- Competitive Dialogue3rd place
- Sadovsky & ArchitectsOliver Sadovský, Natália Okáliová, Marián Stanislav, Elena Šoltésová, Juraj Izrael, Viliam Zajíček, The Anh Dang, Matúš Stieranka, Marek Trebuľa
- GUTGUTLukáš Kordík, Štefan Polakovič, Matúš Peklanský, Márk Mátis
- + Igor Marko (Marko & Placemakers) + Michaela Hečková + Gábor Bindics + Martin Žltý Jenča + Peter Bohuš + Simona Tóthová
Breda will live if it continues to evolve. Its story is an open story of effective transformation and necessary self-reflection. It is a gradual journey into the light. The key ambition is to make this object, with which uses and visitors have an active and positive relationship, more functional and visible. Due to this reason, the transformation is aimed at a social value created by a shared and integrated public space of connected interior and exterior.
The process of Breda´s transformation is conditioned by not only physical but also psychological change. Changing an abandoned building into a functional organism requires several intervention phases and a specification of long-term and short-term ambitions. We understand this process to be a self-regenerating process of activation, building reconstruction programming and ‘filling it in’ with content. Hierarchy of the size of interventions to the existing building over time will be based on the specific requirements of further development.
Equally important is the process of management, administration and technical operation of the building. This process should be covered by a newly established city company.
In the second competition round, our proposal focuses on the initial phase of the so-called essential transformation. The essential motive is the creation of two activation platforms: on the ground floor- at the square level, through which we integrate the city, and secondly, on the active rooftop, from which we observe the city. The inside of the building is open and flexible, ready to be rented out for activities, which can operate in a communal interconnected ecosystem. The sociocultural function is an added value.
