THREE TIMES ONE COMMUNITY CENTRE IN MODRICE Location Modrice, Czech Republic Client / operator City of Modrice Architect & Principal Designer Atelier bod architekti s.r.o. CZ – 170 00 Prague www.bodarchitekti.cz Author bod architekti Photos Tomáš Slavík Jan Alexander Bednár Official opening 2020 Construction costs EUR 7 million
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Modrice is a suburb of Brno, the second largest city in the Czech Republic. This is where a community centre with a triple sports hall, gymnastics room, swimming pool and guest room has been built. By embedding the sports hall halfway into the ground, the new building docks unobtrusively onto a historical building. Modrice has the appearance typical of a small town; the houses in Benešova street are one or two storeys high, and a few have three storeys. The newly built sports complex takes its cue from the height of the surrounding buildings, even though the hall has headroom of between 9 and 11 m, which is the height of a threestorey building. The hall is located at the very edge of the site between the railway line and the primary school. This way, the sports hall serves as a kind
of noise barrier without affecting the lighting conditions in the classrooms. The restaurant is now accommodated in the restored old building – as a reminder of the building‘s history. The sports complex has the ambition and potential to become a meeting place for the local community. The architecture of the building therefore seeks to communicate solidity, integrity and tranquillity, and the building is therefore designed as a calm edifice standing firmly on the ground. sb 1/2022
