Urban Habitat Za Papírnou

The proposed house relates to the surrounding buildings and creates a dignified corner in the newly transformed urban area. Its architecture, expression, and materialization refer to the industrial past of Holešovice. The house is rationally divided in a regular module into individual basic building units (bricks) = 1-bedroom apartments of 30 m2. This creates a simple, highly flexible, and efficient layout, offering adaptation to any mix of the housing portfolio. The circulation of the building is formed by a corridor with a staircase, visually connected to the newly designed square in front of the building, as well as a courtyard wide pavilion. The pavilion is an important social point of the proposal - creating places of chance meeting or sitting at sunset. The community form of the house is reinforced by the proposed clubhouse on the ground floor with access to the courtyard garden, as well as a community roof terrace garden with the opportunity to grow herbs and vegetables. The apartments feature an outdoor loggia or terrace always facing the street - protecting from excessive traffic noise, providing privacy, and offering superior outdoor space to the small apartments. On the ground floor, a commercial unit is designed in the corner of the building, for example, to operate a café. Another smaller space for rent is located next to the main entrance of the building. In the quietest part near Za Papírna Street, there is a space for a children's group with its own access to the courtyard garden.

The design convinced the jury with its clear concept, balanced proportions in plan and mass, and the quality of the common areas that it belongs to the first place. The internal layout allows for private outdoor space for each apartment as well as generous shared spaces. The roof terrace offers a balanced mix of open and enclosed spaces. The efficient layout offers a high number of flats and, together with the chosen structural design, plenty of possibilities for combining individual flats and a generally high degree of flexibility in the floor plan. The building is adapted to the depth of the neighboring building, ensuring that the courtyard does not end up enclosed by the bare sidewall of the adjacent building. The authors placed emphasis on developing an ecological and social concept. The jury is aware of several problematic aspects, be it the possible refinement of the floor plans or the financial demands of the chosen brick façade. However, the refinement of the competition design is in any case a necessity, especially in an open competition, and therefore the jury recommends to the contracting authority this design for implementation, which with the cooperation of the architectural team with the client has the highest potential to become an outstanding project.

Urban living as an opportunity to set the standard of affordable and sustainable construction in the context of the interface of the newly emerging Prague neighborhood of Bubny-Zátory. The corner consists of 2 houses connected by an open corridor. A view of the green yard opens onto the street. The apartments are accessible from the corridor through a seasonal loggia. The small area of the apartments is balanced by common spaces that encourage interaction. The architecture has simple and robust detail. Wood, galvanized steel, eternity, and lots of vegetation. The house should be full of life and serve well to all users regardless of age and living situation.

The jury agreed that this is one of the most innovative of the designs in this competition, offering a clear concept with great flexibility in floor plans. The quality of the design is that its aesthetics communicate effectively that this is a building for affordable housing. The jury also appreciated the treatment of the ecological concept and the concept of social interaction in this design, which are very well developed. The roof terrace is also well conceived. The loggias (conservatories) between the flats and the gallery are a strong point of the design, but at the same time their design seems problematic from a fire point of view. Points of contention include the creation of a dark courtyard space in relation to the neighboring house or the choice of a parking lift, the appropriateness of which was not agreed within the jury. In this proposal, the fire safety solution would be the largest part to be refined in order to maintain the quality of the concept. Even so, the jury is convinced that a very good project can be achieved here in cooperation between the architects and the client.

We propose a house that enters the future ur-ban situation resulting from the Bubny - Zátory study. The future piazzeta forms the dominant corner of the new apartment building. It responds to the current and future context, and the modular grid structure is thus manifested by a varied mass solution. The solid heavy house is wrapped with steel structures that provide added qualities to the minimal social housing. Neighbors meet - on the open stairs, in the laundry room on the open–air corridor, and on the roof. There they can play sports, grow vegetables, hang laundry or hold a proper family party.

The authors presented a clear concept that offers a well thought out and functional floor plan. The individual apartments have private outdoor space in the form of a balcony or loggia facing the street, while the communal galleries in the courtyard offer a pleasant space for gathering. The jury appreciated the chosen aesthetics of the building, which, with its red steel elements, gives the concrete structure a certain lightness and thus looks welcoming towards the public space. The cross-section of the building mass, which divides the façade facing Železničářů Street, offers an interesting solution to let more light into the courtyard, possibly allowing better ventilation of the courtyard, while providing an extension of the shared pavilion space on each floor. However, the gap generates some disadvantages, particularly in terms of noise penetration from the busy street into the interior of the site and potential energy loss due to the building's lack of compactness. It was also discussed whether the division of the frontage onto Železničářů Street, where the width of the two emerging parts in relation to the length of the adjacent building makes it look disproportionately narrow, is in a logical place from an architectural and urban planning point of view.

In a good sense, an ordinary and durable house that is unique "at a second glance." The townhouse follows the tradition of Prague tenement houses in its character, scale, ceramic tiling, and rounded corner At the same time, it brings the contemporary quality of living, represented by economical but smart apartments, large windows that expand the interior space, external shading with fabric roller blinds, recuperation in all apartments, green living roof, and solar panels. Inner apartment squares with a circular atrium promote the social aspects of the house, gatherings, and neighborhood control. The residential green roof serves all residents of the house. The ceramic-clad street facade is sustainable, resisting wear and tear over time.

The jury decided to award this proposal an honorable mention because it is a successful contribution to the debate on contemporary housing typologies, particularly affordable housing. One of the strongest aspects of the proposal was its spatial efficiency based on the distribution of the flats around two staircases. The area required for circulation is minimized and the number of flats is maximized. At the same time, it can offer an interesting solution in case of the need to separate the inhabitants of the house into two parts.

Lay the foundation. Creating a corner townhouse in a place that will undergo a total transformation in the near future is a difficult task on many levels. Our competition proposal enters the site with the ambition to refresh some tried and tested tenement-building principles and take them a little further toward building a cohesive community of people. Our primary goal is to complete the future city block in such a way that the permeability of the territory towards the inner block will be preserved. We believe that creating green inner blocks across the whole of Prague is not a utopian vision, and that the first swallows can set the direction that individual city blocks will take.

The jury decided to award this proposal an honorable mention because it wanted to recognize a quality consisting primarily in the economic and spatial efficiency of the building. Here the jury appreciates the achievement of a high number of flats while maintaining the quality of the shared spaces, which, in their articulation and variety, offer a wide range of possibilities for gathering.

The concept of the new townhouse reflects the current demands for sustainable, inclusive, multi-generational housing capable of responding to the changing needs of residents in the contemporary context of urban development. A simple volume encloses the block. Through functional detail and color, the internal content diversity of the functional concept of the house, which promotes social interaction and variability across the demographic spectrum, is written into the external form. A living townhouse.

The jury decided to award this proposal an honorable mention because it wanted to highlight the overall appearance of the building, which is a contemporary take on the 'Prague' aesthetic and does not exude a primitive unnecessary luxury. The architectural design offers interesting details and proportions, particularly in the parterre, with the potential to be welcoming to passers-by, as well as offering interesting moments for users, for example evident in the connection between the children's group area and the courtyard.