Native structure studio Dílna expanded the artwork division at Masaryk College in Brno, Czech Republic, making a minimalist stack of studios that have been designed to look “extra like a contemporary artwork gallery than a standard instructional facility.”
Designed for the college's College of Schooling, the 300 sq. meter constructing provides new workshop and studio services straight adjoining to the school's neoclassical foremost constructing.
Dílna designed the brand new constructing to be a “sensible and utilitarian” distinction to this present historic constructing, with a minimal, white-plastered exterior that mirrors the white cube-style studio areas inside.
“The problem was to design a constructing that deviates from conventional college development requirements, whereas outwardly reflecting its inventive focus,” Dílna founder Michal Palaščak advised Dezeen.
“Our purpose was to focus on the creation of one thing new within the neighborhood by intentionally selecting to not mimic the form of the neighboring historic constructing,” he added.
“[It] it feels extra like a contemporary artwork gallery than a standard instructional facility, standing out from the road area and fascinating in a compelling dialogue between the neoclassical structure of the encircling buildings and its personal beneficiant, orthogonal varieties.”
Loosely matching the ground ranges of the adjoining constructing, the studios are organized over 4 flooring housed in three distinct rectilinear blocks, which have been gently pushed and pulled to articulate the constructing facades.
Area for the studios themselves has been maximized by connecting to the prevailing circulation on the north finish of the adjoining historic constructing, which features a just lately added elevator.
A double-height multimedia studio occupies the highest ground, lit by a high-level window and with color-changing lighting constructed into its partitions.
On the flooring beneath, a portray store is lit by a big, sq. window that frames the bushes behind the location, and the slicing, drilling and welding outlets overlook the road by a ribbon window.
The constructing's 'monolithic' strengthened concrete construction has been completed internally with an epoxy coating and white paint, with areas of glass left largely unframed to maximise the sense of area and lightweight.
“The objective was to maximise the out there area, so we made it as huge as attainable,” defined Palaščak.
“We have been additionally restricted by the neighboring block that we couldn’t shade. We turned this limitation to our benefit, creating clear sculptural gestures,” he added.
Based mostly in Brno, Dílna was based by Palaščak in 2015.
Different Brno initiatives just lately featured on Dezeen embrace a steel-framed pavilion by Chybik + Kristof on the Mendel Historic Museum and an ice cream compact.
Images is by Studio Flusser.