Sustainable District Nové Dolíky, Slaný

2023, closer competition

The proposal connects the new district to the surrounding town using streets that connect to the existing streets on the boundaries of the area. The square is situated at the tip of the wedge, at the forefront of the new district, which at the same time lies in the center of the entire segment of the town beyond the railroad. The square is the center of the district and also the center of the entire western part of the town, which is still missing. It is an attractive public space, palms or arms open to the neighborhood, so it makes a good foundation for one.

The structure of the built-up area is sectioned into blocks defined by street grid. Its size and orientation are identical to the street grid of the adjacent, pre-war urban structure, which brought the urban development of the town westward, beyond the railroad and established the character of this part of the town. The grid geometry is also defined by possible connection points to the adjacent streets following up on the existing ones on the area border.

The western side of the new district is the boundary of the built-up area of the town. The design creates an articulate transition to the suburban landscape, rather it creates the landscape, as it de facto does not exist. The scale of the development is reduced here, the geometry opens up, the widened profiles of the streets transition into paths and flow into the landscape through an agrarian park. The agrarian landscape park is an attractive recreational, leisure and educational amenity not only for the western suburbs, but for the entire town.

The district of Nové Dolíky has attractive focal points at both ends of its longitudinal axis, and thus features gradation and composite connection to both the landscape and the town. The new quarter, built on the principles of European urbanism, the landscape behind it, the historic center in front of it and the housing estates at its sides do not merely adjoin, they establish an urban whole.