Dolina residential complex

The new development on the northwestern outskirts of the Prague – Lysolaje municipal district was created in mutual symbiosis of the public and private sectors (municipality and developer). The project’s objective was to create a new municipal centre and to supplement the missing public amenities for which there was no room in the existing development. The site has the shape of a natural amphitheatre and is connected by road to the existing street network in four places. The core of the area is two public spaces - a square and a park.
The square, formed by an avenue and a space with a water element, is defined by the Sokolovna Community Centre (multifunctional hall, restaurant, gym) to the west, a service centre (doctor’s surgery, maternity centre, grocery store, etc.) and a single-storey apartment building with atrium flats to the east and a municipal apartment building with 29 units ranging from studio to 2-bedroom flats to the north. On the other side, adjacent to the apartment building, is a park, which is topped by a small kindergarten, partially embedded in the rising ground. The park is terminated to the north by a kindergarten partially recessed into the rising terrain. There are 57 houses of several types, arranged in a funnel-shaped pattern in accordance with the morphology of the terrain. The whole site is complemented by a new sports complex to the north-east.
The duality of the design is also reflected in the material design, with the public buildings around the square clad in ceramic banding and the other houses in a combination of light-coloured plaster and stone walls.