Technical School "CTVO"

Regeneration and completion of a school building for Engineering Education Centre
CZ, Ostrov nad Ohří, Ostrov — 2011
education
investor, client
Karlovarský Kraj s využitím dotace Regionálního operačního programu regionu soudržnosti Severozápad (Karlovarský Kraj )
architect
Boris Redčenkov, Prokop Tomášek, Jaroslav Wertig
team, collaboration
Roman Klimeš, Erik Hocke, Pavel Jahelka, Tomáš Koňařík
technical design, collaboration
Reconstruction s.r.o.
main contractor
Metrostav a.s., Bau-stav a.s., Tima s.r.o.
photographer
Tomáš Balej
visualization
obrazek.org - Michal Nohejl

The project of the Engineering Education Centre in Ostrov nad Ohří resulted from the restructuring of local vocational schools. The secondary mechanical engineering school and the vocational school will leave the unsuitable buildings and will together be placed in the building of the former primary school which will be reconstructed and extended for the needs of the new centre.
Ostrov nad Ohří is a compact urban area built according to the principles of socialist realism. Even though the architecture of residential houses and the public buildings, the concept of street network and public areas have rather generous scales, the expected volume of people in the building (i.e., 750 students and 90 teachers) is unique within the buildings of the town. This requires an optimal relation to the grading and the scale of the original structure. The existing school building is a good quality standardized school that has a fixed place in the original urban concept due to its position, mass, and architectural design. The design refers to the classic arrangement with vista axes. However, the change of main orientation is expected from the current being placed in the front of the school building to the perpendicular direction leading to the area in front of the municipal office. This axis is used for the new main access road leading to the new entrance and assembly halls of the school.
The service road runs parallel to this access road, but it is separated by different elevation and it leads to north supply entrances to the building. The internal operational division utilizes the rising terrain.
The design tries to reach a compromise between the two basic requirements: defining the social role of a public building and reasonable construction costs. The answer is a maximally compact mass which tries to minimize the built-up area, earth work, and exterior cladding. Roads inside the building are joined into gathering and social areas providing the school with social dimension and into which the rooms may be oriented. Compacting and interconnection of the original building and the extension is so intensive that the result seems like one building. The extension is coordinated
With the original mass in terms of its layout and elevation. Both parts share the new flat roof with a saw-tooth roof element.
Removal of the original roof also meant a solution to the sole original orientation of the building perpendicularly to the access road and so the building has become neutral to both directions. The proportions have been altered too – the more or less longitudinal mass placed on a contour has become nearly a central one.
The design tries to shift the appearance of the building from solely institutional to an industrial one. The use of the saw-tooth roof crowns these efforts to achieve industrial appearance and at the same time hints at the existence of generous inner space.
The facade of the original building has been left with the standard arrangement wall x opening. This arrangement has been applied even at the extension structure including some programme nuances.
The mass of the building which is compact on the outside is richly structured on the inside. The two bay arrangement of the original building has now become a three-bay structure and is provided with 6x6 m modulation. The lattice defined in this way holds the individual functions centred around generous atria forming the heart of the structure. The original mass of the school now contains the classrooms for theoretical training and the extension contains classrooms for practical training. The atria are also the main junction areas. Following the rhythm of the school bell students pulsate through them on their way between basic operational units of the school – they are the places of meetings and getting together.

 

 

Technical School "CTVO"

Regeneration and completion of a school building for Engineering Education Centre
CZ, Ostrov nad Ohří, Ostrov — 2011
education
investor, client
Karlovarský Kraj s využitím dotace Regionálního operačního programu regionu soudržnosti Severozápad (Karlovarský Kraj )
architect
Boris Redčenkov, Prokop Tomášek, Jaroslav Wertig
team, collaboration
Roman Klimeš, Erik Hocke, Pavel Jahelka, Tomáš Koňařík
technical design, collaboration
Reconstruction s.r.o.
main contractor
Metrostav a.s., Bau-stav a.s., Tima s.r.o.
photographer
Tomáš Balej
visualization
obrazek.org - Michal Nohejl

The project of the Engineering Education Centre in Ostrov nad Ohří resulted from the restructuring of local vocational schools. The secondary mechanical engineering school and the vocational school will leave the unsuitable buildings and will together be placed in the building of the former primary school which will be reconstructed and extended for the needs of the new centre.
Ostrov nad Ohří is a compact urban area built according to the principles of socialist realism. Even though the architecture of residential houses and the public buildings, the concept of street network and public areas have rather generous scales, the expected volume of people in the building (i.e., 750 students and 90 teachers) is unique within the buildings of the town. This requires an optimal relation to the grading and the scale of the original structure. The existing school building is a good quality standardized school that has a fixed place in the original urban concept due to its position, mass, and architectural design. The design refers to the classic arrangement with vista axes. However, the change of main orientation is expected from the current being placed in the front of the school building to the perpendicular direction leading to the area in front of the municipal office. This axis is used for the new main access road leading to the new entrance and assembly halls of the school.
The service road runs parallel to this access road, but it is separated by different elevation and it leads to north supply entrances to the building. The internal operational division utilizes the rising terrain.
The design tries to reach a compromise between the two basic requirements: defining the social role of a public building and reasonable construction costs. The answer is a maximally compact mass which tries to minimize the built-up area, earth work, and exterior cladding. Roads inside the building are joined into gathering and social areas providing the school with social dimension and into which the rooms may be oriented. Compacting and interconnection of the original building and the extension is so intensive that the result seems like one building. The extension is coordinated
With the original mass in terms of its layout and elevation. Both parts share the new flat roof with a saw-tooth roof element.
Removal of the original roof also meant a solution to the sole original orientation of the building perpendicularly to the access road and so the building has become neutral to both directions. The proportions have been altered too – the more or less longitudinal mass placed on a contour has become nearly a central one.
The design tries to shift the appearance of the building from solely institutional to an industrial one. The use of the saw-tooth roof crowns these efforts to achieve industrial appearance and at the same time hints at the existence of generous inner space.
The facade of the original building has been left with the standard arrangement wall x opening. This arrangement has been applied even at the extension structure including some programme nuances.
The mass of the building which is compact on the outside is richly structured on the inside. The two bay arrangement of the original building has now become a three-bay structure and is provided with 6x6 m modulation. The lattice defined in this way holds the individual functions centred around generous atria forming the heart of the structure. The original mass of the school now contains the classrooms for theoretical training and the extension contains classrooms for practical training. The atria are also the main junction areas. Following the rhythm of the school bell students pulsate through them on their way between basic operational units of the school – they are the places of meetings and getting together.