Reconstruction and extension of the Schulz Pavilion

The pavilion is an immovable cultural monument of special significance, located within the heritage zone “Vinohrady, Žižkov, Vršovice” in the municipal district of Prague 2. The monument is listed in the State Register of Immovable Cultural Monuments under ref. no. 1 – 2295.
The pavilion was built in the early 1880s according to the designs of architect Josef Schulze. It is an integral urbanistic, architectural, and artistic part of Grobe's villa (designs by A. Barvitia) and the Gröbovka garden, which represents a late neo-romantic work of garden architecture.
Building No. 2188 is a garden pavilion in a three-winged, single-story style located to the northeast of the villa, which served as a shooting range and bowling alley. It is a lightweight construction intended for seasonal use. The original load-bearing walls are half-timbered and constructed from facing bricks.
The building was used for its original purpose for only a short time. Later, the municipality established a nursery here. The childcare facility operated until recently (after numerous construction modifications - lowering ceilings, removing the glass wall with doors in the changing room, gas installation, construction of a canopy with a terrace, installation of central heating with a boiler room and oil storage, among other changes). Since the pavilion was converted into a nursery and used year-round, it was particularly exposed to significant temperature differences and increased wood moisture during the winter months. The cause of this moisture was the condensation of vapor on the building's envelope with inadequate thermal resistance.
In addition to rot, the wood of the ceiling beams, roofs, and especially the beams of the half-timbering has been damaged by the larvae of wood-boring insects.
The main goal of the plan is to restore the historic pavilion building and make it accessible to the public, to use the pavilion and its immediate surroundings as a place for relaxation and leisure, to create a social background for park visitors, and to reconstruct the authentic historic building including significantly damaged artistic and craft elements - carvings, half-timbering, paintings, and to restore them as much as possible. There are plans to return completely lost elements that have only been preserved in drawing documentation - bowling alley, wooden wall paneling, entrance portals.
The concept of the pavilion's restoration is termed “restoration of a work of art”. The project, in the interest of preserving and restoring the original expression of the historic building, consciously does not meet current standards for construction and returns the building as closely as possible to its original form from 1888.

Extension of the Pavilion
In response to the transparent expression of the historic building, the added part is treated with a lightweight fully-glazed façade around the entire perimeter. The exposed structural system is a combination of wood, steel, and glass. The tectonics are emphasized in connection with the historical half-timbered walls by transferring columns into the façade and bracing with steel ties. The prominent roof landscape of Schulze's pavilion is complemented by cantilevered pergolas with wooden slats extending beyond the roof of the extension and its surroundings. The mirrored extension of the roof responds to the mass termination of the western wing, creating a covered terrace space. The building is connected to the existing historic pavilion structure via a glazed “neck” with a ramp.