B+B Barcelona/master’s thesis/Iva Křikavová/studio of Ivan Koleček/2010 Urban Plan of Poble Nou district of Barcelona in the past was strongly defined, factory halls fully built the block, streets and squares had a clear structure. Industry terminated operations and adjacent diagonals became attractive for various companies, hotels and developers, who started to build. Thirty-storey houses with undefined environment, the structure is lost, chaos prevails. To preserve the character of the plan, the old and the newly formed buildings, became a clear definition of the school block. Definition of block one hundred years ago lay in the absolute middle of the courtyard, but how to behave now in 2010? The answer is to define a block with three houses, each of then has its function - school, sports, library and dining room. Among them are moving teachers and students, experiencing the way, change the focus away leaving behind the school building and coming to do sports, eat or read a book. Actual volumes, however, could not become the answers, they could not become to be an integrated bloc. The space between them must band them together to give a complete character, followed by the part-built and connect everything to each other, gain mobility system common to all three. The solution became a principle belts - belt bound outdoors, belt inner freedom (hall, path to the target classroom, a room) and the target belt in the form of classrooms, gym and multipurpose halls. Cerda Plan for unique compared to other rectangular nets are the squares that are created with cutting off corner of the block. Project in such an urban network should respond to this. What is the city block and cut off the corner? In a project for me is not a barrier to good regular layout, but instead of entering the city and its principles into the project and school responses to these special places. In all four corners is resulting in an open hall houses all over the floor, becoming an indoor view schools in cities and towns for school. The system is one exception, it is an existing church, which has not an ambitions to become something special and unusual, but is part of the whole. Each object has its own ledge. This has become a symbol of an element that turns the house imide to the courtyard and other buildings. It connects the building and the downstream area, it gives him character building, sport connects with an outdoor playground, building a library with a place for rest and home school with a place with trees. All three ledges are the same height, thus uniting the whole school, the whole block. Facades are open underneath, glazed, thus having a different character than the rest.

Three houses are presented in this book. Each house has been designed with distinct site parameters with the expectation that obvious differences in form would occur. The focus of this investigation lies within the significant parallels that exist between the projects and how those parallels relate to the principles that constitute a framework of operation for a designer. / Master of Architecture