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BRNO: Building Belvederes: Zluty Kopec Kindergarten

The proposed kindergarten focuses on the concept of belvedere. Inspired by the paintings of artist Eleanor Ray, the design creates a series of spatial experiences defined by framing boundaries and boundless imagination.  

The site plan contains traces of Edinburgh, brought to Brno, such that special and familiar experiences are recreated in a new place. The techniques of Eleanor Ray to capture memories and fragments of space in her oil paintings, led to a corresponding effort to use imagination and memory to assemble spaces of discovery and reflection for young children who are just beginning their own journeys in Brno. This can help them understand their city and makes  a kindergarten that is also a warm and colorful and belvedere. 

 

The design includes a large curved balcony with inclined glass and solar-shading veils made of wooden frames on the buildings south facade. The building's heaviness on the north side contrasts these light, vibrant veils to the south. A glulam timber structure contributes to an internal environment that is softer and warmer than traditional building techniques. The building also includes a concave-shaped climbing wall and a secure, inside-outside, play space on the ground floor, that can be overlooked from the south veil walkway, by waiting parents.