PIANO Office Center, ?eské Budejovice Commercial Building, Czech Architecture, Images
PIANO Office Center in ?eské Budejovice
Contemporary Architecture Development in the Czech Republic ? design by CMCARCHITECTS
18 Sep 2018
PIANO Office Center
Design: CMCARCHITECTS
Location: ?eské Budejovice, Czech Republic
PIANO Office Center

Ceske Budejovice is a surprising city, with a compact historical center rich in architectural detail and quality. It is also a city with youthful energy, seeming to be as recreational as it is historical and cultural. Its Old Town is bordered to the North-East with green and parks, while its South-West edge has the confluence of two streams coming into the Vltava River. We find, therefore, Ceske Budejovice to have an inspiring, sort of quiet, dynamic ? it is a place of cyclical movement energies created by a collection of trajectories ? from roads, bridges, creeks/streams, parks and building clusters.
The PIANO posits itself on a primary East-West, North-South crossing, just South of the Old Town, where the urbanism transitions into solitaires and groups of objects with similar functions. Seven varied geometric lines of movement intersect, cross, collide and run parallel here, which all relate to places, points of significance, transition and axial views. This ?phenomenology? of place we found as a catalyst for design and volumetric ?morphing? of the object now called the ?PIANO? (originally Manes Office Center).

The program pre-determin...