Public building - Community centre

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exhibition Neue Funktionen für alte Baustrukturen

coneco 2015

Zaran Haus Zurndorf Community Center

location: Zurndorf / Austria type: Architecture / Urban design author: Erik Blaho supervisor: Ing. arch. Dušan Ferianc, PhD. client: town Zurndorf year: 2014

The site is located in the Austrian village Zurndorf and forms a narrow strip connecting two parallel streets. The proposal consists of two houses: a building for temporary housing with space for workshops, and a Community Center with a square, which is the center of the village. The Community Center and the square make up a single unit so that they can provide a variety of events for the whole village, thus being its true center. In order to make the square reach its high potential, the building of the Community Center must be adjusted by a system of openable roof and ground floors. A podium or a roof terrace can easily be created by opening the roof. The open ground floor can provide great public space (a square + a Community Center + a small amphitheater). The objective was to create a complex of buildings that do not only threaten a rural character of the community but at the same time will be recreated by contemporary architecture.

Community Center at night

Performance on the open roof