Faculty of Agriculture and Life Sciencess

In planning strategy, we intertwine two principal designing strategies within which the old and the new form a mutual expression at different historical levels. The first principle of design is the structuring of the time-, contents-, and character-related components of the building on the basis of the knowledge available in the fields of archaeology, preservation, architecture, and history. The second principle of design is the presentation of the castle facility as a whole. The optimisation of the programme and functional expectations of the user is the starting point connected with the technology and regulations in the field of construction.

The extension in the northern part of the complex is expressed quite differently. A hybrid of the landscape and architecture, i.e., in opposition to the monumentality of the castle, it seeks a direct contact with nature and intertwining with the environment. In the shape of a cut-out landscape carpet, a green meadow becomes a roof while the landscape replaces its topographic profile and is transformed into the plane of a green roof.  The façade as a vertical ground profile is interrupted by large glass surfaces, which establish the contact of the interior with the exterior nature. The facility is placed in space in such a manner that at an appropriate distance from the existing castle, it forms a platform through the facade breaks – the square below the bell tower, which is supplemented by a water motive, an open-air classroom, and micro-urban equipment.