Wild school in the middle of the city

Unusual architecture with an exceptional concept of greenery and operational scheme of the teaching terraces. A living structure for education and play.

Live school.

All the proposed areas of the school are wrapped in exceptional and unusual architecture, which enters the city as a multi-purpose green slope. A wild house responding to the context of its surroundings, a context of geomorphology, but also of urban and architectural design. A house that is meant to inspire, to be a teaching tool for its users, visitors and passers-by.

The building is designed with a clear system and hierarchy of common areas. From quiet corners for studying, through cluster halls for playing and leisure, to open atria connecting the different floors by a system of staircases. Everyone will find their comfortable place here, it is a school for all without distinction. The maximally open ground floor and the underground areas of the school, which can be used by the public, are seamlessly connected to the public city park in the southern part of the site by a public passageway through the school. All gymnasiums and the cafeteria are accessible from here, while the passageway creates a separate operational area for the school.

School by play. The terraces created by the receding floors are fully functional and adequate for teaching. On the lowest terraces for the first level there are outdoor classrooms, the basics of growing greenery, animal husbandry and rest areas. As the height of the terraces increases, so does the specialization of use, with functions moving from basic greenhouse growing, to greenhouse growing areas, chicken keeping, irrigation applications, to bee keeping and teaching about renewable resources and the importance of wind, solar and thermal energy.

"A children's farm on the rooftops of a wild school."

Instead of paved areas, the proposal acts as a park with a variety of functional uses and an example of the application of blue-green infrastructure on buildings and in the city. The minimum of paved areas and the design of green space throughout the site maintains moisture and regulates the temperature of the site. A sophisticated system of rainwater management, recycling and maximum use of rainwater on site.

A school close to nature. The legacy left in Prague 8 by Eduard Štorch with his concept of a “children’s farm” on Libeňský ostrov is applied in our design in the form of residential and educational green roofs. Alternative outdoor, open-air nature education should be represented as well as classroom education.

Project

Year of study: 2022
Client: the Municipal District of Prague 8
Location: Prague 8, Rohanský ostrov

Visualization: ra15
Authors Radek Lampa, Tomáš Kroužil, Kateřina Havlová, Maxim Petricov, Daria Vlasova