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Surgar factory town square7/5/2023 ![]() ![]() Implementing an advanced system of blue-green infrastructure is aimed to optimize water management, while the implementation of renewable energy sources mitigates the carbon footprint of the complex, embracing its biodiversity - creating a friendly space for the local species to build their nests. The mixed-use residential area integrates a blue-green infrastructure and the preservation of green spaces across the whole complex. To be discernable as a fully visual reminder of its past, the studio proposed using the material not only for structural purposes but to also be exposed as a façade.Īppreciated for its historic significance and ability to fit into the existing landscape, according to the studio, Rebetong acts both as a functional and emotional reference to the collective memory of the area, adding value to the local culture, while being a sustainably elegant solution. ![]() The innovation of new material in the heart of the development further explores methods of creating an ecologically friendly material, asserting the studio’s curiosity in developing new sustainable resources to expand the importance of the architectural language. “The balance of architectural, technical, and sociological aspects formulates the harmonious habitat, which as an outcome, shapes a balanced neighborhood of distinctive identity.”įollowing intensive research and experimentation with different sizes, shapes, and densities, the team uses this unique material, Rebetong, in the heart of the development, preserved from leftover bricks. ![]() “Striving to create a diverse residential area with an expanded social infrastructure, our new design seamlessly merges elements of public and private space,” explain Ondrej Chybik and Michal Kristof, co-founding architects at CHYBIK + KRISTOF. The new mixed-use development extends along the existing urban axis, creating a seamless continuity and connection within its existing urban landscape. The studio carefully integrates the sugar factory chimney, built in 1927, into the new urban block and the chimney serves as a landmark and symbol of the area in retaining its historical integrity. “Involved in the design process from the beginning, the local inhabitants were able to shape their future landscape, highlighting the importance of community life and its corresponding social infrastructure,” the studio added. The development, facing the south side of the river Vltava, is surrounded by vast green landscapes. The use of newly-invented material stresses the architects’ continuous quest for new ways of sustainable building and creatively addresses ways of reusing and readapting existing material for construction. “The large-scale project addresses the need to reinvigorate the neighborhood into a multilayered entity asserting the architects’ commitment to a holistic social and sustainable approach,” says CHYBIK + KRISTOF. ![]() The material, which is used for the first time in such a large-scale project, will be used and exposed as the façade material.Īs a new hybrid construction substance, Rebetong is made of leftover bricks to reflect the unique industrial character of the site. The project will be built from a hybrid construction material, called Rebetong, invented by Skanska. It includes 790 apartments, an integrated all-inclusive 6,600-square-meter public square, a multifunctional hall, and a range of facilities, such as a coffee house, a brewery, retail outlets, a restaurant, a kindergarten, and a boat club, all responding to the needs of the existing and expanding local community. The so-called Sugar Factory development offers views of the river and boasts expansive open spaces, activating and expanding public space, fostering interaction and a sense of community. CHYBIK + KRISTOF collaborate with Skanska, and landscape architects Terra Florida and together present their plans for a new mixed-use residential development to transform a sugar factory on the outskirts of Prague, covering a 58,000-square-meter area and consisting seven multifunctional buildings. ![]()
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