GRÖSSLING - FOUR COURTYARDS AND A SQUARE

Tobrucká str

eet City Bath, City Library, park, café, space for children and artist in residence all in one place

t ee

Medená str A

statue

swale (rainwater harvesting)

PARK

(disabled)

eserved parking r

satelite coffee café terrace -1,210 event space stand bicycles

GROSSLING -1,210 PUBLIC SQUARE 'shared space' traffic

-1,210

self-service station -0,750

A NEW UNITY, SUBTLE ALTERATION OF THE EXISTING -1,120 magazines & books kids' The New Grössling Bath and Library is an alteration project that provide a unique opportunity to zone -0,050

+0,040 library entrance café / restaurant counter

respond to the key environmental, social and architectural questions of our time. The existing t e a m w o r k hall (55) THE ACTIVE +0,050 magazines & books FLOOR -0,620 building fabric that we inherit is one of the resources – it represents perhaps even the most reception & shop event space / open access shelves -0,040 furniture on wheels important resource we have got for the transformation of our cities today. l o c k e r s i n d v u a l s t y g

fountain "bird baths" The proposed scheme deliberately avoids strong visual differences between the new and the old b a r / c o u n t e +0,030 s e l f - c h k t a i o n ca 10000 volumes building elements. The design strategy alters existing spaces in order to make room for a new ±0,000 unity where new volumes and spaces merge with the existing, with small, strategic additions rather bar GARDEN relaxation zone relaxation than large gestures. The preservation methodology is programmatic in the sense that it suggests -1,160 + waiting zone 0,020 +0,020 lukewarm B careful restoration of previous functions, enhancing the original intentions of the existing architecture B water ATRIUM combined with new added and transformed spaces. The Grössling bath has a long history of +0,020 steam bath first aid

ooms gradual additions and alterations. Our proposal is yet another stage in this alteration process leaving eet

men (104) indoor recreational

changing r pools cold

room for future adjustments. Kúpeľná str recreational finnish sauna water e a outdoor pool hot ±0,000 -0,040 a r e s h m n t e f r r The interior layout of Four courtyards and a square refers to the Roman baths that provided the finnish sauna covered outdoor warm visitor with an interior landscape, organized around a series of well-defined covered and uncovered service pool elevator warm water

top lit spaces, that was secluded from the surrounding city. Organizing rooms around courtyards ±0,000 showers -0,050

solves key programmatic challenges. The well-known typology of the Library and typology of the supply ing -1,110 dry +0,050 Bath can be connected with the courtyards. A separation between books and water is necessary but hair socially the readers and swimmers are united by carefully arranged shared communication spaces and in the shared Garden courtyard. The proposal includes and enhances the quality of the existing relaxation zone courtyards and introduce a new, The Atrium, as a center point for the circulation of the entire +0,060 skylight building complex. Each of the courtyards include the water element to emphasize the presence of glazed roof ±0,000 indoor swimming pool

(supply)

eserved parking the bath. If the Atrium is the inclusive center point of the interior, the Grössling square acts as the r

social node connecting the institution to the city. The street floor in front of the main entrance is +0,060 extended out to the surrounding buildings, forming a new public square and a park.

well boiler water jets in flooring BACKYARD ORANGERIE -1,220 -1,160 -1,120 +0,020 chimney pavilion with folding roof sauna CHIMNEY WELL -1,240

-1,630 hot/cold tub

ooms

men (71)

changing r A

waiting room +0,030

(supply)

+0,660

eserved parking

r

-0,640 reception & shop

-1,120 -1,170

-1,200

Vajanského GROUND FLOOR PLAN 1:300 nábrežie 0 5 10

Grössling site plan_A1 18/06/2020

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The atrium pool

COURTYARDS The backyard is connected to the Boiler Orangerie. With a new glazed greenhouse roof structure, The proposal divides the function of the library into four distinctive levels: The courtyards are flexible spaces, each of them with an individual character. The programming the characteristic historical boiler is altered into a calm and light space for relaxation. The relation The active ground floor connected to the café with the possibility to transform the open bookshelf of the spaces can vary over the day and season and thus cater for a multiple of current and future to the place’s history is emphasized by an act of alteration where the historical technical artifact is hall into a vibrant event space. The activities can expand to the Park in the Grössling square and needs of the institution. transformed and given a new function. into the Garden courtyard. The focused first floor is focused on individual use with study- and workshop rooms of various The Atrium The Chimney Well sizes with 24/7 access to please the needs of individuals and groups. The new Atrium brings light and air into the building complex, and acts as a new central nave. Its This space invites the visitor to bade underneath and in direct contact with the impressive, high The creative second floor is dedicated to exploration, gaining new skills, socializing and relaxing new pool restores the function of the first pool of the baths, a function that was lost in previous historical chimney. The Chimney Well has the potential of becoming an iconic picture location and and can accommodate specific functions such as kid’s library, library of things, interactive games stages of alteration of the bath. a symbol for the new reborn Grössling bath and Library. It is connected to the swimmer’s pool and and audio & video facilities. A semi-outdoor pool is an addition to the restored existing recreational and swimming pool. can be used as a part of the circulatory route through the complete bath. The silent basement of the library is serving as an archive space that, if needed, easily can be The added indoor colonnade lining the atrium is designed as a light and minimal structure clearly transformed into a public open-access shelves space. subordinated to the existing historical architecture. The Atrium space is referring to the roman bath Grössling Square typology but designed as a contemporary interpretation. The streets in front of the main entrances to both the Bath and the Library are treated as one Residency and offices A circle of sunlit spaces surrounds the Atrium, serving as relaxation area and circulatory space. continuous surface. This enhances the perception of the Grössling square and links the building The apartments of the Residency is located on the 3rd floor of the functionalist object. They are Additional openings in the wall to the east of the Atrium enables efficient circulation. A sun terrace is and the city. A shared space street between the building and the square transforms the rather busy reached by the staircase shared with the exciting residential apartments. The connected roof terrace established on the first floor on the roof above the gallery of the atrium. street in to a calmer multifunctional space. can be used by the residing artists and writers to organize readings, happenings and exhibitions. The outdoor seating area for the café on the square is served by an outdoor satellite bar. A The offices and facilities for staff is located on 2nd floor of west wing. The access via the grand main The Garden line of parking is replaced with new trees removing the pressure from the traffic and creating a staircase places the employees in close proximity to the complete complex. The intention is to preserve the current tranquil atmosphere the space has today. The Garden calm atmosphere for the café. A swale pond on the square is collecting rainwater and provides courtyard is characterized by a calmness with a generous amount of green plants providing a stormwater retention. FOUR COURTYARDS AND A SQUARE relaxing space and minimizing the disturbance of neighbouring properties. By careful alteration, addition and programmatic restoration and with trueness to the existing The scheme allows for mutual access to the space from both the Bath and the Library. This gives LIBRARY building the proposal is striving to add a new stage in the continuing transformation of the Grössling bath visitors the possibility of reading magazines and books. There are two podiums in either end of The new Grössling Library is located in the most public and visible part of the complex facing complex. With a strategy of forming a new unity where new volumes and spaces merge with the the space that can be used as stages for public readings and other literature related gatherings. the Grössling square. The open and flexible layout of the floor plans, distributed on four floors, existing, with small, strategic additions rather than large gestures the proposal is aspiring to revive is designed in order to invite a wide range of different groups of visitors to utilize the space in the heydays of the Grössling while preserving the traces of time that is embedded in the building. The Backyard multiple ways. It provides an inspiring and contemporary library environment that contributes to the This is a space for events. It is possible to rent as a separate space, together with the “Hidden popularization of literature. The close relation to the Bath premises is present by visual connections spa” and the “Boiler orangery”. The Backyard is suitable for parties, company gatherings or private through the building and in the Garden courtyard where the swimmers and readers meet. The events. A retractable roof structure provides shade and rain protection. The Hidden spa is fully Library is tied together by prolonging the existing staircase with one floor. A new dormer in the roof functional as an autonomous separate bath with its own entrance and changing rooms. Waterjets provides light to the stairwell throughout the building as well as offering views of the whole Grössling cool the Backyard and gives a tranquil background noise. The Backyard is easily transformed into a complex. semi-public space when opening the gates towards the street. A A

online open access shelves catalogue online catalogues

library reading library room / activity counter counter chill-out space corner furniture flexible study room flexible study room furniture THE FOCUSED library THE CREATIVE teamwork computer room on wheels on wheels FLOOR teamwork atrium i n d v u a l s t y g FLOOR open access shelves kids' library and activity space / activity space +8,260 furniture on wheels low shelves workshops +4,330 +4,330 individual library of things +8,210 +8,210 with seating +4,350 separable part +4,350 ca 15000 volumes (24h access) studying

teamwork study room s i l e n c z o activity storage / space audio/ balcony cleaning balcony activity space video game zone +4,350

drying book storage hair ca 15000 volumes

+4,350 +8,260 changing room staff (35) zinc roof GARDEN +3,020 -1,160 waiting zone B B B B

SUN ROOF ATRIUM TERRACE +0,020 outdoor relaxation office - library

ooms +4,400

w (135)

changing r dayroom

office - executive

+4,380

relaxation office - baths +8,350

massages & procedures +4,430

SWIMMING POOL movable roof

relaxation

+1,920 pavilion with BACKYARD cleaning ORANGERIE folding sheet roof glazed roof -1,160 chimney storage chimney pavilion with folding sheet roof +6,550

ORANGERIE CHIMNEY WELL +3,650

-1,240

ARTIST RESIDENCY esidency

ooms glazed r oof

apartment 1 artist r

w (49) +3,530

changing r

+7,480 +3,030 A A

waiting room gym +3,370 +6,520

+5,240

beauty salon yoga / pilates

1:st floor plan 1:300 2:nd floor plan 1:300 A A Grössling 1st floor plan 18/06/2020 Grössling 2nd floor plan 18/06/2020 GSPublisherVersion 36.26.31.84 GSPublisherVersion 36.26.31.84

-2,730 -3,160 -2,750 -2,980 online storage transformer station technical space catalogue

(possibly storage) -2,990 THE SILENT library archive / -2,730 -2,730 FLOOR open access kitchen staff shelves dayroom

storage dormer -2,980 balcony

cleaning / (ca 20 000 volumes) -2,730 storage

GARDEN RELAXATION GARDEN -1,160 zinc roof storage -2,890 (chemicals) -3,040 -2,860 -2,740 -2,880 B B B workshop B -2,770 technical space O N

SUN ROOF ATRIUM T I -2,730 TERRACE with recreational pool outdoor relaxation R E L A X e x i s t n g k y l h

RECREATIONAL -2,770 -2,970 technical POOLS -2,930 -2,730 existing skylights laundry space technical space

-2,220 S A U N waste cleaning / e x i s t n g k y l h storage -2,730 -2,850

-2,760 -2,970 service elevator supply RECREATIONAL POOL existing skylights -2,930 RELAXATION zinc roof

-4,260

steam -3,920 sauna relaxation circulation zone external pools finnish -3,050 -3,870 -4,350 changing rooms sauna -3,050 saltwater -3,050 pool atrium RELAX & cooling MASSAGES HIDDEN SPA technical skylight space

-4,250 -2,930 -4,290 SWIMMING existing skylight -3,100 -3,920 POOL existing skylight movable roof HIDDEN SPA (rentable part of baths)

well BACKYARD pavilion with ORANGERIE skylight with water jets folding sheet roof glazed roof zinc roof

chimney

CHIMNEY ARTIST RESICENCY WELL terrace exhibition space

+9,480

ARTIST RESIDENCY glazed r oof

+11,360 artist residency apartment 2 A A

storage / cleaning

-3,320 +9,480 rentable office space

office meeting room office

storage technical storage space

-3,300 -3,230 -3,430 FUNCTIONALIST BUILDING 3rd floor plan

BASEMENT PLAN 1:300 ROOF Plan 1:300

Grössling basement plan 18/06/2020 Grössling roof plan 18/06/2020 GSPublisherVersion 36.26.31.84 GSPublisherVersion 36.26.31.84 A FUNCTIONAL DIAGRAMS

ACCESS: GRÖSSLING ATRIUM LIBRARY GARDEN CHIMNEY WELL SQUARE STAIRCASE CITY BATH - MAIN ENTRANCE HIDDEN SPA (rentable part of Bath, barrier free) B SWIMMING & WORKOUT (barrier free) C LIBRARY (barrier free) LOAD IN - SUPPLY RESIDENCY & RENTAL APARTMENTS / OFFICES

CIRCULATION D E OUTDOOR SPACES:

A. GRÖSSLING PUBLIC SQUARE & PARK B. GARDEN C. ATRIUM Basement Ground FLOOR D. BACKYARD E. CHIMNEY WELL F. SUN ROOF TERRACE

COLOUR LEGEND:

COURTYARDS, TERRACES & PARK

BATH & PROCEDURES F

HIDDEN SPA

SWIMMING & WORKOUT

CAFÉ / REFRESHMENTS

Axonometric LIBRARY SUN ROOF BACKYARD & TERRACE ORANGERIE LIBRARY - 24H ACCESS RESIDENCY

ADMINISTRATIVE

TECHNICAL & STORAGE SPACE 1:st FLOOR 2:nd FLOOR 3:Rd FLOOR

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dayroom changing room library staff storage

changing booths massages & procedures glazed roof waiting zone women flexible study room teamwork GARDEN sun roof terrace study room

ATRIUM BACKYARD ATRIUM pavillion with folding roof refreshment area café / restaurant indoor recreational waiting zone changing booths relaxation zone steam bath pools stairs to men hidden recreational covered recreational spa outdoor pool outdoor pool outdoor pool PARK

transformer kitchen technical space HIDDEN technical space technical space station SPA

SEction A 1:300 Section b 1:300

Grössling section A 2020-06-15 Grössling section B 2020-06-15