Forestry Commission Campus, Competition Winners, Concept Building, Visitors Centre, Architecture Images
Forestry Commission Campus in the Czech Republic
Nature Visitor Centre in Hradec Králové, Czechia ? design by CHYBIK+KRISTOF, architects
13 Mar 2017
Forestry Commission Campus Building
Design: CHYBIK+KRISTOF
Location: Hradec Králové, Czech Republic
First prize in international competition – Czech Forestry Commission Campus

The natural and the artificial mingle to become one in the new administrative centre of the Czech Forestry Commission

A project designed by a team under the direction of the Brno based young architecture studio CHYBIK+KRISTOF has recently won the international competition for the new administrative centre of the Czech Forestry Commission in Hradec Králové. The winning proposal is a two-storey building on the edge of an existing forest, that uses wood extensively as construction material ? as requested within the competition. The concept is based on incorporating the forest landscape into a five-finger building to create new relations between the inside office and the outside forest landscape. A nature trail surrounding the building allows to explore the different forest ecotypes, designed by Tomas Babka and breathe.earth.collective.

In summer 2016, a public two-round international architecture competition was announced, looking for a design for the new administrative centre of the Czech Forestry Commission that should substitute the exis...