Červený Kostelec - Skittle alley in the park
Invited architectural competition: 2024
Author: Marcela Steinbachová
Coauthor: Pavel Směták, Štěpán Perný
Investor: město Červený Kostelec

The bowling alley is designed as a building on the shore of the former pond and encroaches on the park in a similar way to the construction of the covered pier. It allows a direct connection to the park, permeability through the area and seeks to avoid some of the existing trees. Like the piers on the ponds, it is set on a wooden structure and its location and character allows the southern, more comfortable part of the park to be used in spring and winter.

The structure is based on the dimensions of the bowling and skittle alleys and its elongated shape corresponds to this. It represents a kind of wooden 'music box' which outwardly expresses its purpose. The external shaping corresponds to the brief and the 4 lanes of the bowling alley are inscribed in the eastern façade as well as in the decorative perforations on the façade or the triangular shaping of the other parts. The building is loosely inspired by the simple timber buildings in the park (e.g. gazebos, dance halls) on the edges of the ponds or for the purposes of the cones, scout clubhouses and historic buildings in Červený Kostelec, and is also based on the context with reference to the abolished pond.

The main and unifying material of the proposed building are wooden elements stained green with selected red details. The building is designed as a wooden structure, with the exception of the reinforced concrete structure in contact with the terrain in the location of the service parts in the west. The outer facade shell is designed from green-stained water-resistant plywood. The concrete walls are also painted green with a decal of plywood boards and battens, thus connecting to the wooden part of the outer shell.