<pavilion of the elementary school, Mníšek pod Brdy</p>

The plot is part of a relatively large undeveloped courtyard – framed generously from the north by a V-shaped panel housing development and from the south by a linear school building. Both buildings likely arose during the same period – during the era of the swollen expansion of the young socialist republic. While the school building still shows ideological decor enhanced by classical order with colonnades, the panel apartment buildings reflect only the ambition to satisfy the increased demand of the working class for a healthy and fulfilling life.
The school building is situated almost at the highest point of the "block," and from it, the land gently slopes north toward the apartment buildings. The courtyard is unstructured, merely an enclosed area sown with grass and self-seeded greenery. The public space around the school building is accentuated symmetrically to the wing of the school by a pair of groups of trees.
The building extension of the school, which includes a community building with a cultural hall and extracurricular activity rooms, thus finds itself in the midst of the so-called socialist garden, making it very difficult to compose its volume and expression towards either side of the block.
The authors of the study therefore decided to insert an object of a “garden pavilion” into this space, which will not relate in shape or expression to either of the existing buildings around it.
The object thus has a compact shape with rounded corners, which further enhances its self-centered character. The connecting neck with the school building reveals its relationship to the school.
The object is situated outside the main axis of the school building to help complete the public space in front of the main entrance to the school from the east. It is positioned along the access path leading from the eastern parking lot to the school. This existing footpath runs through the center of the ground floor of the new building, thereby creating a public passage within the building, where all entrances to the pavilion are located.
The pavilion changes the urban situation in the courtyard. It dramatizes it. It becomes its center. It is either a pavilion in the garden or a fortress in the midst of ramparts. Its purpose will also depend on its mission.
The three-story mixed-use building combines – on the upper two floors, spaces for the school and after-school care – barrier-free connected to the original school building via a connecting bridge, and community spaces on the ground floor. By accumulating additional functions in the space in front of the school, the public space is significantly enhanced. This represents a newly created square spatially formed alongside the main entrance to the school, the playground for the preschool facility, the café, and the vestibule of the cultural hall. Thus, the pavilion not only fulfills its primary mission – to provide space for the expansion of the school and the culture of the city, but also contributes to the creation of an active public space beyond the central square of the city.
The facade's task is therefore to offer an impressive image of functional design corresponding to the time of its creation. The height division of the pavilion is based on the school’s tractions – on the ground floor, a two-story extension is constructed. The object is relatively large; therefore, the expression of the facade should be friendly, hospitable – and thus open. This expression is achieved through a relatively large area of glazing, shaped from the outside by the texture of slatted blinds. These temper the influence of the external environment on the interior of the object.