Flashlights

Project idea

The project materializes physical and symbolic "lanterns" that emerge both from this existing building and from the surroundings of the ground where it is located, indicating new and renewed situations, without eliminating the origins of the places where they are located and highlighting the spatial opportunities that always were. there present. The new base not only maximizes the functional possibilities of the architectural proposal, but also unities and integrates a terrain currently marked also by its irregular and varied slopes. When moving and locating the garages in the underground levels, large free areas are ideal for the development of spaces equipped for recreation and relaxation.

Project description

"Innovation Center", located in the heart of the premises of the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, materializes a studied conception of spatiality, the result of the identification of the needs of all the agents
involved in the project and without neglecting the existing opportunities on the site to intervene.
Within the premise of the search for a multifunctional space that achieves a social, student and teaching unit, the old disused building of the “heavy laboratories”, located in the center of the property, was intervened. When identifying the functional possibilities of its specific structure, its wide dimensions and its exterior materiality coinciding with a sober and functional architecture, like a large part of the buildings in its environment, it was decided to categorize a this volume as an opportunity rather than a problem to be eliminated.

Technical information

A sheet with an idea, planimetry and volumes is presented, and a book with information on the entire project design process.

Documentation

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