Društveni dom Sveti Jakov
prenamjena škole na Lošinju
Community center Sveti Jakov
reprograming school on Losinj
01.09.2011.
Sveti Jakov School once served as the main center of social life in town. Apart from providing local citizens a center for learning, School also offered a communal meeting space during annual festivities, gatherings, and manifestations. Can this School serve as a community center once again?
Today the school is abandoned and deteriorated, except for the grocery store and restaurant that occupy the ground floor and the offices of Ukiad, an organization that has collected a significant number of historial documents, photographs, and artifacts about the town’s history.
The building’s previous use, position, and scale, along with the presence of Uklad, led to the adaptive re-use of the former school. The purpose of reconstruction is to re-introduce the building’s social function and present the history of Sveti Jakov in an active heritage museum.
While Uklad’s heritage collection is currently located on the ground floor, there is a unique possibility to display the collection throughout the entire building (including the upper levels). However, the traditional experience and display of a heritage museum is not strong enough to re-establish the school’s role as a town social center.
As a result, an interactive exhibition is proposed, including spaces as gathering places for events. In this configuration the heritage museum becomes a community center that hosts different events, parties, lectures, presentations, and workshops.
The ground floor includes an original fireplace where people can configure a large room for dinners, gatherings, and meetings. The new design would propose the extension of the heritage collection along the staircase and move the new mezzanine and gallery up to the first floor where the second large space would be available to host workshops, projections, presentations, and lectures.
Spuštanjem dijela konstrukcije potkrovlja dobila bi se još jedna korisna etaža građevine, a procijepima nastalim u novom razmještanju međukatnih površina čitava bi unutrašnjost oživjela novim mogućnostima prirodnog osvjetljavanja te dinamičnim visinskim razlikama.
Lowering part of the attic allows for a new level to be established. The gaps formed by the new slab layout would create dynamic split levels rich with natural light.