Art School
Pardubice

We see the art school as a local community center, so we are trying to open up the building to the public with an all-glass parterre. The design and layout of the building are primarily designed with a focus on the practicality of operations and limited financial resources. However, it still offers a variety of uses in which the boundaries between interior and exterior are blurred. The intention was to position the design to be easily accessible from all sides while clearly defining the public spaces around it.

The elementary art school is located on the second floor, allowing it to draw on all the surrounding life and truly function as a community space. The ground floor of the building is, therefore simple to rent out for any other event, as it is functionally independent of the rest of the art school. The fully glazed ground floor allows locals or casual passers-by a view of the events taking place. One of the rehearsal halls offers the possibility of opening onto the garden, where there is an outdoor auditorium (Salla terrena). The boundary between inside and outside is thus practically non-existent. The space in front of the café is designed as a calm zone, where the softness of the garden naturally blends with the practicality of the paved area of the square.