Five, Prague 5 Building Complex, Smíchov Offices and Shops, Czech Mixed-Use Development, Photos
Five in Prague 5 Smíchov
10 Nov 2020
Five, Prague
Design: QARTA ARCHITEKTURA
Location: Smíchov, Prague, Czech Republic

?History meets future,? declares the fitting motto chosen for the project Five, located in Prague 5 ? Smíchov. A tram depot building occupied the project site, but that could have been called a relic even when it was built. While forming an important endpoint in the city transport system, complicated access had been its disadvantage right from the beginning. The depot building still looked almost exactly like when it was closed, years later when current renovations began. Previously it had proved too difficult to adapt for a new use, so it remained in a sort of permanent provisional state.
It became impossible to keep the original curious technical program. The necessary connection to the city?s tram network was lost and the place no longer had any physical contact with it. What was missing here was a naturally smooth gradient in the urbanisation level, starting with the fully industrialized and ending with the predominantly residential city blocks. Residential development was picking up and lining the new streets even as the tram depot was being built. At that time, the whole area was transforming.

From an industrial periphery, delimited by the two transport arteries of the day: the Vltava river with it?s Smíchov Port and the railway with the Smíchov ...