13ka - Church in the Mall

If there was one thing that socialist planners really didn't take into account when building panel housing estates for hundreds of thousands of residents, it wasn't cars, as it might seem today. It was churches. And so the local, rapidly growing Evangelical Church struggled with insufficient facilities for two decades and looked for alternatives for its meetings. Fortunately, in the attic of the Luka shopping center, a space from the original disco was found that no one really wanted, where people never had time to dance and a few bureaucrats lived under coffered ceilings. And it was precisely this place that we, as No Architects, were given the chance to rebuild for the Church of the Brethren.

We chose a communal, central layout, with a width-oriented hall. Because a contemporary Sunday service cannot do without a rich musical and lighting production, the front podium is conceived as a universal stage, surrounded by technologies that allow for great variability and easy control from control desks. Two wide projection screens, in addition to everything imaginable, can automatically transmit the events on stage from two dynamic cameras and compensate for the visual limits of the longitudinal arrangement and allow full attention to the events in front from all corners of the hall in all possible constellations. We then built a play corner for children into the raised foyer, and we immediately added a second floor with an interior version of a "tree house".