SOBOTKA?ZOBTENBERG-3

T H E V I S I T O R S' C E N T R E T H E R E V A L U A T I O N S T U D Y O F T H E S L E Z A M O U N T A I N T H E S L E Z A M O U N T A I N The top-part of the Sleza Mountain is the 'archaeological open-air museum' unique in the European scale, representing the relicts of a worship of many cultures reaching about 4000 b.c. At the present over half of the top-plateau area is occupied by buildings demoting a scenery of that.place being a part of the national heritage. The revaluation study principle is emphasizing of the genius loci and the heritage of that mysterious place by: - restoration of a spatial separation of the sacrum - (place of prehistoric worship) from profanum (a services' zone for a touristic movement) by transfering the profanum outside the plateau surrounded by the circle of the cult embankment (VIII-VI b.c.) - neutralization of the presence of an architectural objects on the top by locating the indispensable capacities in the forest - project of the visitors' centre assuring of all services indispensable for a touristic movement as well as emphasizing of the historic, cultural and natural values of the culminatic part of the Sleza Mountain T H E V I S I T O R S' C E N T R E F O R M An architectural form designed in the organic structure of the forest should be constructed according to the rules of nature. The design principle is minimum interference in existing ecosystem and harmonizing the structure with the environment by : - analogy of the forms and of the constructional solutions to 'the architecture of the nature' - using an open-work architectural structure which assures the interpenetration of the trunks and of the architecture (not of restrictive access of light and waters to the forest litter) - minimalizing a quantity of supports by use of support elements transmitting a loads from a large area to one point - using wood as a basic builder's material (barked spruce balks, diameter about 30 cm, preservated under pressure) - elevation of the walkways and the bridge elements over the rocky and covered in stones zone of the forest-litter - suspension of the 'the nests' in a forest space - capacity forms analogous with form and with function to the bird's nests - transparency of the capacity elements neutral for a natural environment F U N C T I O N The Visitors' Centre is divided on three functional zones, three levels following an inclination of the slope: A. the educational trail - pathleading through the forest scenery on the top-rock topped with the viewing tower - cognitive function, inquiry , exhibition spaces, possibility of an observation of the natural environment and of the relicts of an ancient worships from close distances thanks to system of foot-bridges over a level of the rocky forest-litter B. the shelter - the cafe, a health-base, the viewing and the rest terraces, the amenities for the guides C. dormitories - hostel base for 42 people- 7 'nests' containing three levels: the bedroom for 6 people, the entrance level - living room and the bathroom The car parks are set at the bottom of the mountain at the start-points of the four touristic trails. The only driveway for technical services leads to the visitors' centre. C O N S T R U C T I O N The bearing construction is a wooden structure based on the triangular net, chosen because of its the greatest stiffness attained at the lowest costs. The constructional module is supported on the three open-work columns using geometry of the upturned pyramid. The spatial modules are united in strands building the structure supporting usable areas which are leaning on it: the foot-bridges, terraces, usable glazed volume of the cafe and the volumes of the dormitories suspended in the structure -'the nests'(duralumin framing suporting the composite panels covered with a copper sheet ). T H E V I S I T O R S' C E N T R E T H E R E V A L U A T I O N S T U D Y O F T H E S L E Z A M O U N T A I N T H E S L E Z A M O U N T A I N The top-part of the Sleza Mountain is the 'archaeological open-air museum' unique in the European scale, representing the relicts of a worship of many cultures reaching about 4000 b.c. At the present over half of the top-plateau area is occupied by buildings demoting a scenery of that.place being a part of the national heritage. The revaluation study principle is emphasizing of the genius loci and the heritage of that mysterious place by: - restoration of a spatial separation of the sacrum - (place of prehistoric worship) from profanum (a services' zone for a touristic movement) by transfering the profanum outside the plateau surrounded by the circle of the cult embankment (VIII-VI b.c.) - neutralization of the presence of an architectural objects on the top by locating the indispensable capacities in the forest - project of the visitors' centre assuring of all services indispensable for a touristic movement as well as emphasizing of the historic, cultural and natural values of the culminatic part of the Sleza Mountain T H E V I S I T O R S' C E N T R E F O R M An architectural form designed in the organic structure of the forest should be constructed according to the rules of nature. The design principle is minimum interference in existing ecosystem and harmonizing the structure with the environment by : - analogy of the forms and of the constructional solutions to 'the architecture of the nature' - using an open-work architectural structure which assures the interpenetration of the trunks and of the architecture (not of restrictive access of light and waters to the forest litter) - minimalizing a quantity of supports by use of support elements transmitting a loads from a large area to one point - using wood as a basic builder's material (barked spruce balks, diameter about 30 cm, preservated under pressure) - elevation of the walkways and the bridge elements over the rocky and covered in stones zone of the forest-litter - suspension of the 'the nests' in a forest space - capacity forms analogous with form and with function to the bird's nests - transparency of the capacity elements neutral for a natural environment F U N C T I O N

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