Chybik+Kristof Associated Architects stacked prefabricated building modules horizontally and vertically to produce this personnel cafeteria at the factory the place they are produced .
Photograph by Simon Oberhofer
Positioned on the outskirts of Czech town of Vizovice, the facility supplies a showroom for KOMA Modular, a company that specialises in prefabricated modular development.
Prefabrication involves producing the components of a constructing off-website and then assembling them in-situ to conserve time and funds. Current examples of buildings made to use this form of development incorporate a school canteen in Spain and a wooden apartment block in Finland.
The business is progressively remodelling its manufacturing facility, so commissioned Czech company Chybik+Kristof Associated Architects to generate a new building, accommodating shifting rooms and washrooms as properly as a cafe in which staff can consume with each other in comfort.
Photograph by Simon Oberhofer
Making use of the firm’s most generally created module, the architects developed a design and style that combines opaque staggered volumes on the ground floor with a transparent box on the upper storey.
Photograph by Simon Oberhofer
“The total cafeteria was created in accordance with the module of 9 metres by 3 metres, and it is this limitation which determines the aesthetics of the developing, together with the operating scheme,” architect Ondrej Chybik advised Dezeen.
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“To accomplish the clarity of the modular framework, we chose an identical size of the modules for the total development.”
Photograph by Simon Oberhofer
The ground floor houses the changing areas. Right here, the modules are staggered to emphasise the sense of the developing currently being constructed from individual units.
The irregular arrangement also makes it possible for the rooftops of some of the modules to be utilized as terraces for the cafeteria above.
Photograph by Simon Oberhofer
Expanded metal mesh was applied to the external surfaces of the reduced storey, uniting the identical masses that combine to form the building’s base.
The mesh surface also extends across some of the windows, enabling in normal light whilst providing the changing rooms within with some privacy.
The upper-floor cafeteria features glazed walls all around 3 sides of its four walls. The dining area is left entirely open program to make the most of the light and views from the full-height windows.
Elsewhere in the building’s interior, surfaces clad in galvanised sheet metal reference the material utilized to create the modular structures.
Brightly coloured walls, ceilings and floors in the changing rooms and washrooms contrast with the otherwise raw and industrial materials palette.
In accordance to the architects, the major benefit of developing with these prefabricated units is the speed of assembly facilitated by the integration of internal partitions and all mechanical and electrical companies for the duration of the manufacturing process.
“Virtually immediately after the excavation and basis operates on the creating web site have been finished, the final modules are prepared to be assembled as a building set,” Chybik explained.
The duo feel the project demonstrates that utilizing prefabricated modules can create distinctive and progressive architecture.
1 of the modules being lowered into place
“From the beginning we wanted to provide more than a mere composition of prefab steel modules and glass walls,” extra Michal Kristof. “We sought to design genuine architecture out of the available components.”
The lower storey of the cafeteria throughout building
Following on from the style of the cafeteria, the studio was commissioned to use the exact same modular components to generate the Czech pavilion at the ongoing Planet Expo in Milan – the place projects on show include a dragon-inspired pavilion and an indoor forest.
Photography is by Marek Malusek, unless stated otherwise.
Task credits:
Client: KOMA Modular s.r.o.
Group: Ondrej Chybik, Michal Kristof, Vojtech Kouril
Site plan 
Ground floor strategy 
Initial floor plan 
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