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FILADELFIE OFFICE BUILDING ARCHITECT

FIRM

AREA

ASSOCIATE ARCHITECT

LOCATION

PHOTOGRAPHER

DaM spol.s r.o., Jan Holna, Petr Šedivý, Richard Doležal, Petr Malinský, Lenka Kadrmasová

Michaela Čechová, Jana Hanzalová, Monika Pejsarová, Gabriela Šatrová, Jitka Šindelářová, Mária Urbanová, Roland Vančó, Kateřina Víděnová, Jindřich Ševčík

DaM

Praha, Czech Republic

35,000 m²

Filip Šlapal

The new office tower Filadelfie became in 2010 a part of the large newly

from which the four administrative wings are stretching. The opening of

urbanized site in Prague 4 – Michle. At the same time, a revitalization of

the cross shape is providing both premium levels of interior lighting and

a disused space between streets (Želetavská and Baarova) took place

panoramic views to any place along the facade.

turning the site into a park.

The variability of the office floor disposition allows dividing the floor into

Although the Filadelfie office building is located in a relatively urbanized

four independent units, or utilization of the whole floor for single tenant.

environment, the designers designed the shape to maximize the

Staircases in the two larger wings enable inner vertical connection for a

detachment from surrounding buildings. The shape of a cross diagonally

tenant using several adjacent storeys.

oriented following the adjacent communications allowed to keep enough of free space and to approach the design as a solitaire building. The building is placed without any base onto a grassed plane, which surrounds Filadelfie while transforming to the mentioned park.

Distinctively shaped volume of seventeen office floors is changing in the parterre into six sub-terrain storeys filling the whole available site area. Thanks to the terrain morphology the first basement is partially exposed towards street Želetavská, thus creating a portal for building main

The basic concept of a typical office floor is a modified letter H. The main

entrances. Retail areas are situated on this floor. The other five basements

communication spine is located in the central part of the disposition,

are accommodating parking and building technology facilities.

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