| Location: | Legionárska – Blumentálska streets, Bratislava, Slovakia |
| Client: | ORCO Project, s r.o. |
| Total useful area: | 70.377 m2 |
| Project accomplishment stage: | architectural competition 2007, 3rd place |
| Architects: | Juraj Hermann, Daniel Růžička, Lenka Gáliková, Janka Kramáriková, Daniel Mikunda |
The study of municipal residential block at the place of former brewery in Bratislava – Nové Mesto was a proposal sent to invited competition, where it was included in closer selection. The basic concept of the design is in metamorphosis, transformation of STEIN (stone, in fact a huge boulder, to STEINROSE (stone rose).The Bratislavaers could never have looked into the industrial plant and had to sidetrack it via the neighbour streets. On the contrary, the proposed semi-opened structure with elegant curves of new structures - residential objects and hotel – is opening like flower petals and invites visitors to enter via its open parterre. The shopping passages, joining at the internal square dominated by a waterworks with stone rose sculpture, will lead us via new by-ways from Legionárska to Krížna street, and from Radlinského street and Kmeťovo námestie (Kmeť square) to the Horse Tram Terminal and to the Market Hall.
As to the original STEIN brewery, we think it is adequate to preserve the fermenting cellar object, ended up by a pronounced copper dome. The copper-rusted dome has already become an icon of the eastern part of Bratislava. This attractive object with six pronounced columns with huge conical capitals is good for transformation into luxury offices, or loft apartments. The mass of the residential objects is designed to form numerous well-oriented valuable residential terraces on the parterre roof and on receding floors of individual houses. The use of balconies and continuous loggias is significant for the designed architecture of the residential objects; beside higher dwelling standard, the objects can be protected from noise from traffic in the neighbourhood (e.g. by transforming the loggias to winter gardens).
P - T, spol. s r. o., Martinengova 30, 811 02 Bratislava, Slovensko
