STU center of innovation in Bratislava

Project idea

The driving force behind this design is achieving inter-connectivity of spaces in the city by creating a central node linking surrounding areas of interest and public focus through a series of public courtyards, seating, entertainment and exhibitions areas with private learning spaces created through the displacement and rearrangement of the existing building spaces. This particular approach to the design is achieved with the guided routes of circulation through the site leading from highly public city surroundings into a semi-public courtyard space which then follows a vertical hierarchy of the building which goes from public to semi private the higher the levels.

Project description

The proposed building aims to reuses the structural elements of the existing laboratories. Keeping the shape of the building with the added central core and circulation route on either end of the building.

Technical information

In keeping with the theme of the surrounding buildings, the proposed building uses concrete as the main material, with the structural columns, walls and floors constructed with concrete. There is also an abundant use of glass throughout the building.