Project
Holešovice courtyard - study of the reconstruction of Halls 27 and 28 in the Prague Market Hall
team - Josef Pleskot, Michaela Košařová
Holešovice courtyard
"A little island - an oasis at the end of the slaughterhouse by the siding, which everyone will be happy to inhabit."
Butchers, pastry chefs, pizza bakers, wine makers, all their guests and visitors,
but maybe even the vets upstairs. A little island with two houses and a yard between
where every window looks out on a menu of irresistible delicacies prepared
lovingly made by people who make them with artisanal confidence and exemplary
skill and who enjoy it. Hence lots of windows, shop windows, vistas and views. Nothing
is hidden, nothing is taboo. Everything inside serves a good purpose, there is nothing
to hide and nothing to be ashamed of. The customer must feel that he is not a nuisance and the seller
must have the pride of a good host.
The two tiny houses of the former Holešovice slaughterhouse have long since merged. It has become
...but out of some kind of compulsion, involuntarily, unnaturally. They were only joined together structurally.
After the demolition of the internal semi-provisional annexes, each house
regained its autonomy. They stand on their own, but the alley with the courtyard between them
more connected than before. People can enter the alley and the courtyard,
stand inside and feel their protection. The key to that secure connection
is a large tree. A big tree in a small backyard. Preferably a plane tree to give light
shade, not the dark black shade of the lime tree in the village square. Under a plane tree in the city, you can see
...is good. That's what they know in England and France, and it used to be known here. Under the plane tree
...water, a fountain, a tub. Sure, a tub, that's enough. The slaughterhouse in Holešovice must be rebuilt
...a tub.
A všechno zprůchodnit, aby každý našel do dvorečku, pod platan, ke kádi s vodou
cestu. Aby si tam mohl vychutnat klobásu, dortík, zmrzlinu, piczu, sklenku
vína…
Co sledujeme? Jenom radost, nic víc. Veřejná toaleta snad bude blízko.:)