Faculty of Humanities at Charles University, Prague Real Estate Interior, Campus Building Project, Czech Architecture Photos
Faculty of Humanities at Charles University, Prague
21 Feb 2022
Design: Kuba & Pila? architekti
Location: Pátkova 5, 182 00 Prague 8, Czech Republic

Images by David Korsa
Charles University Faculty of Humanities, Prague
The original canteen and dormitory buildings by the architect Karel Prager are only the torso of an unfinished university campus on the banks of the Vltava River.
Before:

The canteen itself was never fully used as intended. The 1980s building, built using a demanding lift-slab construction method with its deep central square disposition, had an indisputable architectural quality at the time of its construction. However, a radical change was necessary to accommodate new needs of the Faculty of Humanities.
The conversion project preservers the external shape, height and proportions of the original canteen building. The main intervention is the creation of a generous central hall, illuminated from above, with daylight coming in between the trusses of the skylights. The hall is the heart and the social center of the faculty which spatially connects all three floors of the building.

The entrance, located on the level of a raised plateau, enables a simple connection of all floors by two differently shaped one-flight staircases. Cantilevered galleries along the perimeter of the hall provide access to seminar rooms, teachers? off...