Czech firm PLUKK has released designs for a community center and town hall in the city of Brno-Kohoutovice, Czech Republic. Located in the historic downtown, the project takes advantage of a sloping site to create two buildings of differing architectural language, connected together with active public space to create one multifunctional town center.

Courtesy of PLUKK

Czech firm PLUKK has released designs for a community center and town hall in the city of Brno-Kohoutovice, Czech Republic. Located in the historic downtown, the project takes advantage of a sloping site to create two buildings of differing architectural language, connected together with active public space to create one multifunctional town center.
Courtesy of PLUKK

Important to PLUKK was that new development should feature ample public space easily accessible to the community. With that in mind, they decided to design the complex as ?half-landscape, half-house.? The program of the project is split into two parts, with the town hall located on an upper terrace, and the community center below. A plaza in front of the town hall, which could serve as a public meeting space, farmer?s market or a place to screen movies in the summer, slopes up to become the accessible roof of the community center. An entrance to the community center is notched into the roofline, connecting the buildings on the same plane.

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