Czech Ports Building, Prague Office Design, Contemporary Czech Architecture by River Vltava
Czech Ports Building in Prague
18 Jan 2022
Design: ADNS architekti
Location: Prague, Czech Republic

Photos by BoysPlayNice
The Czech Ports Building project was created in a very confined space, defined in the area of a functional cargo port in Prague. On the north side it is limited by the functional river transhipment point, from the south by the future adjacent residential development.

Czech Ports Building
From the east, the land is bounded by the Vltava riverbed and by the line of the mobile flood wall. This mobile wall completely secures and protects the adjoining residential quarter of Hole?ovice from a possible flood tide and runs perpendicularly in the middle of the layout through the entire ground plan of the house.
The necessity to ensure technical access and, in the event of flood threat, the collision-free construction of the flood wall is also visible in the structural design of the house, where more than half of the building is above the possible river flood. Plain concrete is thus also admitted on the columns and the ceiling of the building. The simple layout of the house, influenced by the possibility of the site, presupposes a simple and clear use and arrangement of the office layout.

The flats on the upper floors, on the other hand, benefit from the view of Prague Castle and basically the entire level of the Vltava valley. Concrete, simple large-format slabs, ...