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Slovene National Theatre in Ljubljana
Semela, Ladislav ; Borák, Martin (referee) ; Ruller, Ivan (advisor)
The design of the new stage of the Slovene National Theatre in Ljubljana adheres to, among other things, the motto of the “TACE” (Theatre Architecture in Central Europe) project, i.e. a search of forms and types of buildings for the "New Theatre for the 21st Century". Therefore, I confront three topics: 1/ the conventional binocular conception for the drama chorus of the National Theatre, 2/ the unconventional solution of the "TACE" and 3/ the urban conception of the location, the so-called "Southern Square", designed by Josip Plečnik. Ad1/ The serious and classical feeling of the conventional form of the theatre hall is required, for this is the National Theatre. Slovenia, as a relatively young state, strives to build and strengthen its historical and national existence; therefore, the classical conception should be preferred because most plays dealing with the national identity are written for this type of theatre. Unlike the unconventional type of “performance” theatres that tend to present international rather than national art. Ad 2/ The search for spatial forms of unconventional and interactive staging of traditional types, such as ballet, opera, musical or drama as well as new forms such as “performance” resulted in a clear conclusion - “black box”. The ideal theatre of the future is infinitely multifunctional neutral space equipped with technologies that enable using the area for virtually any purpose. The principle comes very close to that of film studios, yet equipped with theatrical and other technologies. Ad 3/ A controversial location in the centre of Ljubljana, which has been waiting for an urban conception since the 1930s. It is situated at the end of Plečnik’s “Ljubljana diameter”, with the obelisk in the French Revolution Square as the opposite pole. The unfinished axis obelisk-square-theatre is quite apparent. The location features a clearance and an inner block with a poor urban development; yet it also features the so-called Knafijev prehod, a socially well functional part. The building is divided into 2 functional units - the theatre with its halls, lounge, gallery and cafe, and a commercial passage with the theatre’s administration. The facade of the theatre is a composite of several elements: From left, a decoration consisting of a ruptured pillar with a statue of an actor with a background of the fly, as we move to the right, a “curtain” going down in a curve from a glass “heaven” of the theatre’s hall towering over the passage, out of which rises the solid pylon of the gallery made of half-transparent material LitraConTM. This composition shifts the axis of the lounge beyond the axis of the park to the axis of the diameter and makes thus room for service access. The theatre’s area with the passage beneath is linked by a number of newels which can spin and thus close and in this way enable changing the mode of the passage from a lounge to a public area. The conception of the theatre's area combines sections 1/ and 2/ mentioned above. It consists of the classical stage with a trap cellar, portal and fly, which can be used a classical opera-glasses theatre for as many as 800 persons in the audience and/or, if the iron curtain is closed, as a small scene with approximately 100 seats. The remaining area functions as experimental and consists of a revolving auditorium and 4 stages whose back walls feature panorama windows.
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Slovene National Theatre in Ljubljana
Pivoňková, Dagmara ; Bajger, Oldřich (referee) ; Kynčl, Jakub (advisor)
The plot for a new theater is in historic centre of Ljubljana and it is defined by block of existing buildings. I designed theatre with 3 variable scenes – one for 500 spectators, two for 100 people each. In addition i propose the theatre square – big exterior arena. The proposed building is an ending of urbanictic axe, that is why it has shape of monumental gate. The gate is oriented to the south, so i covered the fasade with huge fotovoltaic sreen, that is collecting electric energy during the day and shining this energy out during the night as a big city culture screen..
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Slovene National Theatre in Ljubljana
Štofira, Martin ; Bajger, Oldřich (referee) ; Knesl, Jiří (advisor)
Solving area of theatre is situated in settled historical block in the centre of Slovenian capital city Ljubljana. Block constists of habitable buildings and services in ground floor, and casino by green park Zvezda. The building of theatre creates floor shape of letter L, with colonnade shape of letter U. Height of structure is identically with height of historical building of casino. Facade is made by white architectural concrete, which creates prestige function and make individual in opposite of many-coloured historical buildings. Interior of foyer is also in light tone and glass-covered roof brings the sunlight into the buiding.
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Conversion of a city block in Ljubljana
Uhríková, Tatiana ; Rypl Žabčíková, Ada (referee) ; Nový, Vítězslav (advisor)
The design of the urban - architectural study of the city block serves as an ideological concept of the reconversion of the historic city block of Ljubljana and at the same time offers possible answers to the problem of thickening city centers, the use of vague urban spaces that have lost their significance. The first part of the proposal deals with the solution of micro urbanism of the inner block, which is currently undergoing many building modifications, which eventually led to its devastation and degradation of the environment. The design of urbanism responds to the naturalness of the urban organism, respects its unique context, and aims to create a natural setting that can become part of the site without compromising its original integrity and character. The second part of the design is an architectural study of the Cultural Center with a theatrical scene, whose idea and concept arose as a result of thinking about densifying the city and using the potential of "empty places" to bring new qualities and a new impulse to life. The process also applies the knowledge from the work of Christopher Alexander and his Language of Patterns, which served as a theoretical basis and a great source of inspiration. The analytical part and the process of work naturally resulted in the program of the cultural center and theater, as a suitable and missing element of the city, which will create a strong center of activity across different age groups and communities. The organization of the material structure of the individual contents and the division of the program answers the questions of urbanism, specific ideas about the functioning of the site, the quality of the environment, and the creation of a positive geometry of public space. The functional content in the center reflects the idea of thickening within the organization of space and creates the organism of the "city in the city". The term thickening is not meant primarily as a formal thickening, but as content, which brings many new, diverse activities to the area addressed.
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Slovene National Theatre in Ljubljana
Pacák, Radim ; Kopáčik, Gabriel (referee) ; Makovský, Zdeněk (advisor)
THE MAIN MATERIAL AIM WAS TO CREATE 2 VOLUMES WITH COMPLEMENTING ITS FUNCTIONAL USAGE AND FROM THIS RESULTING ALSO DIFFERENTIATION OF FACADES OF PARTICULAR VOLUMES. THE BUILDING EXPRESSION CORRESPONDES TO FUNCTIONAL FEATRUES OF PARTICULAR BUILDINGS BUT TO URBANISTIC LOCATION TOO. THE THEATRE IS SOMETIMES CALLED „BLACK BOX“ BEACAUSE OF THE CLOSED BUILDING CHARACTER, EMBEDING THE AUDITORIUM IN THE CENTRE OF THE BUILDING AND BY POSITIONING RELATING ALL FUNCTIONS AROUND. I USED THE SAME CONCEPTION FOR MY DESIGN. THE DISPOSITION DEPENDS ON THE CONSTRUCTION SYSTEM WHICH GOES THROUGH THE COMPLETE OBJECT AND WHICH IS THE CARCASE CONSTRUCTION.
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Extension FA Ljubljana
Tomková, Iva ; Marek, Jiří (referee) ; Šindlar, Jiljí (advisor)
The old building of the Faculty of Architecture has inconvenient spaces on the back - south- facade on both sides of the staircase . These two parts were added in later times, in the second half of the 20th century. Into the height of the old building, with high ceilings was crammed twice the number of floors. This resulted in a complicated tangle of small spaces, stairs etc. Headroom is not in allowed limit everywhere. The proposal is based on replacing these two parts with completely new design / independent of old building/. There were several initial basic options and requirements. It is a steel structure in the module 2,9 x 2,9 meters. The volume increases to width with increasing height. It does not occupy a place for access on the ground and at the same time it creates shelter for parked bicycles. In floor plans the new building is divided into two parts. One of the offices, which all have the same ceiling height – 2,9 meters. The remaining part is the so-called multifunctional semi-public, serving to relax, work, presentations, waiting for consultations, ... Each array of module is placed in different height, they're making different levels and different optically connected spaces. Movement through these levels is spiraling and is achieved to entrance from all the existing floor's levels in the old building. The steel bearing structure is fitted with translucent glass. Due to it new spaces are very light and emotionally larger. New volumes are lightweight, transparent and you can see an old original facade through them. Number of office's working places compared to the original number 36 raised to 40 chairs. On the ground floor have been newly designed toilets that are missing and number of booths was expanded to each floor.
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Slovene National Theatre in Ljubljana
Pavlíček, Tomáš ; Bajger, Oldřich (referee) ; Knesl, Jiří (advisor)
Slovene national theatre in the centre of Ljubljana as a part of existing city block. The composition of buildings creates new urban areas as a continuation of the urban axis of Josip Plečnik. The basic principle was to resolve the issues of entry into building, the definition and organization of space inner block, the creation and cultivation of new and existing urban areas. Unifying element of the whole composition is solution to the facade, which paraphrases the high order, typical for the surrounding buildings and significant not only for cultural buildings. As a contrast to massive and heavy mass of facade stand glass facade which makes lighter impression. White facade adds significance to the composition.
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Conversion of a city block in Ljubljana
Uhríková, Tatiana ; Rypl Žabčíková, Ada (referee) ; Nový, Vítězslav (advisor)
The design of the urban - architectural study of the city block serves as an ideological concept of the reconversion of the historic city block of Ljubljana and at the same time offers possible answers to the problem of thickening city centers, the use of vague urban spaces that have lost their significance. The first part of the proposal deals with the solution of micro urbanism of the inner block, which is currently undergoing many building modifications, which eventually led to its devastation and degradation of the environment. The design of urbanism responds to the naturalness of the urban organism, respects its unique context, and aims to create a natural setting that can become part of the site without compromising its original integrity and character. The second part of the design is an architectural study of the Cultural Center with a theatrical scene, whose idea and concept arose as a result of thinking about densifying the city and using the potential of "empty places" to bring new qualities and a new impulse to life. The process also applies the knowledge from the work of Christopher Alexander and his Language of Patterns, which served as a theoretical basis and a great source of inspiration. The analytical part and the process of work naturally resulted in the program of the cultural center and theater, as a suitable and missing element of the city, which will create a strong center of activity across different age groups and communities. The organization of the material structure of the individual contents and the division of the program answers the questions of urbanism, specific ideas about the functioning of the site, the quality of the environment, and the creation of a positive geometry of public space. The functional content in the center reflects the idea of thickening within the organization of space and creates the organism of the "city in the city". The term thickening is not meant primarily as a formal thickening, but as content, which brings many new, diverse activities to the area addressed.
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