator
• Site Area: 48 000 m2
• Project year: 2011
• Type: Commision

Faculty of Fine Arts, Brno University of Technology

Historically, the most significant urbanistic intention to fully exploit the area was the project  of the Academic Square from 1920s and 1930s which had counted on building up Kraví  hora for the newly founded Masaryk University. Successive competitions were attended by  renowned representatives of the Czech interwar architecture, e. g. Alois Dryák, Bohuslav  Fuchs, Jindřich Kumpošt, Miloš Laml, Jan Víšek, Ernst Wiesner etc. However, due to the  antagonism of both the architectural and academic community, the only building realised was  the Faculty of Law by Alois Dryák. The project of the new campus of the Faculty of Arts  follows the historic continuity of the first-republican idea of building a campus. Nevertheless,  it differs significantly in the fact that it preserves desirable green zones in this area.

Faculty of Fine Arts, Brno University of Technology

An optimal space for art presentation in public will be created within the new premises of  the Faculty of Arts. The educational function will be completed with a cultural and social  function: in one of its variants, the project includes a public-accessible gallery, a club, a  library and rooms for organising lectures and workshops. These rooms will be situated in  the central object which will act as a spine of the area. The project’s realisation will bring  a complex use of the whole area – it will include science and education (observatory and  planetarium, technical and art schooling), culture (gallery, art presentations in public) and  sport (sport and recreational area with a pool, baseball field). At the same time, a new  dominant feature will emerge within the city structure connecting the Veveří Street to the  square náměstí Míru. Thanks to this, the whole area will get more open and less obstructed.

Faculty of Fine Arts, Brno University of Technology

The basic unit of the architectonical structure is a pavilion situated on the existing built-up  space with total dimensions of 67.5 m in length and 10 m in width. The characteristic motive  is a counter roof ensuring optimal indirect illumination. The shape and the orientation of  the roofs incite to use renewable solar energy. Natural window ventilation and individual  air-conditioning heat recovering units will be put in place. The authorial team consulted  the construction and the static solution, as well as the question of heating with specialised  institutes of the Faculty of Civil Engineering of Brno University of Technology – the area  could be rebuilt surprisingly simply and quite quickly. Some objects may serve as ateliers  for young artists as a sort of incubators. This will steadily cover a part of school’s expenses.  Moreover, the projected green zone of the park surpasses the actual state since it anticipates  planting of new trees.

Faculty of Fine Arts, Brno University of Technology

A campus endowed with public functions will aid to open the locality to wider and more  socially varied user groups. One of the key developing strategies of Brno consisting in  creating an image of Brno as a European academic city will be fulfilled.

Faculty of Fine Arts, Brno University of Technology

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