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The Glass Tower

Year Term Supervisor Type

2021

Architectural Studio I

Prof. Ing. arch. Petr Hruša

Academic

Transformation of Granary to a Cultural Center

The Granary is owned by the Metropolitan Chapter at St. Wenceslas in Olomouc. It is a Baroque brick agricultural building. The building has four floors with a used truss in two levels, in the shape of a trapezoid. Bricked from mixed masonry (stone, brick) and additionally plastered, covered with a gabled roof with hipped dormers. It has one entrance through a double door from the courtyard. Dispositional, it is a single wing, divided only by a light wooden partition. The connection of the individual floors is ensured by a wooden side two-arm staircase.

The intervention of this project is to propose a complementary function for the old farmhouse. It is also required to renovate the old historical granary into a contextual viable program.

Concept | Diverting the interest to tell the history and culture of the city

A river tells a story. Bystrice river had seen a lot. It has witnessed the area evolving from a brewery to a farmland with granary , eventually to be dominated by workshops. Thus, taking inspiration from the river leaving a residue of specimens in his path. The granary will be serving as the focal point in stocking the history, culture, and tradition of the city that the river has been reflecting and carrying. Once the store house for threshold grain now will serve as a monumental place in reserving the town history. The organic flow of the river will shape the form of the new proposed building before the firmly standing granary. It will link the rigid mass of the granary to the dynamic landscape of the site.