Guliver Kindergarten

The project's task from the investor was taken as a challenge. We were given deadlines, a plot of land, and even an unfinished building on it. We faced a tough task - to prepare a plan, project, permits, tenders, and realize the building within a 9-month timeframe. We battled official deadlines, contractor possibilities, and supplier practices, but we had one significant advantage - a client determined to trust that we could do it, a client who gave us complete freedom (with a knife at our throat in the form of a deadline) until the handover of the keys to the completed building. We grew fond of the cumulative position of being a creative person, designer, consultant, tender processor, supervisor, construction manager, and quality controller. We drew things that local contractors could realize, technologies that were immediately available. We often argued. With anyone on the construction site. And they argued with us. We experienced last-minute planning, incomplete documentation, employee threats, and friendly pats on the back at the end. The result is not stunning architecture. Perhaps above the standards of Banská Štiavnica, where time stopped some 100 years ago. The result is a collection of functional principles, simple shaping, good detail, and clear disposition. Happy children, satisfied teachers, and space for something more.