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School Proposal for Lounovice near Prague
International Architecture Competitionin in Czech Republic ? design by JDAP
18 May 2018
School Proposal for Lounovice
Architects: JDAP
Location: Lounovice, Czech Republic
School Proposal for Lounovice

LO?BATES – a voluntary union of four municipalities to the East of Prague, in early 2018, floated an international competition for the design of a new elementary and art school for the children of the four constituent localities. JDAP has proposed a scheme for the same in the form of a tightly integrated complex of buildings that deftly integrates with the surrounding community and landscape, forming a light, soft building envelope gently enclosing the school functions, allowing its inhabitants to claim it over time and make it their own.
Description from Architect:

The site for the new school lies at the edge of the village Lounovice and the forest that, with a new planned street connection to the highway connecting it to Prague, has its South West corner as the main point where the school meets the village. This becomes the School Piazza – a zone where the community comes together to meet, socialise and celebrate. As the forecourt to the school, this space is completely pedestrian and free of any vehicular movement barring bicycles.

Building Configuration

The site is organised into four major Zones – the School z...