A modern school for 600 children with a gymnasium on the roof will be built in Holešovice
The school will be built between Jankovcova, U Vody and Varhulíkova streets near the left bank of the Vltava. The building will accommodate up to 540 children and will be built on the site of the former Přadelní street, which the city district plans to restore and thus connect Jankovcova with the waterfront. The school is needed because of the planned housing development in the Lower Holešovice area.
“Before announcing the competition, we contacted the principals of our schools, teachers, representatives of parents and students from our Youth Council and consulted on how a modern school building should look, which will serve its purpose well for forty, fifty or even the next hundred years,” said the fifty to the project by the mayor of Prague 7, Jan Čižinský.
The town hall expects the school to have twice the capacity of nine classes, and it will also have two preparatory classes, two gymnasiums, a choir room, a kitchen, a multifunctional dining room that can also be used as an auditorium, two outdoor playgrounds and other facilities for almost 600 pupils and the teaching staff. In front of the school, on the corner of Jankovcova Street and the restored Přádelní Street, a small square will be created with trees, rest areas, benches and bike racks.
Another interesting feature of the project is the gymnasium with an outdoor playground located on the roof overlooking the river.
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According to information from the town hall, 30 architectural studios applied for the competition, in addition to the Czech ones, also from Austria, Great Britain, Canada and Vietnam. The winning proposal impressed the jury, among other things, with the design of the garden.
“A generous space for a school garden will be created between the school and the future building in the western neighborhood. This wide corridor or clearing is a kind of breath of air to the otherwise small plot and an elegant gift to the school, the neighboring houses and Jankovcova Street,” said one of the jury members, Belgian architect of Chinese origin Gaofei Tan.
The original name of the school was to be based on the former Předelní street. Last March, the town hall named it after the writer, songwriter, poet and theater actor Jan Vodňanský. Vodňanský was born on June 19, 1941 and died last March. The text of one of the songs he composed with Petr Skoumal is dedicated to Holešovice.