ULICE PRO SEDMIČKU – Revitalizace ulice Františka Křížka

Our aim of revitalizing the František Křížka Street is to create a pleasant functional public space that will well serve both for residents and visitors. The whole street is equipped with regularly planted trees to provide a shadow on hot summer days, they relax the space to accommodate the front spaces of adjacent restaurants and cafes. The front space of the three most important institutions (Bio Oko, Elementary School Františka Plamínková and Elementary School Letohradská) is expanded and accentuated by groups of trees of a different kind. These front spaces will be equipped with benches, bike racks and waste bins. The whole street is designed as a one-way street. By this is achieved the uniform street profile along the entire length of the street. On both sides of the one-way street we place the longitudinal parking spaces.

The design has a high level of elaboration of the main concept and detail and is almost ready for implementation. The proposal consistently complies with all recommended manuals of public spaces. Piazzetta in front of BIO OKO is very well designed. The proposal respected the estimated value of the construction. The use of standard materials and solutions is very feasible and maintainable. The design brings an interesting idea of a one-way street in front of BIO OKO and gives more space to pedestrians

The revitalization is aimed at unifying the street space and confirming the importance of one of the main axis of Letna. We also focus on street inhabitation – not just by planting trees. Emphasis is set on the interaction of the users. The design cerates spaces to work with. The aim is to create another native centre of Letná.

The programmatic design is very interesting for the jury. The decision to make the premises in front of BIO OKO and Frantšky Plamínkové Elementary School different in visual expression from the rest of the street makes them special. The solitary greenery solution adds a quality to the public space and creates identities of the places. The design has met the estimated value of the construction. The concept of traffic engineering is positively evaluated.

The design creates an axis linking all the requirements with a character of Letna. It changes several habits towards an open shared space. The reduction of transport in front of schools and cinema as well as the redefinition of parking contributes to safer movement of pedestrians and also vehicles. Seating places are located in cultural and resting areas. The reviving of the street provides artworks. Columns replace the unsuitable railings and alley of trees improves the city's environment. The character is set by the predominance of stone paving surfaces.

The jury appreciates the idea of using art as markers of the identity of individual spaces, especially the entrance to the park. The design brings a higher rate of tranquility to the whole space. The green concept is functional and efficient. The proposed differential speeds for individual zones allow easier use of public space by pedestrian users. The proposal respected the estimated value of the construction.

The main goal of the proposal is to provide better public space while preserving the number of cars. Because the street is narrow, the space left for every actor is not enough. The result is a long street packed with cars and bad quality pedestrian sidewalks. In order to solve that, we propose to change the entire street into a one way street and optimize the parking area. Once we have more public space, we can improve the fronts of the cinema, the school and the theatre. Instead of arranging the functions in the long axis, we generate a sequence of spaces orthogonal to the way.

This project received the honorable mention for some incentives and ideas that could cause a change in the current state, especially for termination and redirection of traffic in the site, although the location with excluded car traffic could be chosen more sensitively.