Red Hill Rise Proposal / Maxwan + MS architekti

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The Maxwan, in collaboration with MS architekti, designed Red Hill Rise proposal is a mixed use building on top of a metro station, which includes offices and retail located along a major spine road connecting the airport and historical city center of Prague. They came up with the idea of ‘breaking-up’ the building volume and inserting landscape and public space in between. More images and architects’ description after the break.

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The backdrop of the project is a dramatically steep slope (max. 14m height difference), the site being located in a tranquil residential area while required program is purely commercial and requires expressive architecture. Furthermore, there is a lack of sufficient public space in the neighborhood.

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Therefore, their 'breaking up' approach is not only for being sensitive to the tranquil surroundings avoiding massive building volume, but also aiming for commercially competitive office space yet achieving expressive architecture.

• Architects

  Maxwan

• Location

  Prague, Czech Republic

• Partner in Charge

  Hiroki Matsuura

• Team Leaders

  Jason Hilgefort, Rene Sangers

• Team

  Artur Borejszo, Veronika Komova, Valentina Chiappa Nunez, Aleksandar Hrib, Nobuki Ogasahara, Ignas Uogintas, Janneke Earl

• Collaborator

  MS architekti s.r.o. (Michal Sourek, Pavel Hrebecky, Tomas Filgas, Martin Studnicka, Thomas Zagdoun, Idan Zveibil)

• Engineering Structures & Installations

  ABT bv

• Horticulture

  Ebben Nurseries

• Commercial Consultancy

  ACTM Netherlands bv (for shopping centres & high traffic locations)

• Traffic & Parking

  Peter Brogt Traffic Advice

• Energy, Sustainability and Engineering

  Buro Happold, Search Engineering bv, Energysim s.r.o.

• Facade Engineering

  Scheldebouw BV

• Office market & ’Het Nieuwe Werken’

  HEVO bv

• Geology & Foundations

  Jaroslav Pasek

• Real Estate, Retail Development

  &H Real Estate bv

• Client

  KKCG Real Estate a.s.

• Site Area

  1.2 ha

• Total GFA

  41,000 m2

• Program Areas

  Service/Retail 250 m2 gfa; Offices 28,750 m2 gfa; Parking 700 spaces

• Estimated Building Cost

  €55M

• Project Year

  2013

• Photographs

  Courtesy of Maxwan

• Project Year

  2013

• Photographs

  Courtesy of Maxwan

• Engineering Structures

  ABT bv

• Installations

  ABT bv

• Geology

  Jaroslav Pasek

• Foundations

  Jaroslav Pasek

• Traffic and Parking

  Peter Brogt Traffic Advice