SM(ART)HOUSE is levitating in between buildings like a metal cloud, with confession to its ancestor, SNG bridge-like extention. This house stands with its material in contrast of surrounding historical or postmodern buildings, but its shape respects them and creates a missing blend, as a dancer makes a transition in a dynamic movement.
it’s not a closed studio filled by artists, rather a public space from which roots the artist community, together with their audience. Whole ground floor is open, with instant access to park in medieval dry moat, flowing under the bridge to atheneum on the other side. Park is opened year-round, by staircase or elevator, there is caffe shop, in summer open even on terrace.
house stands mainly on two supporting walls, made of reinforced concrete colums and beams, and filled with YTONG bricks P2-350, and in upper floors with type P4-500. Project preserves baroque cellars in the main underground volume, accomodating caffeteria and other meeting areas. Façade is made of perfored metal plates, covering glass windows and solid walls or tin roof in uniform manner. Heating is seaparated to two zones, upper art house and lower, café and support floor.
