There are several buildings, spaces and institutions in the vicinity of the Statenice square that play or in the future may play an important social role in the village and co-create its center.

The intention is that the individual parts are clear in their function and at the same time, co-create a strong and functional whole. What does it mean? Simply, for example, that every passer-by knows where he is and what the village square is. That he understands what the purpose of the village square is and finds the municipal office where he expects it to be, including finding the entry to it. In addition, it means that the user is just as intuitively oriented inside the building. However, clear orientation is not the only goal.
The second goal needed to be mentioned is to create a space for any occasion – that the correct setting of the space initiates events that we can only imagine at the moment. Whether it’s a pilgrimage in the castle garden, birthday parties or an open-air wedding. However, we do not only accommodate large events. We create spaces that encourage you to stay in the center on the way from school or work. To hang out with a bottle of beer in front of the grocery store or by the creek. Overall, it is important that the village square or the center is lively (which does not mean the permanent presence of carousels and crowds though).

We propose to calm traffic in the center of the village by introducing a 30 km/h zone from the narrowing of Statenická street near the castle to Sokolovna. We then “connect” the individual parts of the mentioned mosaic to it.

Part of the design is to verify the location of the town hall building, shop, community center, kindergarten and verify the possibilities of the Sokol gym building.

Life in the village is closely connected with life in the garden and with close contact with the surroundings. Therefore, and for a number of other reasons, we are not designing one large compact house, but three horizontal apartment buildings and a solitaire nursing home with a community center. They’re connected to the local buildings by their character. The apartments allow each inhabitant to manage a piece of their own front garden and continue the way of life they were used to, but at the same time provide the comfort of a modern barrier-free building.

Proposal for the location of several important municipal buildings – primary school, municipal office, fire station, federal premises and collection yard with technical services, including modifications to selected public spaces.

We performed a revision of the designated location of the construction program. We verified its spatial requirements, connections and context, even in relation to the expected development of the village.

We propose the appropriate location and premises for individual parts of the program. A clear arrangement of public spaces and a clear layout of new buildings is important to us.

We are placing the municipal office in the area of the current Technical Center of the municipality, which together with the Fire station, the federal premises will become the new Administrative and Social Center of the municipality. In this way we respond to the planned development of the village to the southwest.

We place the technical and collection yard near the wastewater treatment plant. The elementary school logically gets the entire original campus, including the garden.

The proposal for the renovation of the perimeter cladding of the URAN administration building follows in principle on its original solution. It does not change the small scale of the composite parts of the cladding, it maintains the same ratio between the glazed and solid parts of the facade, it keeps the same proportions of windows and a significant horizontal division of the facade. The design also follows the original tectonic composition system. However, thanks to a different facade cladding material, the overall impression created by the house changes significantly.

The facade is lined with galvanized sheet metal. The surface of the facade is divided by the shadows of cornices, by windows, but also by individual pieces of sheet metal, joints between them, the grid of anchorages. The surface of the galvanized parts flashes in the light, the reflections differ in each plate. The house reflects and changes the changing light of the surroundings.

At the same time, the facade solution works with different depths of detail corresponding to the distances from which the building can be seen. Significant horizontal division and URAN inscriptions are visible at a distant view when arriving from the city center on the street 1. máje, when passing the highway from Prague and Zittau. Details of the pillar cladding, the canopy above the entrance and the individual torx heads of the sheet metal mounting bolts are visible at the entrance to the vestibule.

The presented facade solution also raises questions that the current solution has overlooked. Among them, the emphasis on the entrance to the building and the peculiarity of creating a unique building from an indifferent 1970s office building. A building, which reacts to the specific situation.

The main goal of the design is to offer a new optimal arrangement of what already exists, to fill in what is missing and to point out the underused potential of the building. We consider the main shortcoming of the current town hall to be the layout, which is confusing for the visitor, lacks a logical hierarchy of space and is not sufficiently representative in relation to the role that the town hall plays in the city.

We have purposefully modified the hall with the main staircase, which opens to the center of the building and from which you can enter the adjoining rooms. We fully incorporated the modern extension of the original town hall into the building and used its roof to establish a terrace accessible from the library in the attic.