CHYBIK + KRISTOF (CHK) unveil plans for the construction of Ostrava Tower, a 235 metre-tall and 98,000m2 multipurpose skyscraper located in the heart of Ostrava’s city center. Initiated by the architects in 2019, their latest urban infill project addresses the need to reconsider the typology of the skyscraper into a new functional entity responsive to the contemporary social needs, and in this case, the rehabilitation and reactivation of the post-industrial town of Ostrava.
Project Team: Ondřej Chybík, Michal Krištof, Martin Křivánek, Martin Žatečka, Vadim Shaptala, Martin Holý, Denisa Annová ,Ivo Stejskal, Ondřej Švancara, Benjamin Daniels, Emanuele Faggion, Jan Šefl , Natália Korpášová, Gabriela Voláková, Roman Chervonnyy, Sophia Tligui, Marek Frait and Anna Serysheva
Black Meadow / Černá louka Urban Design Competition, Ostrava, Czech Republic, 2010: Special Mention
Capital of Culture
The city of Ostrava is bidding to become the 2015 Cultural Capital of Europe. Ostrava organized a competition to express its ambitions to catalyze cultural development and urban transformation. Among the invited participants were FOA, Maxwan (won) and Lacaton & Vassal Architectes.
The villa is located on a large hill plot with outstanding views to surrounding landscape.The volume of the building is designed as single storey as the main client requirement was a barrier free space. This horizontal concept has produced an intense spatial relationship of all the interior spaces with the surrounding garden. The exterior – interior relationship is freely based on Wrightian ideas for prerie houses, which many Czech architects have adopted subsequently.
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