New Bars and Updates to the Color Scheme of the Cultural House in Ústí nad Labem
Beautiful, but long-neglected and worn out from use without maintenance and concept, the spaces of the cultural house in Ústí (authors Mr. and Mrs. Lácha, project 1956, construction 1964).
The energy of the new management has aired out and cleaned the house. Headless navigational, informational, and advertising stickers of all kinds, produced on makeshift A4 office printers, have disappeared. Miles of covering strips, kilograms of hooks, screws, nails, and staples are gone, as is the clutter of the original bars.
The house sighed with relief.
Craftsmen from Nový Bor restored the original monumental chandeliers, and the new electrical installation provided an opportunity for the renewal and updating of the interior colors.
The path under the current paint revealed a number of past color schemes with a difficult-to-define beginning and intention. We attempted to sort the used color solutions into weak (various modern vanilla, apricot, and obligatory browns) and strong (pale blue of the main hall), to build upon them and complement them. We allowed neutral white to have an impact (in large areas and more than before), in which the beauty of the individual spaces stands out in their basic form.
The ceiling niches in the otherwise white entrance foyer are pale blue (RAL 230 80 10) and refer to the color of the main hall. The sky blue of the large niches (RAL 5019 Capri) serves as a backdrop for the radiant whiteness of the chandeliers, pointing to the vertical and freedom, and representing the interface of the building and the sky above it.
The balcony at the front of the main hall is gilded with a plaster finish, which complements the dark gray of the stage portal. The gold here is also a light irony – the apparent importance of VIP visitors to the balcony is represented by the shiny colored shell.
In the individual anterooms, we insert colored elements of bars set against a black background that winds seamlessly through the various spaces. The colors of the bars are a game – we borrow the color palette of Walter Gropius as a vivid contrast to the abstractly frozen beauty of the classicism of the entire house.
The energy of the new management has aired out and cleaned the house. Headless navigational, informational, and advertising stickers of all kinds, produced on makeshift A4 office printers, have disappeared. Miles of covering strips, kilograms of hooks, screws, nails, and staples are gone, as is the clutter of the original bars.
The house sighed with relief.
Craftsmen from Nový Bor restored the original monumental chandeliers, and the new electrical installation provided an opportunity for the renewal and updating of the interior colors.
The path under the current paint revealed a number of past color schemes with a difficult-to-define beginning and intention. We attempted to sort the used color solutions into weak (various modern vanilla, apricot, and obligatory browns) and strong (pale blue of the main hall), to build upon them and complement them. We allowed neutral white to have an impact (in large areas and more than before), in which the beauty of the individual spaces stands out in their basic form.
The ceiling niches in the otherwise white entrance foyer are pale blue (RAL 230 80 10) and refer to the color of the main hall. The sky blue of the large niches (RAL 5019 Capri) serves as a backdrop for the radiant whiteness of the chandeliers, pointing to the vertical and freedom, and representing the interface of the building and the sky above it.
The balcony at the front of the main hall is gilded with a plaster finish, which complements the dark gray of the stage portal. The gold here is also a light irony – the apparent importance of VIP visitors to the balcony is represented by the shiny colored shell.
In the individual anterooms, we insert colored elements of bars set against a black background that winds seamlessly through the various spaces. The colors of the bars are a game – we borrow the color palette of Walter Gropius as a vivid contrast to the abstractly frozen beauty of the classicism of the entire house.
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