STUDENT PROJECT
PRINTERS SEVEROGRAFIA LIBEREC
conversion of industrial premises into a multifunctional educational centre
The printers' premises are located in the very centre of Liberec and can be called its most valuable brownfield site. I consider the most valuable part of the printers' premises to be neither the historical structures nor the industrial interiors, but its illegibility and diversity. The clash of typologies and the juxtaposition of the historic baroque with the industrial. I believe that the mysterious courtyard should remain a mysterious courtyard. Attempts to architecturally unify or clarify the block by demolishing the worthless volumes of the courtyards would mean destroying the surprising moments carried by the movement through the area. Just as the volumes of houses and factories collide, so should the operations of the complex. Lay a path for residents around the studio, and put artists through the community terrace again. Paths should go through the campus rather than around it. The aim of the project was to understand and respect the past; always to critically consider and justify the genesis of what and to what extent is worthy of preservation or can be changed, not to change history but to try to evaluate it. The design should be the result of urban evolution; not to demolish but to exploit its own potential.
The strength of the site is precisely the multi-layered urban context. The aim of the project is not personal exhibition but the humble and confident building of a functioning urban whole.
I have tried to compose the site as a whole with its own relationships between its parts, i.e. to integrate all parts of the whole and to cultivate the biodiversity of architecture
An important criterion is the preservation of valuable details, relationships and scale of individual cells, structures, volumes or spaces.