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Křižanovice is a community of about 700 people, half way between Slavkov u Brna and Bučovice. The Sokol Křižanovice Sport Club amphitheatre, dressing rooms and sanitary facilities structure is situated in the northeast of the community, in the close vicinity of the Litava stream.
The task was to design a structure serving the local football club and at the same time becoming
a new social centre for the community to host various sports, culture and club events in addition to football matches. The mission was more than completed - the local people are proud of their new community centre, as innumerable events have demonstrated over the less than six months of operation (including
the fact that companies and the neighbouring communities hire the house for their events).
The structure is designed as a simple dimensional play of three volumes - two ground floor prisms and the roof - that create new relations and spaces when mutually set off. The prisms, in the local football club colours, contain the players' and referees' dressing rooms, a snack bar, a clubroom and all the background amenities. An amphitheatre for about 120 spectators covered with light trapezoid polycarbonate is placed on the larger red prism.
The construction of the building is mixed - steel frames and brickwork.
The project solves the football area which has to serve as a social center for inhabitants of a small town. A limited budget and a time pressure resulted into a simple solution which, nonetheless, has its qualities. The modelation of two mutually shifted cubes and a light metal construction of the roof create the required tension and dynamics of the place. The steel construction has an appropriate sculptural look. The Jury appreciated the simple way in which the author dealt with the assigned task raising a utility object to the rank of architecture.