Tišnov - renovation of Peace Square

Authors: Ing. arch. Lukáš Pecka, Ing. arch. Barbora Šimonová, Ing. arch. Jiří Vokřál

Key Terms
Town Hall Square: A square with a town hall. The largest of the quartet of historical spaces.
Border: Unity. Connection. Relationship. Edging. A ring defining the space of the square.
(Inner) Area of the Square: Agora in front of the town hall. Stage. Gathering. Community.
Tower: A symbol of the present. A monument of semi-precious stones from nearby deposits. A treasury. A museum of mineralogy. Views into the countryside. Together with the church tower and the town hall tower, the third peak of a triangle.

Concept
Today, the Peace Square is an indistinct whole fragmented into several shards - parts - with inconsistent morphology, difficult to read physical delineation, character, and social role.
The concept of the proposal lies in creating a unified urban space in front of the town hall, in creating a "town hall square" and its clear delineation.
We achieve this physically - by unifying the diverse buildings using a pavement without height differences, placing trees, and also by changing the elevation of the terrain and adding structures; we also achieve this functionally - unlike the current state, we significantly prefer pedestrian movement.
We maintain the area of the square as a gathering space for the city, as its agora.
All four sides of the square are bordered by a "border," a band of stone pavement 5 - 8 m wide, intended primarily for pedestrians, but allowing access for maintenance or service vehicles. The border is lined with smaller trees at regular intervals.
The (inner) area of the square is a homogeneous surface, treated with bands of pavement that are strictly parallel to the façade of the town hall. The area is complemented by a trio of "places" - a new fountain in the current position, a stone or wooden cross in the historic position, and a new quartet of trees with a restaurant garden or with an orienting three-dimensional plan of the town of Tišnov. The entire area of the square is barrier-free. The driveable and walkable parts are separated only by cast-iron bollards - posts.
"Treasury". We propose to highlight and optically close the northwestern part of Peace Square at the outlet of the street from nám. 28. října with a vertical element "Tower," set in the border of the square. This structure will complement the existing pair of verticals - the massive church tower and the town hall tower so that the space of Peace Square will find itself in their triangle. At the same time, the "Treasury" can become a symbol of its time - just like the medieval church and the town hall from the early 20th century. It can become a symbol of today's Tišnov as the mineralogical center of Europe. It could be a treasury hiding in the darkness of its individual floors the precious stones from the hills around Tišnov and at the same time an observation tower offering views of the city's wealth and the wealth of its surrounding deposits...